The 60th Cannes Film Festival ran from 16 to 27 May 2007. The President of the Jury was British director Stephen Frears. Twenty two films from twelve countries were selected to compete for the Palme d'Or. The awards were announced on 26 May. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, directed by Cristian Mungiu won the Palme d'Or.
The festival opened with My Blueberry Nights, directed by Wong Kar-wai and closed with Days of Darkness (L'Âge des ténèbres) by Denys Arcand. Diane Kruger was the mistress of ceremonies.
The official poster of the 60th Cannes festival featured Pedro Almodóvar, Juliette Binoche, Jane Campion, Souleymane Cissé, Penélope Cruz, Gérard Depardieu, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis and Wong Kar-wai, all photographed by Alex Majoli.
Juries
Main Competition
The following people were appointed as the Jury for the feature films of the 2007 Official Selection: Stephen Frears, British director - Jury President Marco Bellocchio, Italian director Maggie Cheung, Hong Kong actress Toni Collette, Australian actress Maria de Medeiros, Portuguese actress Orhan Pamuk, Turkish Nobel Prize laureate novelist Michel Piccoli, French actor Sarah Polley, Canadian actress and director Abderrahmane Sissako, Mauritanian filmmaker
Un Certain Regard
Pascale Ferran, French director - Jury President
Kent Jones, American writer
Cristi Puiu, Romanian director
Bian Qin
Jasmine Trinca, Italian actress
Cinéfondation and Short Films Competition
Jia Zhangke, Chinese director - Jury President
Niki Karimi, Iranian actress and filmmaker
J. M. G. Le Clézio, French writer
Dominik Moll, German director
Deborah Nadoolman, American costume designer
Caméra d'Or
Pavel Lungin, Russian writer, director - Jury President
Renato Berta, Swiss cinematographer
Julie Bertuccelli, French director
Clotilde Courau, French actress
Official Selection
In Competition
The following feature films competed for the Palme d'Or:
Un Certain Regard
The following films were selected for the competition of Un Certain Regard:
Actrices by Valeria Bruni Tedeschi (France) And Along Come Tourists (Am Ende kommen Touristen) by Robert Thalheim (Germany) The Band's Visit (Bikur Ha-Tizmoret) by Eran Kolirin (Israel) Blind Mountain by Li Yang (China) California Dreamin' by Cristian Nemescu (Romania) Calle Santa Fe by Carmen Castillo (Chile) Et toi, t'es sur qui? by Lola Doillon (France) Flight of the Red Balloon by Hou Hsiao-hsien (France, Taiwan) Kuaile Gongchang by Ekachai Uekrongtham (Thailand) Magnus by Kadri Kõusaar (Estonia, United Kingdom) Mio fratello è figlio unico by Daniele Luchetti (Italy) Mister Lonely by Harmony Korine (United States) Munyurangabo by Lee Isaac Chung (United States) Night Train by Diao Yi'nan (China) The Pope's Toilet (El Baño del Papa) by Enrique Fernandez and César Charlone (Uruguay) La soledad by Jaime Rosales (Spain) A Stray Girlfriend by Ana Katz (Argentina) Terror's Advocate by Barbet Schroeder (France) Water Lilies by Celine Sciamma (France) You, the Living (Du levande) by Roy Andersson (Sweden)
Out of Competition
The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:
Boarding Gate by Olivier Assayas (France) Days of Darkness (L'Âge des ténèbres) by Denys Arcand (Canada, France) Déficit by Gael García Bernal (Mexico) Expired by Cecilia Miniucchi (United States) Go Go Tales by Abel Ferrara (United States, Italy) Héros by Bruno Merle (France) A Mighty Heart by Michael Winterbottom (United States, United Kingdom) Ocean's Thirteen by Steven Soderbergh (United States) Sicko by Michael Moore (United States) To Each His Own Cinema (Chacun son cinéma) (various) (France) Triangle (Tie saam gok) by Ringo Lam, Johnny To, Tsui Hark (Hong Kong, China) U2 3D by Catherine Owens, Mark Pellington (United States)
Special Screenings
The following films were screened specially for the 60th Festival.
11th Hour by Nadia Conners, Leila Conners Petersen (United States) Rebellion: the Litvinenko Case by Andrei Nekrasov (Russia) Boxes by Jane Birkin (France) Cartouches Gauloises by Mehdi Charef (France, Algeria) Cruising by William Friedkin (United States, Germany) Fengming, a Chinese Memoir (He Fengming) by Wang Bing (China) One Hundred Nails (Centochiodi) by Ermanno Olmi (Italy) Retour en Normandie by Nicolas Philibert (France) Roman de gare by Claude Lelouch (France) Ulzhan by Volker Schlöndorff (Germany) The War, by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick (United States) Young Yakuza by Jean-Pierre Limosin (France, United States, Japan)