1996 Cannes Film Festival

Juries

Main competition

• Francis Ford Coppola, American filmmaker - Jury President
• Michael Ballhaus, German cinematographer
• Nathalie Baye, French actress
• Henry Chapier, French journalist, presenter and director
• Atom Egoyan, Canadian filmmaker
• Eiko Ishioka, Japanese artist and costume designer
• Krzysztof Piesiewicz, Polish screenwriter
• Greta Scacchi, Italian actress
• Antonio Tabucchi, Italian writer
• Trần Anh Hùng, Vietnamese-French filmmaker

''Camera d'Or''

• Françoise Fabian, French actress - Jury President
• Gian Luca Farinelli, Cinephile
• Ramon Font, Critic
• Sandrine Gady, Cinephile
• Jacques Kermabon, Critic
• Daniel Schmid, Swiss director
• Antoine Simkine, French member of the Fédération Nationale des Industries

Official Selection

In competition

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

''Un Certain Regard''

The following films were selected for 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:

• 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):

Feature film competition

• Les Aveux de l’innocent by Jean-Pierre Améris (France)
• Yuri by Yoonho Yang (South Korea)
• Mi último hombre by Tatiana Gaviola (Chile)
• The Empty Mirror by Barry J. Hershey (United States)
• The Daytrippers by Greg Mottola (United States)
• A Drifting Life by Lin Cheng-sheng (Taiwan)
• Not Me! (Sous sol) by Pierre Gang (Canada)

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):

• A toute vitesse by Gaël Morel
• Beautiful Thing by Hettie MacDonald
• A Chef in Love by Nana Djordjadze
• Le Cri de la soie by Yvon Marciano
• Edipo Alcalde by Jorge Ali Triana
• Encore by Pascal Bonitzer
• Flame by Ingrid Sinclair
• Vaska Easoff (Haggyállógva, Vászka) by Peter Gothar
• Inside by Arthur Penn
• Youth Without God (Jeunesse sans Dieu) by Catherine Corsini
• Jude by Michael Winterbottom
• Kids Return by Takeshi Kitano
• Prisoner of the Mountains (Kavkazskiy plennik) by Sergei Bodrov
• La Promesse by Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
• Lone Star by John Sayles
• Macadam Tribu by José Laplaine
• Mondani a mondhatatlant: Elie Wiesel üzenete by Judit Elek
• Perfect Love (Parfait amour!) by Catherine Breillat
• Pasajes by Daniel Calparsoro
• Salut cousin ! by Merzak Allouache
• Select Hôtel by Laurent Bouhnik
• Trees Lounge by Steve Buscemi
• White Night (Layla Lavan) by Arnon Zadok
• Will It Snow for Christmas? (Y aura t’il de la neige à Noël ?) by Sandrine Veysset :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.)

Official Awards

In Competition

• Palme d'Or: Secrets & Lies by Mike Leigh
• Grand Prix: Breaking the Waves by Lars von Trier
• Best Director: Joel Coen for Fargo
• Best Screenplay: A Self-Made Hero by Jacques Audiard and Alain Le Henry
• Best Actress: Brenda Blethyn for Secrets & Lies
• Best Actor: Daniel Auteuil and Pascal Duquenne for The Eighth Day
• Jury Special Prize: Crash by David Cronenberg

''[[Caméra d'Or]]''

• Love Serenade by Shirley Barrett

[[Short Film Palme d'Or]]

• Szél by Marcell Iványi
• Jury Prize: Small Deaths by Lynne Ramsay

Independent Awards

[[FIPRESCI|FIPRESCI Prizes]]

• Secrets & Lies by Mike Leigh (In competition)
• Prisoner of the Mountains by Sergei Bodrov (Directors' Fortnight)
• The Mail & The Ferry by Laila Pakalnina (Un Certain Regard)

''Commission Supérieure Technique''

• Technical Grand Prize: The whole technical team for Microcosmos

[[Prize of the Ecumenical Jury]]

• Secrets & Lies by Mike Leigh
  • Special Mention:
    • A Drifting Life by Lin Cheng-sheng
    • Drifting Clouds by Aki Kaurismäki

Award of the Youth

• Foreign Film: White Night by Arnon Zadok
• French Film: Les aveux de l'innocent by Jean-Pierre Améris

International Critics' Week

• Mercedes-Benz Award: Les aveux de l'innocent by Jean-Pierre Améris
• Canal+ Award: Planet Man by Andrew Bancroft

Award the First Multimedia Day at the 49th Cannes Film festival

• Best Cyber Poster Award: The Visionary by Beny Tchaicovsky

References

Media

• INA: Opening of the 1996 Festival (commentary in French)
• INA: List of winners of the 1996 festival (commentary in French)

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