The 2009 Cannes Film Festival lineup was announced on April 23, 2009. The 62nd Cannes Film Festival will be held May 13 - 24, 2009 and will open with Up. The closing film of the festival will be Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky. LA Times: Devilish Cannes Film Festival (April 23, 2009)
French actress Isabelle Huppert has been selected as the head of the Cannes Film Festival jury for 2009.E: Huppert to Head Cannes Jury (April 23, 2009)
Feature Film Jury
- Jury President: Isabelle Huppert actress (France)LA Times: Devilish Cannes Film Festival (April 23, 2009)
- Asia Argento, actress, director, screenwriter (Italy)LA Times: Devilish Cannes Film Festival (April 23, 2009)
- Nuri Bilge Ceylan, director, screenwriter, actor (Turkey)LA Times: Devilish Cannes Film Festival (April 23, 2009)
- Lee Chang-dong, director, author, screenwriter (South Korea)LA Times: Devilish Cannes Film Festival (April 23, 2009)
- James Gray, director, screenwriter (U.S.)LA Times: Devilish Cannes Film Festival (April 23, 2009)
- Hanif Kureishi, author, screenwriter (U.K.)LA Times: Devilish Cannes Film Festival (April 23, 2009)
- Shu Qi, actress (Taiwan)LA Times: Devilish Cannes Film Festival (April 23, 2009)
- Robin Wright Penn, actress (U.S.)LA Times: Devilish Cannes Film Festival (April 23, 2009)
Cinefondation and Short Film Jury
- Jury President: John Boorman, director, author, producer (U.K.)LA Times: Devilish Cannes Film Festival (April 23, 2009)
- Bertrand Bonello, director (France)LA Times: Devilish Cannes Film Festival (April 23, 2009)
- Ferid Boughedir, director (Tunisia)LA Times: Devilish Cannes Film Festival (April 23, 2009)
- Leonor Silveira, actress (Portugal)LA Times: Devilish Cannes Film Festival (April 23, 2009)
- Zhang Ziyi, actress (China)LA Times: Devilish Cannes Film Festival (April 23, 2009)
Cannes Film Lineup 2009
Opening Film
- Up, Director: Pete Docter, Bob Peterson (U.S.)
Closing Film
Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky], Director: Jan Kounen (France)
Films in Competition
Bright Star, Director: Jane Campion (Australia, U.K., France)
Spring Fever, Director: Lou Ye (China, France)
Antichrist, Director: Lars von Trier (Denmark, Sweden, France, Italy)
Enter the Void, Director: Gaspar Noe (France)
Face, Director: Tsai Ming-liang (France, Taiwan, Netherlands, Belgium)
Les herbes folles, Director: Alain Resnais (France, Italy)
In the Beginning, Director: Xavier Giannoli (France)
A Prophet, Director: Jacques Audiard (France)
The White Ribbon, Director: Michael Haneke (Germany, Austria, France)
Vengeance, Director: Johnnie To (Hong Kong, France, U.S.)
The Time That Remains, Director: Elia Suleiman (Israel, France, Belgium, Italy)
Vincere, Director: Marco Bellocchio (Italy, France)
Kinatay, Director: Brillante Mendoza (Philippines)
Thirst, Director: Park Chan-wook (South Korea, U.S.)
Broken Embraces, Director: Pedro Almodovar (Spain)
Map of the Sounds of Tokyo, Director: Isabel Coixet (Spain)
Fish Tank, Director: Andrea Arnold (U.K., Netherlands)
Looking for Eric, Director: Ken Loach (U.K., France, Belgium, Italy)
Inglourious Basterds, Director: Quentin Tarantino (U.S.)
Taking Woodstock, Director: Ang Lee (U.S.)
Special Screenings
Petition, Director: Zhao Liang (China)
L'epine dans le coeur, Director: Michel Gondry (France)
Min ye, Director: Souleyumane Cisse (France, Mali)
Jaffa, Director: Keren Yedaya (Israel, France, Germany)
Manila, Director: Adolfo Alix Jr., Raya Martin (Philippines)
My Neighbor, My Killer, Director: Anne Aghion (U.S.)
Un Certain Regard
Samson and Delilah, Director: Warwick Thornton (Australia)
Adrift, Director: Heitor Dhalia (Brazil)
The Wind Journeys, Director: Ciro Guerra (Colombia)
Demain des l'aube, Director: Denis Dercourt (France)
Irene, Director: Alain Cavalier (France)
Independance, Director: Raya Martin (Philippines, France, Germany)
Le Pere de mes enfants, Director: Mia Hansen-Love (France-Germany)
Dogtooth, Director: Yorgos Lanthimos (Greece)
Nobody Knows About the Persian Cats, Director: Bahman Ghobadi (Iran)
Eyes Wide Open, Director: Haim Tabakman (Israel)
Mother, Director: Bong Joon-ho (South Korea)
The Silent Army, Director: Jean van de Velde (Netherlands)
To Die Like a Man, Director: Joao Pedro Rodrigues (Portugal)
Police, Adjective, Director: Corneliu Porumboiu (Romania)
Tales from the Golden Age, Directors: Hanno Hofer, Razvan Marculescu, Cristian Mungiu, Constantin Popescu, Ioana Uricaru (Romania)
Tale in the Darkness, Director: Nikolay Khomeriki (Russia)
Tzar, Director: Pavel Lounguine (Russia, France)
Nymph, Pen-ek Ratanaruang (Thailand)
Precious, Lee Daniels (U.S.)
