25 years of MEDIA
MEDIA works towards the competitiveness of the film industry in Europe and is dedicated to the diversity of its audiovisual culture. For the past 25 years, it has been supporting collaborations between national talents to improve the circulation of works and tell shared stories.
The Cannes Film Festival has acknowledged the quality of European filmmaking by bestowing its most prestigious awards upon 42 films supported by MEDIA since 1991. In total, over €20 million were invested for their development and distribution. Amongst all 42, 31 were co-productions, representing 25 countries.
PALMES D’OR
1992 Den goda viljan / The Best Intentions Billie August SE - DK - FI - FR - DE - UK - IT - NO - IS 1996 Secrets & Lies Mike Leigh UK - FR 1998 Mia aioniotita kai mia mera / Eternity and a Day Theo Angelopoulos GR - FR - DE - IT 1999 Rosetta Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne FR - BE 2000 Dancer in the Dark Lars von Trier DK - ES - DE - NL - IT - US - UK - FR - SE - FI - IS - NO 2001 La stanza del figlio / The Son’s Room Nanni Moretti IT - FR 2005 L’Enfant / The Child Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne BE - FR 2006 The Wind That Shakes the Barley Ken Loach IE - UK - IT - ES - FR - BE - CH 2007 4 luni, 3 saptamâni si 2 zile / 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days Cristian Mungiu RO - BE 2008 Entre les murs / The Class Laurent Cantet FR 2009 Das weiße Band / The White Ribbon Michael Haneke DE - AT - FR - IT 2012 Amour Michael Haneke FR - DE - AT 2013 La Vie d’Adèle: Chapitres 1 et 2 / Blue is the Warmest Colour Abdellatif Kechiche FR - BE - ES 2015 Dheepan Jacques Audiard FR 2016 I, Daniel Blake Ken Loach UK - FR GRANDS PRIX
1991 La Belle Noiseuse Jacques Rivette FR - CH 1992 Il Ladro di bambini / The Stolen Children Gianni Amelio IT - FR - CH 1993 In weiter Ferne, so nah! / Faraway, So Close! Wim Wenders DE 1995 To Vlemma tou Odyssea / Ulysses’ Gaze Theo Angelopoulos GR - FR - IT - DE - UK - YU - BA - AL - RO 1996 Breaking the Waves Lars von Trier DK - SE - FR - NL - NO - IS - ES 1998 La vita è bella/ Life Is Beautiful Roberto Benigni IT 1999 L’humanité / Humanité Bruno Dumont FR 2001 La Pianiste / The Piano Teacher Michael Haneke AT - FR - DE 2002 Mies vailla menneisyyttä / The Man Without a Past Aki Kaurismäki FI - DE - FR 2006 Flandres / Flanders Bruno Dumont FR 2008 Gomorra / Gomorrah Matteo Garrone IT 2009 Un prophète / A Prophet Jacques Audiard FR- IT 2010 Des hommes et des dieux / Of Gods and Men Xavier Beauvois FR 2011 Le gamin au vélo / The Kid with a Bike Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne BE - FR - IT 2012 Reality Matteo Garrone IT - FR 2014 Le Meraviglie / The Wonders Alice Rohrwacher IT - CH - DE 2015 Saul Fia / Son of Saul László Nemes HU
PRIX DE LA MISE EN SCÈNE | BEST DIRECTOR AWARDS
1993 Naked Mike Leigh UK 1994 Caro diario / Dear Dairy Nanni Moretti IT - FR 1995 La Haine Mathieu Kassovitz FR 1998 The General John Boorman UK - IE 1999 Todo Sobre Mia Madre / All About My Mother Pedro Almodóvar ES - FR 2004 Exils / Exiles Tony Gatlif FR - JP 2005 Caché / Hidden Michael Haneke FR - AT - DE -IT 2007 Le Scaphandre et le Papillon / The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Julian Schnabel FR - US 2010 Tournée / On Tour Mathieu Amalric FR - DE 2016 Bacalaureat / Graduation Cristian Mungiu RO - FR - BE