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1996 Cannes Film Festival

Official poster of the 49th Cannes Film Festival
Opening film	Ridicule
Closing film	Flirting with Disaster
Location	Cannes, France
Founded	1946
Awards	Palme d'Or: Secrets & Lies
Hosted by	Sabine Azéma
No. of films	22 (In Competition)
Festival date	9 May 1996 (1996-05-09) – 20 May 1996 (1996-05-20)
Website	festival-cannes.com/en
Cannes Film Festival
1997 1995

The 49th Cannes Film Festival took place from 9 to 20 May 1996. American filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola served as jury president for the main competition. Sabine Azéma hosted the opening and closing ceremonies.

British filmmaker Mike Leigh won the Palme d'Or, the festival's top prize, for the drama film Secrets & Lies.

The festival opened with Ridicule by Patrice Leconte, and closed with Flirting with Disaster by David O. Russell.

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 ultimo 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 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

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Media

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

External links

• 1996 Cannes Film Festival at the Wayback Machine (archived March 16, 2016)
• Cannes Film Festival Awards for 1996 at Internet Movie Database

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• 1996 film festivals
• 1996 in French cinema
• Cannes Film Festival
• 1996 festivals in Europe
• May 1996 events in France