![]() Official poster of the 28th Cannes Film Festival, an original illustration by Polish painter Wojciech Siudmak. [1] | |
Opening film | A Happy Divorce |
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Closing film | Tommy |
Location | Cannes, France |
Founded | 1946 |
Awards | Palme d'Or : Chronicle of the Years of Fire [2] |
No. of films | 22 (In Competition) [3] |
Festival date | 9 May 1975 – 23 May 1975 |
Website | festival-cannes |
The 28th Cannes Film Festival took place from 9 to 23 May 1975. [4] French actress Jeanne Moreau served as jury president for the main competition.
Algerian filmmaker Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina won the Palme d'Or, the festival's top prize, for the drama film Chronicle of the Years of Fire . [5]
In 1975, a new non-competitive section, Les Yeux fertiles, was introduced. This section was later integrated into the Un Certain Regard section in 1978. [6] [7]
The festival opened with A Happy Divorce by Henning Carlsen, [8] [9] and closed with Tommy by Ken Russell. [10]
The following feature films competed for the Palme d'Or : [3]
The following films were selected to be screened out of competition: [3]
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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A Csodalatos Mandarin | Miklós Szinetár | Hungary | |
A faból faragott királyfi | Ádám Horváth | ||
Anna Karenina | Анна Каренина | Margarita Pilikhina | Soviet Union |
The Day of the Locust | John Schlesinger | United States | |
Galileo | Joseph Losey | United Kingdom | |
Georges Braque ou le temps différent | Frédéric Rossif | France | |
India Song | Marguerite Duras | ||
Je t'aime, tu danses | François Weyergans | Belgium | |
The Magic Flute | Trollflöjten | Ingmar Bergman | Sweden |
The Maids | Christopher Miles | United Kingdom | |
Moses and Aaron | Moses und Aron | Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet | West Germany |
The Romantic Englishwoman | Joseph Losey | United Kingdom | |
Tommy (closing film) | Ken Russell |
The following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or: [3]
The following feature films were screened for the 14th International Critics' Week (14e Semaine de la Critique): [12]
The following films were screened for the 1975 Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalizateurs): [13]