1994 Cannes Film Festival
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The 1994 Cannes Film Festival
Cannes Film Festival
The Cannes International Film Festival , is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres including documentaries from around the world. Founded in 1946, it is among the world's most prestigious and publicized film festivals...

started on 12 May and ran until 23 May. The 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...

 went to the American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 film Pulp Fiction
Pulp Fiction (film)
Pulp Fiction is a 1994 American crime film directed by Quentin Tarantino, who co-wrote its screenplay with Roger Avary. The film is known for its rich, eclectic dialogue, ironic mix of humor and violence, nonlinear storyline, and host of cinematic allusions and pop culture references...

directed 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...

.

Official Selection

  • Clint Eastwood
    Clint Eastwood
    Clinton "Clint" Eastwood, Jr. is an American film actor, director, producer, composer and politician. Eastwood first came to prominence as a supporting cast member in the TV series Rawhide...

     (USA) (president)
  • Catherine Deneuve
    Catherine Deneuve
    Catherine Deneuve is a French actress. She gained recognition for her portrayal of aloof and mysterious beauties in films such as Repulsion and Belle de jour . Deneuve was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in 1993 for her performance in Indochine; she also won César Awards for that...

     (France) (vice president)
  • Pupi Avati
    Pupi Avati
    Giuseppe Avati, better known as Pupi Avati is an Italian film director, producer, and screenwriter.-Early life and career:...

     (Italy)
  • Guillermo Cabrera Infante
    Guillermo Cabrera Infante
    Guillermo Cabrera Infante was a Cuban novelist, essayist, translator, and critic; in the 1950s he used the pseudonym G. Caín.A one-time supporter of the Castro regime, Cabrera Infante went into exile to London in 1965...

     (Cuba) (author)
  • Kazuo Ishiguro
    Kazuo Ishiguro
    Kazuo Ishiguro OBE or ; born 8 November 1954) is a Japanese–English novelist. He was born in Nagasaki, Japan, and his family moved to England in 1960. Ishiguro obtained his Bachelor's degree from University of Kent in 1978 and his Master's from the University of East Anglia's creative writing...

     (U.K.)
  • Aleksandr Kajdanovsky (Russia)
  • Marie-Françoise Leclère (France)
  • Shin Sang-ok (South Korea)
  • Lalo Schifrin
    Lalo Schifrin
    Lalo Schifrin is an Argentine composer, pianist and conductor. He is best known for his film and TV scores, such as the "Theme from Mission: Impossible". He has received four Grammy Awards and six Oscar nominations...

     (Argentina)
  • Alain Terzian
    Alain Terzian
    Alain Terzian is a French-Armenian film producer, Administrator of Cannes Film Festival jury, President of Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma...

     (France)

Camera d'Or

  • Marthe Keller
    Marthe Keller
    Marthe Keller is a Swiss actress and opera director. She studied ballet as a child, but stopped after a skiing accident at age 16...

     (Switzerland) (president)
  • Hans Beerekamp
  • Josée Brossard (France)
  • Mario Dorminsky (Portugal)
  • An-Cha Flubacher Rhim
  • François Ode (France)
  • Georges Pansu
  • Jacques Zimmer (France)

Feature film competition

  • Barnabo delle montagne
    Barnabo of the Mountains
    Barnabo of the Mountains is a 1994 Italian drama film directed by Mario Brenta. It was entered into the 1994 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Marco Pauletti - Barnabo* Duilio Fontana - Berton* Carlo Caserotti - Molo* Antonio Vecelio - Marden...

    - Mario Brenta
    Mario Brenta
    Mario Brenta is an Italian film director and screenwriter. His film Barnabo delle montagne was entered into the 1994 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:* Vermisat * Istantanea per un delitto * Maicol...

  • The Browning Version
    The Browning Version (1994 film)
    The Browning Version is a 1994 film directed by Mike Figgis and starring Albert Finney. The film is based on the 1948 play by Terence Rattigan, which was previously adapted for film under the same name in 1951.-Plot:...

    - Mike Figgis
    Mike Figgis
    Michael "Mike" Figgis is an English film director, writer, and composer.-Personal life:Figgis was born in Carlisle, England and grew up in Africa. Figgis for several years had a relationship with the actress Saffron Burrows and cast her in several films...

  • Swaham
    Swaham
    Swaham is an award-winning feature film directed by Shaji N. Karun. The film is in Malayalam. It stars Aswani, Venumani Vishnu and Mullenezhi. The film's music is composed by Isaac Thomas Kottukapally and K. Raghavan. Swaham met with widespread critical acclaim upon release...

    - Shaji N. Karun
    Shaji N. Karun
    Shaji Neelakantan Karun is a National Award-winning Indian film director and cinematographer. His debut film Piravi won the Caméra d'Or - Mention d'honneur at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival...

  • Caro diario
    Caro diario
    Caro diario is an Italian language, semi-autobiographical film in the style of a documentary directed by Nanni Moretti in 1993. Moretti also played the central character.-Plot:...

    - Nanni Moretti
    Nanni Moretti
    Giovanni "Nanni" Moretti is an Italian film director, producer, screenwriter and actor.-Life and work:Moretti was born in Bruneck, South Tyrol , in 1953 to parents who were teachers...

  • Du li shi dai
    A Confucian Confusion
    A Confucian Confusion is a 1994 Taiwanese comedy film directed by Edward Yang. It was entered into the 1994 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Shiang-chyi Chen - Qiqi* Yiwen Chen - Liren* Danny Deng - Larry* Hung Hung - Molly's brother-in-law...

    - Edward Yang
    Edward Yang
    Edward Yang , along with Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Tsai Ming Liang, was one of the leading filmmakers of the Taiwanese New Wave and Taiwanese Cinema. He won the Best Director Award at Cannes for his 2000 film Yi Yi .-Biography:...

  • Exotica
    Exotica (film)
    Exotica is a 1994 Canadian film set primarily in and around the Exotica strip club in Toronto, Canada. It was written and directed by Atom Egoyan. Music used includes "Montagues and Capulets".-Synopsis:...

    - Atom Egoyan
    Atom Egoyan
    Atom Egoyan, OC is a critically acclaimed Armenian-Canadian stage director and film director. Egoyan made his career breakthrough with Exotica...

  • Grosse Fatigue
    Grosse Fatigue
    Grosse Fatigue is a 1994 French comedy film directed by Michel Blanc. It was entered into the 1994 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Michel Blanc - Michel Blanc / Patrick Olivier* Carole Bouquet - Carole Bouquet* Philippe Noiret - Philippe Noiret...

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

  • The Hudsucker Proxy
    The Hudsucker Proxy
    The Hudsucker Proxy is a 1994 screwball comedy film written, produced, and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. Sam Raimi co-wrote the script and served as second unit director....

    - Joel Coen
  • Huozhe - Zhang Yimou
    Zhang Yimou
    Zhang Yimou is a Chinese film director, producer, writer and actor, and former cinematographer. He is counted amongst the Fifth Generation of Chinese filmmakers, having made his directorial debut in 1987 with Red Sorghum....

  • Kurochka Ryaba
    Assia and the Hen with the Golden Eggs
    Assia and the Hen with the Golden Eggs is a 1994 Russian comedy film directed by Andrei Konchalovsky. It was entered into the 1994 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Inna Churikova - Asya* Viktor Mikhaylov - Vasili Nikitich* Aleksandr Surin - Stepan...

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

  • La reina de la noche
    The Queen of the Night
    The Queen of the Night is a 1994 Mexican drama film directed by Arturo Ripstein. It was entered into the 1994 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Patricia Reyes Spíndola - Lucha Reyes* Alberto Estrella - Pedro Calderón* Blanca Guerra - La Jaira...

    - Arturo Ripstein
    Arturo Ripstein
    Arturo Ripstein y Rosen is a Mexican film director.-Life and career:Ripstein got his break into movies working as an uncredited assistant director for Luis Buñuel. In 1965, he directed his first feature, Tiempo de Morir...

  • La Reine Margot - Patrice Chéreau
    Patrice Chéreau
    Patrice Chéreau is a French opera and theatre director, filmmaker, actor, and producer.-Biography:Patrice Chéreau was born in Lézigné, Maine-et-Loire, and went to school in Paris. At a young age he became well-known to Parisian critics as director, actor, and stage manager of his high-school theatre...

  • Le buttane
    The Whores
    The Whores is a 1994 Italian drama film directed by Aurelio Grimaldi. It was entered into the 1994 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Ida Di Benedetto - Orlanda* Guia Jelo - Liuccia Bonuccia* Lucia Sardo - Milu* Sandra Sindoni - Blu Blu...

    - Aurelio Grimaldi
    Aurelio Grimaldi
    Aurelio Grimaldi is an Italian film director and screenwriter. His film The Whores was entered into the 1994 Cannes Film Festival.-Selected filmography:* Ragazzi fuori * The Rebel * The Whores...

  • Le joueur de violon
    The Violin Player (film)
    The Violin Player is a 1994 French-Belgian drama film directed by Charles Van Damme. It was entered into the 1994 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Richard Berry - Armand* François Berléand - Charles* Bernard Ballet - Koehler* Valerie Da Motta...

    - Charles Van Damme
    Charles Van Damme
    Charles Van Damme is a Belgian cinematographer and film director. He has worked on 40 films since 1973. His film The Violin Player was entered into the 1994 Cannes Film Festival.-Selected filmography:* A Strange Place to Meet...

  • Les patriotes - Éric Rochant
    Éric Rochant
    Éric Rochant, born February 24, 1961, is a French film director and a screenwriter.- Filmography :* 1984 - Comme les doigts de la main* 1985 - French Lovers* 1987 - Présence féminine* 1989 - Un monde sans pitié...

  • Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
    Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
    Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle is a 1994 film scripted by writer/director Alan Rudolph and former Washington Star reporter Randy Sue Coburn...

    - Alan Rudolph
  • Neak sre
    Rice People
    Rice People is a 1994 Cambodian drama film directed and co-written by Rithy Panh. Adapted from the 1966 novel Ranjau Sepanjang Jalan , by Malaysian author Shahnon Ahmad, which is set in the Malaysian state of Kedah, Rice People is the story of a rural family in post-Khmer Rouge Cambodia,...

    - Rithy Panh
    Rithy Panh
    Rithy Panh is an internationally and critically acclaimed Cambodian documentary film director and screenwriter.The French-schooled director's films focus on the aftermath of the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia...

  • Pulp Fiction
    Pulp Fiction (film)
    Pulp Fiction is a 1994 American crime film directed by Quentin Tarantino, who co-wrote its screenplay with Roger Avary. The film is known for its rich, eclectic dialogue, ironic mix of humor and violence, nonlinear storyline, and host of cinematic allusions and pop culture references...

    - 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...

  • Trois couleurs: Rouge
    Three Colours: Red
    Three Colors: Red is a 1994 film co-written, produced, and directed by Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kieślowski. It is the final film of The Three Colors Trilogy, which examines the French Revolutionary ideals; it is preceded by Blue and White. Kieślowski had announced that this would be his final...

    - Krzysztof Kieślowski
    Krzysztof Kieslowski
    Krzysztof Kieślowski was an Academy Award nominated influential Polish film director and screenwriter, known internationally for The Double Life of Veronique and his film cycles The Decalogue and Three Colors.-Early life:...

  • Un été inoubliable
    An Unforgettable Summer
    An Unforgettable Summer is a 1994 drama film directed and produced by Lucian Pintilie. A Romanian-French co-production based on a novel by Petru Dumitriu, it stars British actress Kristin Scott Thomas as the Hungarian-born aristocrat Marie-Thérèse Von Debretsy...

    - 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...

  • Una pura formalità
    A Pure Formality
    A Pure Formality is a 1994 thriller film directed and written by Giuseppe Tornatore. It stars Gérard Depardieu as a reclusive writer and Roman Polanski as a police detective.-Plot summary:...

    - Giuseppe Tornatore
    Giuseppe Tornatore
    -Life and career:Born in Bagheria near Palermo, Tornatore developed an interest in acting and the theatre from at least the age of 16 and put on works by Luigi Pirandello and Eduardo De Filippo.He worked initially as a freelance photographer...

  • Utomlyonnye solntsem
    Burnt by the Sun
    Burnt by the Sun is a 1994 film by Russian director and actor Nikita Mikhalkov. The film depicts the story of a senior Red Army officer and his family during the Great Purge of the late 1930s in the Stalinist Soviet Union...

    - Nikita Mikhalkov
    Nikita Mikhalkov
    Nikita Sergeyevich Mikhalkov is a Soviet and Russian filmmaker, actor, and head of the Russian Cinematographers' Union.Mikhalkov was born in Moscow into the distinguished, artistic Mikhalkov family. His great grandfather was the imperial governor of Yaroslavl, whose mother was a Galitzine princess...

  • Zire darakhatan zeyton
    Through the Olive Trees
    Through the Olive Trees is a 1994 film directed and written by Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami, set in earthquake-ravaged Northern Iran....

    - 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...


Un Certain Regard

  • Bab El-Oued City
    Bab El-Oued City
    Bab El-Oued City is a 1994 Algerian drama film directed by Merzak Allouache. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the FIPRESCI Award.-Cast:* Nadia Kaci - Yamina* Mohamed Ourdache - Said...

    by Merzak Allouache
    Merzak Allouache
    Merzak Allouache is an Algerian film director and screenwriter. He has directed 16 films since 1976. His 1996 film Salut cousin! was submitted to the 69th Academy Awards in the category for Best Foreign Language Film....

  • Bosna! by Bernard-Henri Lévy
    Bernard-Henri Lévy
    Bernard-Henri Lévy is a French public intellectual, philosopher and journalist. Often referred to today, in France, simply as BHL, he was one of the leaders of the "Nouveaux Philosophes" movement in 1976.-Early life:...

    , Alain Ferrari
  • Casa de Lava by Pedro Costa
    Pedro Costa
    Pedro Costa is a Portuguese film director.He is acclaimed for using his ascetic style to depict the marginalised people in desperate living situations...

  • Clean, Shaven
    Clean, Shaven
    Clean, Shaven is a 1994 film directed by Lodge Kerrigan, in which Peter Winter is a schizophrenic man desperately trying to get his daughter back from her adoptive mother...

    by Lodge Kerrigan
    Lodge Kerrigan
    Lodge Kerrigan is an American motion picture screenwriter and director. His 2010 film Rebecca H. entered into the Un Certain Regard section of the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:* Clean, Shaven...

  • Drømspel
    Dreamplay
    Dreamplay is a 1994 Norwegian drama film directed by Unni Straume. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Ingvild Holm - Agnes* Bjørn Willberg Andersen - Lawyer* Bjørn Sundquist - Poet...

    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...

  • Faust
    Faust (1994 film)
    Faust is a 1994 Czech film directed by Jan Švankmajer. It merges live-action footage with stop-motion footage and includes imaginative puppetry and claymation. The Faust character is played by Petr Čepek. The film was produced by Jaromír Kallista...

    by Jan Švankmajer
    Jan Švankmajer
    Jan Švankmajer is a Czech filmmaker and artist whose work spans several media. He is a self-labeled surrealist known for his surreal animations and features, which have greatly influenced other artists such as Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam, the Brothers Quay, and many others.- Life and career :Jan...

  • I Like It Like That by Darnell Martin
    Darnell Martin
    Darnell Martin is a television and film director, screenwriter, and film producer.-Early life:Martin was born in Bronx, New York. From the Bronx, she went on to Sarah Lawrence College and New York University Film School...

  • Il sogno della farfalla
    The Butterfly's Dream
    The Butterfly's Dream is a 1994 Italian drama film directed by Marco Bellocchio. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Thierry Blanc - Massimo* Simona Cavallari - La ragazzina...

    by Marco Bellocchio
  • J'ai pas sommeil
    I Can't Sleep (film)
    I Can't Sleep is a 1994 French drama film written and directed by Claire Denis. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Yekaterina Golubeva as Daiga* Richard Courcet as Camille...

    by Claire Denis
    Claire Denis
    Claire Denis is a French film director and Professor of Film at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland.-Early life:...

  • Jancio Wodnik
    Johnnie Waterman
    Johnnie Waterman is a 1994 Polish drama film directed by Jan Jakub Kolski. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Franciszek Pieczka - Jancio Wodnik* Grażyna Błęcka-Kolska - Weronka...

    by Jan Jakub Kolski
    Jan Jakub Kolski
    Jan Jakub Kolski is a Polish film director, cinematographer, and writer.-Early life and career:Kolski comes from a family closely connected to cinema. His father, Roman Kolski, and his sister, Ewa Pakulska were film editors. His brother, Włodzimierz Kolski, is a production manager. His paternal...

  • L'eau froide
    Cold Water (film)
    Cold Water is a 1994 French film written and directed by Olivier Assayas. It is about two troubled teenagers in France during the early 1970s...

    by Olivier Assayas
    Olivier Assayas
    Olivier Assayas is a French film director and screenwriter.He made his debut in 1986, after directing some short films and writing for the influential film magazine Cahiers du cinéma.-Career:...

  • Les Roseaux sauvages 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....

  • Los náufragos
    The Shipwrecked
    The Shipwrecked is a 1994 Chilean drama film directed by Miguel Littín. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Luis Alarcón - Sebastian Mola* Bastián Bodenhöfer - Ur* Tennyson Ferrada - Rene...

    by Miguel Littín
    Miguel Littin
    Miguel Ernesto Littín Cucumides is a Chilean film director, screenwriter, film producer and novelist. He was born to a Palestinian father, Hernán Littin and a Greek mother, Cristina Cucumides....

  • Picture Bride
    Picture Bride (film)
    Picture Bride is a 1995 feature-length independent film directed by Kayo Hatta from a screenplay she co-wrote with Mari Hatta, and co-produced by Diane Mei Lin Mark and Lisa Onodera. It follows Riyo, who arrives in Hawaii as a "picture bride" for a man she has never met before. The story is based...

    by Kayo Hatta
    Kayo Hatta
    Kayo Hatta was an Asian American filmmaker, writer, and community activist. She directed and co-wrote the independent dramatic feature-length film Picture Bride, which won the Sundance Film Festival Audience Award in 1995 for Best Dramatic Film.-Early Life:Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Hatta grew up...

  • Sin compasión
    Without Compassion
    Without Compassion is a 1994 Peruvian drama film directed by Francisco José Lombardi, and based on Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky...

    by Francisco José Lombardi
    Francisco José Lombardi
    Francisco José Lombardi is a Peruvian film director, producer and screenwriter. He has directed 17 films since 1977. He received the Silver Shell for Best Director in 1985 for his film The Time of the Hero based on the novel La ciudad y los perros by Mario Vargas Llosa...

  • Sleep with Me
    Sleep with Me
    Sleep With Me is a 1994 film starring Meg Tilly, Eric Stoltz and Craig Sheffer who play good friends who become involved in a love triangle, a relationship complicated by the marriage of Tilly's and Stoltz'es characters...

    by Rory Kelly
    Rory Kelly
    Rory Kelly is an Irish football goalkeeper, currently playing for Derry City in the League of Ireland Premier Division. Born August 7, 1991, he is product of Buncrana Hearts's youth system...

  • Suture
    Suture (film)
    Suture is a 1993 neo-noir film directed by Scott McGehee and David Siegel and stars Dennis Haysbert and Mel Harris. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival.-Plot:...

    by David Siegel
    David Siegel
    David Siegel is an American motion picture screenwriter and director, and part of a long-standing writing-directing team with filmmaker Scott McGehee.-Filmography:*Suture *The Deep End *Bee Season *Uncertainty...

    , Scott McGehee
    Scott McGehee
    Scott McGehee is an American film director and screenwriter. He is a Columbia University graduate, born in California, but currently residing in New York City.He is half of a long-standing writing-directing partnership with filmmaker David Siegel....

  • The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
    The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
    The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert is a 1994 Australian comedy-drama film written and directed by Stephan Elliott. The plot is based on the journey of three drag queens who travel across the Australian Outback from Sydney to Alice Springs in a tour bus that they have named...

    by 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....

  • Uttoran
    The Broken Journey
    The Broken Journey is a 1994 Bengali drama film directed by Sandip Ray. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Lily Chakravarty* Soumitra Chatterjee - Dr. Sengupta* Debatosh Ghosh - Haladhar...

    by Sandip Ray
    Sandip Ray
    Sandip Ray is a film director living in the city of Kolkata, West Bengal, India. He is the only son of the noted Bengali director Satyajit Ray, and Bijoya Ray.-Career:...

  • Xime by Sana Na N'Hada
  • Xinghua san yue tian by Li Yin

Films out of competition

  • A Game with No Rules by Scott Reynolds
  • Eau de la vie by Simon Baré
  • I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry by Michael Hurst
    Michael Hurst
    Michael Eric Hurst, ONZM is a New Zealand actor, director and writer, mostly on stage and television. He is probably best known internationally for playing Iolaus in the television programs Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and companion series Xena: Warrior Princess...

  • Montand by Jean Labib
  • Serial Mom
    Serial Mom
    Serial Mom is a 1994 American dark satire written and directed by John Waters, starring Kathleen Turner as the title character, Sam Waterston as her husband, and Ricki Lake and Matthew Lillard as her children. Despite statements to the contrary in the movie, the story is completely fictional...

    by John Waters
    John Waters (filmmaker)
    John Samuel Waters, Jr. is an American filmmaker, actor, stand-up comedian, writer, journalist, visual artist, and art collector, who rose to fame in the early 1970s for his transgressive cult films...

  • Stroke by Christine Jeffs
    Christine Jeffs
    Christine Jeffs is a New Zealand-born film director known for directing the British motion picture Sylvia, starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Daniel Craig, and the American independent film Sunshine Cleaning , with Amy Adams and Emily Blunt....

  • The Dig by Neil Pardington
  • The Dutch Master by Susan Seidelman
    Susan Seidelman
    Susan Seidelman is an American director, producer, writer, and actress.-Career:Susan Seidelman belongs to the first wave of female independent film makers in the American cinema of the 1980s. She graduated Abington Senior High School in 1969 , and went on to study fashion and arts at Drexel...

  • The Model by Jonathan Brough
  • Jeungbal by Shin Sang-ok
  • Wet
    Tales of Erotica
    - Shorts featured :* The Dutch Master *The Insatiable Mrs. Kirsch *Vroom Vroom Vroom *Wet...

    by Bob Rafelson
    Bob Rafelson
    Robert "Bob" Rafelson is an Emmy Award winning American film director, writer and producer. He was an early member of the New Hollywood movement in the 1970s and is most famous for directing and co-writing the film Five Easy Pieces, starring Jack Nicholson, as well as being one of the creators of...


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...

    : Pulp Fiction
    Pulp Fiction (film)
    Pulp Fiction is a 1994 American crime film directed by Quentin Tarantino, who co-wrote its screenplay with Roger Avary. The film is known for its rich, eclectic dialogue, ironic mix of humor and violence, nonlinear storyline, and host of cinematic allusions and pop culture references...

    - 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...

  • 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...

    :
    • Huozhe - Zhang Yimou
      Zhang Yimou
      Zhang Yimou is a Chinese film director, producer, writer and actor, and former cinematographer. He is counted amongst the Fifth Generation of Chinese filmmakers, having made his directorial debut in 1987 with Red Sorghum....

    • Utomlyonnye solntsem
      Burnt by the Sun
      Burnt by the Sun is a 1994 film by Russian director and actor Nikita Mikhalkov. The film depicts the story of a senior Red Army officer and his family during the Great Purge of the late 1930s in the Stalinist Soviet Union...

      - Nikita Mikhalkov
      Nikita Mikhalkov
      Nikita Sergeyevich Mikhalkov is a Soviet and Russian filmmaker, actor, and head of the Russian Cinematographers' Union.Mikhalkov was born in Moscow into the distinguished, artistic Mikhalkov family. His great grandfather was the imperial governor of Yaroslavl, whose mother was a Galitzine princess...

  • 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....

    : La Reine Margot - Patrice Chéreau
    Patrice Chéreau
    Patrice Chéreau is a French opera and theatre director, filmmaker, actor, and producer.-Biography:Patrice Chéreau was born in Lézigné, Maine-et-Loire, and went to school in Paris. At a young age he became well-known to Parisian critics as director, actor, and stage manager of his high-school theatre...

  • 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:* * ....

    : You Ge for Huozhe - Zhang Yimou
    Zhang Yimou
    Zhang Yimou is a Chinese film director, producer, writer and actor, and former cinematographer. He is counted amongst the Fifth Generation of Chinese filmmakers, having made his directorial debut in 1987 with Red Sorghum....

  • 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:* * ....

    : Virna Lisi
    Virna Lisi
    Virna Lisi is a Cannes and César award-winning Italian film actress. She was born in Ancona, Marche, as Virna Lisa Pieralisi.-Early career:...

     for La Reine Margot
  • 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....

    : Nanni Moretti
    Nanni Moretti
    Giovanni "Nanni" Moretti is an Italian film director, producer, screenwriter and actor.-Life and work:Moretti was born in Bruneck, South Tyrol , in 1953 to parents who were teachers...

     for Caro diario
    Caro diario
    Caro diario is an Italian language, semi-autobiographical film in the style of a documentary directed by Nanni Moretti in 1993. Moretti also played the central character.-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....

    : El héroe by Carlos Carrera
    Carlos Carrera
    Carlos Carrera is a Mexican film director and screenwriter. He directed El crimen del Padre Amaro , which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film....

  • Best Screenplay
    Best Screenplay Award (Cannes Film Festival)
    The Best Screenplay 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...

    : Grosse Fatigue
    Grosse Fatigue
    Grosse Fatigue is a 1994 French comedy film directed by Michel Blanc. It was entered into the 1994 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Michel Blanc - Michel Blanc / Patrick Olivier* Carole Bouquet - Carole Bouquet* Philippe Noiret - Philippe Noiret...

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

  • Technical Grand Prize: Grosse Fatigue
    Grosse Fatigue
    Grosse Fatigue is a 1994 French comedy film directed by Michel Blanc. It was entered into the 1994 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Michel Blanc - Michel Blanc / Patrick Olivier* Carole Bouquet - Carole Bouquet* Philippe Noiret - Philippe Noiret...

    by Pitof
    Pitof
    Jean-Christophe "Pitof" Comar is a French visual effects supervisor and director notable for Vidocq and Catwoman.-Career:...

     (For the special effects)
  • 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 ....

    : Petits arrangements avec les morts by Pascale Ferran
  • Golden Camera - Special Mention: Samt el qusur by Moufida Tlatli
    Moufida Tlatli
    Moufida Tlatli is a Tunisian film director. She was the first Arab woman to direct a full featured-film in the Arab World.- Biography :She was born in Sidi Bou Saïd suburb of the capital Tunis in 1947...

  • Mercedes-Benz Award: Clerks
    Clerks
    Clerks is a 1994 independent comedy film written and directed by Kevin Smith, who also appears in the film as Silent Bob. Starring Brian O'Halloran as Dante Hicks and Jeff Anderson as Randal Graves, it presents a day in the lives of two store clerks and their acquaintances...

    by Kevin Smith
    Kevin Smith
    Kevin Patrick Smith is an American screenwriter, actor, film producer, and director, as well as a popular comic book writer, author, comedian/raconteur, and internet radio personality best recognized by viewers as Silent Bob...

  • Canal+ Award: Performance Anxiety by David Ewing
  • Kodak Short Film Award: Éternelles by Erick Zonca
    Erick Zonca
    Erick Zonca is a French film director, best known for his critically acclaimed, award-winning 1998 feature film debut The Dreamlife of Angels. The film won the Best Actress award at the 1998 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...

    :
    • Bab El-Oued City
      Bab El-Oued City
      Bab El-Oued City is a 1994 Algerian drama film directed by Merzak Allouache. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the FIPRESCI Award.-Cast:* Nadia Kaci - Yamina* Mohamed Ourdache - Said...

      by Merzak Allouache
      Merzak Allouache
      Merzak Allouache is an Algerian film director and screenwriter. He has directed 16 films since 1976. His 1996 film Salut cousin! was submitted to the 69th Academy Awards in the category for Best Foreign Language Film....

    • Exotica
      Exotica (film)
      Exotica is a 1994 Canadian film set primarily in and around the Exotica strip club in Toronto, Canada. It was written and directed by Atom Egoyan. Music used includes "Montagues and Capulets".-Synopsis:...

      - Atom Egoyan
      Atom Egoyan
      Atom Egoyan, OC is a critically acclaimed Armenian-Canadian stage director and film director. Egoyan made his career breakthrough with Exotica...

  • 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...

    :
    • Huozhe - Zhang Yimou
      Zhang Yimou
      Zhang Yimou is a Chinese film director, producer, writer and actor, and former cinematographer. He is counted amongst the Fifth Generation of Chinese filmmakers, having made his directorial debut in 1987 with Red Sorghum....

    • Utomlyonnye solntsem
      Burnt by the Sun
      Burnt by the Sun is a 1994 film by Russian director and actor Nikita Mikhalkov. The film depicts the story of a senior Red Army officer and his family during the Great Purge of the late 1930s in the Stalinist Soviet Union...

      - Nikita Mikhalkov
      Nikita Mikhalkov
      Nikita Sergeyevich Mikhalkov is a Soviet and Russian filmmaker, actor, and head of the Russian Cinematographers' Union.Mikhalkov was born in Moscow into the distinguished, artistic Mikhalkov family. His great grandfather was the imperial governor of Yaroslavl, whose mother was a Galitzine princess...

  • Award of the Youth:
    • Foreign Film: Clerks
      Clerks
      Clerks is a 1994 independent comedy film written and directed by Kevin Smith, who also appears in the film as Silent Bob. Starring Brian O'Halloran as Dante Hicks and Jeff Anderson as Randal Graves, it presents a day in the lives of two store clerks and their acquaintances...

      by Kevin Smith
      Kevin Smith
      Kevin Patrick Smith is an American screenwriter, actor, film producer, and director, as well as a popular comic book writer, author, comedian/raconteur, and internet radio personality best recognized by viewers as Silent Bob...

    • French Film: Happy, Too Happy
      Trop de bonheur
      Trop de bonheur is a 1994 French comedy drama film directed by Cédric Kahn who co-wrote screenplay with Ismaël Ferroukhi....

      by Cédric Kahn
      Cédric Kahn
      Cédric Kahn is a French screenwriter and film director. His films include L'Ennui , from the Alberto Moravia novel Boredom and Red Lights , from the Georges Simenon novel...


External links

  • 1994 Cannes Film Festival
  • Cannes Film Festival:1994 at Internet Movie Database
    Internet Movie Database
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