1996 Cannes Film Festival

Juries

Main competition

• Francis Ford Coppola
• Nathalie Baye
• Greta Scacchi, actrice
• Michael Ballhaus
• Henry Chapier
• Atom Egoyan
• Eiko Ishioka
• Krzysztof Piesiewicz
• Antonio Tabucchi
• Anh Hung Tran

  Camera d'Or

• Françoise Fabian President
• Antoine Simkine
• Daniel Schmid
• Gian Luca Farinelli
• Jacques Kermabon
• Ramon Font
• Sandrine Gady

  Official selection

In competition - Feature film

• Breaking the Waves by Lars von Trier
• Comment je me suis disputé... by Arnaud Desplechin
• Crash by David Cronenberg
• Fargo by Joel Coen
• Feng yue by Chen Kaige
• Kansas City by Robert Altman
• Kauas pilvet karkaavat by Aki Kaurismäki
• La seconda volta by Mimmo Calopresti
• Le huitième jour by Jaco Van Dormael
• Les voleurs by André Téchiné
• Nan guo zai jian, nan guo by Hou Hsiao-hsien
• Po di Sangui by Flora Gomes
• Prea târziu by Lucian Pintilie
• Ridicule by Patrice Leconte
• Secrets & Lies by Mike Leigh
• Stealing Beauty by Bernardo Bertolucci
• The Quiet Room by Rolf de Heer
• Sunchaser by Michael Cimino
• The Van by Stephen Frears
• Tierra by Julio Médem
• Trois vies & une seule mort by Raúl Ruiz
• Un héros très discret by Jacques Audiard

  Un Certain Regard

• Bastard Out of Carolina by Anjelica Huston
• Buenos Aires Vice Versa by Alejandro Agresti
• Compagna di viaggio by Peter Del Monte
• Conte d'été by Éric Rohmer
• Cwał by Krzysztof Zanussi
• Few of Us by Šarūnas Bartas
• Fourbi by Alain Tanner
• Gabbeh by Mohsen Makhmalbaf
• Haifa by Rashid Masharawi
• I Shot Andy Warhol by Mary Harron
• Irma Vep by Olivier Assayas
• La Bouche de Jean-Pierre by Lucile Hadžihalilović
• Looking for Richard by Al Pacino
• Love Serenade by Shirley Barrett
• Lulu by Srinivas Krishna
• Mossane by Safi Faye
• No Way to Forget by Richard Frankland
• Pasts by Laila Pakalniņa
• Pramis by Laila Pakalniņa
• Some Mother's Son by Terry George
• Sydney by Paul Thomas Anderson
• The Pallbearer by Matt Reeves
• The Pillow Book by Peter Greenaway
• The Waste Land by Deborah Warner
• Un samedi sur la terre by Diane Bertrand

  Films out of competition

• Flirting with Disaster by David O. Russell
• Girl 6 by Spike Lee
• Il giorno della prima di Close Up by Nanni Moretti
• Le affinità elettive by Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani
• Runaway Brain by Chris Bailey
• Microcosmos by Claude Nuridsany, Marie Perennou
• Trainspotting by Danny Boyle

  Short film competition

• 4 maneras de tapar un hoyo by Guillermo Rendon Rodriguez, Jorge Villalobos de La Torre
• Attraction by Alexeï Diomine
• Brooms by Luke Cresswell, Steve Mcnicholas
• Estoria do gato e da lua by Pedro Miguel Serrazina
• Film Noir by Michael Liu
• Les fourmis rouges by Pierre Erwan Guillaume
• Oru Neenda Yathra by Murali Nair
• Passeio com Johnny Guitar by João César Monteiro
• Petite Sotte by Luc Otter
• Sin #8 by Barbara Heller
• Small Deaths by Lynne Ramsay
• Szél by Marcell Iványi
• The Beach by Dorthe Scheffmann
• This Film Is a Dog by Jonathan Ogilvie

  Parallel sections

International Critics' Week

• Les Aveux de l’innocent by Jean-Pierre Améris
• Yuri by Yoonho Yang
• Mi ultimo hombre by Tatiana Gaviola
• The Empty Mirror by Barry J. Hershey
• The Daytrippers by Greg Mottola
• A Drifting Life by Lin Cheng-sheng
• Not Me! by Pierre Gang

• Planet Man by Andrew Bancroft
• A Summer Dress by François Ozon
• La Grande migration by Youri Tcherenkov
• Le Réveil by Marc Henri Wajnberg
• The Slap by Tamara Hernandez
• La Tarde de un matrimonio de clase media by Fernando Javier León Rodríguez
• Derrière le bureau d’acajou by Johannes S. Nilsson

  Directors' Fortnight

• A toute vitesse by Gaël Morel
• Beautiful Thing by Hettie MacDonald
• A Chef in Love by Nana Djordjadze
• Le Cri de la soie by Yvon Marciano
• Edipo Alcalde by Jorge Ali Triana
• Encore by Pascal Bonitzer
• Flame by Ingrid Sinclair
• Vaska Easoff by Peter Gothar
• Inside by Arthur Penn
• Youth Without God by Catherine Corsini
• Jude by Michael Winterbottom
• Kids Return by Takeshi Kitano
• Prisoner of the Mountains by Sergei Bodrov
• La Promesse by Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
• Lone Star by John Sayles
• Macadam Tribu by José Laplaine
• by Judit Elek
• Perfect Love by Catherine Breillat
• Pasajes by Daniel Calparsoro
• Salut cousin ! by Merzak Allouache
• Select Hôtel by Laurent Bouhnik
• Trees Lounge by Steve Buscemi
• White Night by Arnon Zadok
• Will It Snow for Christmas? by Sandrine Veysset
• La Faim by Siegfried
• La Fille et l’amande by Bénédicte Brunet
• Vacances A Blériot by Bruno Bontzolakis
• Virage Nord by Sylvain Labrosse

  Awards

Official awards

• Palme d'Or: Secrets & Lies by Mike Leigh
• Grand Prize of the Jury: Breaking the Waves by Lars von Trier
• Best Director: Joel Coen for Fargo
• Best Screenplay: Un héros très discret by Jacques Audiard, Alain Le Henry
• Best Actress: Brenda Blethyn for Secrets & Lies
• Best Actor: Daniel Auteuil and Pascal Duquenne for Le huitième jour
• Jury Special Prize: Crash by David Cronenberg

• Caméra d'Or: Love Serenade by Shirley Barrett

• Short Film Palme d'Or: Szél by Marcell Iványi
• Jury Prize: Small Deaths'' by Lynne Ramsay

  Independent awards

• Secrets & Lies by Mike Leigh
• Prisoner of the Mountains by Sergei Bodrov
• The Mail & The Ferry by Laila Pakalnina

• Technical Grand Prize: The whole technical team for Microcosmos

• Prize of the Ecumenical Jury: Secrets & Lies by Mike Leigh
• Ecumenical Jury - Special Mention: A Drifting Life by Cheng-sheng Lin & Drifting Clouds by Aki Kaurismäki

• Foreign Film: White Night by Arnon Zadok
• French Film: Les aveux de l'innocent by Jean-Pierre Améris

• Mercedes-Benz Award: Les aveux de l'innocent by Jean-Pierre Améris
• Canal+ Award: Planet Man by Andrew Bancroft

• Best Cyber Poster Award in the First Multimedia Day at the 49th Cannes Film Festival in 1996: The Visionary'' by Beny Tchaicovsky

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