Jury

• Martin Scorsese
  Martin Scorsese
  Martin Charles Scorsese is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film historian. In 1990 he founded The Film Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to film preservation, and in 2007 he founded the World Cinema Foundation...
  
   (USA) (president)
• Alain Corneau
  Alain Corneau
  Alain Corneau was a French film director and writer.Corneau was born in Meung-sur-Loire, Loiret. Originally a musician, he worked with Costa-Gavras as an assistant, which was also his first opportunity to work with the actor Yves Montand, with whom he would collaborate three times later in his...
  
   (France)
• Chiara Mastroianni
  Chiara Mastroianni
  Chiara Charlotte Mastroianni is a French actress and singer.-Biography:Mastroianni was born in Paris, the daughter of Catherine Deneuve and Marcello Mastroianni. Her elder half-brother is Christian Vadim; her elder half-sister is Barbara Mastroianni.She had relationships with the actors Benicio...
  
   (France)
• 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:...
  
   (China)
• Lena Olin
  Lena Olin
  Lena Maria Jonna Olin is a Swedish actress.-Early life:Olin was born the youngest of three children, in Stockholm, Sweden. She is the daughter of actress Britta Holmberg and the director Stig Olin...
  
   (Sweden)
• MC Solaar
  MC Solaar
  MC Solaar is a francophone hip hop and rap artist. He is one of the most internationally popular and influential French rappers....
  
   (France)
• Michael Winterbottom
  Michael Winterbottom
  Michael Winterbottom is a prolific English filmmaker who has directed seventeen feature films in the past fifteen years. He began his career working in British television before moving into features...
  
   (England)
• Sigourney Weaver
  Sigourney Weaver
  Sigourney Weaver is an American actress. She is best known for her critically acclaimed role of Ellen Ripley in the four Alien films: Alien, Aliens, Alien 3 and Alien Resurrection, for which she has received worldwide recognition .Other notable roles include Dana...
  
   (USA)
• Winona Ryder
  Winona Ryder
  Winona Ryder is an American actress. She made her film debut in the 1986 film Lucas. Ryder's first significant role came in Tim Burton's Beetlejuice as a goth teenager, which won her critical and commercial recognition...
  
   (USA)
• Zoe Valdes
  Zoé Valdés
  Zoé Valdés is a Cuban writer.She studied in the Instituto Superior Pedagógico Enrique José Varona, but never graduated. From 1984 to 1988, she worked at the Delegación de Cuba in UNESCO in Paris, and in the Oficina Cultural de la Misión de Cuba in Paris. From 1990 to 1995, she was an editor of the...
  
   (Cuba)

Feature film competition

• Aprile by 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...
  
  
• Ceux qui m'aiment prendront le train
  Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train
  Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train is a 1998 French drama film directed by Patrice Chéreau and written by himself, Danièle Thompson and Pierre Trividic...
  
  by 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...
  
  
• Claire Dolan
  Claire Dolan
  Claire Dolan is a 1998 American-French drama film directed by Lodge Kerrigan. It was entered into the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.-Plot:Claire Dolan is an Irish immigrant working as a high-priced call girl in New York City; she doesn't enjoy the profession at all, but owes her pimp, Roland, a great...
  
  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...
  
  
• Corazón iluminado
  Foolish Heart (1998 film)
  Foolish Heart is an Argentine, Brazilian, and French drama film released in 1998 and directed by Héctor Babenco. The screenplay was written by Babenco and Ricardo Piglia. The film stars Miguel Ángel Solá, Maria Luísa Mendonça, and others....
  
  by Héctor Babenco
  Hector Babenco
  Héctor Eduardo Babenco is an Argentine-born Brazilian film director, screenwriter, producer and actor.He has worked in several countries including Argentina, Brazil and the United States....
  
  
• Dance Me to My Song
  Dance Me to My Song
  Dance Me to My Song is a 1998 Australian drama film directed by Rolf de Heer. It was entered into the 1998 Cannes Film Festival. The film grossed $175,138 at the box office in Australia.-Cast:* John Brumpton - Eddie* Danny Cowles - Joe...
  
  by Rolf de Heer
  Rolf de Heer
  Rolf de Heer is a Dutch film director, writer and producer living in Australia. De Heer was born in Heemskerk in The Netherlands but migrated to Sydney when he was eight years old. He attended the Australian Film Television and Radio School in Sydney. His company is called Vertigo Productions and...
  
  
• Dong
  The Hole (1998 film)
  The Hole is a 1998 drama-musical film directed by Tsai Ming-liang. It stars Yang Kuei-Mei and Lee Kang-sheng.-Plot:A strange disease hits Taiwan just before the turn of the new millennium...
  
  by Tsai Ming-liang
  Tsai Ming-liang
  Tsai Ming-liang is one of the most celebrated "Second New Wave" film directors of Taiwanese Cinema, along with earlier contemporaries such as Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Edward Yang...
  
  
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
  Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (film)
  Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a 1998 American drama film directed by Terry Gilliam, starring Johnny Depp as Raoul Duke and Benicio del Toro as Dr. Gonzo. It was adapted from Hunter S. Thompson's 1971 novel of the same name....
  
  by Terry Gilliam
  Terry Gilliam
  Terrence Vance "Terry" Gilliam is an American-born British screenwriter, film director, animator, actor and member of the Monty Python comedy troupe. Gilliam is also known for directing several films, including Brazil , The Adventures of Baron Munchausen , The Fisher King , and 12 Monkeys...
  
  
• Festen
  The Celebration
  The Celebration is a 1998 Danish film, produced by Nimbus Film and directed by Thomas Vinterberg. Its original Danish title is Festen , and it was released under this title in the UK....
  
  by Thomas Vinterberg
  Thomas Vinterberg
  Thomas Vinterberg is a Danish film director who, along with Lars von Trier, co-founded the Dogme 95 movement in filmmaking, which established rules for simplifying movie production....
  
  
• Hai shang hua
  Flowers of Shanghai
  Flowers of Shanghai is a 1998 film, made in Taiwan, directed by Guangdong-born Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien starring Hada Michiko, Annie Shizuka Inoh, Shuan Fang, Jack Kao, Carina Lau, Tony Leung, Rebecca Pan, Michelle Reis and Vicky Wei...
  
  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:...
  
  
• Henry Fool
  Henry Fool
  Henry Fool is a 1997 American seriocomic film written, produced and directed by Hal Hartley, featuring Thomas Jay Ryan, James Urbaniak, and Parker Posey. As in The Unbelievable Truth, an earlier Hartley film, expectation and reality again conflict....
  
  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...
  
  
• Idioterne
  The Idiots
  The Idiots is a 1998 Danish film directed by Lars von Trier. It is his first film made in compliance with the Dogme '95 Manifesto, and is also known as Dogme #2...
  
  by Lars von Trier
  Lars von Trier
  Lars von Trier is a Danish film director and screenwriter. He is closely associated with the Dogme 95 collective, although his own films have taken a variety of different approaches, and have frequently received strongly divided critical opinion....
  
  
• Illuminata
  Illuminata (film)
  Illuminata is a 1998 romantic comedy film directed by John Turturro and written by Brandon Cole and John Turturro, based on Cole's play. The cinematographer was Harris Savides...
  
  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...
  
  
• Khrustalyov, mashinu!
  Khrustalyov, My Car!
  Khrustalyov, My Car! is a 1998 Russian drama film directed by Aleksei German based on a story by Joseph Brodsky, screenplay by Svetlana Karmalita. It was produced by Canal+, CNC, Goskino, Lenfilm and VGTRK.-Plot summary:...
  
  by Aleksei German
• L'école de la chair
  The School of Flesh
  The School of Flesh is a 1998 French drama film directed by Benoît Jacquot. It was entered into the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Isabelle Huppert - Dominique* Vincent Martinez - Quentin* Vincent Lindon - Chris* Marthe Keller - Madame Thorpe...
  
  by Benoît Jacquot
  Benoît Jacquot
  Benoît Jacquot is a French film director who has had a varied career in European cinema.Born in Paris, he began his career as assistant director of Marguerite Duras films including Nathalie Granger, India Song and also actor in the 1973 short film La Sœur du cadre.He turned to writing and...
  
  
• La classe de neige
  Class Trip
  Class Trip is a 1998 French film. Its original French title is La Classe de neige, which is the name given to class trips in the snow. It tells the story of a young boy on a school skiing trip who suffers anxiety attacks that bring on disturbing nightmares.-Synopsis:The story begins with Nicolas at...
  
  by Claude Miller
  Claude Miller
  Claude Miller is a French film director, producer and screenwriter.-Career:Claude Miller was born to a Jewish family. A student at Paris' IDHEC film school from 1962 through 1963, Miller had his first practical cinematic experience while he was in uniform, serving with the Service Cinéma de l'Armée...
  
  
• La vendedora de rosas
  La Vendedora De Rosas
  La vendedora de rosas is a 1998 Colombian film directed by Victor Gaviria. It's an independent film about drugs in Colombia, poverty and the difficult life young children have to suffer in Medellín. The film is based on the fairy tale The Little Match Girl of Hans Christian Andersen...
  
  by Víctor Gaviria
  Victor Gaviria
  Victor Gaviria is a film director best known for his treatment of street life in his native Medellín.- Feature-length films :*Rodrigo D: No Future, 1990...
  
  
• La vie rêvée des anges
  The Dreamlife of Angels
  The Dreamlife of Angels is a 1998 French drama film directed by Erick Zonca.-Story:The film is about two working class women, Isa and Marie. Isa is a drifter and searching for a lover she had met during the summer. When she realizes that her search for him is futile and turns elsewhere she meets...
  
  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....
  
  
• La vita è bella
  Life Is Beautiful
  Life Is Beautiful is a 1997 Italian film which tells the story of a Jewish Italian, Guido Orefice , who must employ his fertile imagination to help his family during their internment in a Nazi concentration camp.At the 71st Academy Awards in 1999, Benigni won the Academy Award for Best Actor and...
  
  by Roberto Benigni
  Roberto Benigni
  Roberto Remigio Benigni, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI is an Italian actor, comedian, screenwriter and director of film, theatre and television.- Early years :...
  
  
• Mia aioniotita kai mia mera
  Eternity and a Day
  Eternity and a Day is a 1998 Greek film starring Bruno Ganz, and directed by Theo Angelopoulos. The film won the Palme d'Or and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.-Plot:...
  
  by Theodoros Angelopoulos
• My Name Is Joe
  My Name Is Joe
  My Name Is Joe is a 1998 Scottish film directed by Ken Loach. The film stars Peter Mullan as Joe Kavanagh, an unemployed recovering alcoholic in Glasgow who meets and falls in love with a health visitor. David McKay plays his troubled friend Liam...
  
  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...
  
  
• The General
  The General (1998 film)
  The General is a British-Irish crime film directed by John Boorman about Dublin crime boss Martin Cahill, who pulled off several daring heists in the early 1980s, and attracted the attention of the Gardaí, PIRA, and UVF. The film was shot in 1997 and released in 1998...
  
  by 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,...
  
  
• Velvet Goldmine
  Velvet Goldmine
  Velvet Goldmine is a 1998 British/American drama film directed and co-written by Todd Haynes. The film tells the story of a pop star based mainly on David Bowie's 'Ziggy Stardust' character and is set in Britain during the days of glam rock in the early 1970s.Sandy Powell received another Academy...
  
  by Todd Haynes
  Todd Haynes
  Todd Haynes is an American independent film director and screenwriter. He is best known for his feature films Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story, Poison, Velvet Goldmine, Safe, and the Academy Award-nominated Far from Heaven and I'm Not There.- Style and themes :The writes that "Haynes is...
  
  

Un Certain Regard

• À vendre
  For Sale (film)
  For Sale is a 1998 French drama film directed by Laetitia Masson. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Sandrine Kiberlain - France Robert* Sergio Castellitto - Luigi Primo...
  
  by Laetitia Masson
• All the Little Animals
  All the Little Animals
  All the Little Animals is a 1999 feature film, directed and produced by Jeremy Thomas, based on the novel of the same name by Walker Hamilton. It was adapted for the screen by Eski Thomas, and starred Christian Bale and John Hurt....
  
  by Jeremy Thomas
  Jeremy Thomas
  Jeremy Jack Thomas, CBE is a British film producer, founder of the Recorded Picture Company. He was the producer of Bernardo Bertolucci's The Last Emperor, which won the 1988 Academy Award for Best Picture. In 2006 he received a European Film Award for Outstanding European Achievement in World...
  
  
• Daun di Atas Bantal
  Daun di Atas Bantal
  Daun di Atas Bantal is a 1998 award winning Indonesian film directed by Garin Nugroho. It is one of the most acclaimed films from Indonesia in recent years and was the country's proposal for an Academy Award...
  
  by Garin Nugroho
  Garin Nugroho
  Garin Nugroho Riyanto , better known as Garin Nugroho, is an award-winning Indonesian film director.-Biography:Nugroho was born in Yogyakarta, Special Region of Yogyakarta on 6 June 1961. He was the fourth child of postal workers Soetjipto Amin and Mariah, who eventually had seven children...
  
  
• Dis-moi que je rêve
  Tell Me I'm Dreaming
  Tell Me I'm Dreaming is a 1998 French drama film directed by Claude Mouriéras. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Frédéric Pierrot - Luc* Muriel Mayette - Jeanne* Vincent Dénériaz - Julien...
  
  by Claude Mouriéras
  Claude Mouriéras
  Claude Mouriéras is a French film director and screenwriter. He has directed nine films since 1989. His film Dis-moi que je rêve was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:...
  
  
• El evangelio de las maravillas
  El evangelio de las maravillas
  El evangelio de las maravillas is a 1998 Mexican drama film directed by Arturo Ripstein. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Francisco Rabal - Papá Basilio...
  
  by 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...
  
  
• Island, Alicia by Ken Yunome
• Kleine Teun by Alex van Warmerdam
  Alex van Warmerdam
  Alex van Warmerdam is a Dutch screenwriter, film director, and actor. He is also a painter.-Biography:He was cofounder of the theatre group Hauser Orkater . In 1980 he founded the theatre group De Mexicaanse Hond , together with his brother Marc van Warmerdam...
  
  
• La Pomme
  The Apple (1998 film)
  The Apple is the 1998 film directorial debut by Samira Makhmalbaf, daughter of the acclaimed Iranian director, Mohsen Makhmalbaf. The film is based on a true story and features the real people that actually lived it...
  
  by Samira Makhmalbaf
  Samira Makhmalbaf
  Samira Makhmalbaf is an internationally acclaimed Iranian filmmaker and script writer. She is the daughter of Mohsen Makhmalbaf, the film director and writer. Samira Makhmalbaf belongs to the New Wave movement within Iranian cinema...
  
  
• Larmar och gör sig till
  In the Presence of a Clown
  In the Presence of a Clown is a play written for television by Ingmar Bergman, and was recorded for Swedish television in 1997 with Bergman as a director...
  
  by Ingmar Bergman
  Ingmar Bergman
  Ernst Ingmar Bergman was a Swedish director, writer and producer for film, stage and television. Described by Woody Allen as "probably the greatest film artist, all things considered, since the invention of the motion picture camera", he is recognized as one of the most accomplished and...
  
  
• Louise (Take 2)
  Louise (Take 2)
  Louise is a 1998 French drama film directed by Siegfried. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Élodie Bouchez - Louise* Roschdy Zem - Rémi* Gérald Thomassin - Yaya* Antoine du Merle - Gaby...
  
  by Siegfried
• Love is the Devil
  Love is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
  Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon is a 1998 film made for television by the British Broadcasting Corporation . It was written and directed by John Maybury and stars Derek Jacobi, Daniel Craig, and Tilda Swinton....
  
  by John Maybury
  John Maybury
  John Maybury is an English filmmaker. In 2005 he was listed as one of the 100 most influential gay and lesbian people in Britain.-Early life:...
  
  
• Lulu on the Bridge
  Lulu on the Bridge
  Lulu on the Bridge is a 1998 romantic mystery drama film directed by author Paul Auster. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.-Plot:...
  
  by Paul Auster
  Paul Auster
  Paul Benjamin Auster is an American author known for works blending absurdism, existentialism, crime fiction and the search for identity and personal meaning in works such as The New York Trilogy , Moon Palace , The Music of Chance , The Book of Illusions and The Brooklyn Follies...
  
  
• O Rio do Ouro
  River of Gold
  River of Gold is a 1998 Portuguese drama film directed by Paulo Rocha. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Isabel Ruth - Carolina* Lima Duarte - António* Joana Bárcia - Mélita...
  
  by Paulo Rocha
  Paulo Rocha
  Paulo Rocha is a Portuguese film director. Among his best known films are A Ilha dos Amores and O Rio do Ouro. A Ilha dos Amores was entered into the 1982 Cannes Film Festival and O Rio do Ouro was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Festival.-Bibliographic references: O Cais do...
  
  
• Os mutantes by Teresa Villaverde
  Teresa Villaverde
  Teresa Villaverde is a Portuguese film director. Her film Os Mutantes was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.-Awards:...
  
  
• Plätze in Städten
  Places in Cities
  Places in Cities is a 1998 German drama film directed by Angela Schanelec. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Sophie Aigner - Mimmi* Vincent Branchet - Yves...
  
  by Angela Schanelec
• Szenvedély
  Passion (1998 film)
  Passion is a 1998 Hungarian drama film directed by György Fehér. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival. It is based on the novel The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M...
  
  by György Fehér
• Teatro di guerra
  Rehearsals for War
  Rehearsals for War is a 1998 Italian drama film directed by Mario Martone. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Andrea Renzi - Leo* Iaia Forte - Luisella Cielo* Maurizio Bizzi - Maurizio...
  
  by Mario Martone
  Mario Martone
  Mario Martone is an Italian film director and screenwriter. He has directed 15 films since 1985. His film L'amore molesto was entered into the 1995 Cannes Film Festival...
  
  
• The Apostle
  The Apostle
  The Apostle is a 1997 American drama film written and directed by Robert Duvall, who stars in the title role. John Beasley, Farrah Fawcett, Billy Bob Thornton, June Carter Cash, Miranda Richardson and Billy Joe Shaver also appear...
  
  by Robert Duvall
  Robert Duvall
  Robert Selden Duvall is an American actor and director. He has won an Academy Award, two Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards and a BAFTA over the course of his career....
  
  
• The Impostors
  The Impostors
  The Impostors is a 1998 farce motion picture written and directed by Stanley Tucci, starring Oliver Platt, Stanley Tucci, Alfred Molina, Tony Shalhoub, Steve Buscemi, and Billy Connolly....
  
  by Stanley Tucci
  Stanley Tucci
  Stanley Tucci is an American actor, writer, film producer and film director. He has been nominated for several notable film awards, including an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, for his performance in The Lovely Bones...
  
  
• The Man Who Couldn't Open Doors by Paul Arden
• The Power of Kangwon Province
  The Power of Kangwon Province
  The Power of Kangwon Province is the second film by critically acclaimed South Korean director Hong Sang-soo. It follows the lives of a man and a woman who have decided to end their affair....
  
  by Hong Sang-soo
  Hong Sang-soo
  Hong Sang-soo is a South Korean film director. Hong's directorial debut, The Day a Pig Fell into the Well , was praised by South Korean critics for its originality and won international film prizes...
  
  
• Kurpe
  The Shoe (film)
  The Shoe is a 1998 German-Latvian drama film directed by Laila Pakalniņa. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Ivars Brakovskis - Militiaman Kristaps* Igors Buraks - Andrej...
  
  by Laila Pakalniņa
  Laila Pakalniņa
  Laila Pakalnina is a Latvian film director and screenwriter. She has directed 20 films since 1991. Her film Kurpe was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:* Vela...
  
  
• Tokyo Eyes
  Tokyo Eyes
  Tokyo Eyes is a 1998 French-Japanese thriller-romance film, starring Shinji Takeda and Hinano Yoshikawa, directed by French film/documentary maker Jean-Pierre Limosin...
  
  by Jean-Pierre Limosin
• Tueur à gages
  Killer (1998 film)
  Killer is a 1998 French-Kazakhstani crime drama film directed by Darezhan Omirbaev.-Plot:Marat is a chauffeur who, following a traffic accident, finds himself in debt. When his baby becomes ill, he agrees to murder a journalist in order to earn some money.-Awards:Killer won the Un Certain Regard...
  
  by Darezhan Omirbaev
  Darezhan Omirbaev
  Darezhan Omirbaev is a Kazakhstani film director and screenwriter. He has directed eight films since 1982. His film Tueur à gages was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Un Certain Regard Prize....
  
  
• Un 32 août sur terre
  August 32nd on Earth
  August 32nd on Earth is a 1998 Canadian drama film directed by Denis Villeneuve. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Paule Baillargeon - Doctor in hospital* Emmanuel Bilodeau - Philippe's best friend...
  
  by Denis Villeneuve
  Denis Villeneuve
  Denis Villeneuve is a Canadian film director and writer. In his early career he won Radio-Canada's youth film competition "La Course Europe-Asie" in 1990-91. He is a three-time winner of the Genie Award for Best Director, for Maelström in 2001, Polytechnique in 2010 and Incendies in 2011...
  
  
• Un soir apres la guerre
  One Evening After the War
  One Evening After the War is a 1998 Cambodian drama film, directed and co-written by Rithy Panh...
  
  by 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...
  
  
• Zero Effect
  Zero Effect
  Zero Effect is a 1998 mystery film written and directed by Jake Kasdan . It stars Bill Pullman as "the world's most private detective" Daryl Zero and Ben Stiller as his assistant Steve Arlo....
  
  by Jake Kasdan
  Jake Kasdan
  Jake Kasdan is an American television and film director.Kasdan was born in Detroit, Michigan, the son of Meg , a writer, and writer-director Lawrence Kasdan. His younger brother, Jon Kasdan, also works in the film and television industry as an actor and writer...
  
  

Films out of competition

• Blues Brothers 2000
  Blues Brothers 2000
  Blues Brothers 2000 is a 1998 American musical comedy film that is a sequel to the 1980 film The Blues Brothers. Directed by John Landis, the film featured Dan Aykroyd and John Goodman, with cameos by many musicians.-Plot:...
  
  by John Landis
  John Landis
  John David Landis is an American film director, screenwriter, actor, and producer. He is known for his comedies, his horror films, and his music videos with singer Michael Jackson.-Early life and career:...
  
  
• Dark City by Alex Proyas
  Alex Proyas
  Alexander "Alex" Proyas is a Australian film director, screenwriter, and producer. He is best known for directing such films as The Crow, Dark City, I, Robot and Knowing. He is known for employing a stylish photographic techniques in his films, with dark overtones usually in a post-apocalyptic...
  
  
• Godzilla
  Godzilla (1998 film)
  Godzilla is a 1998 science fiction monster disaster film film co-written and directed by Roland Emmerich. It is a loose remake of the 1954 giant monster classic Godzilla. The storyline was conceived from a screenplay written by Emmerich and Dean Devlin. The film relates a tale of a nuclear incident...
  
  by Roland Emmerich
  Roland Emmerich
  Roland Emmerich is a German film director, screenwriter, and producer.His films, most of which are Hollywood productions filmed in English, have grossed more than $3 billion worldwide, more than those of any other European director...
  
  
• Goodbye Lover
  Goodbye Lover
  Goodbye Lover is a comedic neo-noir film about a murder plot surrounding an alcoholic advertising agency worker and his adulterous wife. The film was directed by Roland Joffé, and stars Patricia Arquette, Dermot Mulroney, Don Johnson, Ellen DeGeneres, and Mary-Louise Parker. The film premiered at...
  
  by Roland Joffé
  Roland Joffé
  Roland Joffé is an English-French film director who is known for his Oscar nominated movies, The Killing Fields and The Mission. He began his career in television. His early television credits included episodes of Coronation Street and an adaptation of The Stars Look Down for Granada...
  
  
• Inquietude
  Anxiety (film)
  Anxiety is a 1998 Portuguese drama film directed by Manoel de Oliveira. It was screened out of competition at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Afonso Araújo - Boy* Leonor Araújo - Girl* Leonor Baldaque - Fisalina...
  
  by Manoel de Oliveira
  Manoel de Oliveira
  Manoel Cândido Pinto de Oliveira, GCSE is a Portuguese film director born in Cedofeita, Porto. He began working on films in the late 1920s, but did not receive international recognition until the early 1970s. Since the late 1980s he has been one of the most prolific working film directors and...
  
  
• Kanzo Sensei by Sadao Imamura
• Primary Colors by Mike Nichols
  Mike Nichols
  Mike Nichols is a German-born American television, stage and film director, writer, producer and comedian. He began his career in the 1950s as one half of the comedy duo Nichols and May, along with Elaine May. In 1968 he won the Academy Award for Best Director for the film The Graduate...
  
  
• Tango by Carlos Saura
  Carlos Saura
  Carlos Saura Atarés is a Spanish film director and photographer.-Early life:Born into a family of artists , he developed his artistic sense in childhood as a photography enthusiast.He obtained his directing diploma in Madrid in 1957 at the Institute of Cinema Research and Studies...
  
  

Cinéfondation

• Blue City by David Birdsell
• Deer Men by Saara Saarela
• Die Weiche by Chrys Krikellis
• Doom and Gloom by John McKay
  John McKay (director)
  John McKay is a Scottish film and television director. His initial career was as a playwright, before he began his film career by directing the short films Doom and Gloom and Wet and Dry ....
  
  
• Fotograf by Alexander Kott
  Alexander Kott
  -External links:...
  
  
• Inside the Boxes by Mirjam Kubescha
• Jakub by Adam Guzinski
  Adam Guziński
  Adam Guziński is a Polish film director and screenwriter. His film Chłopiec na galopującym koniu was screened out of competition at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:* Jakub * Antychryst...
  
  
• Kal by Ivaylo P. Simidchiev
• Léto - cas dlouhých letu by Ramunas Greicius
• Mangwana by Manu Kurewa
• One Eye by Liana Dognini
• Ratapenkan Ruusu by Hanna Maylett
• Sentieri selvaggi by Susanna Grigoletto
• The First Sin by Fahimeh Sorkhabi
• The Sheep Thief
  The Sheep Thief
  The Sheep Thief is a 1997 16 mm short film by Asif Kapadia Writer /Director lasting 23mins. It is Kapadia’s graduation film from the Royal College of Art.-Awards:*Festival de Cannes 1998 Cinefondation - Second Prize....
  
  by Asif Kapadia
  Asif Kapadia
  Asif Kapadia is a British filmmaker of Indian descent. He directed several award-winning films, including The Sheep Thief , winner of the 2nd Prize Cinéfondation for Short Film at the Cannes Film Festival, The Warrior , which won the BAFTA Award for Best British Film and Senna , winner of the...
  
  

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...
  
  : Mia aioniotita kai mia mera
  Eternity and a Day
  Eternity and a Day is a 1998 Greek film starring Bruno Ganz, and directed by Theo Angelopoulos. The film won the Palme d'Or and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.-Plot:...
  
  by Theodoros Angelopoulos
• 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...
  
  : La vita è bella
  Life Is Beautiful
  Life Is Beautiful is a 1997 Italian film which tells the story of a Jewish Italian, Guido Orefice , who must employ his fertile imagination to help his family during their internment in a Nazi concentration camp.At the 71st Academy Awards in 1999, Benigni won the Academy Award for Best Actor and...
  
  by Roberto Benigni
  Roberto Benigni
  Roberto Remigio Benigni, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI is an Italian actor, comedian, screenwriter and director of film, theatre and television.- Early years :...
  
  
• 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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  • Festen
    The Celebration
    The Celebration is a 1998 Danish film, produced by Nimbus Film and directed by Thomas Vinterberg. Its original Danish title is Festen , and it was released under this title in the UK....
    
    by Thomas Vinterberg
    Thomas Vinterberg
    Thomas Vinterberg is a Danish film director who, along with Lars von Trier, co-founded the Dogme 95 movement in filmmaking, which established rules for simplifying movie production....
    
    
  • La classe de neige
    Class Trip
    Class Trip is a 1998 French film. Its original French title is La Classe de neige, which is the name given to class trips in the snow. It tells the story of a young boy on a school skiing trip who suffers anxiety attacks that bring on disturbing nightmares.-Synopsis:The story begins with Nicolas at...
    
    by Claude Miller
    Claude Miller
    Claude Miller is a French film director, producer and screenwriter.-Career:Claude Miller was born to a Jewish family. A student at Paris' IDHEC film school from 1962 through 1963, Miller had his first practical cinematic experience while he was in uniform, serving with the Service Cinéma de l'Armée...
    
    
• 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:* * ....
  
  : Peter Mullan
  Peter Mullan
  Peter Mullan is a Scottish actor and film-maker who has been appearing in films since 1990.-Early life:Mullan, the sixth of eight children, was born in Peterhead in the northeast of Scotland, the son of Patricia, a nurse, and Charles Mullan, a lab technician who worked at Glasgow University. He...
  
   for My Name Is Joe
  My Name Is Joe
  My Name Is Joe is a 1998 Scottish film directed by Ken Loach. The film stars Peter Mullan as Joe Kavanagh, an unemployed recovering alcoholic in Glasgow who meets and falls in love with a health visitor. David McKay plays his troubled friend Liam...
  
  
• 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:* * ....
  
  : Élodie Bouchez
  Élodie Bouchez
  Élodie Bouchez-Bangalter is a French actress. She is best known in the United States for her role as Renée Rienne on the fifth and final season of the television show Alias...
  
   and Natacha Régnier
  Natacha Régnier
  Natacha Régnier is a Belgian actress.Born in the Ixelles section of Brussels, she was attracted to theatre from early adolescence. Her first screen role was in The Motorcycle Girl , a short film by Stéphan Carpiaux...
  
   for La vie rêvée des anges
  The Dreamlife of Angels
  The Dreamlife of Angels is a 1998 French drama film directed by Erick Zonca.-Story:The film is about two working class women, Isa and Marie. Isa is a drifter and searching for a lover she had met during the summer. When she realizes that her search for him is futile and turns elsewhere she meets...
  
  
• 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....
  
  : 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,...
  
   for The General
  The General (1998 film)
  The General is a British-Irish crime film directed by John Boorman about Dublin crime boss Martin Cahill, who pulled off several daring heists in the early 1980s, and attracted the attention of the Gardaí, PIRA, and UVF. The film was shot in 1997 and released in 1998...
  
  
• 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....
  
  : L'interview by Xavier Giannoli
  Xavier Giannoli
  Xavier Giannoli is a French film director and screenwriter. He has directed nine films since 1993.-Filmography:* Le condamné * Terre sainte * J'aime beaucoup ce que vous faites...
  
  
• 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...
  
  : Henry Fool
  Henry Fool
  Henry Fool is a 1997 American seriocomic film written, produced and directed by Hal Hartley, featuring Thomas Jay Ryan, James Urbaniak, and Parker Posey. As in The Unbelievable Truth, an earlier Hartley film, expectation and reality again conflict....
  
  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...
  
  
• Best Artistic Contribution: Velvet Goldmine
  Velvet Goldmine
  Velvet Goldmine is a 1998 British/American drama film directed and co-written by Todd Haynes. The film tells the story of a pop star based mainly on David Bowie's 'Ziggy Stardust' character and is set in Britain during the days of glam rock in the early 1970s.Sandy Powell received another Academy...
  
  by Todd Haynes
  Todd Haynes
  Todd Haynes is an American independent film director and screenwriter. He is best known for his feature films Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story, Poison, Velvet Goldmine, Safe, and the Academy Award-nominated Far from Heaven and I'm Not There.- Style and themes :The writes that "Haynes is...
  
  
• Technical Grand Prize: Tango by Vittorio Storaro
  Vittorio Storaro
  Vittorio Storaro, A.S.C., A.I.C. is an Italian cinematographer.In 2003, a survey conducted by the International Cinematographers Guild judged Storaro one of history's ten most influential cinematographers.-Biography:...
  
  
• 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 ....
  
  : Slam
  Slam (film)
  Slam is a 1998 independent film starring Saul Williams and Sonja Sohn. It tells the story of a young African-American man whose talent for poetry is hampered by his social background. It won the Grand Jury Prize for a Dramatic Film at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival.- Synopsis :Raymond Joshua is a...
  
  by Marc Levin
  Marc Levin
  Marc Levin is an independent film producer and director. He is best known for his Brick City TV series, which won the 2010 Peabody award and was nominated for an Emmy for Exceptional Merit in Nonfiction Filmmaking and his dramatic feature film, SLAM, which won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance...
  
  
• Cinéfondation
  Cinéfondation
  La Cinéfondation is a foundation under the aegis of the Cannes Film Festival, created to inspire and support the next generation of international filmmakers....
  
   Award:
  • Jakub by Adam Guzinski
    Adam Guziński
    Adam Guziński is a Polish film director and screenwriter. His film Chłopiec na galopującym koniu was screened out of competition at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:* Jakub * Antychryst...
    
    
  • The Sheep Thief
    The Sheep Thief
    The Sheep Thief is a 1997 16 mm short film by Asif Kapadia Writer /Director lasting 23mins. It is Kapadia’s graduation film from the Royal College of Art.-Awards:*Festival de Cannes 1998 Cinefondation - Second Prize....
    
    by Asif Kapadia
    Asif Kapadia
    Asif Kapadia is a British filmmaker of Indian descent. He directed several award-winning films, including The Sheep Thief , winner of the 2nd Prize Cinéfondation for Short Film at the Cannes Film Festival, The Warrior , which won the BAFTA Award for Best British Film and Senna , winner of the...
    
    
  • Mangwana by Manu Kurewa
• 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: Tueur à gages
  Killer (1998 film)
  Killer is a 1998 French-Kazakhstani crime drama film directed by Darezhan Omirbaev.-Plot:Marat is a chauffeur who, following a traffic accident, finds himself in debt. When his baby becomes ill, he agrees to murder a journalist in order to earn some money.-Awards:Killer won the Un Certain Regard...
  
  by Darezhan Omirbayev
• Mercedes-Benz Award: Seul contre tous
  I Stand Alone (film)
  I Stand Alone is a 1998 French drama film, written and directed by Gaspar Noé, and starring Philippe Nahon, Blandine Lenoir, Frankye Pain and Martine Audrain. The original French title is Seul contre tous, which means "Alone against all". The film focuses on several pivotal days in the life of a...
  
  by Gaspar Noé
  Gaspar Noé
  Gaspar Noé is an Argentine filmmaker and the son of Argentine painter and intellectual Luis Felipe Noé. He graduated from Louis Lumière College and is the visiting professor of film at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland...
  
  
• Canal+ Award: Por un infante difunto by Tinieblas González
• Kodak Short Film Award:
  • Les corps ouverts by Sébastien Lifshitz
    Sébastien Lifshitz
    Sébastien Lifshitz is a French screenwriter and director. He teaches at La Fémis, a school that focuses on the subject of image and sound. He studied at the École du Louvre, and has a bachelor's degree from the University of Paris in history of art.Lifshitz's work involves gay themes...
    
    
  • Rue bleue by Chad Chenouga
• Gras Savoye Award: Rue bleue by Chad Chenouga
• 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...
  
  :
  • Dong
    The Hole (1998 film)
    The Hole is a 1998 drama-musical film directed by Tsai Ming-liang. It stars Yang Kuei-Mei and Lee Kang-sheng.-Plot:A strange disease hits Taiwan just before the turn of the new millennium...
    
    by Tsai Ming-liang
    Tsai Ming-liang
    Tsai Ming-liang is one of the most celebrated "Second New Wave" film directors of Taiwanese Cinema, along with earlier contemporaries such as Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Edward Yang...
    
     (Competition)
  • Happiness by Todd Solondz
    Todd Solondz
    Todd Solondz is an American independent film screenwriter and director known for his style of dark, thought-provoking, socially conscious satire. Solondz has been critically acclaimed for his examination of the "dark underbelly of middle class American suburbia", a reflection of his own background...
    
     (Parallel Sections)
• 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...
  
  :
  • Ingmar Bergman
    Ingmar Bergman
    Ernst Ingmar Bergman was a Swedish director, writer and producer for film, stage and television. Described by Woody Allen as "probably the greatest film artist, all things considered, since the invention of the motion picture camera", he is recognized as one of the most accomplished and...
    
     (Special award)
  • Mia aioniotita kai mia mera
    Eternity and a Day
    Eternity and a Day is a 1998 Greek film starring Bruno Ganz, and directed by Theo Angelopoulos. The film won the Palme d'Or and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.-Plot:...
    
    by Theodoros Angelopoulos
• Award of the Youth:
  • Foreign Film: Last Night by Don McKellar
    Don McKellar
    -Personal life:McKellar was born in Toronto, Ontario to a lawyer father and teacher mother. He attended Glenview Senior Public School, Lawrence Park Collegiate Institute and later studied English at the University of Toronto's Victoria College...
    
    
  • French Film: L'arrière pays by Jacques Nolot
    Jacques Nolot
    Jacques Nolot , is a French actor, screenwriter and film director.- Life :Jacques Nolot was born on 31 August 1943, Marciac, Gers, a small village in Southwest France. A fragile child, Nolot was doted upon by his mother, a woman who had three children with three different fathers...
    
    
• François Chalais Award
  François Chalais Prize
  The Francois Chalais Prize is given at the Cannes Film Festival, beginning in 1997. It was created to pay tribute to French journalist and film historian François Chalais, under the auspices of his wife Mei Chen...
  
  : West Beyrouth
  West Beirut (film)
  West Beirut is a 1998 Lebanese drama film written and directed by Ziad Doueiri.-Plot:In April 1975, civil war breaks out; Beirut is partitioned along a Muslim-Christian line and is divided into East and West Beirut. Tarek is in high school, making Super 8 movies with his friend, Omar...
  
  by Ziad Doueiri

External links

• 1998 Cannes Film Festival
• Cannes Film Festival:1998 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...