1987 Cannes Film Festival

Juries

Main competition

• Yves Montand, French-Italian actor and singer - Jury President
• Theo Angelopoulos, Greek director, screenwriter, and producer
• Gérald Calderon, French director
• Danièle Heymann, French film critic and journalist
• Elem Klimov, Soviet Russian director
• Norman Mailer, American novelist
• Nicola Piovani, Italian composer
• Jerzy Skolimowski, Polish director, screenwriter, and actor
• Jeremy Thomas, British producer

''Camera d'Or''

• Maurice Le Roux, French composer and conductor - Jury President
• Freddy Buache, journalist
• Emmanuel Carriau, cinephile
• Michel Ciment, French film critic
• M. Hidalgo, journalist
• Bernard Jubard
• Michael Kutza, cinephile
• Claude Weisz, French filmmaker

Official selection

In Competition

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

''Un Certain Regard''

The following films were selected for the Un Certain Regard section:

Out of Competition

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

Short Films Competition

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

• Doigté by Gyula Nagy
• Imagine by Zbigniew Rybczynski
• L'homme Qui Plantait des Arbres by Frédéric Back
• La Mort Soudaine et Prématurée du Colonel K.K. by Milos Radovic
• The Four Wishes (Les Quatre Vœux) by Michel Ocelot
• Maestro by Alex Zamm
• Palisade by Laurie McInnes
• Pleines de Grâce by Nicole Van Goethem
• Your Face by Bill Plympton
• Transatlantique by Bruce Krebs
• Academy Leader Variations by Martial Wannaz, Krzysztof Kiwerski, Stanislaw Lenartowicz, David Ehrlich, Jane Aaron, Skip Battaglia, Paul Glabicki, George Griffin, Al Jarnow, Piotr Dumala, Daniel Suter, Yan Ding Xian, A. D., Hu Jin Qing, Lin Wen Xiao, He Yu Men, Chang Guang Xi, Georges Schwizgebel, Claude Luyet, Jerzy Kucia

Parallel sections

International Critics' Week

The following feature films were screened for the 26th International Critics' Week (26e Semaine de la Critique):

• Dead Man's Letters (Pisma myortvogo cheloveka) by Konstantin Lopushansky (Soviet Union)
• Du mich auch by , Dani Levy, (West Germany, Switzerland)
• Ngati by Barry Barclay (New Zealand)
• Yam Daabo by Idrissa Ouedraogo (Burkina Faso)
• The Tree We Hurt (To dendro pou pligoname) by Dimos Avdeliodis (Greece)
• Angelus novus by Pasquale Misuraca (Italy)
• Où que tu sois by Alain Bergala (France)

Directors' Fortnight

The following films were screened for the 1987 Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalizateurs):

• Diary of a Mad Old Man by Lili Rademakers
• Dilan by Erden Kiral
• Guardian Angel (Andjeo Cuvar) by Goran Paskaljevic
• Heaven by Diane Keaton
• Home of the Brave by Laurie Anderson
• A Hungarian Fairy Tale (Hol Volt, Hol Nem Volt) by Gyula Gazdag
• I've Heard the Mermaids Singing by Patricia Rozema
• Made in U.S.A. by Ken Friedman
• Malom a pokolban by Gyula Maar
• Mascara by Patrick Conrad
• Matewan by John Sayles
• Night Zoo (Un zoo la nuit) by Jean-Claude Lauzon
• Panorama du cinéma sud-africain indépendant (director not stated)
• The Photograph (I Photographia) by Nicos Papatakis
• Rita, Sue and Bob Too by Alan Clarke
• Shadows in Paradise (Varjoja paratiisissa) by Aki Kaurismäki
• Street Smart by Jerry Schatzberg
• The Surfer by Frank Shields
• Wedding in Galilee (Urs al-Jalil) by Michel Khleifi
• Wish You Were Here by David Leland

Official Awards

In Competition

• Palme d'Or: Under the Sun of Satan by Maurice Pialat
• Grand Prix: Repentance by Tengiz Abuladze
• Best Director: Wim Wenders for Wings of Desire
• Best Actress: Barbara Hershey for Shy People
• Best Actor: Marcello Mastroianni for Dark Eyes
• Best Artistic Contribution: Stanley Myers (composer) for Prick Up Your Ears
• Jury Prize:
  • Shinran: Path to Purity by Rentarō Mikuni
  • Yeelen by Souleymane Cissé
• 40th Anniversary Prize: Intervista by Federico Fellini

''[[Caméra d'Or]]''

• Robinsonada or My English Grandfather by Nana Djordjadze

[[Short Film Palme d'Or]]

• Palisade by Laurie McInnes
• Second Prize: Academy Leader Variations by David Ehrlich
• Third Prize: La Mort Soudaine et Prématurée du Colonel K.K. by Milos Radovic

Independent awards

[[FIPRESCI|FIPRESCI Prizes]]

• Repentance by Tengiz Abuladze (In competition)
• Wedding in Galilee by Michel Khleifi (Directors' Fortnight)
• Wish You Were Here by David Leland (Directors' Fortnight)

''Commission Supérieure Technique''

• Technical Grand Prize: Le cinéma dans les yeux by Gilles Jacob and Laurent Jacob

[[Prize of the Ecumenical Jury]]

• Repentance by Tengiz Abuladze
  • Special Mention:
    • Babette's Feast by Gabriel Axel
    • Yeelen by Souleymane Cissé

Award of the Youth

• Foreign Film: I've Heard the Mermaids Singing by Patricia Rozema

References

Media

• INA: Anniversary evening: the Festival is 40 years old (commentary in French)
• INA: List of winners of the 1987 festival (commentary in French)

References

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