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- DirectorYoussef ChahineStarsMichel PiccoliSalah ZulfikarMohsen MohieddinA story during the French Occupation of Egypt (1797-1803), depicting the conflict between tradition and modernization in the context of fighting the French invaders.In Competition
- DirectorAlan ParkerStarsMatthew ModineNicolas CageJohn HarkinsAfter two friends return home from the Vietnam War one becomes mentally unstable and obsesses with becoming a bird.In Competition
- DirectorRay LawrenceStarsBarry OttoLynette CurranHelen JonesAfter a near-death experience, a man wonders if he actually did die and is now in Hell.In Competition
- DirectorFrancis ReusserStarsIsabel OteroJacques PenotMaria MachadoAntoine loves Thérèse. He is a shepherd and tends the animals with his uncle Séraphin. Thérèse works in the village with her mother. One day, a landslide buries Antoine and Séraphin.In Competition
- DirectorJean-Luc GodardStarsLaurent TerzieffAurelle DoazanJean-Pierre LéaudAt a Paris hotel, a hotel detective fired after a murder took place there continues to investigate, helped by his inspector nephew and girlfriend. A boxing manager, owing money to a couple and the mafia, rides on a match next day.In Competition
- DirectorNicolas RoegStarsGary BuseyTony CurtisTheresa RussellFour 1950s icons meet in the same hotel room and two of them discover more in common between them than they ever anticipated.In Competition
- DirectorTed KotcheffStarsJames WoodsGabrielle LazureAlan ArkinThe story of a Jewish writer, from his life as a young boy in Montreal to his more complicated grown-up life.In Competition
- DirectorHector BabencoStarsWilliam HurtRaul JuliaSonia BragaA gay man and a political prisoner are together in a prison. The gay man narrates the stories of two fake movies and his own life.In Competition
- DirectorLuis PuenzoStarsNorma AleandroHéctor AlterioChunchuna VillafañeDuring the final months of Argentinian Military Dictatorship in 1983, a high school teacher sets out to find out who the mother of her adopted daughter is.In Competition
- DirectorMario MonicelliStarsMarcello MastroianniSenta BergerFlavio BucciUnlike in the previous 3 adaptations of the book,here Mattia narrates in flashback,back at his library job in his village,how he changed his name when mistakenly thought dead and tried to start a new life in Rome.In Competition
- DirectorPeter BogdanovichStarsCherEric StoltzSam ElliottA teenager with a massive facial skull deformity and biker gang mother attempt to live as normal a life as possible under the circumstances.In Competition
- DirectorPaul SchraderStarsKen OgataMasayuki ShionoyaHiroshi MikamiA fictionalized account in four chapters of the life of celebrated Japanese writer Yukio Mishima.In Competition
- DirectorEmir KusturicaStarsMoreno De BartoliPredrag 'Miki' ManojlovicMirjana KaranovicA family is deeply affected by the father's extramarital affairs and the turbulent consequences of the Tito-Stalin split.In Competition
- DirectorClint EastwoodStarsClint EastwoodMichael MoriartyCarrie SnodgressA mysterious preacher protects a humble prospector village from a greedy mining company trying to encroach on their land.In Competition
- DirectorClaude ChabrolStarsJean PoiretStéphane AudranMichel BouquetIn a small provincial French town, Dr Morasseau, Mr Lavoisier and butcher Filiol decide to create a significant estate business but Mrs Cuno and her son Louis do not want to sell their house. Louis presumably provokes the death of Filiol.In Competition
- DirectorIstván SzabóStarsKlaus Maria BrandauerHans Christian BlechArmin Mueller-StahlSet during the fading glory of the Austro-Hungarian empire, the film tells of the rise and fall of Alfred Redl (Brandauer), an ambitious young officer who proceeds up the ladder to become head of the Secret Police only to become ensnared in political deception.In Competition
- DirectorAndré TéchinéStarsLambert WilsonJuliette BinocheWadeck StanczakDreaming of an actress future, a young girl arrives in Paris. Her personality awakens a glowing passion of several different men.In Competition
- DirectorShûji TerayamaStarsTsutomu YamazakiMayumi OgawaYoshio HaradaA surreal, isolated village sees its inhabitants gradually leave behind their mutual traditions and superstitions as they leave for the city. Among them are two cousins who love each other and who get into a quarrel with other villagers.In Competition
- DirectorDino RisiStarsColucheBeppe GrilloBernard BlierThe medical sub-lieutenant Marcello Lupi, endowed with a great humanity and common sense, at the end of 1940 was assigned to a health section installed near the oasis of Sorman, Libya and commanded by Major Bellucci.In Competition
- DirectorDusan MakavejevStarsEric RobertsGreta ScacchiBill KerrEx-marine turned Coca-Cola marketing guru Becker is on a mission to boost sales in Australia when he discovers a dry spot in the Outback, where everyone is guzzling homegrown brew - and not a drop of his company's cola.In Competition
- DirectorMalcolm MowbrayStarsMichael PalinMaggie SmithDenholm ElliottIn post-World War II Britain, food rationing continues, leading a married couple to become involved in the flourishing bacon black market.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorChris MarkerStarsShigehiko HasumiChris MarkerAkira KurosawaA documentary that shows the production of Ran and discusses the film techniques of Kurosawa himself.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorEitan GreenStarsAssi DayanYosef MilloOrna PoratA common crisis changes the complicated relationship between a father and his middle-aged son, both trapped in unhappy marriages.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorPeter HandkeStarsMarie ColbinPeter HandkeA beautiful, nameless woman is hired to spend several days and nights with a man in his apartment. Not only does he want to sleep with her, but he is obsessed with the desire to look at her naked body.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorMatjaz KlopcicStarsPolde BibicMilena ZupancicBernarda OmanA cinematically complex rendering of the period from 1914 to 1944 and the tragedy which overtakes three generations of the Vrhunc family.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorRaymond DepardonStarsFrançoise PrenantA man invites a woman to share his room in a hostel and gradually falls in love with her.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorMitsuo YanagimachiStarsKin'ya KitaôjiKiwako TaichiNorihei MikiThe villagers in a beautiful remote area of Japan are divided into the woodsmen, who worship the mountain goddess, and the fishermen, who worship the goddess of the sea. These traditions are threatened by a planned marine park. Tatsuo is a macho lumberjack who hunts boars and monkeys with the young Ryota. Tatsuo is married with two children, has four elder sisters, and is under pressure to sell the family land to the developers. When the fish pens are deliberately contaminated by oil, the fishermen suspect Tatsuo. Kimiko, an old girlfriend of Tatsuo, returns to the village to find money to pay off her debts. During the annual fire festival, Tatsuo becomes angry when the old traditions are not preserved.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorVittorio CottafaviStarsDaniela SilverioMatteo CorvinoUrbano BarberiniUn Certain Regard
- DirectorHaskell WexlerStarsRobert BeltranAnnette CharlesAmérico GonzálezSet in the context of the Sandinista government in Nicaragua and their battle with the U.S.-backed Contra rebels. Eddie Guerrero (Robert Beltran) is a Vietnam War veteran sent to help U.S. Special Forces train Contra rebels. Eddie falls for a local girl, Marlena (Annette Cardona). However, when her father is killed by the Contras, things change.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorMehdi CharefStarsKader BoukhanefRémi MartinLaure DuthilleulIn a depressing concrete Parisian suburb in the seventies two friends are keeping boredom at bay with loitering and petty crime.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorDinara AsanovaStarsOlga MashnayaValeriy PriyomykhovLembit UlfsakIn this woman director's last film, the troubled youth of 80s Russia are shown through the story of an eccentrically dressed 19 year old Leningrad girl, with a baby in her arms, who jumps into a stranger's car and asks him to rescue her.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorMichel MitraniStarsMichel GalabruRoger CoggioFanny CottençonUn Certain Regard
- DirectorRené FéretStarsPhilippe VuilleminValérie StrohVéronique SilverIn 1856, fresh from life with nuns in an orphanage school, Alexina Barbin comes to a coastal village in La Rochelle to teach the village girls. She is deeply religious. She shares the classroom and a bedroom with the young and vivacious Sara, with whom she falls in love. Alexina has another secret: her gender is mysterious. She and Sara begin a scandalous love affair, but Alexina seeks marriage and social acceptance. She discloses her secrets to the village priest, to her mother, to the bishop, and to the bishop's physician. After the church and court rule on her petition, marriage to Sara becomes Alexina's sole purpose and hope.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorFina TorresStarsDoris WellsDaniela SilverioRafael BriceñoA young girl is sent to a South American hacienda, where she learns about the life of her reclusive aunt, OrianaUn Certain Regard
- DirectorFrancisco RegueiroStarsFernando ReyFrancisco RabalVictoria AbrilOn the day he learns he has a year to live, a Spanish Cardinal who has lived in the Vatican for 30 years learns he has a granddaughter, born without a father to his own illegitimate daughter. Against the Pope's advice, he returns home to sort out his worldly affairs, including a vineyard that supplies the Vatican. He must find a way to influence his brother, an atheistic physician and a bachelor, his imperious mother, his former lover (now married and raising his granddaughter), her husband, and his daughter, a stylish prostitute. He plans to marry his daughter to his brother, legitimize his grandchild, and leave the land within the family. But life gets in the way.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorWim WendersStarsChishû RyûWerner HerzogYûharu AtsutaMoved by the work of director Yasujirô Ozu, Wim Wenders travels to Japan in search of the Tokyo seen in Ozu's films.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorHans-Jürgen SyberbergStarsEdith CleverA six hour long monologue performed by Edith Clever, who reads texts by Syberberg, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Heinrich von Kleist, Plato, Friedrich Hölderlin, Novalis, Friedrich Nietzsche, Eduard Mörike, Richard Wagner, William Shakespeare, Martin Heidegger, Samuel Beckett and chief Seattle.Out of Competition
- DirectorJean-Pierre De DeckerStarsHerbert FlackMark VerstraeteMaya van den Broecke"Semper Vivax" is not just another retirement home. The guests there get their best real-life memories played out for them.Out of Competition
- DirectorPierre BeuchotStarsJean-Marc BoryFrédéric LeidgensPhilippe NahounOut of Competition
- DirectorLewis FureyStarsNick MancusoCarole LaureStéphane AudranNight Magic, a musical fantasy, is set on earth but it is also about the heavens. At the centre of it all is Michael, a music hall artist, who finds Judy, an angel that epitomizes the woman of his dreams at the System Theatre where he is about to open his new show. For Michael it is just another show along the road but once inside something happens. The night is full of possibilities- full of love and romance, jealousy and infidelity, music and dance, even good and evil. Most of all it is full of magic.Out of Competition
- DirectorJohn BoormanStarsPowers BootheMeg FosterYara VaneauAfter the son of engineer Bill Markham is abducted by an aboriginal tribe on the edge of the rain forest, the engineer spends the next 10 years searching for him.Out of Competition
- DirectorWoody AllenStarsMia FarrowJeff DanielsDanny AielloIn 1935 New Jersey, a movie character walks off the screen and into the real world.Out of Competition
- DirectorPeter WeirStarsHarrison FordKelly McGillisLukas HaasWhile protecting an Amish boy - who is the sole witness to a brutal murder - and his mother, a detective is forced to seek refuge within their community when his own life is threatened.Out of Competition
- DirectorAnthony MannStarsJames StewartJune AllysonHarry MorganBiography of bandleader Glenn Miller from his beginnings to his death over the English Channel in December 1944.Out of Competition
- DirectorManoel de OliveiraStarsLuís Miguel CintraPatricia BarzykAnne ConsignyDuring the century of the Spanish Gold, Doña Prouhèze, wife of a nobleman, deeply loves Don Rodrigo, who is forced to leave Spain and go to America. Meanwhile Prouhèze is sent to Africa to rule the city of Mogador. Ten years later Rodrigo leaves America and travels to Africa in search of Prouhèze to find out that she died and eventually meeting her daughter.Out of Competition
- DirectorJoseph LoseyStarsVanessa RedgraveSarah MilesDiana DorsThree female frequenters of a steam room decide to fight its closure.Out of Competition
- DirectorDésiré EcaréStarsSidiki BakabaKouadou BrouAlbertine N'GuessanAt a festival, a chorus of women sing and dance as two stories unfold. In a village, a young women with a jealous husband gives him something to be jealous about when his younger brother visits from the city.International Critics' Week
- DirectorRoland Suso RichterStarsFrank RöthOttfried FischerKatja FlintInternational Critics' Week
- DirectorChristine LaurentStarsMagali NoëlKrystyna JandaPaulo AutranInternational Critics' Week
- DirectorMichal DudziewiczStarsMarian KociniakJerzy BonczakBogdan BaerInternational Critics' Week
- DirectorPavel ChukhrayStarsEvgeniya DobrovolskayaVyacheslav BaranovAlisa FreyndlikhTwo difficult teenagers Olesya and Viktor are trying to overcome circumstances and break free.International Critics' Week
- DirectorAndré KlotzelStarsAdilson BarrosFernanda TorresDionísio AzevedoHillbilly has one single dream in life: eat beef. He finds a little maid who's anxious to marry, and promises him: in their wedding party, his father would kill an ox.International Critics' Week
- DirectorVictor NunezStarsEd HarrisBlair BrownRichard JordanA local reporter gets involved with a corrupt county commissioner.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorLeon IchasoStarsRubén BladesShawn ElliottTom SignorelliSalsa singer screws over everybody on his way to the top; when his latest record flops, his career starts doing downhill.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorPirjo HonkasaloPekka LehtoStarsRaimo KarppinenJan SöderblomTarmo ManniA story of a famous young violinist, loosely based on the life of Heimo Haitto.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorMike NewellStarsMiranda RichardsonRupert EverettIan HolmA stormy relationship, complicated by the strictures of 1950s social class and gender roles, ends in death. Based on the life of Ruth Ellis, the last woman hanged in Britain.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorSusan SeidelmanStarsRosanna ArquetteMadonnaAidan QuinnA bored New Jersey suburban housewife's fascination with a free-spirited woman she has read about in the personal columns leads to her being mistaken for the woman herself.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorWayne WangStarsLaureen ChewKim ChewVictor WongIn San Francisco, an immigrant widow welcomes the new year with some unhappiness: she's sixty-two now, she wants to make a trip to China to pay last respects to her ancestors, a fortune teller has told her this is the year she'll die, and a daughter, Geraldine, remains unmarried. Geraldine does have a boyfriend, but she's not sure she's ready for marriage, and, anyway, he lives in Los Angeles and Geraldine doesn't want to leave her mother alone in her declining years. Mrs. Tan's cheerful brother-in-law tries to help out. Is there any solution that will enable Mrs. Tan to hold onto her culturally influenced and deep-seated hopes, yet keep those hopes from suffocating Geraldine?Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorAtef El-TayebStarsAhmed ZakiAthar El-HakimAdawy GheithThe film puts the lights on the struggle of youngsters to afford a proper life for marriage Through their small incomes,and the ordeal of finding a house in crowded cairo,so it follows a young couple's longing for their simpliest dreams,to be together.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorJocelyne SaabStarsJacques WeberHala BassamJuliet BertoDirectors' Fortnight
- DirectorEldar ShengelaiaStarsRamaz GiorgobianiVasil KakhniashviliTeimuraz ChirgadzeAn author - a passive young man - enters the Soviet-controlled bureaucracy of Georgia attempting to get his novel published only to be neglected and compartmentalized at every turn.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorPupi AvatiStarsClaudio BotossoGiovanna MaldottiDario ParisiniFriendship and competition among the clerks of a bank.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorFrancisco J. LombardiStarsPablo SerraGustavo BuenoLuis ÁlvarezFour angry cadets form an inner circle to beat the system, boredom and the stifling confinement of the military academy, sparking a chain of events that begins with a robbery and leads to murder.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorManuel Gutiérrez AragónStarsJosé SacristánVictoria AbrilÓscar LadoireFederico, a senior Spanish TV executive, a man of talent and innate skills for business and diplomacy, begins to suspect that his wife Elena, an excellent actress who retired prematurely after marriage, deceives him with another man. The symptoms are that Elena sighs, looks a lot at the sky and is aware of the exact time a comet passes that appears only every hundred years. In other words, she is waiting for her "most beautiful night".Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorRidha BehiStarsMadiha KamelKamal El-ShinnawiLotfi SaadallahDirectors' Fortnight
- DirectorMaria KnilliStarsUlrich ReinthallerHans BrennerKrista StadlerDirectors' Fortnight
- DirectorJános KovácsiStarsOttilia BorbáthIstván BozókyEnikõ EszenyiIn an imaginary country, social and economic discontent sparked a revolution. The battles that ended successfully were led by the Commander. After his unexpected death, the consolidation took place without him. The hero of our story is a young ministry official. He lived through the revolution as a child, and now he has become the president of the jury of a historical competition, the purpose of which is to immortalize the career of the Commander and preserve his memory. From then on, strange things happen to the young man.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorVasilis VafeasStarsKostas VoutsasHara AngelousiGiannis GoumasMeandering amid a hot Athenian summer, Odysseas finds himself in Hydra, after losing his job. There, an elusive dark-haired nymph lures him into a dream-like hunt for the ideal love, tempting him to embrace life. Will he emerge a new man?Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorJûzô ItamiStarsTsutomu YamazakiNobuko MiyamotoKin SugaiWhen Wabisuke's father-in-law unexpectedly dies, the family goes through a series of events and occurrences as the funeral unfolds over three days in their home.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorJohn MackenzieStarsAndrew HawleyKika MarkhamKate FosterThis densely-packed film is based on a book by Tom Hart about the struggles of a young Yorkshire boy trying to come to grips with squabbling parents, a doctor who wants to institutionalize him because of his epilepsy, and a mother who refuses to accept that he is different in any way -- and that is only the half of it. The boy, Tim (Andrew Hawley), also acts as a go-between for his friend Carns (Liam Neeson) who is having an affair with a married woman (Miranda Richardson). Eventually, things start to sort themselves out, and Tim sees life getting more interesting when he and his friend Win (Kate Foster) slowly get a relationship going.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorMichel DevilleStarsAnémoneRichard BohringerNicole GarciaA magnate and his younger wife hire David to teach guitar to their teenage daughter. The wife quickly seduces David, and simultaneously he strikes up an acquaintance with the family's inquisitive neighbor. One night, David is mugged but rescued from injury by a stranger, Daniel, who also becomes David's friend and admits to being a hit man. Video tapes of their activities appear in the lovers' mail; David thinks they're from the neighbor, Daniel is sure the husband is onto the affair and hired the mugger. After Daniel tells David that he's been hired to kill the husband, an elaborate manipulation plays out, with murder, suicide, a payoff, more videos, and a surprise pairing.Perspectives du Cinéma Français
- DirectorJacques DoillonStarsSami FreyMara GoyetJuliet BertoA divorced father's relationship with his daughter is put to test when he accepts to act on her ideas and they end up in Madrid.Perspectives du Cinéma Français
- DirectorJean-Luc GodardStarsMyriem RousselThierry RodePhilippe LacosteA college student gets pregnant without having intercourse, affecting people close and unrelated to her in different ways.Perspectives du Cinéma Français
- DirectorDidier MartinyStarsPierre ArditiPatrice KerbratYasmina RezaPerspectives du Cinéma Français
- DirectorDanièle DubrouxStavros KaplanidisStarsStanko MolnarJean-Noël PicqDanièle DubrouxRome, summer 1983. Four characters Alice, Adrien, Laure and Hans come to pursue a quest, a dream, each in his own way.Perspectives du Cinéma Français
- DirectorAndrzej ZulawskiStarsSophie MarceauFrancis HusterTchéky KaryoA bank robber tries to return his girl, but crazy way of life coupled with insane company make the case only worse.Perspectives du Cinéma Français
- DirectorClaude d'AnnaStarsNicole GarciaJean-Pierre MarielleMichel GalabruPerspectives du Cinéma Français
- DirectorSerge PénardStarsJean LefebvreDaniela AkerblomMarie-José BrighelPerspectives du Cinéma Français
- DirectorJean-Patrick LebelPerspectives du Cinéma Français
- DirectorDidier HaudepinStarsFrançois CluzetLioTom NovembreA romantic comedy about a young screenwriter who is put into writing a screenplay based on his own experience as a child actor. The writer's girlfriend, Elsa, leaves him and his screenplay starts to become about her, which affects the film's production.Perspectives du Cinéma Français
- DirectorF.J. OssangStarsGina Lola BenzinaPhilippe SfezLionel TuaThis counter cultural epic follows the quest for survival fought by a collective of punk-youths in the gladiatorial arena of futurist Europe. One of them, Ettore, has become a star of this underworld yet soon revolts against the powers that be.Perspectives du Cinéma Français
- DirectorJeanne LabruneStarsChristine BoissonLaurent MaletPierre MaletPerspectives du Cinéma Français
- DirectorPierre JallaudStarsPaul CrauchetJanine DarceySerge PapagalliPerspectives du Cinéma Français
- StarsRuben de FreitasTeresa MadrugaFernando HeitorManuel's fantasy travel through Time goes from Long Ago (Episode 1 - O jardim proibido / Le Jardin interdit) through Now (Episode 2 - O pique-nique dos sonhos / Le Pique-nique des rêves), arriving in the Future (Episode 3 - A pequena champeã de xadrez / La Petite Championne d'échecs).Perspectives du Cinéma Français
- DirectorLaurent PerrinStarsDominique LaffinFrançois SienerFranci CamusOne night, in the middle of summer. Serge does not sleep, leaning on his window. He looks at the Paris sky. Fabrice, a little boy, hangs on the roofs of buildings. Fabrice is not alone, they are four boys to improvise young burglars. Balthazar at the age of Fabrice. Nicolas and Jeannot are between childhood and adolescence. There is a bard, the "Blue Night", held by Camille and Anita. Nicolas and Jeannot love them without telling them, and it is to them that they return the spoils of their burglary. The fate of these seven characters will be knotted dramatically.Perspectives du Cinéma Français
- DirectorPhilippe GarrelStarsMireille PerrierJacques BonnafféAnne WiazemskyA young film director is turning a movie with his friend Christa (reminds us of the real-life relationship between Garrel and Nico). In the film-within-the-film there are two couples, one real, one imagined , and the film - told through five dreams - is as much the story of a film on-production, as the birth of a child.Perspectives du Cinéma Français
- DirectorJacek GasiorowskiStarsHugues QuesterAnne AlvaroRoland BlanchePerspectives du Cinéma Français