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  • Sydney Pollack
    Sydney Pollack
    Sydney Irwin Pollack was an American film director, producer and actor. Pollack studied with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City, where he later taught acting...

  • Alexandre Mnouchkine
    Alexandre Mnouchkine
    Alexandre Mnouchkine was a French film producer.He moved to Paris in 1925. After his entry into cinema in 1932, he created Ariane Films in 1945. Alexandre Mnouchkine married twice, the second time to the comédienne Simone Renant...

  • Alexandre Trauner
    Alexandre Trauner
    Alexandre Trauner was a set designer.After studying painting at l'École des beaux-arts de Budapest, he emigrated to Paris in 1929, where he became the assistant of set designer Lazare Meerson, working on such films as À nous la liberté in 1932 and La Kermesse héroïque in 1935)...

  • Charles Aznavour
    Charles Aznavour
    Charles Aznavour, OC is an Armenian-French singer, songwriter, actor, public activist and diplomat. Besides being one of France's most popular and enduring singers, he is also one of the best-known singers in the world...

  • Danièle Thompson
    Danièle Thompson
    Danièle Thompson is a French film director and screenwriter. She is the daughter of film director Gérard Oury and actress Jacqueline Roma....

  • István Szabó
    István Szabó
    István Szabó is a Hungarian film director, screenwriter, and opera director.Szabó is the most internationally famous Hungarian filmmaker since the late 1960s. Working in the tradition of European, auteurist art cinema, he has made films that represent many of the psychological and political...

  • Lino Brocka
    Lino Brocka
    Catalino Ortiz Brocka is known as one of the greatest film directors of the Philippines. Brocka was openly homosexual and many of his films incorporated LGBT themes into their often dramatic storylines....

  • Philip French
    Philip French
    Philip French is a British film critic and former radio producer.French, the son of an insurance salesman, was educated at the direct grant Bristol Grammar School, read Law at Oxford University. and post graduate study in Journalism at Indiana University, Bloomington on a scholarship.He has been...

  • Sonia Braga
    Sônia Braga
    Sônia Maria Campos Braga is a Brazilian actress. She has been nominated for both a Golden Globe Award and an Emmy Award.-Early life:...

  • Tonino Delli Colli
    Tonino Delli Colli
    Tonino Delli Colli was an Italian cinematographer.Antonio Delli Colli was born in Rome, and he began work at Rome's Cinecittà studio in 1938, at the age of sixteen. By the mid-1940s he was working as a cinematographer and in 1952 shot the first Italian film in colour, Totò a colori...


Feature film competition

  • After Hours
    After Hours (film)
    After Hours is a 1985 American black comedy film, written by Joseph Minion and directed by Martin Scorsese. Paul Hackett , a New Yorker, experiences a series of adventures and perils in trying to make his way home from SoHo.-Plot:...

    by Martin Scorsese
    Martin Scorsese
    Martin Charles Scorsese is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film historian. In 1990 he founded The Film Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to film preservation, and in 2007 he founded the World Cinema Foundation...

  • Boris Godunov
    Boris Godunov (1986 film)
    Boris Godunov is a 1986 Soviet drama film directed by and starring Sergei Bondarchuk. It was entered into the 1986 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Sergei Bondarchuk - Boris Godunov* Alyona Bondarchuk - Tsarevna Kseniya...

    by Sergei Bondarchuk
    Sergei Bondarchuk
    Sergei Fedorovich Bondarchuk was a Soviet film director, screenwriter, and actor.- Biography :Born in Belozerka, in the Kherson Governorate, Sergei Bondarchuk spent his childhood in the cities of Yeysk and Taganrog, graduating from the Taganrog School Number 4 in 1938. His first performance as an...

  • Die Geduld der Rosa Luxemburg
    Rosa Luxemburg (film)
    Rosa Luxemburg is a 1986 West German drama film directed by Margarethe von Trotta. It was entered into the 1986 Cannes Film Festival where Barbara Sukowa won the award for Best Actress.-Cast:* Barbara Sukowa as Rosa Luxemburg...

    by Margarethe von Trotta
  • Down by Law
    Down by Law (film)
    Down by Law is a 1986 black-and-white independent film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch. It stars Tom Waits, John Lurie, and Roberto Benigni....

    by Jim Jarmusch
    Jim Jarmusch
    James R. "Jim" Jarmusch is an American independent film director, screenwriter, actor, producer, editor and composer. Jarmusch has been a major proponent of independent cinema, particularly during the 1980s and 1990s.-Early life:...

  • Eu Sei Que Vou Te Amar
    Love Me Forever or Never
    Love Me Forever or Never is a 1986 Brazilian drama film directed by Arnaldo Jabor. It was entered into the 1986 Cannes Film Festival where Fernanda Torres won the award for Best Actress....

    by Arnaldo Jabor
    Arnaldo Jabor
    Arnaldo Jabor is a Brazilian film director, screenwriter and producer. He directed nine films between 1965 and 1990. His 1973 film Toda Nudez Será Castigada won the Silver Bear at the 23rd Berlin International Film Festival....

  • Fool for Love
    Fool for Love (film)
    Fool for Love is a 1985 film directed by Robert Altman. The film stars Sam Shepard, who also wrote the screenplay. It was entered into the 1986 Cannes Film Festival.-Plot:...

    by Robert Altman
    Robert Altman
    Robert Bernard Altman was an American film director and screenwriter known for making films that are highly naturalistic, but with a stylized perspective. In 2006, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recognized his body of work with an Academy Honorary Award.His films MASH , McCabe and...

  • Genesis
    Genesis (1986 film)
    Genesis is a 1986 Hindi-language movie directed by Mrinal Sen. The film stars Shabana Azmi, Naseeruddin Shah and Om Puri. It was entered into the 1986 Cannes Film Festival.- Plot :...

    by Mrinal Sen
    Mrinal Sen
    Mrinal Sen is a Bengali Indian filmmaker. He was born on 14 May 1923, in the town of Faridpur, now in Bangladesh in a Hindu family. After finishing his high school there, he left home to come to Calcutta as a student and studied physics at the well-known Scottish Church College and at the...

  • I Love You
    I Love You (1986 film)
    I Love You is a 1986 French-Italian drama film directed by Marco Ferreri. It was entered into the 1986 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Christopher Lambert - Michel * Eddy Mitchell - Yves* Flora Barillaro - Maria...

    by Marco Ferreri
  • La dernière image
    La dernière image
    La dernière image is a 1986 Algerian drama film directed by Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina. It was entered into the 1986 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Véronique Jannot - Claire Boyer* Merwan Lakhdar-Hamina - Mouloud* Michel Boujenah - Simon Attal...

    by Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina
    Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina
    Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina is an Algerian film director. He is best known for his 1975 film Chronicle of the Years of Embers. He is one of the most prominent figures in contemporary Arabic cinema.- Biography :...

  • Le lieu du crime
    Scene of the Crime (1986 film)
    Scene of the Crime ' is a 1986 French drama film directed by André Téchiné, starring Catherine Deneuve, Wadeck Stanczak and Danielle Darrieux...

    by André Téchiné
    André Téchiné
    André Téchiné , is a French screenwriter and film director. He has had a long and distinguished career that places him among the best post-New Wave French film directors....

  • Max, Mon Amour
    Max, Mon Amour
    Max mon amour aka Max, My Love is a 1986 film directed by Nagisa Oshima and starring Charlotte Rampling, Anthony Higgins, Victoria Abril, Pierre Étaix and Milena Vukotic...

    by Nagisa Oshima
    Nagisa Oshima
    is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. After graduating from Kyoto University he was hired by Shochiku Ltd. and quickly progressed to directing his own movies, making his debut feature A Town of Love and Hope in 1959....

  • The Mission by Roland Joffé
    Roland Joffé
    Roland Joffé is an English-French film director who is known for his Oscar nominated movies, The Killing Fields and The Mission. He began his career in television. His early television credits included episodes of Coronation Street and an adaptation of The Stars Look Down for Granada...

  • Mona Lisa
    Mona Lisa (film)
    Mona Lisa is a 1986 British film about a petty criminal who becomes entangled in the dangerous life of a high-class call girl. The movie was written by Neil Jordan and David Leland, and directed by Jordan. It was produced by George Harrison's HandMade Films...

    by Neil Jordan
    Neil Jordan
    Neil Patrick Jordan is an Irish filmmaker and novelist. He won an Academy Award for The Crying Game.- Early life :...

  • Offret
    The Sacrifice
    The Sacrifice is a 1986 film, and the final film by Russian film director Andrei Tarkovsky, who died shortly after completing it.-Synopsis:...

    by Andrei Tarkovsky
    Andrei Tarkovsky
    Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky was a Soviet and Russian filmmaker, writer, film editor, film theorist, theatre and opera director, widely regarded as one of the finest filmmakers of the 20th century....

  • Otello
    Otello (1986 film)
    Otello is a 1986 film based on the Giuseppe Verdi opera of the same name based on the Shakespeare play Othello. The film was directed by Franco Zeffirelli and starred Plácido Domingo in the title role, Katia Ricciarelli as Desdemona and Justino Díaz as Iago...

    by Franco Zeffirelli
    Franco Zeffirelli
    Franco Zeffirelli KBE is an Italian director and producer of films and television. He is also a director and designer of operas and a former senator for the Italian center-right Forza Italia party....

  • Pobre mariposa
    Poor Butterfly (film)
    Poor Butterfly is a 1986 Argentine drama film directed by Raúl de la Torre. It was entered into the 1986 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Graciela Borges as Clara* Lautaro Murúa* Pepe Soriano as Shloime* Víctor Laplace as Jose* Bibi Andersson as Gertrud...

    by Raúl de la Torre
    Raúl de la Torre
    Raúl de la Torre was an Argentine film director screenwriter and film producer.He was nominated for a Palme d'Or at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival for the film Pobre mariposa....

  • Runaway Train
    Runaway Train (film)
    Runaway Train is a 1985 film about two escaped convicts and a female train worker who are stuck on a runaway train as it barrels through snowy desolate Alaska. It stars Jon Voight as Oscar "Manny" Manheim, Eric Roberts as Buck, John P. Ryan as Associate Warden Ranken and Rebecca De Mornay as Sara...

    by Andrei Konchalovsky
    Andrei Konchalovsky
    Andrei Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky is a Soviet-American and Russian film director, film producer and screenwriter....

  • Tenue de soirée
    Ménage
    Tenue de soirée is a 1986 French comedy-drama film directed by Bertrand Blier. It was entered into the 1986 Cannes Film Festival where Michel Blanc won the award for Best Actor.-Selected cast:* Michel Blanc as Antoine* Gérard Depardieu as Bob...

    by Bertrand Blier
    Bertrand Blier
    Bertrand Blier is a French screenwriter and film director.Born in Boulogne-Billancourt, France. He is the son of Bernard Blier....

  • The Fringe Dwellers
    The Fringe Dwellers
    The Fringe Dwellers is a 1961 novel written by the Western Australian author Nene Gare. It was made into a 1986 film directed by Bruce Beresford.-The Film:...

    by Bruce Beresford
    Bruce Beresford
    Bruce Beresford is an Australian film director who has made more than 30 feature films over a 40-year career.-Early life:...

  • Thérèse by Alain Cavalier
    Alain Cavalier
    Alain Cavalier is a French film director. He was born in Vendôme, Loir-et-Cher and studied film at the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques. He won several awards, including the César Award for Best Film and César Award for Best Director for his film Thérèse in 1987...


Un Certain Regard

  • A Girl's Own Story
    A Girl's Own Story
    A Girl's Own Story is a 1984 short Australian drama film directed by Jane Campion. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival...

    by Jane Campion
    Jane Campion
    Jane Campion is a filmmaker and screenwriter. She is one of the most internationally successful New Zealand directors, although most of her work has been made in or financed by other countries, principally Australia – where she now lives – and the United States...

  • Backlash
    Backlash (1986 film)
    Backlash is a 1986 Australian film directed by Bill Bennett. Police officers Trevor Darling and Nikki Iceton escort a young Aboriginal woman Kath to the New South Wales outback to stand trial. After getting stranded in the desert a bond grows between them. By the time they are rescued, both...

    by Bill Bennett
    Bill Bennett (director)
    Bill Bennett is an Australian film director, producer and screenwriter.-Biography:He has directed 16 films since 1983. His film Backlash was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival. Three years later his film Malpractice would be screened in the same section at...

  • Belizaire the Cajun
    Belizaire the Cajun
    Belizaire the Cajun is a 1986 film directed by Glen Pitre and starring Armand Assante. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival....

    by Glen Pitre
    Glen Pitre
    Glen Pitre is an American screenwriter and film director. He has written nine films since 1986. His debut film Belizaire the Cajun was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:...

  • Burke & Wills
    Burke & Wills
    Burke & Wills is a 1985 Australian adventure film directed by Graeme Clifford, starring Jack Thompson and Nigel Havers. The film is based on the true story of the ill-fated Burke and Wills expedition across Australia....

    by Graeme Clifford
    Graeme Clifford
    For the opera singer with a similar name, see Grahame Clifford.Graeme Clifford is an acclaimed Australian film director, his directing credits include the Academy Award nominated film Frances, Gleaming the Cube and the mini-series The Last Don, which received two Emmy nominations.Clifford was a...

  • Coming Up Roses
    Coming Up Roses
    Coming Up Roses is a 1986 Welsh language comedy drama film. It was directed by Stephen Bayly and starred Ifan Huw Dafydd, Gillian Elisa and Mari Emlyn...

    by Stephen Bayly
    Stephen Bayly
    Stephen Bayly is an American born film producer and film director. His film Coming Up Roses was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival.-Selected filmography:* Coming Up Roses...

  • Das zweite Schraube-Fragment
    Das zweite Schraube-Fragment
    Das zweite Schraube-Fragment is a 1985 Austrian short adventure film directed by Walter Andreas Christen. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Mathias Forberg - Günther Schraube...

    by Walter Andreas Christen
  • Desert Bloom
    Desert Bloom
    Desert Bloom is a 1986 American drama film directed by Eugene Corr and starring an ensemble cast led by Jon Voight and JoBeth Williams. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival and funded through the Sundance Film Festival Institute.-Plot:World War II has...

    by Eugene Corr
  • Krysař by Jiří Barta
    Jirí Barta
    Jiří Barta is a Czech stop-motion animation director. His films, many of which used the medium of wood for animation, garnered critical acclaim and won many awards, but after the fall of the communist government in Czechoslovakia he was unable to release anything for about 15 years...

  • Laputa
    Laputa (film)
    Laputa is a 1986 German drama film directed by Helma Sanders-Brahms. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival....

    by Helma Sanders-Brahms
    Helma Sanders-Brahms
    Helma Sanders-Brahms is a German film director, screenwriter, producer and actress.She studied acting then German and English. She first worked in TV and then trained as a film director with Sergio Corbucci and Pier Paolo Pasolini making a large number of films often commissioned by German...

  • Ningen no yakusoku
    A Promise (film)
    A Promise is a 1986 Japanese drama film directed by Yoshishige Yoshida. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section the 1986 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Rentaro Mikuni - Ryosaku Morimoto* Sachiko Murase - Tatus, Ryosaku's wife...

    by Yoshishige Yoshida
    Yoshishige Yoshida
    is a Japanese film director and screenwriter.-Career:Graduating from Tokyo University, Yoshida entered the Shōchiku studio in 1955 and debuted as a director in 1960 with Rokudenashi...

  • Passionless Moments
    Passionless Moments
    Passionless Moments is a 1983 short Australian drama film written and directed by Jane Campion and Gerard Lee. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* David Benton - Ed Tumbury...

    by Jane Campion
    Jane Campion
    Jane Campion is a filmmaker and screenwriter. She is one of the most internationally successful New Zealand directors, although most of her work has been made in or financed by other countries, principally Australia – where she now lives – and the United States...

    , Gerard Lee
    Gerard Lee
    -Books:* Manual for a Garden Mechanic * Pieces for a Glass Piano , ISBN 0702211753 * True Love and How to Get It , ISBN 0702217786 * Troppo Man , a comedy novel set in Brazil...

  • Rih essed
    Man of Ashes
    Man of Ashes is a 1986 Tunisian drama film directed by Nouri Bouzid. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Khadija Abaoub* Sarra Abdelhadi* Mustapha Adouani - Ameur* Khaled Akrout...

    by Nouri Bouzid
    Nouri Bouzid
    Nouri Bouzid is a Tunisian film director and screenwriter. He has directed seven films between 1986 and 2006. His film Man of Ashes was screened in the Un Certain Regard section the 1986 Cannes Film Festival...

  • Salome
    Salome (1986 film)
    Salome is a 1986 Italian-French drama film directed by Claude d'Anna. It was entered into the 1986 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Mohamed Badrsalem - 2nd Assassin* Fabrizio Bentivoglio - Yokanaan* Fabio Carfora - Narraboth* Feodor Chaliapin, Jr...

    by Claude d'Anna
    Claude d'Anna
    Claude d'Anna is a French film director and screenwriter. He has directed 16 films since 1970. His film Salome was screened in the Un Certain Regard section the 1986 Cannes Film Festival...

  • Shtei Etzbaot Mi'Tzidon by Eli Cohen
    Eli Cohen (actor)
    Eli Cohen is an Israeli actor and film director. In 1989, his film Summer of Aviya won the Silver Bear Award from the 39th Berlin International Film Festival...

  • Tai Yang by Benzheng Yu
  • Tuntematon sotilas
    The Unknown Soldier (1985 film)
    The Unknown Soldier is a Finnish 1985 film directed by Rauni Mollberg. It is a remake of the 1955 film of the same title, directed by Edvin Laine and based on the best selling Finnish novel by the same name written by Väinö Linna. Mollberg used young and unknown actors, many of them now famous,...

    by Rauni Mollberg
    Rauni Mollberg
    Rauni Mollberg was a Finnish film director who directed movies and TV movies.In 1963 Mollberg directed movies for YLE. He directed a version of The Unknown Soldier in 1985, 30 years after Edvin Laine directed the original version of it. Mollberg's movie's plot was same as Laine's movie...

  • Two Friends
    Two Friends (film)
    Two Friends is a 1986 Australian drama film directed by Jane Campion. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Kris Bidenko as Kelly* Emma Coles as Louise* Kris McQuade as Janet, Louise's mother...

    by Jane Campion
    Jane Campion
    Jane Campion is a filmmaker and screenwriter. She is one of the most internationally successful New Zealand directors, although most of her work has been made in or financed by other countries, principally Australia – where she now lives – and the United States...

  • Welcome in Vienna by Axel Corti
    Axel Corti
    Axel Corti was an Austrian writer and director.- Life :...

  • Za kude putuvate
    Where Are You Going?
    Where Are You Going? is a 1986 Bulgarian comedy film directed by Rangel Vulchanov. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section the 1986 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Stoyan Aleksiev - Dotzent Radev* Georgi Kaloyanchev - Bay Denyo...

    by Rangel Vulchanov
    Rangel Vulchanov
    Rangel Vulchanov is a Bulgarian cinema actor and director. He finished theater directing at the Krastyo Sarafov National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts in 1953. He started working as an assistant director and subsequently as a director. Vulchanov worked in Czechoslovakia between 1970 and 1972...


Films out of competition

  • A Matter of Life and Death by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
    Powell and Pressburger
    The British film-making partnership of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, also known as The Archers, made a series of influential films in the 1940s and 1950s. In 1981 they were recognized for their contributions to British cinema with the BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award, the most prestigious...

  • Absolute Beginners
    Absolute Beginners (film)
    Absolute Beginners is a 1986 British rock musical film adapted from the Colin MacInnes book of the same name about life in late 1950s London. The film was directed by Julien Temple, featured David Bowie and Sade, and a breakout role by Patsy Kensit...

    by Julien Temple
    Julien Temple
    Julien Temple is an English film, documentary and music video director. He began his career with short films featuring the Sex Pistols, and has continued with various off-beat projects, including The Great Rock And Roll Swindle, Absolute Beginners and a documentary film about Glastonbury.-Temple...

  • Don Quixote
    Don Quixote (unfinished film)
    Don Quixote is an unfinished film project directed and produced between 1955 and 1969 by Orson Welles.-Television project:Don Quixote was initially conceived as a 30-minute film for CBS. Rather than offer a literal adaptation of the Miguel de Cervantes novel, Welles opted to bring the characters...

    by Orson Welles
    Orson Welles
    George Orson Welles , best known as Orson Welles, was an American film director, actor, theatre director, screenwriter, and producer, who worked extensively in film, theatre, television and radio...

  • The Chipmunk Adventure
    The Chipmunk Adventure
    The Chipmunk Adventure is a 1987 American animated film featuring the characters from NBC's Saturday morning cartoon Alvin and the Chipmunks. The Chipmunk Adventure was directed by Janice Karman from a screenplay by Karman and Ross Bagdasarian Jr....

    by Janice Karman
    Janice Karman
    Janice Felice Karman is an American film producer, record producer, singer, and voice artist. She is the co-owner of Bagdasarian Productions with her husband Ross Bagdasarian, Jr....

  • El Amor brujo
    El Amor brujo (1986 film)
    El amor brujo or Carlos Saura Dance Trilogy, Part 3: El Amor Brujo is a 1986 Spanish musical film written and directed by Carlos Saura. It was directed and choreographed in the flamenco style. It is the third part of the Saura's flamenco trilogy he made in the 80's, after Bodas de sangre in 1981...

    by Carlos Saura
    Carlos Saura
    Carlos Saura Atarés is a Spanish film director and photographer.-Early life:Born into a family of artists , he developed his artistic sense in childhood as a photography enthusiast.He obtained his directing diploma in Madrid in 1957 at the Institute of Cinema Research and Studies...

  • Hannah and Her Sisters
    Hannah and Her Sisters
    Hannah and Her Sisters is a 1986 American comedy-drama film which tells the intertwined stories of an extended family over two years that begin and end with a family Thanksgiving dinner...

    by Woody Allen
    Woody Allen
    Woody Allen is an American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, jazz musician, author, and playwright. Allen's films draw heavily on literature, sexuality, philosophy, psychology, Jewish identity, and the history of cinema...

  • Pirates by Roman Polanski
    Roman Polanski
    Roman Polanski is a French-Polish film director, producer, writer and actor. Having made films in Poland, Britain, France and the USA, he is considered one of the few "truly international filmmakers."...

  • Precious Images
    Precious Images
    Precious Images is a 1986 short film directed by Chuck Workman. It features approximately 470 half-second-long splices of movie moments through the history of American film. The clips are organized by genre, while matching it with appropriate music; for example, the "musicals" section is...

    by Chuck Workman
    Chuck Workman
    Chuck Workman is a documentary filmmaker from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. His 1986 film Precious Images won an Academy Award for Live Action Short Film; his work has also been nominated for Emmy Awards, Sundance Film Festival awards, and the Taos Talking Film Festival awards.Workman frequently...

  • T'as de beaux escaliers tu sais by Agnès Varda
    Agnès Varda
    Agnès Varda is a French film director and professor at the European Graduate School. Her movies, photographs, and art installations focus on documentary realism, feminist issues, and social commentary — with a distinct experimental style....

  • The Color Purple
    The Color Purple (film)
    The Color Purple is a 1985 American period drama film directed by Steven Spielberg, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name by Alice Walker. It was Spielberg's eighth film as a director , and was a change from the summer blockbusters for which he had become famous...

    by Steven Spielberg
    Steven Spielberg
    Steven Allan Spielberg KBE is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, video game designer, and studio entrepreneur. In a career of more than four decades, Spielberg's films have covered many themes and genres. Spielberg's early science-fiction and adventure films were seen as an...

  • Un homme et une femme, 20 ans déjà
    A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later
    A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later is a 1986 French drama film directed by Claude Lelouch and is a sequel to Lelouch's 1966 film Un homme et une femme. It was screened out of competition at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:...

    by Claude Lelouch

Awards

  • Palme d'Or
    Palme d'Or
    The Palme d'Or is the highest prize awarded at the Cannes Film Festival and is presented to the director of the best feature film of the official competition. It was introduced in 1955 by the organising committee. From 1939 to 1954, the highest prize was the Grand Prix du Festival International du...

    : The Mission by Roland Joffé
    Roland Joffé
    Roland Joffé is an English-French film director who is known for his Oscar nominated movies, The Killing Fields and The Mission. He began his career in television. His early television credits included episodes of Coronation Street and an adaptation of The Stars Look Down for Granada...

  • Grand Prix
    Grand Prix (Cannes Film Festival)
    The Grand Prix is an award of the Cannes Film Festival bestowed by the jury of the festival on one of the competing feature films. It is the second-most prestigious prize of the festival after the Palme d'Or...

    : Offret
    The Sacrifice
    The Sacrifice is a 1986 film, and the final film by Russian film director Andrei Tarkovsky, who died shortly after completing it.-Synopsis:...

    by Andrei Tarkovsky
    Andrei Tarkovsky
    Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky was a Soviet and Russian filmmaker, writer, film editor, film theorist, theatre and opera director, widely regarded as one of the finest filmmakers of the 20th century....

  • Jury Prize
    Jury Prize (Cannes Film Festival)
    The Jury Prize is an award presented at the Cannes Film Festival. It is chosen by the jury from the 'official section' of movies at the festival. It is considered the third most prestigious prize at the film festival, after the Palme d'Or and the Grand Prix....

    : Thérèse by Alain Cavalier
    Alain Cavalier
    Alain Cavalier is a French film director. He was born in Vendôme, Loir-et-Cher and studied film at the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques. He won several awards, including the César Award for Best Film and César Award for Best Director for his film Thérèse in 1987...

  • Best Actor
    Best Actor Award (Cannes Film Festival)
    The Best Actor Award is an award presented at the Cannes Film Festival. It is chosen by the jury from the 'official section' of movies at the festival. It was first awarded in 1946.- Award Winners :-External links:* * ....

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    • Bob Hoskins
      Bob Hoskins
      Robert William "Bob" Hoskins, Jr. is an English actor known for playing Cockney rough diamonds, psychopaths and gangsters, in films such as The Long Good Friday , and Mona Lisa , and lighter roles in family films such as Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Hook .- Early life :Hoskins was born in Bury St...

       for Mona Lisa
      Mona Lisa (film)
      Mona Lisa is a 1986 British film about a petty criminal who becomes entangled in the dangerous life of a high-class call girl. The movie was written by Neil Jordan and David Leland, and directed by Jordan. It was produced by George Harrison's HandMade Films...

    • Michel Blanc
      Michel Blanc
      Michel Blanc is a French actor and director who is noted for his roles of losers and hypochondriacs...

       for Tenue de soirée
      Ménage
      Tenue de soirée is a 1986 French comedy-drama film directed by Bertrand Blier. It was entered into the 1986 Cannes Film Festival where Michel Blanc won the award for Best Actor.-Selected cast:* Michel Blanc as Antoine* Gérard Depardieu as Bob...

  • Best Actress
    Best Actress Award (Cannes Film Festival)
    The Best Actress Award is an award presented at the Cannes Film Festival. It is chosen by the jury from the 'official section' of films at the festival. It was first awarded in 1946.-Award Winners:-External links:* * ....

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    • Fernanda Torres
      Fernanda Torres
      Fernanda Pinheiro Monteiro Torres is a Brazilian movie, theatre and television actress. She is the daughter of the Oscar-nominated actress Fernanda Montenegro and the actor Fernando Torres....

        for Eu Sei Que Vou Te Amar
      Love Me Forever or Never
      Love Me Forever or Never is a 1986 Brazilian drama film directed by Arnaldo Jabor. It was entered into the 1986 Cannes Film Festival where Fernanda Torres won the award for Best Actress....

    • Barbara Sukowa
      Barbara Sukowa
      Barbara Sukowa is a German theatre and film actress.- Work :Sukowa's stage debut was in Berlin in 1971, in a production of Peter Handke's Der Ritt über den Bodensee. Günter Beelitz invited her to join the ensemble of the Darmstädter National Theatre in the same year...

       for Die Geduld der Rosa Luxemburg
      Rosa Luxemburg (film)
      Rosa Luxemburg is a 1986 West German drama film directed by Margarethe von Trotta. It was entered into the 1986 Cannes Film Festival where Barbara Sukowa won the award for Best Actress.-Cast:* Barbara Sukowa as Rosa Luxemburg...

  • Best Director
    Best Director Award (Cannes Film Festival)
    The Best Director Award is an award presented at the Cannes Film Festival. It is chosen by the jury from the 'official section' of movies at the festival. It was first awarded in 1946....

    : Martin Scorsese
    Martin Scorsese
    Martin Charles Scorsese is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film historian. In 1990 he founded The Film Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to film preservation, and in 2007 he founded the World Cinema Foundation...

     for After Hours
    After Hours (film)
    After Hours is a 1985 American black comedy film, written by Joseph Minion and directed by Martin Scorsese. Paul Hackett , a New Yorker, experiences a series of adventures and perils in trying to make his way home from SoHo.-Plot:...

  • Short Film Palme d'Or
    Short Film Palme d'Or
    The Short Film Palme d'Or is the highest prize given to a short film at the Cannes Film Festival. It is chosen by the same jury of the Cinéfondation....

    : An Exercise in Discipline - Peel by Jane Campion
    Jane Campion
    Jane Campion is a filmmaker and screenwriter. She is one of the most internationally successful New Zealand directors, although most of her work has been made in or financed by other countries, principally Australia – where she now lives – and the United States...

  • Best Artistic Contribution: Sven Nykvist
    Sven Nykvist
    Sven Vilhem Nykvist was a Swedish cinematographer. He worked on over 120 films, but is known especially for his work with director Ingmar Bergman...

     (for the cinematography) for Offret
    The Sacrifice
    The Sacrifice is a 1986 film, and the final film by Russian film director Andrei Tarkovsky, who died shortly after completing it.-Synopsis:...

  • Technical Grand Prize: The Mission by Roland Joffé
    Roland Joffé
    Roland Joffé is an English-French film director who is known for his Oscar nominated movies, The Killing Fields and The Mission. He began his career in television. His early television credits included episodes of Coronation Street and an adaptation of The Stars Look Down for Granada...

  • Caméra d'Or
    Caméra d'Or
    The Caméra d'Or is an award of the Cannes Film Festival for the best first feature film presented in one of the Cannes' selections ....

    : Noir et Blanc
    Noir et Blanc
    Noir et Blanc is a 1986 French film written and directed by Claire Devers.- Cast :*Francis Frappat, Antoine*Jacques Martial, Dominique*Catherine Belkhodja, la femme de ménage*Joséphine Fresson, Edith*Benoît Régent, l'hôtelier*Marc Berman, Roland...

    by Claire Devers
    Claire Devers
    Claire Devers is a French director and writer. She was nominated for the 1987 César Award for Best Debut for directing Noir et Blanc .- Filmography :*Noir et Blanc *Chimère...

  • Un Certain Regard
    Un Certain Regard
    Un Certain Regard is a section of the Cannes Film Festival's Official Selection. It is run at the Salle Debussy, parallel to the competition for the Palme d'Or.This section was introduced in 1978 by Gilles Jacob...

    : Rih essed by Nouri Bouzid
    Nouri Bouzid
    Nouri Bouzid is a Tunisian film director and screenwriter. He has directed seven films between 1986 and 2006. His film Man of Ashes was screened in the Un Certain Regard section the 1986 Cannes Film Festival...

  • FIPRESCI Prize
    FIPRESCI
    The International Federation of Film Critics is an association of national organizations of professional film critics and film journalists from around the world for "the promotion and development of film culture and for the safeguarding of professional interests." It was founded in June 1930 in...

    :
    • Le déclin de l'empire américain by Denys Arcand
      Denys Arcand
      Georges-Henri Denys Arcand, is a Canadian film director, screenwriter and producer. He has won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 2004 for The Barbarian Invasions...

    • Offret
      The Sacrifice
      The Sacrifice is a 1986 film, and the final film by Russian film director Andrei Tarkovsky, who died shortly after completing it.-Synopsis:...

      by Andrei Tarkovsky
      Andrei Tarkovsky
      Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky was a Soviet and Russian filmmaker, writer, film editor, film theorist, theatre and opera director, widely regarded as one of the finest filmmakers of the 20th century....

  • Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
    Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
    The Prize of the Ecumenical Jury is an independent film award for feature films at the Cannes Film Festival since 1974. The Ecumenical Jury is one of three juries at the Cannes Film Festival, along with the official jury and the FIPRESCI jury. The award was created by Christian film makers, film...

    : Offret
    The Sacrifice
    The Sacrifice is a 1986 film, and the final film by Russian film director Andrei Tarkovsky, who died shortly after completing it.-Synopsis:...

    by Andrei Tarkovsky
    Andrei Tarkovsky
    Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky was a Soviet and Russian filmmaker, writer, film editor, film theorist, theatre and opera director, widely regarded as one of the finest filmmakers of the 20th century....

  • Prize of the Ecumenical Jury - Special Mention: Thérèse by Alain Cavalier
    Alain Cavalier
    Alain Cavalier is a French film director. He was born in Vendôme, Loir-et-Cher and studied film at the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques. He won several awards, including the César Award for Best Film and César Award for Best Director for his film Thérèse in 1987...

  • Award of the Youth:
    • Foreign Film: She's Gotta Have It
      She's Gotta Have It
      She's Gotta Have It is a 1986 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Spike Lee. It was also Lee's first feature-length film. The film stars Tracy Camilla Johns, Tommy Redmond Hicks and John Canada Terrell. Also appearing are cinematographer Ernest Dickerson as a Brooklyn resident and...

      by Spike Lee
      Spike Lee
      Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee is an American film director, producer, writer, and actor. His production company, 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks, has produced over 35 films since 1983....

    • French Film: High Speed by Monique Dartonne and Michel Kaptur

External links

  • 1986 Cannes Film Festival
  • Cannes Film Festival:1986 at Internet Movie Database
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