1988 Cannes Film Festival

Juries

Main competition

• Ettore Scola, Italian filmmaker - Jury President
• Claude Berri, French filmmaker, producer, and actor
• William Goldman, American author
• Nastassja Kinski, German actress
• George Miller, Australian filmmaker
• Robby Müller, Dutch cinematographer
• Héctor Olivera, Argentine filmmaker and producer
• David Robinson, British film critic
• Yelena Safonova, Soviet actress
• Philippe Sarde, French composer

''Camera d'Or''

• Danièle Delorme, French actress - Jury President
• Carlos Avellar, journalist
• Jacques Champreux, French director
• Henry Chapier, French film critic
• Chantal Calafato, cinephile
• Bernard Jubard
• Ekaterina Oproiu, journalist
• David Streiff, cinephile

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:

Special Screenings

The following films were selected to receive a special screening:

Short film competition

The following short films competed for the Palme d'Or du court métrage:

• Ab Ovo / Homoknyomok (Traces of Sand) by Ferenc Cako
• Bukpytacy (Fioritures) by Gary Bardine
• Cat & Mousse by David Lawson
• Chet's Romance by Bertrand Fevre
• Out of Town by Norman Hull
• Pas-ta-shoot-ah by Maurizio Forestieri
• Pleasure Domes by Maggie Fooke
• Sculpture Physique by Yann Piquer, Jean Marie Maddeddu
• Super Freak by Gisela Ekholm, Per Ekholm

Parallel sections

International Critics' Week

The following feature films were screened for the 27th International Critics' Week (27e Semaine de la Critique):

Feature film competition

• Begurebis gadaprena by Temür Babluani (Soviet Union)
• Full Moon (Dolunay) by Sahin Kaygun (Turkey)
• Tokyo Pop by Fran Rubel Kuzui (USA)
• The Well (Jing) by Yalin Li (China)
• Testament by John Akomfrah (United Kingdom)
• Portrait of a Life (Ekti Jiban) by Raja Mitra (India)
• My Dear Subject (Mon cher sujet) by Anne-Marie Miéville (France, Switzerland) Short film competition
• La face cachée de la lune by Yvon Marciano (France)
• Metropolis Apocalypse by Jon Jacobs (United Kingdom)
• Artisten (The Artist) by Jonas Grimas (Sweden)
• Klatka (The cage) by Olaf Olszewski (Poland)
• Cidadao Jatoba (Citizen Jatoba) by Maria Luiza Aboïm (Brazil)
• Blues Black and White by Markus Imboden (Switzerland)

Directors' Fortnight

The following feature films were screened for the 1988 Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalizateurs):

• Amerika, Terra Incognita by Diego Risquez
• Daughter of the Nile (Ni luo he nu er) by Hou Hsiao-Hsien
• ** by Robert Van Ackeren
• Distant Voices, Still Lives by Terence Davies
• Ei by Danniel Danniel
• The Heat Line (La Ligne de chaleur) by Hubert-Yves Rose
• Herseye Ragmen by Orhan Oguz
• Légendes Vivantes by Nodar Managadzé
• Mars Froid by Igor Minayev
• Natal da Portela by Paulo Cezar Saraceni
• Noujoum A’nahar by Oussama Mohammad
• Salaam Bombay! by Mira Nair
• Summer Thefts (Sarikat Sayfeya) by Yousry Nasrallah
• Soursweet by Mike Newell
• Stormy Monday by Mike Figgis
• The Story of Fausta (Romance Da Empregada) by Bruno Barreto
• Tabataba by Raymond Rajaonarivelo
• The Suitors by Ghasem Ebrahimian

Official Awards

In Competition

• Palme d'Or: Pelle the Conqueror by Bille August
• Grand Prix: A World Apart by Chris Menges
• Best Director: Fernando Solanas for Sur
• Best Actress: Barbara Hershey, Jodhi May and Linda Mvusi for A World Apart
• Best Actor: Forest Whitaker for Bird
• Best Artistic Contribution: Peter Greenaway for Drowning by Numbers
• Jury Prize: A Short Film About Killing by Krzysztof Kieślowski

''[[Caméra d'Or]]''

• Salaam Bombay! by Mira Nair Short films

[[Short Film Palme d'Or]]

• Vykrutasy by Garri Bardin
• Short Film Prize for Animation: Traces of Sand by Ferenc Cako
• Short Film Prize for Fiction: Physical Sculpture by Yann Piquer and Jean Marie Maddeddu

Independent Awards

[[FIPRESCI|FIPRESCI Prizes]]

• A Short Film About Killing by Krzysztof Kieślowski (In competition)
• Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie by Marcel Ophüls (Un Certain Regard)
• Distant Voices, Still Lives by Terence Davies (Directors' Fortnight)

''Commission Supérieure Technique''

• Technical Grand Prize: Bird, for the quality of the soundtrack

[[Prize of the Ecumenical Jury]]

• A World Apart by Chris Menges
  • Special Mention: The Revolving Doors by Francis Mankiewicz

Award of the Youth

• Foreign Film: Herseye Ragmen by Orhan Oguz
• French Film: Mon cher sujet by Anne-Marie Miéville

Other awards

• Audience Award: Salaam Bombay! by Mira Nair

References

Media

• INA: Opening of the 1988 Cannes Festival (commentary in French)
• INA: List of winners of the 1988 festival (commentary in French)

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