1996 Cannes Film Festival

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1996 Cannes Film Festival
CFF96poster.jpg
Official poster of the 49th Cannes Film Festival [1]
Opening film Ridicule
Closing film Flirting with Disaster
Location Cannes, France
Founded1946
Awards Palme d'Or ( Secrets & Lies ) [2]
Hosted by Sabine Azéma
No. of films22 (En Competition) [3]
25 (Un Certain Regard)
7 (Out of Competition)
14 (Short Film)
Festival date9 May 1996 (1996-05-09) – 20 May 1996 (1996-05-20)
Website festival-cannes.com/en
Cannes Film Festival

The 49th Cannes Film Festival was held from 9 to 20 May 1996. The Palme d'Or went to Secrets & Lies by Mike Leigh. [4] [5] [6] [7]

Contents

The festival opened with Ridicule , directed by Patrice Leconte [8] [9] [10] and closed with Flirting with Disaster , directed by David O. Russell. [11] [12] Sabine Azéma was the mistress of ceremonies. [4]

1996 Un Certain Regard poster, adapted from an original illustration by Jacques Loustal. Un certain regard 96.jpg
1996 Un Certain Regard poster, adapted from an original illustration by Jacques Loustal.

Juries

Main competition

The following people were appointed as the Jury for the feature films of the 1996 Official Selection: [14]

Camera d'Or

The following people were appointed as the Jury of the 1996 Camera d'Or:

Official Selection

In competition

The following feature films competed for the Palme d'Or: [3]

English titleOriginal titleDirector(s)Production country
Breaking the Waves Lars von Trier Denmark, Sweden, France, Netherlands, Norway, Iceland, Finland, Italy, Germany, United States
My Sex Life... or How I Got into an Argument Comment je me suis disputé... (ma vie sexuelle) Arnaud Desplechin France
Crash David Cronenberg Canada
Drifting Clouds Kauas pilvet karkaavat Aki Kaurismäki Finland
Earth Tierra Julio Medem Spain
The Eighth Day Le huitième jour Jaco Van Dormael Belgium, France
Fargo Joel Coen United States, United Kingdom
Goodbye South, Goodbye 南國再見,南國 Hou Hsiao-hsien Taiwan, Japan
Kansas City Robert Altman United States
The Quiet Room Rolf de Heer Australia
Ridicule Patrice Leconte France
The Second Time La seconda volta Mimmo Calopresti Italy
Secrets & Lies Mike Leigh United Kingdom, France
A Self-Made Hero Un héros très discret Jacques Audiard France
Stealing Beauty Beauté volée / Io ballo da sola Bernardo Bertolucci France, Italy, United Kingdom
The Sunchaser Michael Cimino United States
Temptress Moon 風月 Chen Kaige China
Thieves Les voleurs André Téchiné France
Three Lives and Only One Death Trois vies & une seule mort Raúl Ruiz France
Too Late Prea târziu Lucian Pintilie Romania
Tree of Blood Po di Sangui Flora Gomes Guinea-Bissau, France
The Van Stephen Frears Ireland

Un Certain Regard

The following films were selected for the competition of Un Certain Regard: [3]

Films out of competition

The following films were selected to be screened out of competition: [3]

Short film competition

The following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or: [3]

  • 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 (Wind) by Marcell Iványi
  • The Beach by Dorthe Scheffmann
  • This Film Is a Dog by Jonathan Ogilvie

Parallel sections

International Critics' Week

The following films were screened for the 35th International Critics' Week (35e Semaine de la Critique): [15]

Feature film competition

Short film competition

  • Planet Man by Andrew Bancroft (New Zealand)
  • A Summer Dress (Une robe d’été) by François Ozon (France)
  • La Grande migration by Youri Tcherenkov (France)
  • Le Réveil by Marc Henri Wajnberg (Belgium)
  • The Slap by Tamara Hernandez (United States)
  • La Tarde de un matrimonio de clase media by Fernando Javier León Rodríguez (Mexico)
  • Derrière le bureau d’acajou by Johannes S. Nilsson (Sweden)

Directors' Fortnight

The following films were screened for the 1996 Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalizateurs): [16]

Short films
  • La Faim by Siegfried (18 min.)
  • La Fille et l’amande by Bénédicte Brunet (15 min.)
  • Vacances A Blériot by Bruno Bontzolakis (25 min.)
  • Virage Nord by Sylvain Labrosse (15 min.)

Awards

Francis Ford Coppola, Jury President Francis Ford Coppola Cannes.jpg
Francis Ford Coppola, Jury President
Mike Leigh, Palme d'Or winner Mike Leigh (Berlinale 2012) cropped.jpg
Mike Leigh, Palme d'Or winner

Official awards

The following films and people received the 1996 Official selection awards: [2]

Golden Camera

Short films

Independent awards

FIPRESCI Prizes [17]

Commission Supérieure Technique

Ecumenical Jury [18]

Award of the Youth [19]

Awards in the frame of International Critics' Week [19]

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