1992 Cannes Film Festival
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  • Gérard Depardieu
    Gérard Depardieu
    Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu is a French actor and filmmaker. He is a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur, Chevalier of the Ordre national du Mérite and has twice won the César Award for Best Actor...

     (France) (president)
  • John Boorman
    John Boorman
    John Boorman is a British filmmaker who is a long time resident of Ireland and is best known for his feature films such as Point Blank, Deliverance, Zardoz, Excalibur, The Emerald Forest, Hope and Glory, The General and The Tailor of Panama.-Early life:Boorman was born in Shepperton, Surrey,...

     (United Kingdom)
  • Carlo Di Palma
    Carlo Di Palma
    Carlo Di Palma was an Italian cinematographer, renowned for his work on both color and black-and-white films, who collaborated with Michelangelo Antonioni , Woody Allen Carlo Di Palma (17 April 1925, Rome – 9 July 2004, Rome) was an Italian cinematographer, renowned for his work on both...

     (Italy)
  • Jamie Lee Curtis
    Jamie Lee Curtis
    Jamie Lee Curtis is an American actress and author. Although she was initially known as a "scream queen" because of her starring roles in several horror films early in her career, such as Halloween, The Fog, Prom Night and Terror Train, Curtis has since compiled a body of work that spans many...

     (USA)
  • Joële Van Effenterre (France)
  • Lester James Peries
    Lester James Peries
    Sri Lankabhimanya Lester James Peries is an internationally acclaimed Sri Lankan film director, screenwriter, and film producer. An active filmmaker since 1949, Peries has been involved in over 28 films, including shorts and documentaries...

     (Sri Lanka)
  • Nana Djordjadze
    Nana Djordjadze
    Nana Jorjadze is a Georgian film director, scriptwriter and actress.Jorjadze was born in Tbilisi, and graduated first from a local musical school , and then from the architectural department at the Tbilisi State Academy of Fine Arts...

     (Russia)
  • Pedro Almodóvar
    Pedro Almodóvar
    Pedro Almodóvar Caballero is a Spanish film director, screenwriter and producer.Almodóvar is arguably the most successful and internationally known Spanish filmmaker of his generation. His films, marked by complex narratives, employ the codes of melodrama and use elements of pop culture, popular...

     (Spain)
  • René Cleitman (France)
  • Serge Toubiana (France)

Feature film competition

  • A Stranger Among Us
    A Stranger Among Us
    A Stranger Among Us is a film directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Melanie Griffith, released in 1992. It tells the story of an undercover police officer's experiences in a Hasidic community. It was entered into the 1992 Cannes Film Festival....

    by Sidney Lumet
    Sidney Lumet
    Sidney Lumet was an American director, producer and screenwriter with over 50 films to his credit. He was nominated for the Academy Award as Best Director for 12 Angry Men , Dog Day Afternoon , Network and The Verdict...

  • Au pays des Juliets
    In the Country of Juliets
    In the Country of Juliets is a 1992 French drama film directed by Mehdi Charef. It was entered into the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Laure Duthilleul - Therese* Claire Nebout - Henriette* Maria Schneider - Raissa* Olivier Angèle - Pianist...

    by Mehdi Charef
    Mehdi Charef
    Mehdi Charef is a French film director and screenwriter of Algerian descent. He has worked on eleven films between 1985 and 2007. His film Le thé au harem d'Archimède was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival...

  • Basic Instinct
    Basic Instinct
    Basic Instinct is a 1992 erotic thriller directed by Paul Verhoeven and written by Joe Eszterhas, and starring Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone....

    by Paul Verhoeven
  • Crush
    Crush (1992 film)
    Crush is a 1992 New Zealand drama film directed by Alison Maclean. It was entered into the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Marcia Gay Harden - Lane* Donogh Rees - Christina* Caitlin Bossley - Angela Iseman* William Zappa - Colin Iseman...

    by Alison Maclean
    Alison Maclean
    Alison Maclean is a Canadian film director of music videos, short films, television , commercials and feature films...

  • Den goda viljan
    The Best Intentions
    The Best Intentions is a 1992 Swedish drama film directed by Bille August and written by Ingmar Bergman. It is semi-autobiographical and tells the story of the complex courtship of Bergman's parents, Erik and Karin , and the difficult early years of their marriage, up to the point where Anna is...

    by Bille August
    Bille August
    Bille August is a Danish Academy Award winning film and television director. His film Pelle the Conqueror from 1987 won the Palme D'or, Academy Award and Golden Globe. He is one of the very few directors to win the Palme D'or twice, winning the prestigious award again in 1991 for The Best...

  • El sol del membrillo
    Dream of Light
    Dream of Light is a 1992 Spanish film directed by Victor Erice. Its Spanish title is El Sol del Membrillo, which translates directly to the English "The Sun of the Quince"; it was released in Hong Kong as The Sun of the Quince Tree, and internationally as Quince Tree of the Sun...

    by Víctor Erice
    Víctor Erice
    Víctor Erice Aras is a Spanish film director.He studied law, political science, and economics at the University of Madrid. He also attended the Escuela Oficial de Cinematografia in 1963 to study film direction...

  • El viaje
    The Journey (1992 film)
    The Journey is a 1992 Argentine drama film directed by Fernando Solanas. It was entered into the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Walter Quiroz - Martin* Soledad Alfaro - Vidala* Ricardo Bartis - Monitor* Christina Becerra - Violeta...

    by Fernando Solanas
    Fernando Solanas
    Fernando Ezequiel 'Pino' Solanas is an Argentine film director, screenwriter and politician....

  • Howards End
    Howards End (film)
    Howards End is a 1992 film based upon the novel of the same title by E. M. Forster , a story of class relations in turn-of-the-20th-century England...

    by James Ivory
    James Ivory (director)
    James Francis Ivory is an American film director, best known for the results of his long collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions, which included both Indian-born film producer Ismail Merchant, and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala...

  • Hyènes
    Hyènes
    Hyènes is a 1992 Senegalese comedy film adaptation of the Swiss-German satirical play, "The Visit", directed by Djibril Diop Mambéty. The intimate story of love and revenge parallels a critique of neocolonialism and African consumerism...

    by Djibril Diop Mambéty
    Djibril Diop Mambéty
    Djibril Diop Mambéty was a Senegalese film director, actor, orator, composer and poet. Though he made only a small number of films, they received international acclaim for their original and experimental cinematic technique and non-linear, unconventional narrative style. Born to a Muslim family...

  • Il ladro di bambini
    The Stolen Children
    The Stolen Children is a 1992 Italian film directed by Gianni Amelio. It tells the story of a policeman who bonds with two children as he escorts them to an orphanage.-Cast:* Enrico Lo Verso - Antonio* Valentina Scalici - Rosetta...

    by Gianni Amelio
    Gianni Amelio
    Gianni Amelio is an Italian film director.-Biography:Amelio was born in San Pietro di Magisano, province of Catanzaro, Calabria. His father moved to Argentina soon after his birth. He spent his youth and adolescence with his mother and his grandmother...

  • L'oeil qui ment
    Dark at Noon
    Dark at Noon is a 1993 Chilean-French comedy film directed by Raúl Ruiz.It was entered into the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* John Hurt - Anthony / Le Marquis* Didier Bourdon - Docteur Felicien* Lorraine Evanoff - Ines* David Warner - Ellic...

    by Raúl Ruiz
  • La sentinelle
    The Sentinel (1992 film)
    The Sentinel is a 1992 French thriller film directed by Arnaud Desplechin. It was entered into the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Emmanuel Salinger - Mathias Barillet* Thibault de Montalembert - Jean-Jacques* Jean-Louis Richard - Bleicher...

    by Arnaud Desplechin
    Arnaud Desplechin
    Arnaud Desplechin is a French film director.-Biography:Arnaud Desplechin is the son of Robert and Mado Desplechin, and grew up in the Nord department...

  • Le retour de Casanova
    The Return of Casanova
    The Return of Casanova is a 1992 French comedy film directed by Édouard Niermans. It was entered into the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Alain Delon - Casanova* Fabrice Luchini - Camille* Elsa Lunghini - Marcolina...

    by Édouard Niermans
    Édouard Niermans
    Édouard Niermans is a French film director, screenwriter and actor. His film The Return of Casanova was entered into the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.-Selected filmography:* It Only Happens to Others...

  • Luna Park by Pavel Lungin
    Pavel Lungin
    Pavel Semyonovich Lungin is a Russian film director. He is sometimes credited as Pavel Loungine .Born July 12, 1949 in Moscow, Lungin is the son of a scriptwriter and philologist. He later attended Moscow State University from which he graduated in 1971...

  • Léolo
    Léolo
    Léolo is a 1992 film by Quebecois director Jean-Claude Lauzon.The film tells the story of Léo Lauzon , a young boy living in a Montreal tenement with his dysfunctional family. He uses his active fantasy life and the book L'avalée des avalés by Québécois novelist Réjean Ducharme to escape the...

    by Jean-Claude Lauzon
    Jean-Claude Lauzon
    Jean-Claude Lauzon was a Canadian filmmaker. Born to a humble family in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Lauzon worked a variety of odd jobs after dropping out of high school. He went on to study film at the Université du Québec à Montréal at the behest of Andre Petrowski, a member of the National Film...

  • Of Mice and Men
    Of Mice and Men (1992 film)
    Of Mice and Men is a 1992 American film starring John Malkovich and Gary Sinise, directed and produced by Gary Sinise. It is the third movie adaptation of John Steinbeck's 1937 novel of the same name, and was preceded by the 1939 film version and the 1981 television movie.- Plot :George Milton is...

    by Gary Sinise
    Gary Sinise
    Gary Alan Sinise is an American actor, film director and musician. During his career, Sinise has won various awards including an Emmy and a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for an Academy Award. In 1992, Sinise directed, and played the role of George Milton in the successful film adaptation of...

  • Samostoyatelnaya zhizn by Vitali Kanevsky
    Vitali Kanevsky
    Vitali Kanevsky is a Soviet film director and screenwriter. His film Zamri, umri, voskresni! won the Caméra d'Or at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival. Two years later, his film Samostoyatelnaya zhizn would win the Jury Prize at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival...

  • Simple Men
    Simple Men
    Simple Men is a 1992 American film written and directed by Hal Hartley, starring Robert John Burke, Bill Sage, Karen Sillas and Martin Donovan. It was the debut film of actress Holly Marie Combs in a supporting role...

    by Hal Hartley
    Hal Hartley
    Hal Hartley is an American film director, screenwriter, producer composer, who became a key figure in the American independent film movement of the 1980s and 1990s...

  • The Long Day Closes by Terence Davies
  • The Player
    The Player
    The Player is a 1992 American satirical film directed by Robert Altman from a screenplay by Michael Tolkin based on his own 1988 novel of the same name....

    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...

  • Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me by David Lynch
    David Lynch
    David Keith Lynch is an American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor. Known for his surrealist films, he has developed his own unique cinematic style, which has been dubbed "Lynchian", and which is characterized by its dream imagery and meticulous sound...


Un Certain Regard

  • A nyaraló
    The Summer Guest
    The Summer Guest is a 1992 Hungarian drama film directed by Can Togay. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Géza Balkay - A nyaraló* Mari Törőcsik - A nyaraló anyja* Marta Klubowicz - Fiatal nő...

    by Can Togay
    Can Togay
    Can Togay , also known as Can Togay János at times, is a Hungarian film director, screenwriter, actor, poet, producer, cultural manager and cultural diplomate.-Biography:...

  • American Me
    American Me
    American Me is a 1992 biographical crime drama film produced and directed by Edward James Olmos, his first film as a director, and written by Floyd Mutrux and Desmond Nakano. Olmos also stars as the film's protagonist, Montoya Santana...

    by Edward James Olmos
    Edward James Olmos
    Edward James Olmos is an American actor and director. Among his most memorable roles are William Adama in the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica, Lt...

  • Apfelbäume
    Apple Trees
    Apple Trees is a 1992 German drama film directed by Helma Sanders-Brahms. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Johanna Schall - Lena* Thomas Büchel - Heinz* Udo Kroschwald - Sienks...

    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...

  • Averills Ankommen
    The Arrival of Averill
    The Arrival of Averill is a 1992 Austrian drama film directed by Michael Schottenberg. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Claude Aufaure* Maria Bill* Fabio Carfora* Umberto Conte...

    by Michael Schottenberg
    Michael Schottenberg
    Michael Schottenberg is an Austrian actor, film director and screenwriter. His film The Arrival of Averill was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.-External links:...

  • Bad Lieutenant
    Bad Lieutenant
    Bad Lieutenant is a 1992 crime-drama film directed by Abel Ferrara and starring Harvey Keitel as the eponymous "bad lieutenant". The screenplay was written by actress-model Zoë Lund. She also played a small role in the film. Lund had been discovered by Ferrara and had starred in his earlier film, Ms...

    by Abel Ferrara
    Abel Ferrara
    Abel Ferrara is an American film screenwriter and director. He is best known as an independent filmmaker of such films as The Driller Killer , Ms. 45 , King of New York , Bad Lieutenant and The Funeral .-Early life:Ferrara was born in the Bronx of Italian and Irish descent...

  • Being at Home with Claude
    Being at Home with Claude
    Being at Home with Claude is a 1992 Canadian drama film directed by Jean Beaudin and based on the play by René-Daniel Dubois.The film stars Roy Dupuis as Yves, a gay man who has just murdered his lover Claude , and is attempting to explain his reasons to the police investigator .At the 13th Genie...

    by Jean Beaudin
    Jean Beaudin
    Jean Beaudin is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. He has directed 20 films since 1969. His film J.A. Martin Photographer, was entered into the 1977 Cannes Film Festival, where Monique Mercure won the award for Best Actress. The film also won best Film, he won best Director, and Mercure...

  • Cousin Bobby
    Cousin Bobby
    Cousin Bobby is a 1992 American documentary film directed by Jonathan Demme. The film focuses on Demme's cousin, Robert W. Castle, an Episcopalian minister in Harlem, New York....

    by Jonathan Demme
    Jonathan Demme
    Robert Jonathan Demme is an American filmmaker, producer and screenwriter. Best known for directing The Silence of the Lambs, which won him the Academy Award for Best Director, he has also directed the acclaimed movies Philadelphia, Rachel Getting Married, the Talking Heads concert movie Stop...

  • Hochzaeitsnuecht by Pol Cruchten
    Pol Cruchten
    Pol Cruchten is a Luxembourgian film director and producer. His film Hochzäitsnuecht was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:* Somewhere in Europe...

  • Krystallines nyhtes
    Crystal Nights
    Crystal Nights is a 1992 Greek drama film directed by Tonia Marketaki. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* François Delaive - Albert* Michele Valley - Isabella* Tania Tripi - Anna* Katerina Baka...

    by Tonia Marketaki
    Tonia Marketaki
    Tonia Marketaki was a Greek film director and screenwriter. She was born in Pireas and spend many of her childhood years in the Zografou district of Athens. Her maternal origins are from Kardamyla, in the island of Chios....

  • La memoria del agua
    Memory of Water (film)
    Memory of Water is a 1994 Spanish-Argentine drama film directed by Héctor Fáver. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Isabel Abad* Nicolás Alvarez* Héctor Fáver* Ana Llobet* Cristina Peralta...

    by Héctor Fáver
    Héctor Fáver
    Héctor Fáver is an Argentine film producer and director. His film Memory of Water was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.-External links:...

  • Modern Crimes by Alejandro Agresti
    Alejandro Agresti
    Alejandro Agresti is an Argentine film director and producer. He has become increasingly influential in the United States and directed The Lake House with top Hollywood actors Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves in 2006....

  • Mon Desir by Nicky Marshall
  • Oxen
    The Ox
    The Ox is a 1991 Swedish film directed by Sven Nykvist. He wrote the script with Lasse Summanen.- Cast :* Stellan Skarsgård - Helge Roos* Ewa Fröling - Elfrida Roos* Lennart Hjulström - Svenning Gustavsson* Max von Sydow - Vicar* Liv Ullmann - Mrs...

    by 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...

  • Prague
    Prague (1992 film)
    Prague is a 1992 British drama film directed by Ian Sellar. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Alan Cumming - Alexander Novak* Sandrine Bonnaire - Elena* Bruno Ganz - Josef* Raphael Meiss - Ralph...

    by Ian Sellar
  • Strictly Ballroom
    Strictly Ballroom
    Strictly Ballroom is a 1992 Australian romantic comedy film directed and co-written by Baz Luhrmann and produced by M&A Productions. The film is the first installment in The Red Curtain Trilogy, Luhrmann's trilogy of theatre-motif-related films; the follow-ups were Romeo + Juliet and Moulin Rouge!...

    by Baz Luhrmann
    Baz Luhrmann
    Mark Anthony "Baz" Luhrmann is an Australian film director, screenwriter, and producer best known for The Red Curtain Trilogy, which includes his films Strictly Ballroom, William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet and Moulin Rouge!...

  • Schastlivye dni
    Happy Days (1991 film)
    Happy Days is a 1991 Soviet drama film directed by Aleksei Balabanov. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Viktor Sukhorukov* Anzhelika Nevolina* Yevgeni Merkuryev* Georgi Tejkh* Nikolai Lavrov...

    by Aleksei Balabanov
    Aleksei Balabanov
    Aleksei Balabanov is a popular Russian filmmaker. Balabanov is best known for the 1997 crime film Brat , and its more action-oriented sequel, Brat-2 , both of which starred the late Sergei Bodrov Jr. as a novice hit man...

  • Tchekiste
    The Chekist
    The Chekist is a 1992 Russian drama film directed by Aleksandr Rogozhkin. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival...

    by Aleksandr Rogozhkin
    Aleksandr Rogozhkin
    -Selected filmography:In 1990, he directed Karaul, which won the Alfred-Bauer Prize at the 40th Berlin International Film Festival.Rogozhkin's film The Chekist was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival....

  • Through an Open Window
    Through an Open Window
    Through an Open Window is a 1993 American short film directed by Eric Mendelsohn. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival....

    by Eric Mendelsohn
    Eric Mendelsohn
    Eric Mendelsohn is an American film director and screenwriter. Two of his films have been screened in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes: Through an Open Window in 1992 and Judy Berlin in 1999., which won the Directing Award at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival...

  • Udju Azul di Yonta by Flora Gomes
    Flora Gomes
    Flora Gomes is a Bissau-Guinean film director. He was born in Cadique, Guinea-Bissau on 31 December, 1949 and after high school in Cuba, he decided to study film at the Cuban Film Institute in Havana....

  • Zendegi va digar hich
    Life, and Nothing More...
    Life, and Nothing More... is an Iranian film directed by Abbas Kiarostami. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival...

    by Abbas Kiarostami
    Abbas Kiarostami
    Abbas Kiarostami is an internationally acclaimed Iranian film director, screenwriter, photographer and film producer. An active filmmaker since 1970, Kiarostami has been involved in over forty films, including shorts and documentaries...


Films out of competition

  • Änglagård by Colin Nutley
    Colin Nutley
    Colin Nutley is an English director successful in the Swedish film industry.-Career:Nutley went to Portsmouth Art College and began his career in British television as a graphic designer. He then turned to drama and documentary film-making for ITV, BBC and Channel 4...

  • Beauty and the Beast
    Beauty and the Beast (1991 film)
    Beauty and the Beast is a 1991 American animated fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. The thirtieth film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series and the third film of the Disney Renaissance period...

    by Gary Trousdale
    Gary Trousdale
    Gary A. Trousdale is an American film director known for directing movies such as Beauty and the Beast, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Atlantis: The Lost Empire. He frequently directs films with Kirk Wise....

    , Kirk Wise
    Kirk Wise
    Kirk Wise is an American film director, animator and screenwriter best known for his work at Disney. Wise has directed such Disney movies as Atlantis: The Lost Empire, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Beauty and the Beast...

  • Drengene fra Sankt Petri
    The Boys from St. Petri
    The Boys from St. Petri is a 1991 Danish drama film directed by Søren Kragh-Jacobsen. It was screened out of competition at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.The film is inspired by the activities of the Churchill Club, but the actual plot is fiction.-Cast:...

    by Søren Kragh-Jacobsen
    Søren Kragh-Jacobsen
    Søren Kragh-Jacobsen is a Danish film director, musician, and song writer. He was one of the founders and practitioners of the Dogme95 project, for creating films without artificial technology or techniques.-Early career:...

  • Far and Away
    Far and Away
    Far and Away is a 1992 adventure-drama-romance film directed by Ron Howard from a script by Howard and Bob Dolman, and stars Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. Cinematography by Mikael Salomon, with a music score by John Williams...

    by Ron Howard
    Ron Howard
    Ronald William "Ron" Howard is an American actor, director, and producer. He came to prominence as a child actor, playing Opie Taylor in the sitcom The Andy Griffith Show for eight years, and later the teenaged Richie Cunningham in the sitcom Happy Days for six years...

  • Krigerens hjerte
    The Warrior's Heart
    The Warrior's Heart is a 1992 Norwegian film, directed by Leidulv Risan and starring Anneke von der Lippe, Peter Snickars, Thomas Kretschmann, Bjørn Sundquist and Iren Reppen. It was screened out of competition at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.-Plot:...

    by Leidulv Risan
    Leidulv Risan
    Leidulv Risan is a Norwegian screenwriter, film director and professor at The Norwegian Filmschool at Lillehammer. Since 2005 he has been the leader for the screenwriting program at the Film School. Risan is educated at Dramatiska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden...

  • Le Batteur Du Boléro
    Le Batteur Du Boléro
    Le Batteur du Boléro is a short film by Patrice Leconte, released in 1992. It features a drummer in an orchestra, played by Jacques Villeret, who plays a simple, repetitive rhythm on his single drum during a performance of Maurice Ravel's Boléro....

    by Patrice Leconte
    Patrice Leconte
    Patrice Leconte is a French film director, actor, comic strip writer, and screenwriter.-Biography:...

  • Balanţa
    The Oak
    The Oak is a 1992 Romanian drama film directed by Lucian Pintilie. It was screened out of competition at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Maia Morgenstern as Nela* Răzvan Vasilescu as Mitica* Victor Rebengiuc as Village mayor...

    by Lucian Pintilie
    Lucian Pintilie
    -Filmography:* Duminică la ora şase * Reconstituirea * Salonul numărul 6 * De ce trag clopotele, Mitică? - see also the "Portrayals and tributes" section at Mitică* Balanţa * O vară de neuitat * Prea târziu...

  • Map of the Human Heart
    Map of the Human Heart
    Map of the Human Heart is the title of a 1993 film by New Zealand director Vincent Ward. It was screened out of competition at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival....

    by Vincent Ward
    Vincent Ward
    Vincent Ward, ONZM is a film director and screenwriter.-Biography:Vincent Ward was awarded an Order of New Zealand Merit in 2007 for his contribution to film making. He was born in Greytown, New Zealand. He was educated at St Patrick's College, Silverstream and trained as an artist at the...

  • Opening Night by John Cassavetes
    John Cassavetes
    John Nicholas Cassavetes was an American actor, screenwriter and filmmaker. He acted in many Hollywood films, notably Rosemary's Baby and The Dirty Dozen...

  • Othello
    Othello (1952 film)
    Othello is a 1952 drama film based on the Shakespearean play, made by Mercury Productions Inc. and Les Films Marceau and distributed by United Artists . It was directed and produced by Orson Welles, who also played the title role . The screenplay was adapted by Welles and an uncredited Jean Sacha...

    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...

  • Pather Panchali by Satyajit Ray
    Satyajit Ray
    Satyajit Ray was an Indian Bengali filmmaker. He is regarded as one of the greatest auteurs of 20th century cinema. Ray was born in the city of Kolkata into a Bengali family prominent in the world of arts and literature...

  • Patrick Dewaere
    Patrick Dewaere (film)
    Patrick Dewaere is a 1992 French documentary film directed by Marc Esposito, about the actor of the same name. It was screened out of competition at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival....

    by Marc Esposito
    Marc Esposito
    Marc Esposito is a French film director and screenwriter. His film Patrick Dewaere was screened out of competition at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:* Patrick Dewaere * Le Cœur des hommes...

  • Reservoir Dogs
    Reservoir Dogs
    Reservoir Dogs is an American crime film marking debut of director and writer Quentin Tarantino. It depicts the events before and after a botched diamond heist, but not the heist itself. Reservoir Dogs stars an ensemble cast: Harvey Keitel, Steve Buscemi, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Chris Penn, and...

    by Quentin Tarantino
    Quentin Tarantino
    Quentin Jerome Tarantino is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and actor. In the early 1990s, he began his career as an independent filmmaker with films employing nonlinear storylines and the aestheticization of violence...

  • Sarafina!
    Sarafina! (film)
    Sarafina! is a 1992 South African film starring Leleti Khumalo, Whoopi Goldberg, Miriam Makeba, John Kani and Tertius Meintjies.-Plot:The plot centers on students involved in the Soweto Riots, in opposition to the implementation of Afrikaans as the language of instruction in schools.The character...

    by Darrell James Roodt
  • Svo á jörðu sem á himni
    As in Heaven
    As in Heaven is a 1992 Icelandic drama film directed by Kristín Jóhannesdóttir. It was screened out of competition at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Tinna Gunnlaugsdóttir - Mother* Pierre Vaneck - Dr...

    by Kristín Jóhannesdóttir

Short film competition

  • Az út by Nikolai Ivanov Neikov
  • Cheating, Inc.
    Cheating, Inc.
    Cheating, Inc. is a 1991 short, non-dialogue comedic silent film about a class of students cheating on their exam. The film was an official selection of the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.-Crew:* , Director / Writer / Sound* , Camera / Editor...

    by William Lorton
  • Daumier's Law by Geoff Dunbar
  • L'échange by Vincent Pérez
    Vincent Pérez
    Vincent Pérez is a Swiss-born French speaking actor and director. He is best known internationally for playing the title character Ashe Corven in The Crow: City of Angels, and for starring in Queen of the Damned, playing Marius de Romanus...

  • Encolure 42 by Willy Kempeneers
  • Ghalb by Sa'ied Mojaveri
  • Keine besonderen Vorkommnisse by Jürgen Schönhoff
  • Le métro by Catherine Montondo
  • No Problem by Craig Welch
  • Omnibus
    Omnibus (film)
    Omnibus is a 1992 short comedy film directed by Sam Karmann. It won an Academy Award in 1993 for Best Short Subject and it won the Short Film Palme d'Or at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Daniel Rialet - The Man* Jacques Martial - The Conductor...

    by Sam Karmann
  • A Passion Play by Tony Twigg
  • La sensation by Manuel Poutte

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...

    : Den goda viljan
    The Best Intentions
    The Best Intentions is a 1992 Swedish drama film directed by Bille August and written by Ingmar Bergman. It is semi-autobiographical and tells the story of the complex courtship of Bergman's parents, Erik and Karin , and the difficult early years of their marriage, up to the point where Anna is...

    by Bille August
    Bille August
    Bille August is a Danish Academy Award winning film and television director. His film Pelle the Conqueror from 1987 won the Palme D'or, Academy Award and Golden Globe. He is one of the very few directors to win the Palme D'or twice, winning the prestigious award again in 1991 for The Best...

  • Grand Prize of the Jury
    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...

    : Il ladro di bambini
    The Stolen Children
    The Stolen Children is a 1992 Italian film directed by Gianni Amelio. It tells the story of a policeman who bonds with two children as he escorts them to an orphanage.-Cast:* Enrico Lo Verso - Antonio* Valentina Scalici - Rosetta...

    by Gianni Amelio
    Gianni Amelio
    Gianni Amelio is an Italian film director.-Biography:Amelio was born in San Pietro di Magisano, province of Catanzaro, Calabria. His father moved to Argentina soon after his birth. He spent his youth and adolescence with his mother and his grandmother...

  • 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....

    :
    • El sol del membrillo
      Dream of Light
      Dream of Light is a 1992 Spanish film directed by Victor Erice. Its Spanish title is El Sol del Membrillo, which translates directly to the English "The Sun of the Quince"; it was released in Hong Kong as The Sun of the Quince Tree, and internationally as Quince Tree of the Sun...

      by Víctor Erice
      Víctor Erice
      Víctor Erice Aras is a Spanish film director.He studied law, political science, and economics at the University of Madrid. He also attended the Escuela Oficial de Cinematografia in 1963 to study film direction...

    • Samostoyatelnaya zhizn by Vitali Kanevsky
      Vitali Kanevsky
      Vitali Kanevsky is a Soviet film director and screenwriter. His film Zamri, umri, voskresni! won the Caméra d'Or at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival. Two years later, his film Samostoyatelnaya zhizn would win the Jury Prize at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival...

  • 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:* * ....

    : Tim Robbins
    Tim Robbins
    Timothy Francis "Tim" Robbins is an American actor, screenwriter, director, producer, activist and musician. He is the former longtime partner of actress Susan Sarandon...

     for The Player
    The Player
    The Player is a 1992 American satirical film directed by Robert Altman from a screenplay by Michael Tolkin based on his own 1988 novel of the same name....

  • 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:* * ....

    : Pernilla August
    Pernilla August
    Pernilla August is a Swedish actress, director and script-writer. Being one of Sweden's leading actresses and a long time collaborator with director Ingmar Bergman, she won the Best Actress Award at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival for her role in his The Best Intentions...

     for Den goda viljan
    The Best Intentions
    The Best Intentions is a 1992 Swedish drama film directed by Bille August and written by Ingmar Bergman. It is semi-autobiographical and tells the story of the complex courtship of Bergman's parents, Erik and Karin , and the difficult early years of their marriage, up to the point where Anna is...

  • 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....

    : 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...

     for The Player
    The Player
    The Player is a 1992 American satirical film directed by Robert Altman from a screenplay by Michael Tolkin based on his own 1988 novel of the same name....

  • 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....

    : Omnibus
    Omnibus (film)
    Omnibus is a 1992 short comedy film directed by Sam Karmann. It won an Academy Award in 1993 for Best Short Subject and it won the Short Film Palme d'Or at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Daniel Rialet - The Man* Jacques Martial - The Conductor...

    by Sam Karmann
  • Technical Grand Prize: El viaje
    The Journey (1992 film)
    The Journey is a 1992 Argentine drama film directed by Fernando Solanas. It was entered into the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Walter Quiroz - Martin* Soledad Alfaro - Vidala* Ricardo Bartis - Monitor* Christina Becerra - Violeta...

    by Fernando Solanas
    Fernando Solanas
    Fernando Ezequiel 'Pino' Solanas is an Argentine film director, screenwriter and politician....

     (For technical visual and aural excellence)
  • 45th Anniversary Prize: Howards End
    Howards End (film)
    Howards End is a 1992 film based upon the novel of the same title by E. M. Forster , a story of class relations in turn-of-the-20th-century England...

    by James Ivory
    James Ivory (director)
    James Francis Ivory is an American film director, best known for the results of his long collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions, which included both Indian-born film producer Ismail Merchant, and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala...

  • 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 ....

    : Mac
    Mac (film)
    Mac is a 1992 movie co-written and directed by John Turturro. The film marks his directorial debut. The film won the Caméra d'Or award at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award.-Plot:...

    by John Turturro
    John Turturro
    John Michael Turturro is an American actor, writer and director known for his roles in the films Do the Right Thing , Miller's Crossing , Barton Fink , Quiz Show , The Big Lebowski , O Brother, Where Art Thou? and the Transformers film series...

  • SACD Award:
    • Best Short: The Room by Jeff Balsmeyer
    • Best Feature: C'est arrivé près de chez vous
      Man Bites Dog (film)
      Man Bites Dog is a darkly comedic crime Belgian mockumentary starring Benoît Poelvoorde. In the film, a crew of filmmakers follow a serial killer, recording his crimes for a documentary they are producing...

      by Rémy Belvaux
      Rémy Belvaux
      Rémy Nicolas Lucien Belvaux was a Belgian actor, director, producer and screenwriter...

      , André Bonzel, Benoît Poelvoorde
      Benoît Poelvoorde
      Benoît Poelvoorde is a Belgian actor and comedian who often associates cynicism, humour and drama in his movies.His mother was a grocer and his father a driver, who died when Poelvoorde was still young...

  • Canal+ Award: Floating by Richard Heslop
    Richard Heslop
    Richard Heslop is a British director of music videos and films. He has produced videos for artists including Queen, The Cure, and New Order, as well as programs on Channel 4 and the BBC...

  • 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...

    : El sol del membrillo
    Dream of Light
    Dream of Light is a 1992 Spanish film directed by Victor Erice. Its Spanish title is El Sol del Membrillo, which translates directly to the English "The Sun of the Quince"; it was released in Hong Kong as The Sun of the Quince Tree, and internationally as Quince Tree of the Sun...

    by Víctor Erice
    Víctor Erice
    Víctor Erice Aras is a Spanish film director.He studied law, political science, and economics at the University of Madrid. He also attended the Escuela Oficial de Cinematografia in 1963 to study film direction...

  • 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...

    : Il ladro di bambini
    The Stolen Children
    The Stolen Children is a 1992 Italian film directed by Gianni Amelio. It tells the story of a policeman who bonds with two children as he escorts them to an orphanage.-Cast:* Enrico Lo Verso - Antonio* Valentina Scalici - Rosetta...

    by Gianni Amelio
    Gianni Amelio
    Gianni Amelio is an Italian film director.-Biography:Amelio was born in San Pietro di Magisano, province of Catanzaro, Calabria. His father moved to Argentina soon after his birth. He spent his youth and adolescence with his mother and his grandmother...

  • Prize of the Ecumenical Jury - Special Mention:
    • Au pays des Juliets
      In the Country of Juliets
      In the Country of Juliets is a 1992 French drama film directed by Mehdi Charef. It was entered into the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Laure Duthilleul - Therese* Claire Nebout - Henriette* Maria Schneider - Raissa* Olivier Angèle - Pianist...

      by Mehdi Charef
      Mehdi Charef
      Mehdi Charef is a French film director and screenwriter of Algerian descent. He has worked on eleven films between 1985 and 2007. His film Le thé au harem d'Archimède was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival...

    • El viaje
      The Journey (1992 film)
      The Journey is a 1992 Argentine drama film directed by Fernando Solanas. It was entered into the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Walter Quiroz - Martin* Soledad Alfaro - Vidala* Ricardo Bartis - Monitor* Christina Becerra - Violeta...

      by Fernando Solanas
      Fernando Solanas
      Fernando Ezequiel 'Pino' Solanas is an Argentine film director, screenwriter and politician....

  • Award of the Youth:
    • Foreign Film: Strictly Ballroom
      Strictly Ballroom
      Strictly Ballroom is a 1992 Australian romantic comedy film directed and co-written by Baz Luhrmann and produced by M&A Productions. The film is the first installment in The Red Curtain Trilogy, Luhrmann's trilogy of theatre-motif-related films; the follow-ups were Romeo + Juliet and Moulin Rouge!...

      by Baz Luhrmann
      Baz Luhrmann
      Mark Anthony "Baz" Luhrmann is an Australian film director, screenwriter, and producer best known for The Red Curtain Trilogy, which includes his films Strictly Ballroom, William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet and Moulin Rouge!...

    • French Film: Sans un cri by Jeanne Labrune
      Jeanne Labrune
      Jeanne Labrune is a French screenwriter and film director. She has directed 13 films since 1978. Her film Blood and Sand was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival.-Selected filmography:...

  • Special Award of the Youth: C'est arrivé près de chez vous
    Man Bites Dog (film)
    Man Bites Dog is a darkly comedic crime Belgian mockumentary starring Benoît Poelvoorde. In the film, a crew of filmmakers follow a serial killer, recording his crimes for a documentary they are producing...

    by Rémy Belvaux
    Rémy Belvaux
    Rémy Nicolas Lucien Belvaux was a Belgian actor, director, producer and screenwriter...

    , André Bonzel, Benoît Poelvoorde
    Benoît Poelvoorde
    Benoît Poelvoorde is a Belgian actor and comedian who often associates cynicism, humour and drama in his movies.His mother was a grocer and his father a driver, who died when Poelvoorde was still young...


External links

  • 1992 Cannes Film Festival
  • Cannes Film Festival:1992 at Internet Movie Database
    Internet Movie Database
    Internet Movie Database is an online database of information related to movies, television shows, actors, production crew personnel, video games and fictional characters featured in visual entertainment media. It is one of the most popular online entertainment destinations, with over 100 million...

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