![]() Official poster of the 44th Cannes Film Festival, an original illustration by Philippe and Pascal Lemoine. [1] | |
Opening film | Homicide |
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Closing film | Thelma & Louise |
Location | Cannes, France |
Founded | 1946 |
Awards | Palme d'Or : Barton Fink [2] |
No. of films | 19 (In Competition) [3] |
Festival date | 9 May 1991 – 20 May 1991 |
Website | festival-cannes |
The 44th Cannes Film Festival was held from 9 to 20 May 1991. [4] French-Polish filmmaker Roman Polanski served as jury president for the main competition.
American filmmakers Joel Coen and Ethan Coen won the Palme d'Or, the festival's top prize, for the comedy film Barton Fink . [5] [6] [7]
The festival opened with Homicide by David Mamet, [8] and closed with Thelma & Louise by Ridley Scott. [9]
The following feature films competed for the Palme d'Or : [3]
The following films were selected for the Un Certain Regard section: [3]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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Boyz n the Hood | John Singleton | United States | |
Burial of a Potato | Pogrzeb kartofla | Jan Jakub Kolski | Poland |
A Captive in the Land | Пленник земли | John Berry | Soviet Union, United States |
The Chosen One | Ishanou | Aribam Syam Sharma | India |
Comrade Chkalov Crosses the North Pole | Переход товарища Чкалова через Северный полюс | Maksim Pezhemsky | Soviet Union |
L'entraînement du champion avant la course | Bernard Favre | France | |
Escape from the 'Liberty' Cinema | Ucieczka z kina 'Wolność' | Wojciech Marczewski | Poland |
Fire! | Ta Dona | Adama Drabo | Mali |
Friends, Comrades | Ystävät, toverit | Rauni Mollberg | Finland |
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse | Fax Bahr and George Hickenlooper | United States | |
Holidays on the River Yarra | Leo Berkeley | Australia | |
In the Alleys of Love | در کوچههای عشق | Khosrow Sinai | Iran |
Lebewohl, Fremde | Tevfik Başer | Germany | |
Paths of Death and Angels | Halálutak és angyalok | Zoltán Kamondi | Hungary |
Revenge | Месть | Yermek Shinarbayev | Soviet Union |
The Tradition | Laada | Drissa Toure | Burkina Faso |
Sango Malo | Bassek Ba Kobhio | Cameroon, Burkina Faso | |
Treasure Island | L'île au trésor | Raúl Ruiz | United Kingdom, France, United States |
Woman of the Port | La mujer del puerto | Arturo Ripstein | Mexico |
Yumeji | 夢二 | Seijun Suzuki | Japan |
The following films were selected to be screened out of competition: [3]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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Le film du cinéma suisse | Michel Soutter and Jean-François Amiguet | Switzerland | |
Jacquot de Nantes | Agnès Varda | France | |
Life Stinks | Mel Brooks | United States | |
Madonna: Truth or Dare | Alek Keshishian | ||
Prospero's Books | Peter Greenaway | United Kingdom, Netherlands, France, Italy, Japan | |
Rhapsody in August | 八月の狂詩曲 | Akira Kurosawa | Japan |
Thelma & Louise (closing film) | Ridley Scott | United States |
The following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or: [3]
The following films were screened for the 30th International Critics' Week (30e Semaine de la Critique): [11]
Feature film competition
Short film competition
The following films were screened for the 1991 Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalizateurs): [12]