1971 Cannes Film Festival

Jury

• Michèle Morgan Jury President
• Pierre Billard
• Michael Birkett
• Anselmo Duarte
• István Gaál
• Sergio Leone
• Aleksandar Petrović
• Maurice Rheims
• Erich Segal

• Véra Volmane President
• Charles Duvanel
• Etienne Novella

  Official selection

In competition – Feature film

• Apokal by Paul Anczykowski
• Between Miracles by Nino Manfredi
• The Boat on the Grass by Gérard Brach
• La califfa by Alberto Bevilacqua
• Death in Venice by Luchino Visconti
• Drive, He Said by Jack Nicholson
• Family Life by Krzysztof Zanussi
• The Flight by Aleksandr Alov and Vladimir Naumov
• The Go-Between by Joseph Losey
• Goya, a Story of Solitude by Nino Quevedo
• Joe Hill by Bo Widerberg
• Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo
• Loot by Silvio Narizzano
• Love by Károly Makk
• The Married Couple of the Year Two by Jean-Paul Rappeneau
• Mira by Fons Rademakers
• Murmur of the Heart by Louis Malle
• The Panic in Needle Park by Jerry Schatzberg
• Pindorama by Arnaldo Jabor
• Raphael, or The Debauched One by Michel Deville
• Sacco e Vanzetti by Giuliano Montaldo
• Sick Animals by Nicolae Breban
• A Soul to Devils by Kō Nakahira
• Taking Off by Miloš Forman
• Wake in Fright by Ted Kotcheff
• Walkabout by Nicolas Roeg

  Films out of competition

• Le Chasseur by François Reichenbach
• The Deadly Trap by René Clément
• The Friends by Gérard Blain
• Gimme Shelter by David Maysles, Albert Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin
• The Hellstrom Chronicle by Walon Green
• Narcissus by Peter Foldes
• The Sacred Fire by Vladimir Forgency
• The Trojan Women by Michael Cacoyannis

  Short film competition

• Astronaut Coffee Break by Edward Casazza
• Centinelas del silencio by Robert Amram
• Fair Play by Bronislaw Zeman
• Hans Hartrung by Christian Ferlet
• I mari della mia fantasia by Ernesto G. Laura
• Jardin by Claude Champion
• La fin du jeu by Renaud Walter
• Le coeur renverse by Maurice Frydland
• Memorial by James Allen
• Mixed-Double by Bent Barfod
• Patchwork by Georges Schwizgebel, Claude Luyet, Daniel Suter, Manuel Otero, Gérald Poussin
• Paul Delvaux, ou les femmes défendues by Henri Storck
• Star Spangled Banner by Roger Flint
• Stuiter by Jan Oonk
• Une statuette by Carlos Vilardebo

  Parallel sections

International Critics' Week

• Breathing Together: Revolution of the Electric Family by Morley Markson
• Bronco Bullfrog by Barney Platts-Mills
• Expédition punitive by Magyar Dessö
• Ich liebe dich, ich töte dich by Uwe Brandner
• Loving Memory by Tony Scott
• Le Moindre geste by Jean-Pierre Daniel, Fernand Deligny
• Les Passagers by Annie Tresgot
• Question de vie by André Théberge
• Trash by Paul Morrissey
• Viva la muerte by Fernando Arrabal

  Directors' Fortnight

• A Fable by Al Freeman Jr.
• Are You Afraid? by Henning Carlsen
• Badou Boy by Djibril Diop Mambety
• Bang Bang by Andréa Tonacci
• Birds, Orphans and Fools by Juraj Jakubisko
• Bröder Carl by Susan Sontag
• The Ceremony by Nagisa Oshima
• Cleopatra by Michel Auder
• The Cow by Dariush Mehrjui
• Cuadecuc, vampir by Pere Portabella
• Don't Deliver Us from Evil by Joël Séria
• Du Cote D'Orouet by Jacques Rozier
• Dziura w ziemi by Andrzej Kondratiuk
• Agnus dei by Miklós Jancsó
• Equinox by Maurizio Ponzi
• Fata Morgana by Werner Herzog
• Faut aller parmi l'monde pour le savoir by Fernand Dansereau
• Festival panafricain d'Alger 1969 by William Klein
• La fin des Pyrénées by Jean-Pierre Lajournade
• Four Nights of a Dreamer by Robert Bresson
• Goin' Down the Road by Donald Shebib
• How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman by Nelson Pereira Dos Santos
• Lea in Winter by Marc Monnet
• ' by George Moorse
• Les maudits sauvages by Jean Pierre Lefebvre
• The Machine by A. Shermann, J. Rozenberg
• Le Maître du temps by Jean-Daniel Pollet
• Makin' It by Simon Hartog
• Mare's Tail by David Larcher
• Mathias Kneissl by Reinhard Hauff
• México, la revolución congelada by Raymundo Gleyzer
• O Capitão Bandeira Contra o Dr. Moura Brasil by Antônio Calmon
• Ni vainqueurs, ni vaincus by A. Cabado, N. Spoliansky
• Of Gods and the Undead by Ruy Guerra
• The Past That Lives by Philo Bregstein
• ' by Volker Schlöndorff
• Prea mic pentru un razboi atît de mare by Radu Gabrea
• Puntos suspensivos o Esperando a los bárbaros by Edgardo Cozarinsky
• The Salamander by Alain Tanner
• Sex Jack by Kōji Wakamatsu
• Staféta by András Kovács
• Los testigos by Charles Elsesser
• THX 1138 by George Lucas
• Tokyo senso sengo hiwa by Nagisa Oshima
• Umut by Yılmaz Güney
• Valparaiso, Valparaiso by Pascal Aubier
• Rape by Anja Breien
• Voto mas fusil by Helvio Soto
• W.R. - Misterije organizma by Dušan Makavejev
• Wanda by Barbara Loden
• Apotheosis by John Lennon, Yoko Ono
• Cannes, 70... by Jean-Paul Jaud
• Essai à la mille by Jean-Claude Labrecque
• Estado de sitio by Jaime Chávarri
• Grumes by Jean-Pierre Bonneau
• Habitude by Dan Wolman
• La belleza by Arturo Ripstein
• La Pierre qui flotte by Jean-Jacques Andrien
• Le Cri by Paul Dopff
• Le Vampire de la Cinémathèque by Roland Lethem
• Le voyage du Lieutenant Le Bihan by László Szabó
• Les bulles du cardinal by Ody Roos
• Meatdaze by Jeff Keen
• Mégalodrame by Alain Colas
• Moment by Stephen Dwoskin
• Monangambeee by Sarah Maldoror
• Mortem by Adam Schmedes
• Okasareta hakui by Kōji Wakamatsu
• Please Don't Stand On My Sunshine by Ned McCann
• R.S.V.P. by W. Pinkston, J. Mason V.
• Rosée Du Matin by Jean Dasque
• Sex by David Avidan
• Sur les traces de Baal by Abdellatif Ben Ammar
• Underground Again by Laure Guggenheim
• Venceremos] by Pedro Chaskel
• Viva Cariri by Geraldo Sarno

  Awards

Official awards

• Grand Prix du Festival International du Film: The Go-Between by Joseph Losey
• Grand Prix Spécial du Jury:
• *Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo
• *Taking Off by Miloš Forman
• Best Actress: Kitty Winn for The Panic in Needle Park
• Best Actor: Riccardo Cucciolla for Sacco e Vanzetti
• Jury Prize:
• *Joe Hill by Bo Widerberg
• *Szerelem by Károly Makk
• Best First Work: Between Miracles by Nino Manfredi
• 25th Anniversary Prize: Death in Venice by Luchino Visconti

• Prix spécial du Jury: Star Spangled Banner by Roger Flint
• Special mention :
• *Stuiter by Jan Oonk
• *Une Statuette by Carlos Vilardebó

  Independent awards

• FIPRESCI Prize: Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo

• Technical Grand Prize: The Hellstrom Chronicle by Walon Green

• Szerelem by Károly Makk

• Special Mention: Lili Darvas and Mari Törőcsik, the lead actresses in Szerelem

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