1994 Cannes Film Festival

1994 Cannes Film Festival

Official poster of the 47th Cannes Film Festival, adapted from an original drawing by Federico Fellini. [1]
Opening film	The Hudsucker Proxy
Closing film	Serial Mom
Location	Cannes, France
Founded	1946
Awards	Palme d'Or : Pulp Fiction
Hosted by	Jeanne Moreau
No. of films	23 (In Competition)
Festival date	12 May 1994 (1994-05-12) – 23 May 1994 (1994-05-23)
Website	festival-cannes.com/en
Cannes Film Festival
1995 1993

The 47th Cannes Film Festival took place from 12 to 23 May 1994. ^[2] American filmmaker and actor Clint Eastwood served as jury president for the main competition. ^[3] French actress Jeanne Moreau hosted the opening and closing ceremonies. ^[4]

American filmmaker Quentin Tarantino won the Palme d'Or, the festival's top prize, for the comedy-drama film Pulp Fiction . ^{[5] [6]}

The festival opened with The Hudsucker Proxy by Joel Coen, ^[7] and closed with Serial Mom by John Waters. ^{[8] [9]}

Juries

Main competition

• Clint Eastwood, American filmmaker and actor - Jury President ^[10]
• Pupi Avati, Italian filmmaker and producer
• Catherine Deneuve, French actress
• Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Cuban writer
• Kazuo Ishiguro, British writer
• Alexander Kaidanovsky, Russian actor and filmmaker
• Marie-Françoise Leclère, French journalist
• Lalo Schifrin, Argentine-American musician
• Shin Sang-ok, South Korean filmmaker and producer
• Alain Terzian, French-Armenian producer

Camera d'Or

• Marthe Keller, Swiss actress - Jury President
• Hans Beerekamp, Dutch journalist
• Josée Brossard, France
• Mario Dorminsky, Portugal
• An-Cha Flubacher Rhim, Switzerland
• François Ode, France
• Georges Pansu, France
• Jacques Zimmer, France

Official selection

In Competition

The following feature films competed for the Palme d'Or : ^[11]

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production
Assia and the Hen with the Golden Eggs	Курочка Ряба	Andrei Konchalovsky	Russia
Barnabo of the Mountains	Barnabo delle montagne	Mario Brenta	Italy
The Browning Version		Mike Figgis	United Kingdom
Burnt by the Sun	Утомлённые солнцем	Nikita Mikhalkov	Russia, France
A Confucian Confusion	獨立時代	Edward Yang	Taiwan
Dead Tired	Grosse Fatigue	Michel Blanc	France
Dear Diary	Caro diario	Nanni Moretti	Italy, France
Exotica		Atom Egoyan	Canada
The Hudsucker Proxy (opening film)		Joel Coen	United States, United Kingdom
To Live	活著	Zhang Yimou	China
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle		Alan Rudolph	United States
My Own	Swaham	Shaji N. Karun	India
The Patriots	Les patriotes	Éric Rochant	France
Pulp Fiction		Quentin Tarantino	United States
A Pure Formality	Una pura formalità	Giuseppe Tornatore	Italy, France
Queen Margot	La Reine Margot	Patrice Chéreau	France
The Queen of the Night	La reina de la noche	Arturo Ripstein	Mexico
Rice People	អ្នកស្រែ	Rithy Panh	Cambodia
Three Colours: Red	Trois couleurs: Rouge	Krzysztof Kieślowski	France, Poland, Switzerland
Through the Olive Trees	زیر درختان زیتون	Abbas Kiarostami	Iran
An Unforgettable Summer	O vară de neuitat	Lucian Pintilie	Romania, France
The Violin Player	Le joueur de violon	Charles Van Damme	France, Belgium
The Whores	Le buttane	Aurelio Grimaldi	Italy

Un Certain Regard

The following films were selected for the competition of Un Certain Regard: ^[11]

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert		Stephan Elliott	Australia
Bab El-Oued City		Merzak Allouache	Algeria
Bosnia!	Bosna!	Bernard-Henri Lévy and Alain Ferrari	France
The Broken Journey	Uttoran	Sandip Ray	India
The Butterfly's Dream	Il sogno della farfalla	Marco Bellocchio	Italy
Clean, Shaven		Lodge Kerrigan	United States
Cold Water	L'eau froide	Olivier Assayas	France
Down to Earth	Casa de Lava	Pedro Costa	Portugal
Dreamplay	Drømspel	Unni Straume	Norway
Faust	Lekce Faust	Jan Švankmajer	Czech Republic, France, United Kingdom, United States, Germany
I Can't Sleep	J'ai pas sommeil	Claire Denis	France
I Like It Like That		Darnell Martin	United States
Johnnie Waterman	Jańcio Wodnik	Jan Jakub Kolski	Poland
Picture Bride		Kayo Hatta	United States
The Shipwrecked	Los náufragos	Miguel Littin	Chile
Sleep with Me		Rory Kelly	United States
The Story of Xinghua	杏花三月天	Li Yin	China
Suture		Siegel & McGehee	United States
Wild Reeds	Les Roseaux sauvages	André Téchiné	France
Without Compassion	Sin compasión	Francisco José Lombardi	Peru
Xime		Sana Na N'Hada	Guinea-Bissau

Out of Competition

The following films were selected to be screened out of competition: ^[11]

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production
Serial Mom (closing film)		John Waters	United States

Special Screenings

The following films were selected to receive a Special Screening: ^{[12] [13]}

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production
A Game with No Rules(short)		Scott Reynolds	New Zealand
The Dig(short)		Neil Pardington
The Dutch Master		Susan Seidelman	Germany
Eau de la vie(short)		Simon Baré	New Zealand
I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry(short)		Michael Hurst
The Model(short)		Jonathan Brough
Montand		Jean Labib	France
Stroke(short)		Christine Jeffs	New Zealand
Vanished	증발	Shin Sang-ok	South Korea
Wet		Bob Rafelson	Germany

Short film competition

The following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or: ^[11]

• Book of Dreams: Welcome to Crateland by Alex Proyas
• El héroe by Carlos Carrera
• Lemming Aid by Grant Lahood
• Parlez Après Le Signal Sonore by Olivier Jahan
• Passage by Raimund Krumme
• Sure To Rise by Niki Caro
• Syrup by Paul Unwin
• Una Strada Diritta Lunga by Werther Germondari, Maria Laura Spagnoli

Parallel sections

International Critics' Week

The following films were screened for the 33rd International Critics' Week (33e Semaine de la Critique): ^[14]

Feature film competition

• Clerks by Kevin Smith (United States)
• See How They Fall (Regarde les hommes tomber) by Jacques Audiard (France)
• Zinat by Ebrahim Mokhtari (Iran)
• Nightwatch (Nattevagten) by Ole Bornedal (Denmark)
• Hatta Ishaar Akhar by Rashid Masharawi (Palestine, Netherlands)
• El Dirigible by Pablo Dotta (Uruguay)
• It Will Never Be Spring (Wildgroei) by Frouke Fokkema (Netherlands)

Short film competition

• Performance Anxiety by David Ewing (United States)
• One Night Stand by Bill Britten (United Kingdom)
• Poubelles by Olias Barco (France)
• Ponchada by Alejandra Moya (Mexico)
• Los Salteadores by Abi Feijo (Portugal)
• Home Away From Home by Maureen Blackwood (United Kingdom)
• Off Key by Karethe Linaae (Canada)

Directors' Fortnight

The following films were screened for the 1994 Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalizateurs): ^[15]

• 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance by Michael Haneke
• A Caixa by Manoel de Oliveira
• Amateur by Hal Hartley
• Ap’to Hioni by Sotiris Goritsas
• Bye Bye America  [ de ] by Jan Schütte
• Bandit Queen by Shekhar Kapur (India) ^{[16] [17]}
• Bei Kao Bei, Lian Dui Lian by Huang Jianxin
• Eat Drink Man Woman by Ang Lee
• Faut pas rire du bonheur by Guillaume Nicloux
• Fresh by Boaz Yakin
• Katya Ismailova by Valery Todorovsky
• Les Amoureux by Catherine Corsini
• Man, God, The Monster by Collectif
• Muriel's Wedding by P. J. Hogan
• Petits arrangements avec les morts by Pascale Ferran
• Pidä Huivista Kiinni, Tatjana by Aki Kaurismäki
• Senza pelle by Alessandro D'Alatri
• The Silences of the Palace by Moufida Tlatli
• Três Palmeiras by João Botelho
• Trop de bonheur by Cédric Kahn
• Crows (Wrony) by Dorota Kędzierzawska

Short films

• 75 centilitres de prières by Jacques Maillot
• Deus ex machina by Vincent Mayrand
• Dimanche ou les fantômes by Laurent Achard
• Eternelles by Erick Zonca
• Troubles ou la journée d’une femme ordinaire by Laurent Bouhnik

Clint Eastwood, Jury President

Official Awards

Quentin Tarantino, 1994 Palme d'Or winner

In Competition

• Palme d'Or: Pulp Fiction by Quentin Tarantino ^[18]
• Grand Prize of the Jury:
  • To Live by Zhang Yimou
  • Burnt by the Sun by Nikita Mikhalkov
• Best Director: Nanni Moretti for Caro diario
• Best Screenplay: Michel Blanc for Dead Tired
• Best Actress: Virna Lisi for Queen Margot
• Best Actor: Ge You for To Live
• Jury Prize: Queen Margot by Patrice Chéreau

Caméra d'Or

• Coming to Terms with the Dead by Pascale Ferran
  • Special Mention: The Silences of the Palace by Moufida Tlatli

Short Film Palme d'Or

• El héroe by Carlos Carrera
• First Jury Prize: Lemming Aid by Grant Lahood
• Second Jury Prize: Syrup by Paul Unwin

Independent Awards

FIPRESCI Prizes

• Exotica by Atom Egoyan (In competition) ^[19]
• Bab El-Oued City by Merzak Allouache (Un Certain Regard)

Commission Supérieure Technique

• Technical Grand Prize: Pitof (special effects) in Dead Tired

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

• To Live by Zhang Yimou ^[20]
• Burnt by the Sun by Nikita Mikhalkov ^[21]

Award of the Youth

• Foreign Film: Clerks by Kevin Smith ^[22]
• French Film: Happy, Too Happy by Cédric Kahn

International Critics' Week

• Mercedes-Benz Award: Clerks by Kevin Smith ^[22]
• Canal+ Award: Performance Anxiety by David Ewing
• Kodak Short Film Award: Éternelles by Erick Zonca

References

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Media

• INA: Opening of the 1994 Festival (commentary in French)
• INA: List of winners of the 1994 festival (commentary in French)

External links

• 1994 Cannes Film Festival (web.archive)
• Official website Retrospective 1994 Archived 2019-01-21 at the Wayback Machine
• Cannes Film Festival:1994 at Internet Movie Database