Listly by Soubin Nath
Cannes Film Festival is one of the most prestigious film festival in the world. The Palme d'Or (Golden Palm) is the highest prize awarded at the Cannes Film Festival. Here is the list of movies awarded with this honour between the years 2004 and 2014.
Country : Turkey
Director : Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Aydin, a former actor, runs a small hotel in central Anatolia with his young wife Nihal with whom he has a stormy relationship and his sister Necla who is suffering from her recent divorce. In winter as the snow begins to fall, the hotel turns into a shelter but also an inescapable place that fuels their animosities...
Country : Tunisia
Director : Abdellatif Kechiche
Adele's life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire, to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adele grows, seeks herself, loses herself and ultimately finds herself through love and loss.
Country : Austria
Director : Michael Haneke
Georges and Anne are an octogenarian couple. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, also a musician, lives in Britain with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested.
Country : USA
Director : Terrence Malick
The story of a family in Waco, Texas in 1956.
The eldest son witnesses the loss of innocence and struggles with his parents' conflicting teachings.
Country : Thailand
Director : Apichatpong Weerasethakul
On his deathbed, Uncle Boonmee recalls his many past lives.
Country : Austria
Director : Michael Haneke
Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years just before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. The abused and suppressed children of the villagers seem to be at the heart of this mystery.
Country : France
Director : Laurent Cantet
Teacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his racially mixed students from a tough Parisian neighbourhood.
Country : Romania
Director : Cristian Mungiu
A woman assists her friend in arranging an illegal abortion in 1980s Romania.
Country : UK
Director : Ken Loach
A sympathetic look at Republicans in early 20th century Ireland, and two brothers who are torn apart by anti-Brit rebellion.
Country : Belgium
Director : Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
Bruno and Sonia, a young couple living off her benefit and the thefts committed by his gang, have a new source of money: their newborn son.
Country : USA
Director : Michael Moore
Michael Moore's view on what happened to the United States after September 11; and how the Bush Administration allegedly used the tragic event to push forward its agenda for unjust wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Born and brought up in Kerala, India. Now in Mumbai, India doing first year of my Masters in Film Studies (M.A)..