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Fabien Lemercier


9723 articles available in total starting from 02/07/2002. Last article published on 17/07/2025.

Loach: The director that shook the festival

It was a European sweep – with the UK, Spain and France leading the way – at the 59th edition of the Cannes Film Festival , where a surprise Palme d'Or went to veteran UK director Ken Loach for...  

28/05/2006 | Cannes 2006 | Palmarès

European co-productions get recognition

European involvement in international productions was recognised yesterday at the Un Certain Regard awards ceremony of the 59th Cannes Film Festival. The Grand Prize, awarded by jury president...  

28/05/2006 | Cannes 2006/Un Certain Regard | Awards

Special mention for Poland

While the Ecumenical jury awarded the official competition prize to Babel, by Mexico’s Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu, Slawomir Fabicki’s debut feature Retrieval (see the article and Making of) was...  

27/05/2006 | Cannes 2006 | Ecumenical Jury Prize

Climates announced winner

Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Climates (see article) won the Fipresci Award today, a prize given to the best film in official competition at the Cannes Film Festival. This achievement was...  

27/05/2006 | Cannes 2006 | Prix Fipresci

No sure-fire winners

In Cannes, an air of uncertainty surrounds the speculations of this year’s winners, after a competition that failed to produce one or two definite favourites. However, the last days of the...  

27/05/2006 | Cannes 2006/Competition | Predictions

A frenzied Transylvania

"Give us a blade of straw to set fire to the world". Back at Cannes two years after winning Best Director award with Exils, French director Tony Gatlif closed the 2006 Official Selection today...  

27/05/2006 | Cannes 2006/Closing | France

Black and white magic in Pan’s Labyrinth

The last film screened in official competition at Cannes 2006, the Spanish/Mexican title Pan’s Labyrinth by Guillermo del Toro, was well received this morning in the Grand Théâtre Lumière, taking...  

27/05/2006 | Cannes 2006/Competition | Spain

Along the Ridge wins Prix Art et Essai

The debut feature by Italy’s Kim Rossi Stuart, Along the Ridge, was today awarded the Prix Art et Essai by the CICAE (Confédération Internationale des Cinémas d’Art et d’Essai) in the Directors’...  

27/05/2006 | Cannes 2006/Directors’ Fortnight

Grand Prix for Les amitiés maléfiques

Europe made a clean sweep at this year’s 45th International Critics’ Week awards ceremony yesterday evening. The Grand Prix was awarded to French director Emmanuel Bourdieu for her second feature,...  

26/05/2006 | Cannes 2006/Critics’ Week | Awards

Very good business for Films Distribution

With the 2006 market considered a good one in terms of overall sales, French company Films Distribution has once again done very well. The surprise in its line-up was The Page Turner (La Tourneuse...  

26/05/2006 | Cannes 2006/Market | France

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