57th Cannes Film Festival

France, May 12 - May 23 2004

The jury

David Robinson (UK), Gérard Camy (France), Howard Feinstein (US), Dubravka Lakic (Serbia), Agnès Catherine Poirier (France), Mariano Morace (Switzerland), Blagoja Kunovski (Macedonia), Zlatko Vidackovic (Croatia), Hassouna Mansouri (Tunisia), Caroline Vié-Toussaint (France)

Awarded films

Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore
(USA, 2004, 122 mins)
Thirst by Pablo Stoll
(Israel/ Palestine, 2004, 109 mins)
Whisky by Juan Pablo Rebella
(Uruguay/ Argentina/ Germany/ Spain, 2004, 99 mins)

Reports

Times Change by David Robinson
Very Powerful by Howard Feinstein
A Real Punch in the Face by Agnès Catherine Poirier
A Promising Talent by Blagoja Kunovski
The Celebration of the Cinema of Intervention by Hassouna Mansouri
Finding "Schizo" by Dubravka Lakic
Writers and Wars by Zlatko Vidackovic
My Neighbor Never Saw the End of the Film… by Gérard Camy
Revelation of the Year 2003: Boris Khlebnikov and Alexei Popogrebsky's "Koktebel" by Derek Malcolm

Michael Moore won the FIPRESCI Prize for his anti-Bush documentary “Fahrenheit 9/11”. In the other festival sections, “Whisky” (Juan-Pablo Rebella and Pablo Stoll) and “Atash – Thirst” (Tawfik Abu Wael) were given awards by the international critics’ jury.

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