Jury

• Louis Malle
  Louis Malle
  Louis Malle was a French film director, screenwriter, and producer. He worked in both French cinema and Hollywood. His films include Ascenseur pour l'échafaud , Atlantic City , and Au revoir, les enfants .- Early years in France :Malle was born into a wealthy industrialist family in Thumeries,...
  
   (France) (president)
• Claudia Cardinale
  Claudia Cardinale
  Claudia Cardinale is an Italian actress, and has appeared in some of the most prominent European films of the 1960s and 1970s. The majority of Cardinale's films have been either Italian or French...
  
   (Italy)
• Inna Churikova
  Inna Churikova
  Inna Mikhailovna Churikova is a Soviet Russian film and theatre actress.-Biography:...
  
   (Russia)
• Judy Davis
  Judy Davis
  Judy Davis is an Australian actress best known for her roles in Husbands and Wives, Barton Fink, A Passage to India and in the TV miniseries Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows....
  
   (Australia)
• 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...
  
   (Iran)
• Emir Kusturica
  Emir Kusturica
  Emir Nemanja Kusturica , is a Serbian filmmaker, actor and musician, recognized for several internationally acclaimed feature films...
  
   (Yugoslavia)
• William Lubtchansky
  William Lubtchansky
  William Lubtchansky born in Paris, France, was an acclaimed French cinematographer. His first film was Agnes Varda's 1965 short, Elsa la Rose. Lubtchansky has shot over 100 films, including several for Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Rivette, Jean Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet and Nadine Trintignant...
  
   (France)
• Tom Luddy (USA)
• Gary Oldman
  Gary Oldman
  Gary Leonard Oldman is an English actor, voice actor, filmmaker and musician.A member of the 1980s Brit Pack, Oldman came to prominence via starring roles in British films Meantime , Sid and Nancy and Prick Up Your Ears , with his performance in the latter bringing him his first BAFTA Award...
  
   (UK)
• Augusto M. Seabra (Portugal)

Feature film competition

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Country
Farewell My Concubine	霸王别姬	Chen Kaige Chen Kaige Chen Kaige is a Chinese film director and a leading figure of the fifth generation of Chinese cinema. His films are known for their visual flair and epic storytelling.-Early life:...	Mainland China
Body Snatchers Body Snatchers (1993 film) Body Snatchers is a 1993 American science fiction horror film and loosely based on the 1955 novel The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney. The film was directed by Abel Ferrara, starring Gabrielle Anwar, Billy Wirth, Terry Kinney, Meg Tilly, R...		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...	United States
Broken Highway Broken Highway Broken Highway is a 1993 Australian drama film directed by Laurie McInnes. It was entered into the 1993 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Aden Young - Angel* David Field - Tatts* Bill Hunter - Wilson* Claudia Karvan - Catherine* Norman Kaye - Elias Kidd...		Laurie McIness	Australia
Dyuba-Dyuba Dyuba-Dyuba Dyuba-Dyuba is a 1993 Russian drama film directed by Aleksandr Khvan. It was entered into the 1993 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Oleg Menshikov* Anzhela Belyanskaya* Aleksandr Negreba* Grigori Konstantinopolsky* Aleksandr Tyunin* Viktor Terelya...	Дюба-Дюба	Aleksandr Khvan Aleksandr Khvan Aleksandr Fyodorovich Khvan is a Russian film director and actor. His debut film Dyuba-Dyuba was entered into the 1993 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:* Dyuba-Dyuba * Pribytiye poyezda * Dryan khoroshaya, dryan plokhaya...	Russia
Falling Down Falling Down Falling Down is a 1993 crime-drama film directed by Joel Schumacher. The film stars Michael Douglas in the lead role of William Foster , a divorcee and unemployed former defense engineer...		Joel Schumacher Joel Schumacher Joel T. Schumacher is an American film director, screenwriter and producer.-Early life:Schumacher was born in New York City, the son of Marian and Francis Schumacher. His mother was a Swedish Jew, and his father was a Baptist from Knoxville, Tennessee, who died when Joel was four years old...	United States
Fiorile Fiorile Fiorile is a 1993 Italian drama film about a family curse caused by greed. The film was directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, and stars Claudio Bigagli, Galatea Ranzi, and Michael Vartan. It was entered into the 1993 Cannes Film Festival....		Paolo and Vittorio Taviani Paolo and Vittorio Taviani Paolo and Vittorio Taviani are noted Italian film directors and screenwriters...	Italy
Frauds Frauds (film) Frauds is a 1993 Australian black comedy film starring pop star Phil Collins. It was entered into the 1993 Cannes Film Festival.-Plot:The film is a story of the ways in which insurance investigator Roland Copping interferes in and manipulates the lives of others with outrageous games and gimmicks...		Stephan Elliott Stephan Elliott Stephan Elliott is an Australian film director and screenwriter.-Life and career:Elliott began his career as an assistant director working in the boom of the Australian film industry of the 1980s....	Australia
Friends Friends (1993 film) Friends is a 1993 South African drama film directed by Elaine Proctor. It was entered into the 1993 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Caméra d'Or Special Distinction.-Cast:* Kerry Fox - Sophie* Dambisa Kente - Thoko* Michele Burgers - Aninka...		Elaine Proctor Elaine Proctor Elaine Proctor is a South African film director, screenwriter and actress. Her film Friends was entered into the 1993 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Caméra d'Or Special Distinction.-Filmography:* Sharpeville Spirit...	South Africa
Faraway, So Close! Faraway, So Close! Faraway, So Close! is a 1993 film by German director Wim Wenders. The screenplay is by Wenders, Richard Reitinger and Ulrich Zieger. The film is a sequel to Wenders' 1987 film Wings of Desire. Actors Otto Sander and Bruno Ganz reprise their roles as angels visiting earth. The film also stars...	In weiter Ferne, so nah!	Wim Wenders Wim Wenders Ernst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders is a German film director, playwright, author, photographer and producer.-Early life:Wenders was born in Düsseldorf. He graduated from high school in Oberhausen in the Ruhr area. He then studied medicine and philosophy in Freiburg and Düsseldorf...	Germany
King of the Hill King of the Hill (film) King of the Hill is a 1993 film, Steven Soderbergh's third feature film, and the second he directed from his own screenplay following his 1989 Palme d'Or-winning effort sex, lies, and videotape. It too was nominated for the Palme d'Or, at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival.-Production:Based on the...		Steven Soderbergh Steven Soderbergh Steven Andrew Soderbergh is an American film producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, editor, and an Academy Award-winning film director. He is best known for directing commercial Hollywood films like Erin Brockovich, Traffic, and the remake of Ocean's Eleven, but he has also directed smaller less...	United States
The Man by the Shore The Man by the Shore The Man by the Shore is a 1993 Haitian-French drama film directed by Raoul Peck. It was entered into the 1993 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Jennifer Zubar - Sarah* Toto Bissainthe - Camille Desrouillere* Patrick Rameau - Gracieux Sorel...	L'Homme sur les quais	Raoul Peck Raoul Peck Raoul Peck is an award-winning Haitian filmmaker, of both documentary and feature films, and a political activist. Briefly, in the 1990s, he was Haiti's Minister of Culture.-Biography:...	Haiti
The Escort The Escort The Escort is a 1993 Italian crime film directed by Ricky Tognazzi. It was an entry at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival.-Plot:The film shows the difficulties of an honest, imperiled judge and his bodyguard of four men, trying to clean up a Sicilian town...	La scorta	Ricky Tognazzi Ricky Tognazzi Riccardo Tognazzi is an Italian actor and film director. He has appeared in 50 films and television shows since 1963. His film The Escort was entered into the 1993 Cannes Film Festival...	Italy
Libera me Libera me (film) Libera me is a 1993 French experimental film directed by Alain Cavalier. It was entered into the 1993 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Louis Becker* Catherine Caron* Paul Chevillard* Annick Concha - Mother* Pierre Concha - Father* François Cristophe...		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...	Early Modern France
Louis, the Child King Louis, the Child King Louis, the Child King is a 1993 French drama film directed by Roger Planchon. It was entered into the 1993 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Carmen Maura - Anne d'Autriche* Maxime Mansion - Louis XIV* Paolo Graziosi - Mazarin...	Louis, enfant roi	Roger Planchon Roger Planchon Roger Planchon , was a French playwright, director, filmmaker.-Biography:...	France
My Favorite Season My Favorite Season My Favorite Season is a 1993 French drama film directed by André Téchiné and starring Catherine Deneuve, Daniel Auteuil and Marthe Villalonga. The story concerns two middle age siblings, a brother and sister, who resume their fragile relationship when they are forced to care for their ailing mother...	Ma saison préférée	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....	France
Magnificat Magnificat (film) Magnificat is a 1993 Italian drama film directed by Pupi Avati. It was entered into the 1993 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Luigi Diberti - Lord of Malfole* Arnaldo Ninchi - Folco* Massimo Bellinzoni - Baino* Dalia Lahav - Rozal...		Pupi Avati Pupi Avati Giuseppe Avati, better known as Pupi Avati is an Italian film director, producer, and screenwriter.-Early life and career:...	Italy
Mazeppa Mazeppa (film) Mazeppa is a 1993 French drama film directed by Bartabas. It was entered into the 1993 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Technical Grand Prize.-Cast:* Miguel Bosé - Gericault* Bartabas - Franconi* Brigitte Marty - Mouste...		Bartabas Bartabas Bartabas is the performing name of a French horse trainer, film producer and impressario. He created his first theater company at age seventeen, and later founded the performing troupe, Cirque Aligre. In 1998, he founded the equestrian performing show, Zingaro, which means "Gypsy"...	France
Much Ado About Nothing Much Ado About Nothing (film) Much Ado About Nothing is a 1993 British/American romantic comedy film based on William Shakespeare's play. It was adapted for the screen and directed by Kenneth Branagh, who also played the role of Benedick....		Kenneth Branagh Kenneth Branagh Kenneth Charles Branagh is an actor and film director from Northern Ireland. He is best known for directing and starring in several film adaptations of William Shakespeare's plays including Henry V , Much Ado About Nothing , Hamlet Kenneth Charles Branagh is an actor and film director from...
Naked Naked (film) Naked is a 1993 British film directed by Mike Leigh. Before this film, Leigh was known for subtler comedic dissections of middle-class and working-class manners. Naked was more stark and brutal than his previous works...		Mike Leigh Mike Leigh Michael "Mike" Leigh, OBE is a British writer and director of film and theatre. He studied theatre at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and studied further at the Camberwell School of Art and the Central School of Art and Design. He began as a theatre director and playwright in the mid 1960s...
The Piano The Piano The Piano is a 1993 New Zealand drama film about a mute pianist and her daughter, set during the mid-19th century in a rainy, muddy frontier backwater on the west coast of New Zealand. The film was written and directed by Jane Campion, and stars Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill, and Anna Paquin...		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...	New Zealand
Raining Stones Raining Stones Raining Stones is a 1993 film directed by Ken Loach and starring Bruce Jones, Julie Brown, Ricky Tomlinson, Tom Hickey and Gemma Phoenix. It tells the story of a man who cannot afford to buy his daughter a First Communion dress, and makes disastrous choices in trying to raise the money...		Ken Loach Ken Loach Kenneth "Ken" Loach is a Palme D'Or winning English film and television director.He is known for his naturalistic, social realist directing style and for his socialist beliefs, which are evident in his film treatment of social issues such as homelessness , labour rights and child abuse at the...
Splitting Heirs Splitting Heirs Splitting Heirs is a 1993 British film starring Eric Idle, Rick Moranis, Barbara Hershey, Catherine Zeta-Jones, John Cleese and Sadie Frost. The film was directed by Robert Young, and features music by Michael Kamen...		Robert Young Robert Young (director) Robert William Young is a British television and film director.Young was born in Cheltenham, and in the 1980s and early 1990s, established himself as a leading director of British TV drama. In the 1970s, he directed Vampire Circus and Hammer House of Horror...
The Puppetmaster The Puppetmaster (film) The Puppetmaster is a 1993 Taiwanese film directed by Hou Hsiao-Hsien. Based on the memoirs of Li Tian-lu, Taiwan’s most celebrated puppeteer, this story covers the years from Li’s birth in 1909 to the end of Japan’s fifty-year occupation of Taiwan in 1945.-Plot:It tells the story of Li Tian-lu...	戲夢人生	Hou Hsiao-Hsien Hou Hsiao-Hsien Hou Hsiao-Hsien is an award-winning film director and a leading figure of Taiwan's New Wave cinema movement.-Biography:...	Republic of China

Un Certain Regard

• Anchoress
  Anchoress (film)
  Anchoress is a 1993 British drama film directed by Chris Newby. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival....
  
  by Chris Newby
  Chris Newby
  Christopher Newby is a British film director and screenwriter.He studied at Leeds Polytechnic and The Royal College of Art in London...
  
  
• Avsporing by Unni Straume
  Unni Straume
  Unni Straume is a Norwegian film director and screenwriter. Her film Drømspel was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:* Til en ukjent * Avsporing...
  
  
• Bedevil
  Bedevil
  Bedevil is a 1993 Australian horror film directed by Tracey Moffatt. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Lex Marinos - Dimitri* Tracey Moffatt - Ruby Morphet* Riccardo Natoli - Spiro...
  
  by Tracey Moffatt
  Tracey Moffatt
  Tracey Moffatt is an Australian artist who primarily uses photography and video.Born in Brisbane in 1960, she holds a degree in visual communications from the Queensland College of Art, graduating in 1982....
  
  
• Bodies, Rest & Motion
  Bodies, Rest & Motion
  Bodies, Rest & Motion is a 1993 American drama film directed by Michael Steinberg. It screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Phoebe Cates - Carol* Bridget Fonda - Beth* Tim Roth - Nick* Eric Stoltz - Sid...
  
  by Michael Steinberg
• Charlie and the Doctor by Ralph C. Parsons
• Desperate Remedies
  Desperate Remedies (film)
  Desperate Remedies is a 1993 New Zealand drama film directed by Stewart Main and Peter Wells. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival.-Plot:...
  
  by Stewart Main, Peter Wells
  Peter Wells (New Zealand)
  Peter Wells is an award-winning writer and filmmaker from New Zealand.Although today he is mainly known for his fiction, Peter Wells has explored his interest in gay and historical themes, in a number of expressive drama and documentary films since the 1980s.The first and last feature film made...
  
  
• El acto en cuestión
  The Act in Question
  The Act in Question is a 1994 Argentine film directed and written by Alejandro Agresti. The film starred Carlos Roffé and Sergio Poves Campos. The film was also released in the Netherlands and Portugal. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival.This movie...
  
  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....
  
  
• El Pajaro de la Felicidad
  The Bird of Happiness (film)
  The Bird of Happiness is a 1993 Spanish drama film directed by Pilar Miró. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Mercedes Sampietro - Carmen* Aitana Sánchez-Gijón - Nani* José Sacristán - Eduardo...
  
  by Pilar Miró
  Pilar Miró
  Pilar Miró was a Spanish screenwriter and film director.She directed TVE from 1986 to 1989, and in the 90's, the weddings of the daughters of King Juan Carlos I. In 1992, her film Beltenebros won the Silver Bear for an outstanding artistic contribution at the 42nd Berlin International Film...
  
  
• Excursion to the Bridge of Friendship by Christina Andreef
• François Truffaut: Portraits volés
  François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits
  François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits is a 1993 French documentary film directed by Michel Pascal and Serge Toubiana, about the film director François Truffaut...
  
  by Serge Toubiana, Michel Pascal
• Il grande cocomero
  The Great Pumpkin (film)
  The Great Pumpkin is a 1993 Italian drama film directed by Francesca Archibugi. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Sergio Castellitto - Arturo* Anna Galiena - Cinthya Diotallevi...
  
  by Francesca Archibugi
  Francesca Archibugi
  Francesca Archibugi is an award-winning Italian film director and scriptwriter.- Biography :Born and raised in Rome in an intellectual family , she started to study acting with Alessandro Fersen and graduated in Film Direction from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia Cinecittà...
  
  
• Latcho Drom
  Latcho Drom
  Latcho Drom is a 1993 French documentary film directed and written by Tony Gatlif . The movie is about the Romani people's journey from north-west India to Spain, consisting primarily of music...
  
  by Tony Gatlif
  Tony Gatlif
  Tony Gatlif is a French film director of Romani ethnicity who also works as a screenwriter, composer, actor, and producer.- Biography :...
  
  
• Les demoiselles ont eu 25 ans
  The Young Girls Turn 25
  The Young Girls Turn 25 is a 1993 French documentary film directed by Agnès Varda, about Jacques Demy's 1967 film The Young Girls of Rochefort...
  
  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....
  
  
• Mùi đu đủ xanh
  The Scent of Green Papaya
  The Scent of Green Papaya is a Vietnamese-language film produced in France by Lazennec Production, and directed by Vietnamese-French director Tran Anh Hung....
  
  by Tran Anh Hung
  Tran Anh Hung
  Trần Anh Hùng is a French film director of Vietnamese ancestry.He was born in Đà Nẵng, Central Vietnam, and emigrated to France when he was 12 following the fall of Saigon at the end of the Vietnam War in 1975....
  
  
• O Fim do Mundo
  The End of the World (1992 film)
  The End of the World is a 1992 Portuguese drama film directed by João Mário Grilo. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* José Viana - Augusto Henriques* Adelaide João - Conceição das Neves...
  
  by João Mário Grilo
  João Mário Grilo
  João Mário Lourenço Bagão Grilo is a Portuguese film director, author and professor, born in Figueira da Foz. He attended economics at the University of Coimbra but dropped out. In 1983, he graduated in sociology at Lisbon's ISCTE and in 1994 earned a Ph.D...
  
  
• Oktyabr by Abderrahmane Sissako
  Abderrahmane Sissako
  Abderrahmane Sissako is an award-winning film director and producer who has often worked in Mali and France. Sissako is, along with Ousmane Sembène, Souleymane Cissé, Idrissa Ouedraogo and Djibril Diop Mambety, one of the few filmmakers from Sub-Saharan Africa to reach a measure of international...
  
  
• Ohikkoshi
  Moving (1993 film)
  Moving is a 1993 Japanese drama film directed by Shinji Sōmai. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Kiichi Nakai* Junko Sakurada* Tsurube Shôfukutei* Mariko Sudo* Tomoko Tabata - Renko...
  
  by Shinji Sōmai
  Shinji Sōmai
  was a Japanese film director. He directed 13 films between 1980 and 2000. His film Ohikkoshi was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:* Tonda kappuru * Sērā-fuku to kikanjū...
  
  
• Predchuvstviye by Valeriu Jereghi
• Remote Control by Óskar Jónasson
  Óskar Jónasson
  Óskar Jónasson is an Icelandic film director and screenwriter. His film Remote Control was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival...
  
  
• Sonatine
  Sonatine
  is a 1993 Japanese film by Japanese filmmaker Takeshi Kitano. It won numerous awards and became one of Kitano's most successful and praised films, garnering him a sizable international fan base.-Plot:Kitano plays Murakawa, a Tokyo yakuza tiring of gangster life...
  
  by Takeshi Kitano
  Takeshi Kitano
  is a Japanese filmmaker, comedian, singer, actor, film editor, presenter, screenwriter, author, poet, painter, and one-time video game designer who has received critical acclaim, both in his native Japan and abroad, for his highly idiosyncratic cinematic work. The famed Japanese film critic...
  
  
• Stroke by Mark Sawers
• The Music of Chance
  The Music of Chance (film)
  The Music of Chance is a 1993 American drama film directed by Philip Haas. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival...
  
  by Philip Haas
  Philip Haas
  Philip Haas is an American artist and filmmaker. His exhibition of film installations at the Kimbell Art Museum, "Butchers, Dragons, Gods and Skeletons," was listed by TIME magazine as one of the top ten museum shows of 2009 Retrospectives of his art films have been held at the Tate Gallery in...
  
  
• The Wrong Man
  The Wrong Man (1993 film)
  The Wrong Man is a 1993 American thriller film directed by Jim McBride. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Rosanna Arquette - Missy Mills* Kevin Anderson - Alex Walker* John Lithgow - Phillip Mills...
  
  by Jim McBride
  Jim McBride
  Jim McBride is an American television and film director, film producer and screenwriter.-Filmography:* David Holzman's Diary * My Girlfriend's Wedding...
  
  
• Wendemi, l'enfant du bon Dieu by S. Pierre Yameogo
  S. Pierre Yameogo
  S. Pierre Yameogo is a Burkinabé film director and screenwriter. He has directed six films since 1987. His film Delwende was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Prize of Hope award....
  
  

Films out of competition

• Cliffhanger
  Cliffhanger (film)
  Cliffhanger is a 1993 American action film directed by Renny Harlin and starring Sylvester Stallone and John Lithgow. Stallone plays a mountain climber, who becomes embroiled in a failed heist set in a U.S. Treasury plane flying through the Rocky Mountains...
  
  by Renny Harlin
  Renny Harlin
  Renny Harlin is a Finnish-American film director and producer. He is best known for Die Hard 2 , Cliffhanger , The Long Kiss Goodnight and Deep Blue Sea...
  
  
• Mad Dog and Glory
  Mad Dog and Glory
  Mad Dog and Glory is a 1993 American comedy-drama film directed by John McNaughton and starring Robert De Niro, Uma Thurman and Bill Murray.-Plot:...
  
  by John McNaughton
  John McNaughton
  John McNaughton is an American film and television director, originally from Chicago, Illinois.-Biography:His first feature film, made in 1986, was Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, a film McNaughton directed, co-wrote, and co-produced. Numerous complications plagued the controversial film,...
  
  
• Madadayo
  Madadayo
  is a 1993 Japanese film. It is the thirtieth and final film to be completed by Akira Kurosawa. It was screened out of competition at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival.-Plot:...
  
  by Akira Kurosawa
  Akira Kurosawa
  was a Japanese film director, producer, screenwriter and editor. Regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema, Kurosawa directed 30 filmsIn 1946, Kurosawa co-directed, with Hideo Sekigawa and Kajiro Yamamoto, the feature Those Who Make Tomorrow ;...
  
  
• The Baby of Mâcon
  The Baby of Mâcon
  The Baby of Mâcon is a 1993 film written and directed by Peter Greenaway starring Ralph Fiennes, Julia Ormond and Philip Stone.-Plot:A town cursed with barren women and famine is saved by a miracle birth to an old, ugly woman: the Mother. Immediately afterwards, the old woman's Daughter claims to...
  
  by Peter Greenaway
  Peter Greenaway
  Peter Greenaway, CBE is a British film director. His films are noted for the distinct influence of Renaissance and Baroque painting, and Flemish painting in particular...
  
  
• Toxic Affair by Philomène Esposito

Short film competition

• Ævintýri á okkar tímum by Inga Lísa Middleton
• Coffee and Cigarettes III
  Coffee and Cigarettes
  Coffee and Cigarettes is the title of three short films and a 2003 feature film by independent director Jim Jarmusch. The 2003 film consists of 11 short stories which share coffee and cigarettes as a common thread, and includes the earlier three films....
  
  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:...
  
  
• De 4 jaargetijden by Maarten Koopman
• Le goût du fer by Rémi Bernard
• Lenny Minute 1: Lenny Meets the Giant Blue Sheila Doll by Glenn Standring
  Glenn Standring
  Glenn Standring is a New Zealand scriptwriter and movie director, working in the horror and fantasy genres.Standring studied film at the Ilam School of Fine Arts, and completed a first class honours degree in Archaeology from The University of Otago in Dunedin...
  
  
• Mama Said by Michael Costanza
  Mike Costanza
  Mike Costanza is an award winning filmmaker and writer/director. His short Mama Said screened at Sundance and in the prestigious Official Selection of films in Competition at The Cannes Film Festival....
  
  
• Me voy a escapar by Juan Carlos de Llaca
• Robokip by Rudolf Mestdagh
• The Singing Trophy by Grant Lahood
• Der Sortierer by Stephan Puchner

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...
  
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  • Ba wang bie ji by Chen Kaige
    Chen Kaige
    Chen Kaige is a Chinese film director and a leading figure of the fifth generation of Chinese cinema. His films are known for their visual flair and epic storytelling.-Early life:...
    
    
  • The Piano
    The Piano
    The Piano is a 1993 New Zealand drama film about a mute pianist and her daughter, set during the mid-19th century in a rainy, muddy frontier backwater on the west coast of New Zealand. The film was written and directed by Jane Campion, and stars Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill, and Anna Paquin...
    
    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...
    
    
• 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...
  
  : In weiter Ferne, so nah!
  Faraway, So Close!
  Faraway, So Close! is a 1993 film by German director Wim Wenders. The screenplay is by Wenders, Richard Reitinger and Ulrich Zieger. The film is a sequel to Wenders' 1987 film Wings of Desire. Actors Otto Sander and Bruno Ganz reprise their roles as angels visiting earth. The film also stars...
  
  by Wim Wenders
  Wim Wenders
  Ernst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders is a German film director, playwright, author, photographer and producer.-Early life:Wenders was born in Düsseldorf. He graduated from high school in Oberhausen in the Ruhr area. He then studied medicine and philosophy in Freiburg and Düsseldorf...
  
  
• 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....
  
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  • Raining Stones
    Raining Stones
    Raining Stones is a 1993 film directed by Ken Loach and starring Bruce Jones, Julie Brown, Ricky Tomlinson, Tom Hickey and Gemma Phoenix. It tells the story of a man who cannot afford to buy his daughter a First Communion dress, and makes disastrous choices in trying to raise the money...
    
    by Ken Loach
    Ken Loach
    Kenneth "Ken" Loach is a Palme D'Or winning English film and television director.He is known for his naturalistic, social realist directing style and for his socialist beliefs, which are evident in his film treatment of social issues such as homelessness , labour rights and child abuse at the...
    
    
  • Xi meng ren sheng
    The Puppetmaster (film)
    The Puppetmaster is a 1993 Taiwanese film directed by Hou Hsiao-Hsien. Based on the memoirs of Li Tian-lu, Taiwan’s most celebrated puppeteer, this story covers the years from Li’s birth in 1909 to the end of Japan’s fifty-year occupation of Taiwan in 1945.-Plot:It tells the story of Li Tian-lu...
    
    by Hou Hsiao-Hsien
    Hou Hsiao-Hsien
    Hou Hsiao-Hsien is an award-winning film director and a leading figure of Taiwan's New Wave cinema movement.-Biography:...
    
    
• 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:* * ....
  
  : David Thewlis
  David Thewlis
  David Thewlis is an English actor of stage and screen. His most commercially successful role to date has been that of Remus Lupin, in the Harry Potter film series...
  
   for Naked
  Naked (film)
  Naked is a 1993 British film directed by Mike Leigh. Before this film, Leigh was known for subtler comedic dissections of middle-class and working-class manners. Naked was more stark and brutal than his previous works...
  
  
• 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:* * ....
  
  : Holly Hunter
  Holly Hunter
  Holly Hunter is an American actress. Hunter starred in The Piano for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. She has also been nominated for Oscars for her roles in Broadcast News, The Firm, and Thirteen...
  
   for The Piano
  The Piano
  The Piano is a 1993 New Zealand drama film about a mute pianist and her daughter, set during the mid-19th century in a rainy, muddy frontier backwater on the west coast of New Zealand. The film was written and directed by Jane Campion, and stars Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill, and Anna Paquin...
  
  
• 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....
  
  : Mike Leigh
  Mike Leigh
  Michael "Mike" Leigh, OBE is a British writer and director of film and theatre. He studied theatre at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and studied further at the Camberwell School of Art and the Central School of Art and Design. He began as a theatre director and playwright in the mid 1960s...
  
   for Naked
  Naked (film)
  Naked is a 1993 British film directed by Mike Leigh. Before this film, Leigh was known for subtler comedic dissections of middle-class and working-class manners. Naked was more stark and brutal than his previous works...
  
  
• 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....
  
  : Coffee and Cigarettes
  Coffee and Cigarettes
  Coffee and Cigarettes is the title of three short films and a 2003 feature film by independent director Jim Jarmusch. The 2003 film consists of 11 short stories which share coffee and cigarettes as a common thread, and includes the earlier three films....
  
  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:...
  
  
• Technical Grand Prize: Mazeppa
  Mazeppa (film)
  Mazeppa is a 1993 French drama film directed by Bartabas. It was entered into the 1993 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Technical Grand Prize.-Cast:* Miguel Bosé - Gericault* Bartabas - Franconi* Brigitte Marty - Mouste...
  
  by Jean Gargonne, Vincent Arnardi
  Vincent Arnardi
  Vincent Arnardi is a French sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film Amélie. He has worked on over 200 films since 1978.-External links:...
  
   (For technical achievements in images and sound)
• Technical Grand Prize - Special Mention: The Singing Trophy by Grant Lahood (For technical achievements in images and sound)
• 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 ....
  
  : Mùi đu đủ xanh
  The Scent of Green Papaya
  The Scent of Green Papaya is a Vietnamese-language film produced in France by Lazennec Production, and directed by Vietnamese-French director Tran Anh Hung....
  
  by Tran Anh Hung
  Tran Anh Hung
  Trần Anh Hùng is a French film director of Vietnamese ancestry.He was born in Đà Nẵng, Central Vietnam, and emigrated to France when he was 12 following the fall of Saigon at the end of the Vietnam War in 1975....
  
  
• Golden Camera - Special Mention: Friends
  Friends (1993 film)
  Friends is a 1993 South African drama film directed by Elaine Proctor. It was entered into the 1993 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Caméra d'Or Special Distinction.-Cast:* Kerry Fox - Sophie* Dambisa Kente - Thoko* Michele Burgers - Aninka...
  
  by Elaine Proctor
  Elaine Proctor
  Elaine Proctor is a South African film director, screenwriter and actress. Her film Friends was entered into the 1993 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Caméra d'Or Special Distinction.-Filmography:* Sharpeville Spirit...
  
  
• 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...
  
   Award: Latcho Drom
  Latcho Drom
  Latcho Drom is a 1993 French documentary film directed and written by Tony Gatlif . The movie is about the Romani people's journey from north-west India to Spain, consisting primarily of music...
  
  by Tony Gatlif
  Tony Gatlif
  Tony Gatlif is a French film director of Romani ethnicity who also works as a screenwriter, composer, actor, and producer.- Biography :...
  
  
• Mercedes-Benz Award: Cronos
  Cronos (film)
  Cronos is a 1993 Mexican horror film written and directed by Guillermo del Toro, starring veteran Argentine actor Federico Luppi and American actor Ron Perlman, the first of several films on which del Toro, Luppi and Perlman have collaborated...
  
  by Guillermo del Toro
  Guillermo del Toro
  Guillermo del Toro is a Mexican director, producer, screenwriter, novelist and designer. He is mostly known for his acclaimed films, Blade II, Pan's Labyrinth and the Hellboy film franchise. He is a frequent collaborator with Ron Perlman, Federico Luppi and Doug Jones...
  
  
• Canal+ Award: The Debt by Bruno de Almeida
  Bruno de Almeida
  Bruno de Almeida was born in Paris in March 1965. Of Portuguese origins, he has lived between New York City and Lisbon since 1985.-Career:In 1993 his first film, The Debt, won the award for best short at the Cannes Film Festival Critic's Week and had a long run playing in 85 film festivals and...
  
  
• Kodak Short Film Award: L'Exposé by Ismaël Ferroukhi
  Ismaël Ferroukhi
  Ismaël Ferroukhi is a French-Moroccan film director.Ferroukhi was born in Kenitra. He gained exposure with his 1992 short film L'Exposé, which won the Kodak Prize at the 1993 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...
  
  :
  • Ba wang bie ji by Chen Kaige
    Chen Kaige
    Chen Kaige is a Chinese film director and a leading figure of the fifth generation of Chinese cinema. His films are known for their visual flair and epic storytelling.-Early life:...
    
    
  • Gyerekgyilkosságok by Ildikó Szabó
• 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...
  
  : Libera me
  Libera me (film)
  Libera me is a 1993 French experimental film directed by Alain Cavalier. It was entered into the 1993 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Louis Becker* Catherine Caron* Paul Chevillard* Annick Concha - Mother* Pierre Concha - Father* François Cristophe...
  
  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...
  
  
• Prize of the Ecumenical Jury - Special Mention: Il grande cocomero
  The Great Pumpkin (film)
  The Great Pumpkin is a 1993 Italian drama film directed by Francesca Archibugi. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Sergio Castellitto - Arturo* Anna Galiena - Cinthya Diotallevi...
  
  by Francesca Archibugi
  Francesca Archibugi
  Francesca Archibugi is an award-winning Italian film director and scriptwriter.- Biography :Born and raised in Rome in an intellectual family , she started to study acting with Alessandro Fersen and graduated in Film Direction from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia Cinecittà...
  
  
• Award of the Youth:
  • Foreign Film: La ardilla roja
    La ardilla roja
    The Red Squirrel is a 1993 drama film by the Spanish filmmaker Julio Médem, starring Emma Suárez and Nancho Novo.-Plot:Jota , a failed musician whose girlfriend has recently left him, is about to commit suicide by jumping off a bridge when a girl on a motorcycle, Sofía , crashes off it...
    
    by Julio Médem
    Julio Medem
    Julio Médem is a Spanish writer and film director.Medem was born in San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain and showed an interest in movies since childhood, when he would take his father's Super 8 camera and shoot at night, while nobody was paying attention...
    
    
  • French Film:
    • Moi Ivan, toi Abraham
      Me Ivan, You Abraham
      Me Ivan, You Abraham is a 1993 French-Belarus film written and directed by Yolande Zauberman. It won the Award of the Youth at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival and the Golden St...
      
      by Yolande Zauberman
      Yolande Zauberman
      - Filmography :*Classified People *Caste criminelle *Me Ivan, You Abraham *Clubbed to Death *La Guerre à Paris *Paradise now - Journal d'une femme en crise - External links :...
      
      
    • Mùi đu đủ xanh
      The Scent of Green Papaya
      The Scent of Green Papaya is a Vietnamese-language film produced in France by Lazennec Production, and directed by Vietnamese-French director Tran Anh Hung....
      
      by Tran Anh Hung
      Tran Anh Hung
      Trần Anh Hùng is a French film director of Vietnamese ancestry.He was born in Đà Nẵng, Central Vietnam, and emigrated to France when he was 12 following the fall of Saigon at the end of the Vietnam War in 1975....
      
      

External links

• 1993 Cannes Film Festival
• Cannes Film Festival:1993 at Internet Movie Database
  Internet Movie Database
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