Jury

• David Cronenberg
  David Cronenberg
  David Paul Cronenberg, OC, FRSC is a Canadian filmmaker, screenwriter and actor. He is one of the principal originators of what is commonly known as the body horror or venereal horror genre. This style of filmmaking explores people's fears of bodily transformation and infection. In his films, the...
  
   (Canada) (president)
• 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)
• Barbara Hendricks
  Barbara Hendricks
  Barbara Hendricks is an African American operatic soprano and concert singer. Hendricks has lived in Europe since 1977, and in Switzerland on Lake Geneva since 1985, She is a citizen of Sweden.-Early life and education:...
  
   (Sweden)
• Dominique Blanc
  Dominique Blanc
  Dominique Blanc is a French actress.She trained at the French Drama school, Cours Florent. In 1980 at the suggestion of Pierre Romans , in whose class she was, Patrice Chéreau went to see her and engaged her for a performance of Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt...
  
   (France)
• Doris Dörrie
  Doris Dörrie
  Doris Dörrie is a German film director, producer and author.-Life and work:Dörrie completed her secondary education at a humanist Gymnasium. In 1973 she began a two-year attendance in film studies, in the drama department of the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. She then studied...
  
   (Germany)
• George Miller
  George Miller (producer)
  George Miller is an Australian film director, screenwriter, producer, and former medical doctor. He is most well known for his work on the Mad Max movies, but has been involved in a wide range of projects, including the Oscar-winning Happy Feet and "Babe" family films.Miller is the older brother...
  
   (Australia)
• 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...
  
   (USA)
• Jeff Goldblum
  Jeff Goldblum
  Jeffrey Lynn "Jeff" Goldblum is an American actor. His career began in the mid-1970s and he has appeared in major box-office successes including The Fly, Jurassic Park and its sequel Jurassic Park: The Lost World, and Independence Day...
  
   (USA)
• Maurizio Nichetti
  Maurizio Nichetti
  Maurizio Nichetti is an Italian film screenwriter, actor and director.-Film Director:* 1979 - Ratataplan* 1980 - Ho fatto splash* 1983 - Domani si balla!* 1986 - Il Bi e il Ba...
  
   (Italy)
• Yasmina Reza
  Yasmina Reza
  Yasmina Reza is a French playwright, actress, novelist and screenwriter. Her parents were both of Jewish origin, her father Iranian, her mother Hungarian.-Career:...
  
   (France)

Feature film competition

• 8½ Women
  8½ Women
  8½ Women is a 1999 comedy-drama film written and directed by Peter Greenaway, and starring John Standing, Matthew Delamere, and Vivian Wu. The international co-production was entered into the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.-Plot:After the death of his wife , wealthy businessman Philip Emmenthal 8½...
  
  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...
  
  
• Cradle Will Rock
  Cradle Will Rock
  Cradle Will Rock is a 1999 drama film which chronicles the process and events that surrounded the production of the original 1937 musical The Cradle Will Rock by Marc Blitzstein...
  
  by Tim Robbins
  Tim Robbins
  Timothy Francis "Tim" Robbins is an American actor, screenwriter, director, producer, activist and musician. He is the former longtime partner of actress Susan Sarandon...
  
  
• El coronel no tiene quien le escriba
  No One Writes to the Colonel (film)
  No One Writes to the Colonel is a 1999 Spanish-language film directed by Arturo Ripstein. It was an international co-production between France, Spain and Mexico...
  
  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...
  
  
• Felicia's Journey
  Felicia's Journey
  Felicia's Journey is a 1999 film starring Elaine Cassidy and Bob Hoskins, based on a prize winning 1994 novel by William Trevor. It was directed by Atom Egoyan...
  
  by 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...
  
  
• Ghessé hayé kish
  Tales of Kish
  Tales of Kish is a 1999 Iranian drama anthology film. It was entered into the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Hossein Panahi as Shanbeh * Atefeh Razavi as Wife...
  
  by Abolfazl Jalili
  Abolfazl Jalili
  Abolfazl Jalili is an internationally acclaimed Iranian film director. He belongs to Iranian new wave movement.Jalili studied directing at the Iranian College of Dramatic Arts, then worked for national television where he produced several children's films. His 'Det' Means Girl won prizes in...
  
  , Mohsen Makhmalbaf
  Mohsen Makhmalbaf
  Mohsen Makhmalbaf is an Iranian film director, writer, editor, and producer. During 2007 he was the president of Asian Film Academy.Makhmalbaf's films have been widely presented in international film festivals in the past ten years. The multi-award-winning director, belongs to the new wave...
  
  , Nasser Taghvai
• Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
  Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
  Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai is a 1999 American crime action film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch. Forest Whitaker stars as the title character, the mysterious "Ghost Dog", a hitman in the employ of the Mafia, who follows the ancient code of the samurai as outlined in the book of Yamamoto...
  
  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:...
  
  
• Jing Ke ci Qin Wang
  The Emperor and the Assassin
  The Emperor and the Assassin, also known as The First Emperor, is a 1998 Chinese historical romance film based primarily on Jing Ke's assassination attempt on the King of Qin, as described in Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian. The film was directed by Chen Kaige and stars Gong Li, Zhang...
  
  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:...
  
  
• Kadosh
  Kadosh
  Kadosh is a 1999 film by Israeli director Amos Gitai. It was entered into the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.-Plot:Kadosh is a bleak drama about the plight of women in Haredi society. In the opening scene, Meir , a young Talmudic scholar, thanks God in his morning prayers for not being born a woman...
  
  by Amos Gitai
  Amos Gitai
  Amos Gitai , born 11 October 1950 in Haifa, Israel, is an Israeli filmmaker and director. He is mainly known for making documentaries and experimental / minimalist feature films...
  
  
• Kikujirô no natsu
  Kikujiro
  The album includes "Summer", one of the most famous compositions by Hisaishi; it was also re-arranged and used for Toyota Corolla commercials, for instance...
  
  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...
  
  
• L'humanité
  Humanité
  Humanité is a 1999 film directed by Bruno Dumont. It tells the story of a detective who has lost touch with his emotions, and who investigates the murder of a little girl.-Plot:...
  
  by Bruno Dumont
  Bruno Dumont
  Bruno Dumont is a French film director. To date, he has directed five feature films, all of which border somewhere between realistic drama and the avant-garde. His films have won several awards at the Cannes Film Festival. Two of Dumont's films have won the Grand Prix award: both L'Humanité and...
  
  
• La balia
  The Nanny (1999 film)
  The Nanny is a 1999 Italian drama film directed by Marco Bellocchio. It was entered into the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Fabrizio Bentivoglio - Prof...
  
  by Marco Bellocchio
• La lettre
  The Letter (1999 film)
  The Letter is a 1999 French-Portuguese drama film directed by Manoel de Oliveira. It tells the story of a married woman who has feelings for another man, and who confesses her feelings to her friend, a cloistered nun...
  
  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...
  
  
• Le temps retrouvé, d'après l'oeuvre de Marcel Proust
  Time Regained (film)
  Time Regained is a 1999 French drama film directed by Raúl Ruiz. It is an adaptation of the final volume of In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust...
  
  by Raúl Ruiz
• Limbo
  Limbo (film)
  Limbo is a 1999 drama film written, produced, edited, and directed by American independent filmmaker John Sayles. The drama features Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, David Strathairn, Vanessa Martinez and Kris Kristofferson....
  
  by John Sayles
  John Sayles
  John Thomas Sayles is an American independent film director, screenwriter and author.-Early life:Sayles was born in Schenectady, New York, the son of Mary , a teacher, and Donald John Sayles, a school administrator. He was raised Catholic and took to labeling himself "a Catholic atheist"...
  
  
• Molokh
  Moloch (film)
  Moloch is a 1999 Russian biographical drama film directed by Alexander Sokurov. The storyline was conceived from a screenplay written by Yuri Arabov and Marina Koreneva. It portrays Adolf Hitler as a humanized figure, living life in an unassuming manner during an abrupt journey to the Bavarian Alps...
  
  by Alexander Sokurov
  Alexander Sokurov
  Alexander Nikolayevich Sokurov is a Russian filmmaker. His most significant works include a semi-documentary, Russian Ark , filmed in a single unedited shot, and Faust , which was honoured with the Golden Lion, the highest prize for the best film at the Venice Film Festival.- Life and work...
  
  
• Nos vies heureuses
  Our Happy Lives
  Our Happy Lives is a 1999 French drama film directed by Jacques Maillot. It was entered into the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Marie Payen - Julie* Cécile Richard - Cécile* Camille Japy - Emilie* Sami Bouajila - Ali* Eric Bonicatto - Jean-Paul...
  
  by Jacques Maillot
  Jacques Maillot
  Jacques Maillot is a French film director and screenwriter. He has directed seven films since 1993. His film Nos vies heureuses was entered into the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:* Des fleurs coupées...
  
  
• Pola X
  Pola X
  Pola X is a 1999 French romantic drama film starring Guillaume Depardieu, Yekaterina Golubeva and Catherine Deneuve. The film is loosely based on the Herman Melville novel Pierre: or, The Ambiguities. It revolves around a successful young novelist who is confronted by a woman who claims to be his...
  
  by Leos Carax
  Leos Carax
  Leos Carax is a French-born film director, critic, and writer. Carax is noted for his poetic style and his tortured depictions of love. His first major work was Boy Meets Girl , and his notable works include Lovers on the Bridge and the controversial Pola X...
  
  
• Rosetta
  Rosetta (film)
  Rosetta is a 1999 French-Belgian film written and directed by Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne. It is about a seventeen year old girl who lives in a trailer park with her alcoholic mother...
  
  by Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
  Dardenne brothers
  Brothers Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne are a Belgian filmmaking duo...
  
  
• The Straight Story
  The Straight Story
  The Straight Story is a 1999 film directed by David Lynch. The film was edited and produced by Mary Sweeney, Lynch's longtime partner and co-worker. She co-wrote the script with John E. Roach....
  
  by David Lynch
  David Lynch
  David Keith Lynch is an American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor. Known for his surrealist films, he has developed his own unique cinematic style, which has been dubbed "Lynchian", and which is characterized by its dream imagery and meticulous sound...
  
  
• Tin seung yan gaan
  Love Will Tear Us Apart (film)
  Love Will Tear Us Apart is a 1999 Hong Kong drama film directed by Yu Lik-wai. It was entered into the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Tony Leung Ka-fai - Jian* Liping Lü - Yan* Ning Wong - Ying* Rolf Chow - Chun...
  
  by Nelson Yu Lik-wai
  Yu Lik-wai
  Yu Lik-wai is a Hong Kong cinematographer, film director, and occasional film producer. Born in Hong Kong, Yu was educated at Belgium's INSAS where he graduated with a degree in cinematography in 1994...
  
  
• Todo sobre mi madre
  All About My Mother
  All About My Mother is a 1999 Spanish drama film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar. The film deals with complex issues such as AIDS, transvestitism, faith, and existentialism....
  
  by Pedro Almodóvar
  Pedro Almodóvar
  Pedro Almodóvar Caballero is a Spanish film director, screenwriter and producer.Almodóvar is arguably the most successful and internationally known Spanish filmmaker of his generation. His films, marked by complex narratives, employ the codes of melodrama and use elements of pop culture, popular...
  
  
• Wonderland
  Wonderland (1999 film)
  Wonderland is a 1999 drama film about the lives of a London couple, their three adult daughters and absent son. Directed by Michael Winterbottom, the film stars Jack Shepherd, Kika Markham, Shirley Henderson, Gina McKee, Molly Parker, John Simm, and Stuart Townsend...
  
  by 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...
  
  

Un Certain Regard

• Vanaprastham by 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...
  
  
• As Bodas de Deus
  As Bodas de Deus
  As Bodas de Deus is a 1999 Portuguese comedy film directed by João César Monteiro. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Rita Durão - Joana de Deus* João César Monteiro - João de Deus...
  
  by João César Monteiro
  João César Monteiro
  João César Monteiro was a Portuguese film director, actor, writer and film critic . He was born in Figueira da Foz on February 2, 1939 and died of cancer in Lisbon on February 3, 2003.- Life and career :...
  
  
• Away with Words
  Away with words
  Away with Words is a 1999 auteur trilingual film by Christopher Doyle co-scripted by Doyle and Tony Rayns and starring Tadanobu Asano and Mavis Xu...
  
  by Christopher Doyle
  Christopher Doyle
  Christopher Doyle is a cinematographer. He has won the AFI Award for cinematography, the Cannes Technical Grand Prize, Golden Osella, the Golden Horse awards , and Hong Kong Film Award . Doyle is an affiliate of the Hong Kong Society of Cinematographers.-Biography:Doyle was born in Sydney,...
  
  
• Beautiful People
  Beautiful People (film)
  Beautiful People is a multi-award winning satirical comedy written and directed by Jasmin Dizdar. The film is set in London during the time of the Bosnian war...
  
  by Jasmin Dizdar
  Jasmin Dizdar
  Jasmin Dizdar is a Bosnian-British screenwriter, film director and author on cinema. He is known for his film Beautiful People which won an award for the best film in Un Certain Regard category at the Cannes Film Festival.- Biography :As a child Jasmin Dizdar was an award winning short story writer...
  
  
• Beresina oder Die letzten Tage der Schweiz
  Beresina, or the Last Days of Switzerland
  Beresina, or the Last Days of Switzerland is a 1999 satiric comedy film by Swiss director Daniel Schmid. It chronicles the story of Irina, a Russian call girl arriving in Switzerland, whose innocent attempt to live the high life there triggers unintended coup d'etat in the country...
  
  by Daniel Schmid
• Kaizokuban Bootleg Film
  Kaizokuban Bootleg Film
  Kaizokuban Bootleg Film is a 1999 Japanese drama film directed by Kobayashi Masahiro. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Akira Emoto - Tatsuo* Kippei Shiina - Seiji* Maika - Junko...
  
  by Kobayashi Masahiro
  Kobayashi Masahiro
  is a Japanese film director.-Biography:Masahiro Kobayashi was born on January 6, 1954 in Tokyo, Japan). He began his career as a folk singer, and then turned to scriptwriting. A great admirer of François Truffaut, he directed his first feature, Closing Time, in 1996 and in 1997 became the first...
  
  
• L'autre
  The Other (1999 film)
  The Other is a 1999 French-Egyptian drama film directed by Youssef Chahine. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Nabila Ebeid - Margaret* Mahmoud Hemida - Khalil* Hanan Tork - Hanane...
  
  by Youssef Chahine
  Youssef Chahine
  Youssef Chahine was an Egyptian film director active in the Egyptian film industry since 1950. He was credited with launching the career of actor Omar Sharif...
  
  
• Garage Olimpo by Marco Bechis
  Marco Bechis
  Marco Bechis is a Chilean-Italian film screenwriter and director. His film Garage Olimpo was screened at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard section.-Selected filmography:* Alambrado...
  
  
• Harem Suare
  Harem Suare
  Harem Suare is a 1999 Turkish drama film directed by Ferzan Özpetek. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Marie Gillain - Safiye* Alex Descas - Nadir* Lucia Bosé - Old Safiye* Valeria Golino - Anita...
  
  by Ferzan Özpetek
  Ferzan Özpetek
  Ferzan Özpetek is an Italian-Turkish film director and screenwriter, residing in Italy.- Biography :Ferzan Ozpetek was born in Istanbul in 1959. When he was a young student in 1976, he decided to move to Italy to study Cinema History at Sapienza University of Rome...
  
  
• If I Give You my Humbleness, Don't Take Away my Pride by Karin Westerlund
• Judy Berlin
  Judy Berlin
  Judy Berlin is a 1999 American drama film directed by Eric Mendelsohn. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.Mendelsohn won the directing prize for Judy Berlin at the 1999 Sundance International Film Festival...
  
  by Eric Mendelsohn
  Eric Mendelsohn
  Eric Mendelsohn is an American film director and screenwriter. Two of his films have been screened in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes: Through an Open Window in 1992 and Judy Berlin in 1999., which won the Directing Award at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival...
  
  
• La genèse
  Genesis (1999 film)
  Genesis is a 1999 French-Malian drama film directed by Cheick Oumar Sissoko. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Sotigui Kouyaté - Jacob* Salif Keita - Esau* Balla Moussa Keita - Hamor...
  
  by Cheick Oumar Sissoko
  Cheick Oumar Sissoko
  Cheick Oumar Sissoko is a Malian film director and politician.-Biography:As a student in Paris, Cheick Oumar Sissoko obtained a DEA in African History and Sociology and a diploma in History and Cinema from the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales...
  
  
• Les passagers
  The Passengers (1999 film)
  The Passengers is a 1999 French drama film directed by Jean-Claude Guiguet. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Fabienne Babe - Anna* Philippe Garziano - Pierre* Bruno Putzulu - David...
  
  by Jean-Claude Guiguet
  Jean-Claude Guiguet
  Jean-Claude Guiguet was a French film director and screenwriter. He directed eight films between 1978 and 2005...
  
  
• Marana Simhasanam
  Throne of Death
  Marana Simhasanam is a 1999 Indian drama film in Malayalam directed by Murali Nair. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Caméra d'Or .-Plot:...
  
  by Murali Nair
• Nadia et les hippopotames
  Nadia and the Hippos
  Nadia and the Hippos is a 1999 French drama film directed by Dominique Cabrera. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Ariane Ascaride - Nadia* Marilyne Canto - Claire* Thierry Frémont - Serge...
  
  by Dominique Cabrera
  Dominique Cabrera
  Dominique Cabrera is a French film director. She has taught filmmaking at La Fémis and at Harvard University. Her film Nadia et les hippopotames was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival...
  
  
• Peau neuve
  New Dawn (film)
  New Dawn is a 1999 French drama film directed by Émilie Deleuze. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Samuel Le Bihan - Alain* Marcial Di Fonzo Bo - Manu* Catherine Vinatier - Pascale...
  
  by Émilie Deleuze
  Émilie Deleuze
  Émilie Deleuze is a French film director and screenwriter. She has directed eight films since 1986. Her film Peau neuve was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival...
  
  
• Ratcatcher
  Ratcatcher (film)
  Ratcatcher is a 1999 film written and directed by Lynne Ramsay. It is her debut feature film and was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival....
  
  by Lynne Ramsay
• Sicilia!
  Sicilia!
  Sicilia! is a 1999 Italian black-and-white film directed by Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub. Sicilia! follows a man returning to visit his homeland of Sicily, after living in New York City for many years...
  
  by Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet
• So Close to Paradise
  So Close to Paradise
  So Close to Paradise is a 1998 Chinese film directed by Wang Xiaoshuai, a member of Chinese cinema's so-called Sixth Generation. It is alternatively known by the English title Ruan's Song or by its original Chinese title, The Girl From Vietnam...
  
  by Wang Xiaoshuai
  Wang Xiaoshuai
  Wang Xiaoshuai is a Chinese film director, screenwriter and occasional actor. He is commonly grouped under the loose association of filmmakers known as the Sixth Generation of the Cinema of China....
  
  
• Zheng hun qi shi
  The Personals (1998 Taiwanese film)
  The Personals is a 1998 Taiwanese drama film directed by Chen Kuo-Fu. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Rene Liu - Dr. Du Jia-zhen* Wu Bai* Chao-jung Chen* Bao-ming Gu* Chin Shih-chieh...
  
  by Chen Kuo-Fu
• The Shade
  The Shade (1998 film)
  The Shade is Raphael Nadjari's debut feature. This is a modern adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's A Gentle Creature, and takes place in contemporary New York City.-Plot:...
  
  by Raphael Nadjari
  Raphael Nadjari
  Raphaël Nadjari is a French born writer and director for film and television.In 1993, Nadjari started working for French television as a writer and director...
  
  
• The Winslow Boy
  The Winslow Boy (1999 film)
  The Winslow Boy is a 1999 period drama film directed by David Mamet. Starring Nigel Hawthorne, Rebecca Pidgeon, Jeremy Northam and Gemma Jones. Set in London before World War I, it depicts a family defending the honor of its young son at all cost. The screenplay was adapted by Mamet based on ...
  
  by David Mamet
  David Mamet
  David Alan Mamet is an American playwright, essayist, screenwriter and film director.Best known as a playwright, Mamet won a Pulitzer Prize and received a Tony nomination for Glengarry Glen Ross . He also received a Tony nomination for Speed-the-Plow . As a screenwriter, he received Oscar...
  
  
• Tian ma cha fang
  March of Happiness
  March of Happiness is a 1999 Taiwanese film directed by Lin Cheng-sheng. It tells the story of a teenage romance set against the backdrop of the Japanese occupation and the 228 Incident...
  
  by Lin Chen-Sheng

Films out of competition

• Adieu, plancher des vaches!
  Farewell, Home Sweet Home
  Farewell, Home Sweet Home is a 1999 French comedy film directed by Otar Iosseliani. It was screened out of competition at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Nico Tarielashvili - Son* Lily Lavina - Mother* Philippe Bas - Moto driver...
  
  by Otar Iosseliani
  Otar Iosseliani
  - Filmography :* Akvarel * Sapovnela * April / Ap'rili* Tudzhi * Falling Leaves, / Giorgobistve* Georgian Ancient Songs / Dzveli qartuli simgera...
  
  
• An Ideal Husband by Oliver Parker
  Oliver Parker
  Oliver Parker is an English film director.-Biography:Parker was born in London, the son of Jillian, Lady Parker, a writer and GP , and Sir Peter Parker, formerly Chief executive of British Rail...
  
  
• Dogma
  Dogma (film)
  Dogma is a 1999 American adventure fantasy comedy film written and directed by Kevin Smith, who also stars in the film along with an ensemble cast that includes Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Linda Fiorentino, Alan Rickman, Bud Cort, Salma Hayek, Chris Rock, Jason Lee, George Carlin, Janeane Garofalo,...
  
  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...
  
  
• EDtv
  EdTV
  EDtv is a 1999 American comedy film directed by Ron Howard. An adaptation of the Quebec film Louis 19, le roi des ondes , it stars Matthew McConaughey, Jenna Elfman, Woody Harrelson, Ellen DeGeneres, Martin Landau, Rob Reiner, Sally Kirkland, Elizabeth Hurley, Clint Howard, and Dennis Hopper.The...
  
  by Ron Howard
  Ron Howard
  Ronald William "Ron" Howard is an American actor, director, and producer. He came to prominence as a child actor, playing Opie Taylor in the sitcom The Andy Griffith Show for eight years, and later the teenaged Richie Cunningham in the sitcom Happy Days for six years...
  
  
• Entrapment
  Entrapment (film)
  Entrapment is a 1999 American caper film directed by Jon Amiel and starring Sean Connery and Catherine Zeta-Jones.-Plot:Virginia "Gin" Baker is an investigator for Waverly Insurance. Robert "Mac" MacDougal is an international art thief. A priceless Rembrandt painting is stolen from an office one...
  
  by Jon Amiel
  Jon Amiel
  Jon Amiel is an English film director who has since the early 1980s worked in film and television in both the UK and the US.-Early life:...
  
  
• Mein liebster Feind
  My Best Fiend
  My Best Fiend is a 1999 documentary film by Werner Herzog about his tumultuous yet productive relationship with German actor Klaus Kinski. It was released on DVD in 2000 by Anchor Bay.-Summary:...
  
  by Werner Herzog
  Werner Herzog
  Werner Herzog Stipetić , known as Werner Herzog, is a German film director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and opera director.He is often considered as one of the greatest figures of the New German Cinema, along with Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Margarethe von Trotta, Volker Schlöndorff, Werner...
  
  
• The Barber of Siberia
  The Barber of Siberia
  The Barber of Siberia is a 1998 Russian film that re-united the Academy Award winning team of director Nikita Mikhalkov and Michel Seydoux...
  
  by 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...
  
  
• The Limey
  The Limey
  The Limey is a 1999 American crime film, directed by Steven Soderbergh and written by Lem Dobbs. The film features Terence Stamp, Lesley Ann Warren, Luis Guzmán, Peter Fonda and Barry Newman.Filming locations included Big Sur and L.A.-Plot:...
  
  by 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...
  
  

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...
  
  : Rosetta
  Rosetta (film)
  Rosetta is a 1999 French-Belgian film written and directed by Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne. It is about a seventeen year old girl who lives in a trailer park with her alcoholic mother...
  
  by Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
• 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...
  
  : L'humanité
  Humanité
  Humanité is a 1999 film directed by Bruno Dumont. It tells the story of a detective who has lost touch with his emotions, and who investigates the murder of a little girl.-Plot:...
  
  by Bruno Dumont
  Bruno Dumont
  Bruno Dumont is a French film director. To date, he has directed five feature films, all of which border somewhere between realistic drama and the avant-garde. His films have won several awards at the Cannes Film Festival. Two of Dumont's films have won the Grand Prix award: both L'Humanité and...
  
  
• 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 lettre
  The Letter (1999 film)
  The Letter is a 1999 French-Portuguese drama film directed by Manoel de Oliveira. It tells the story of a married woman who has feelings for another man, and who confesses her feelings to her friend, a cloistered nun...
  
  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...
  
  
• 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:* * ....
  
  : Emmanuel Schotté for L'humanité
  Humanité
  Humanité is a 1999 film directed by Bruno Dumont. It tells the story of a detective who has lost touch with his emotions, and who investigates the murder of a little girl.-Plot:...
  
  
• Best Actress
  Best Actress Award (Cannes Film Festival)
  The Best Actress Award is an award presented at the Cannes Film Festival. It is chosen by the jury from the 'official section' of films at the festival. It was first awarded in 1946.-Award Winners:-External links:* * ....
  
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  • Séverine Caneele for L'humanité
    Humanité
    Humanité is a 1999 film directed by Bruno Dumont. It tells the story of a detective who has lost touch with his emotions, and who investigates the murder of a little girl.-Plot:...
    
    
  • Émilie Dequenne
    Émilie Dequenne
    Émilie Dequenne is a French-speaking Belgian actress.-Biography:She won the Best Actress award at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival for her debut film performance in the Palme d'Or-winning film Rosetta...
    
     for Rosetta
    Rosetta (film)
    Rosetta is a 1999 French-Belgian film written and directed by Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne. It is about a seventeen year old girl who lives in a trailer park with her alcoholic mother...
    
    
• 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....
  
  : Pedro Almodóvar
  Pedro Almodóvar
  Pedro Almodóvar Caballero is a Spanish film director, screenwriter and producer.Almodóvar is arguably the most successful and internationally known Spanish filmmaker of his generation. His films, marked by complex narratives, employ the codes of melodrama and use elements of pop culture, popular...
  
   for Todo sobre mi madre
  All About My Mother
  All About My Mother is a 1999 Spanish drama film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar. The film deals with complex issues such as AIDS, transvestitism, faith, and existentialism....
  
  
• 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....
  
  : When the Day Breaks
  When the Day Breaks
  When the Day Breaks is an Canadian animated short co-directed by Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis.Produced by the National Film Board of Canada in 1999, the 9 min. 40 sec. film garnered numerous awards, including the Genie Award for Best Animated Short and the Short Film Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film...
  
  by Wendy Tilby, Amanda Forbis
• 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...
  
  : Molokh
  Moloch (film)
  Moloch is a 1999 Russian biographical drama film directed by Alexander Sokurov. The storyline was conceived from a screenplay written by Yuri Arabov and Marina Koreneva. It portrays Adolf Hitler as a humanized figure, living life in an unassuming manner during an abrupt journey to the Bavarian Alps...
  
  by Alexander Sokurov
  Alexander Sokurov
  Alexander Nikolayevich Sokurov is a Russian filmmaker. His most significant works include a semi-documentary, Russian Ark , filmed in a single unedited shot, and Faust , which was honoured with the Golden Lion, the highest prize for the best film at the Venice Film Festival.- Life and work...
  
  
• Technical Grand Prize: Tin seung yan gaan
  Love Will Tear Us Apart (film)
  Love Will Tear Us Apart is a 1999 Hong Kong drama film directed by Yu Lik-wai. It was entered into the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Tony Leung Ka-fai - Jian* Liping Lü - Yan* Ning Wong - Ying* Rolf Chow - Chun...
  
  by Juhua Tu
• 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 ....
  
  : Marana Simhasanam
  Throne of Death
  Marana Simhasanam is a 1999 Indian drama film in Malayalam directed by Murali Nair. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Caméra d'Or .-Plot:...
  
  by Murali Nair
• 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:
  • Second Hand by Emily Young
    Emily Young
    Emily Young is a British sculptor. She is considered one of the foremost sculptors working in Britain today. She was born in London into a family of artists and writers...
    
    
  • Im Hukim by Dover Koshashvili
  • La puce by Emmanuelle Bercot
• Cinefondation Award - Special Mention: Inter-View by Jessica Hausner
  Jessica Hausner
  Jessica Hausner is an Austrian film director and screenwriter. She has directed six films since 1995. Her film Lovely Rita was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival...
  
  
• 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: Beautiful People
  Beautiful People (film)
  Beautiful People is a multi-award winning satirical comedy written and directed by Jasmin Dizdar. The film is set in London during the time of the Bosnian war...
  
  by Jasmin Dizdar
  Jasmin Dizdar
  Jasmin Dizdar is a Bosnian-British screenwriter, film director and author on cinema. He is known for his film Beautiful People which won an award for the best film in Un Certain Regard category at the Cannes Film Festival.- Biography :As a child Jasmin Dizdar was an award winning short story writer...
  
  
• Mercedes-Benz Award: Flores de otro mundo by Icíar Bollaín
  Icíar Bollaín
  Icíar Bollaín Pérez-Mínguez is a Spanish actress, director and writer.Her father was an aeronautical engineer and her mother was a music teacher. She made her début when she was 15 years old. She is a member of the Academia Española de Cinematografía.She began her work in cinema at the age of...
  
  
• Canal+ Award: Shoes Off! by Mark Sawers
• Kodak Short Film Award: Un petit air de fête by Eric Guirado
  Éric Guirado
  Éric Guirado is an French film director and writer born in Lyon, Rhône.-Career:Éric Guirado started his career as a journalist and his interest in social issues is apparent in the documentary-style of his story-telling...
  
  
• Kodak Short Film Award - Special Mention Ô trouble by Sylvia Calle
• Grand Golden Rail: Siam Sunset
  Siam Sunset
  Siam Sunset is an Australian comedy film released in 1999. It was directed by John Polson and stars Linus Roache and Danielle Cormack.-Plot:...
  
  by John Polson
  John Polson
  John Polson is an Australian actor, director and founder of Tropfest. In February 2001, Polson attended the 12th Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival in Hokkaidō, Japan where his film Siam Sunset won the Minami Toshiko Award...
  
  
• C.I.C.A.E. Award: Qui plume la lune? by Christine Carrière
• Gras Savoye Award: Un château en Espagne by Delphine Gleize
  Delphine Gleize
  Delphine Gleize is a French film director and screenwriter. She has directed ten films since 1998. Her film Carnages was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:* Sale battars...
  
  
• 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...
  
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  • Peau neuve
    New Dawn (film)
    New Dawn is a 1999 French drama film directed by Émilie Deleuze. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Samuel Le Bihan - Alain* Marcial Di Fonzo Bo - Manu* Catherine Vinatier - Pascale...
    
    by Émilie Deleuze
    Émilie Deleuze
    Émilie Deleuze is a French film director and screenwriter. She has directed eight films since 1986. Her film Peau neuve was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival...
    
     (Competition)
  • M/Other by Nobuhiro Suwa
    Nobuhiro Suwa
    is a Japanese film director working in Japan and France. His directorial works and screenplays often make use of improvisation techniques. Currently, Suwa is the President of Tokyo Zokei University.-Biography:...
    
     (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...
  
  : Todo sobre mi madre
  All About My Mother
  All About My Mother is a 1999 Spanish drama film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar. The film deals with complex issues such as AIDS, transvestitism, faith, and existentialism....
  
  by Pedro Almodóvar
  Pedro Almodóvar
  Pedro Almodóvar Caballero is a Spanish film director, screenwriter and producer.Almodóvar is arguably the most successful and internationally known Spanish filmmaker of his generation. His films, marked by complex narratives, employ the codes of melodrama and use elements of pop culture, popular...
  
  
• Prize of the Ecumenical Jury - Special Mention: Rosetta
  Rosetta (film)
  Rosetta is a 1999 French-Belgian film written and directed by Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne. It is about a seventeen year old girl who lives in a trailer park with her alcoholic mother...
  
  by Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
• France Culture Award: Jean-Claude Biette (for his whole work)
• Award of the Youth:
  • Foreign Film: The Blair Witch Project
    The Blair Witch Project
    The Blair Witch Project is a 1999 American horror film pieced together from amateur footage. The film was produced by the Haxan Films production company. The film relates the story of three student filmmakers The Blair Witch Project is a 1999 American horror film pieced together from amateur...
    
    by Daniel Myrick
    Daniel Myrick
    Daniel Myrick is an American director most famous for co-directing and writing the 1999 film The Blair Witch Project with Eduardo Sánchez, for which they won the Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award.-Life and career:...
    
    , Eduardo Sánchez
    Eduardo Sánchez
    Eduardo Miguel Sánchez-Quiros is a Cuban-born American director most famous for co-directing and writing the 1999 film The Blair Witch Project with Daniel Myrick....
    
    
  • French Film: Voyages by Emmanuel Finkiel
• 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...
  
  : L'autre
  The Other (1999 film)
  The Other is a 1999 French-Egyptian drama film directed by Youssef Chahine. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Nabila Ebeid - Margaret* Mahmoud Hemida - Khalil* Hanan Tork - Hanane...
  
  by Youssef Chahine
  Youssef Chahine
  Youssef Chahine was an Egyptian film director active in the Egyptian film industry since 1950. He was credited with launching the career of actor Omar Sharif...
  
  

External links

• 1999 Cannes Film Festival
• Cannes Film Festival:1999 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...