Films in Competition
The following films competed for the Palme d'Or.
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Antichrist | Lars von Trier | Denmark | |
| Bright Star | Jane Campion | United Kingdom | |
| Broken Embraces | Los abrazos rotos | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain |
| Butchered | Kinatay | Brillante Mendoza | Philippines |
| Enter the Void | Soudain le vide | Gaspar Noé | France |
| Face | Visage | Tsai Ming-liang | Taiwan |
| Fish Tank | Andrea Arnold | United Kingdom | |
| Inglourious Basterds | Quentin Tarantino | United States | |
| In the Beginning | A l'origine | Xavier Giannoli | France |
| Looking for Eric | Ken Loach | United Kingdom | |
| Map of the Sounds of Tokyo | Mapa de los sonidos de Tokyo | Isabel Coixet | Spain |
| A Prophet | Un prophète | Jacques Audiard | France |
| Spring Fever | 春风沉醉的晚上 Chūn fēng chén zuì de wǎn shàng |
Lou Ye | People's Republic of China |
| Taking Woodstock | Ang Lee | United States | |
| Thirst | 박쥐 Bakjwi | Park Chan-wook | South Korea |
| The Time That Remains | الزمن الباقي | Elia Suleiman | Palestine |
| Wild Grass | Les herbes folles | Alain Resnais | France |
| Vincere | Marco Bellocchio | Italy | |
| Vengeance | 復仇 | Johnnie To | Hong Kong |
| The White Ribbon | Das weiße Band | Michael Haneke | Austria |
Read more about this topic: 2009 Cannes Film Festival
Famous quotes containing the words films and/or competition:
“Television does not dominate or insist, as movies do. It is not sensational, but taken for granted. Insistence would destroy it, for its message is so dire that it relies on being the background drone that counters silence. For most of us, it is something turned on and off as we would the light. It is a service, not a luxury or a thing of choice.”
—David Thomson, U.S. film historian. America in the Dark: The Impact of Hollywood Films on American Culture, ch. 8, William Morrow (1977)
“Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)