Opening film | Ridicule |
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Closing film | Flirting with Disaster |
Location | Cannes, France |
Founded | 1946 |
Awards | Palme d'Or ( Secrets & Lies ) [2] |
Hosted by | Sabine Azéma |
No. of films | 22 (En Competition) [3] 25 (Un Certain Regard) 7 (Out of Competition) 14 (Short Film) |
Festival date | 9 May 1996 – 20 May 1996 |
Website | festival-cannes |
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]
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]
The following people were appointed as the Jury for the feature films of the 1996 Official Selection: [14]
The following people were appointed as the Jury of the 1996 Camera d'Or:
The following feature films competed for the Palme d'Or: [3]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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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 |
The following films were selected for the competition of Un Certain Regard: [3]
The following films were selected to be screened out of competition: [3]
The following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or: [3]
The following films were screened for the 35th International Critics' Week (35e Semaine de la Critique): [15]
Feature film competition
Short film competition
The following films were screened for the 1996 Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalizateurs): [16]
The following films and people received the 1996 Official selection awards: [2]
Golden Camera
Short films
Commission Supérieure Technique
Ecumenical Jury [18]
Award of the Youth [19]
Awards in the frame of International Critics' Week [19]
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