Film Awards

2004 Cannes Film Festival - Jury Prize WinnerThe LadykillersIrma P. HallAn eccentric, if not charming Southern professor and his crew pose as a classical ensemble in order to rob a casino, all under the nose of his unsuspecting but sharp old landlady.AmazonTropical MaladyApichatpong WeerasethakulA romance between a soldier and a country boy, wrapped around a Thai folk-tale involving a shaman with shape-shifting abilities.Amazon

2003 Cannes Film Festival - Jury Prize WinnerAt Five in the AfternoonSamira MakhmalbafIn a post-Taliban Afghanistan a young woman (Agheleh Rezaie) attends school against her conservative father's will, hoping to learn more about democracy to fulfill her dream of being the country's next president.Amazon

2002 Cannes Film Festival - Jury Prize WinnerDivine InterventionElia SuleimanSeparated by a checkpoint, Palestinian lovers from Jerusalem and Ramallah arrange clandestine meetings.Amazon

2000 Cannes Film Festival - Jury Prize WinnerBlackboardsSamira MakhmalbafItinerant Kurdish teachers, carrying blackboards on their backs, look for students in the hills and villages of Iran, near the Iraqi border during the Iran-Iraq war. Said falls in with a ...AmazonSongs from the Second FloorRoy AnderssonWhere are we humans going? A film poem inspired by the Peruvian poet César Vallejo. We meet people in the city. People trying to communicate, searching compassion and get the connection of small and large things.Amazon

1999 Cannes Film Festival - Jury Prize WinnerLa lettreManoel de OliveiraA well-bred, lovely, spiritual, sad young woman marries an attentive physician who loves her. She feels affection but no love. Soon after, without design, she falls in love with Pedro ...Amazon

1998 Cannes Film Festival - Jury Prize WinnerClass TripClaude MillerA schoolboy Nicholas always worries about something. When he goes on a school skiing trip, all his visions and nightmares take him over.AmazonThe CelebrationThomas VinterbergAt Helge's 60th birthday party, some unpleasant family truths are revealed.Amazon

1997 Cannes Film Festival - Jury Prize WinnerWesternManuel PoirierCatalonian Paco is a traveling rep for a shoe manufacturer. When he stops to pick up Russian emigree hitchhiker Nino, Paco soon finds himself on the side of the road with everything stolen ...Amazon

1996 Cannes Film Festival - Jury Prize WinnerCrashDavid CronenbergAfter getting into a serious car accident, a TV director discovers an underground sub-culture of scarred, omnisexual car-crash victims who use car accidents and the raw sexual energy they produce to try to rejuvenate his sex life with his wife.Amazon

1995 Cannes Film Festival - Jury Prize WinnerCarringtonChristopher HamptonThe platonic relationship between artist Dora Carrington (Dame Emma Thompson) and writer Lytton Strachey (Jonathan Pryce) in the early twentieth century.AmazonDon't Forget You're Going to DieXavier BeauvoisBenoit has planned out his life. Unfortunately he has forgotten the military duty. After he is called to duty he tries everything to get around. The story gets even worse as he is told by a military doctor that he is HIV positive.Amazon

1994 Cannes Film Festival - Jury Prize WinnerQueen MargotPatrice ChéreauYoung Queen Margot finds herself trapped in an arranged marriage amidst a religious war between Catholics and Protestants. She hopes to escape with a new lover, but finds herself imprisoned by her powerful and ruthless family.Amazon