2007 Cannes Film Festival

The following people were appointed as the Jury for the feature films of the 2007 Official Selection:^[10]

• Stephen Frears, British director - Jury President
• Marco Bellocchio, Italian director
• Maggie Cheung, Hong Kong actress
• Toni Collette, Australian actress
• Maria de Medeiros, Portuguese actress
• Orhan Pamuk, Turkish Nobel Prize laureate novelist
• Michel Piccoli, French actor
• Sarah Polley, Canadian actress and director
• Abderrahmane Sissako, Mauritanian filmmaker

• Pascale Ferran, French director - Jury President
• Kent Jones, American writer
• Cristi Puiu, Romanian director
• Bian Qin
• Jasmine Trinca, Italian actress

• Jia Zhangke, Chinese director - Jury President
• Niki Karimi, Iranian actress and filmmaker
• J. M. G. Le Clézio, French writer
• Dominik Moll, German director
• Deborah Nadoolman, American costume designer

• Pavel Lungin, Russian writer, director - Jury President
• Renato Berta, Swiss cinematographer
• Julie Bertuccelli, French director
• Clotilde Courau, French actress

The following feature films competed for the Palme d'Or:^[2]

The following films were selected for the competition of Un Certain Regard:^[2]

The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:^[2]

The following films were screened specially for the 60th Festival.^[2]

The following short films were selected for the competition of Cinéfondation:^[2]

The following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or:^[2]

Cannes Classics places the spotlight on documentaries about cinema^[11] and restored masterworks from the past.^[12]

Restored prints

The following films were screened for the 46th International Critics' Week (46e Semaine de la Critique):^[14]

Feature film competition

Short Films Competition

Special Screenings

The following films were screened for the 2007 Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalizateurs):^[15]

Tous Les Cinemas du Monde (World Cinema) began in 2005 to showcase films from a variety of different countries. From 19 May to 25 May 2007, films were screened from India, Lebanon, Poland, Kenya, Guinea, Angola, Slovenia, and Colombia.^[16][17]

The first two days of this program held during 19 May to 25 May 2007 featured special screening of Indian films; Saira (2005), Missed Call (2005), Lage Raho Munna Bhai (2006), Dosar (2006), Veyil, (2006), Guru (2007), Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal (2007), and Dharm (2007).^[18]

Debuting at the Director's Fortnight was Nadine Labaki's Caramel, a charming dramedy about five women who gather at a beauty salon and deal with their everyday problems with men, social expectation, sexuality, and tradition vs. modernizing times. Labaki not only directed and co-wrote the film but plays the lead as well. The rest of the cast is composed mostly of unprofessional actors, all of whom deliver very convincing performances and add a lot of color and depth to the film.^[19][20] Reminiscent of a Pedro Almodóvar picture, Caramel is unique not just for its technical and creative sophistication but also for not tackling any of the religious, political, or war-related issues that have continued to plague its setting, Lebanon, til now. The film proved to be a sleeper at the festival and was distributed in well over 40 countries, becoming an international hit.^[21]

The following films and people received the 2007 Official selection awards:^[22]

• Palme d'Or: 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days by Cristian Mungiu
• Grand Prix: The Mourning Forest by Naomi Kawase
• Best Director: Julian Schnabel for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
• Best Screenplay : Fatih Akın for The Edge of Heaven
• Best Actress: Jeon Do-yeon in Secret Sunshine
• Best Actor: Konstantin Lavronenko in The Banishment
• Prix du Jury:
  • Persepolis by Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi
  • Silent Light by Carlos Reygadas
• 60th Anniversary Prize: Paranoid Park by Gus Van Sant

• Prix Un Certain Regard: California Dreamin', by Cristian Nemescu^[23]
• Un Certain Regard Special Jury Prize: Actrices by Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
• Heart Throb Jury Prize: The Band's Visit by Eran Kolirin
• Short Film Special Distinction: Run by Mark Albiston

• First Prize: Ahora todos parecen contentos by Gonzalo Tobal
• Second Prize: Ru Dao by Tao Chen
• Third Prize: Minus by Pavle Vuckovic

• Jellyfish by Etgar Keret and Shira Geffen
  • Special mention: Control by Anton Corbijn

• Short Film Palme d'Or: Ver Llover by Elisa Miller
  • Special mention:
    • Ah Ma by Anthony Chen
    • Run by Mark Albiston

• 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days by Cristian Mungiu (In competition)^[5][24]
• The Band's Visit by Eran Kolirin (Un Certain Regard)
• Her Name is Sabine by Sandrine Bonnaire

• Janusz Kamiński (cinematographer) for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

• The Edge of Heaven by Fatih Akın^[25]

• Canal+ Gran Prix for short film: Madame Tutli-Putli^[5]
• Petit Rail d'Orpresented by "cinephile railwaymen": Madame Tutli-Putli^[26]

• Counterparts by Jan Bonny

• A Mighty Heart by Michael Winterbottom^[27]

• INA: Climbing of the steps : protocol (commentary in French)
• INA: List of winners of the 2007 Cannes Festival (commentary in French)

Wikimedia Commons has media related to 2007 Cannes Film Festival.

• 2007 Cannes Film Festival (web.archive)
• Official website Retrospective 2007 Archived 2019-02-11 at the Wayback Machine
• Cannes Film Festival Awards for 2007 at Internet Movie Database