Jury

• Yves Montand
  Yves Montand
  -Early life:Montand was born Ivo Livi in Monsummano Terme, Italy, the son of poor peasants Giuseppina and Giovanni Livi, a broommaker. Montand's mother was a devout Catholic, while his father held strong Communist beliefs. Because of the Fascist regime in Italy, Montand's family left for France in...
  
  
• Danièle Heymann
• Elem Klimov
  Elem Klimov
  Elem Germanovich Klimov was a Soviet Russian film director. He studied at VGIK, and was married to film director Larisa Shepitko. He is best known in the West for his final film, 1985's Come and See , a powerful tale of a teenage boy in German-occupied Byelorussia during the German-Soviet War,...
  
  
• Gérald Calderon
• 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...
  
  
• Jerzy Skolimowski
  Jerzy Skolimowski
  Jerzy Skolimowski is a Polish film director, screenwriter, dramatist and actor. A graduate of the prestigious National Film School in Łódź, Skolimowski has directed more than twenty films since his 1960 début Oko wykol...
  
  
• Nicola Piovani
  Nicola Piovani
  Nicola Piovani is a light-classical musician, theater and film score composer, and winner of the 1998 Best Original Dramatic Score Oscar for the score of the Roberto Benigni film La Vita è bella, better known to English-speaking audiences as Life Is Beautiful.After high school, Piovani enrolled at...
  
  
• Norman Mailer
  Norman Mailer
  Norman Kingsley Mailer was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, poet, playwright, screenwriter, and film director.Along with Truman Capote, Joan Didion, Hunter S...
  
  
• Theo Angelopoulos
  Theo Angelopoulos
  Theodoros Angelopoulos is a Greek filmmaker, screenwriter and film producer.-Life:Angelopoulos studied law at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, but after his military service went to Paris to attend the Sorbonne. He soon dropped out to study film at the IDHEC before returning...
  
  

Feature film competition

• Aria by Robert Altman
  Robert Altman
  Robert Bernard Altman was an American film director and screenwriter known for making films that are highly naturalistic, but with a stylized perspective. In 2006, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recognized his body of work with an Academy Honorary Award.His films MASH , McCabe and...
  
  , Bruce Beresford
  Bruce Beresford
  Bruce Beresford is an Australian film director who has made more than 30 feature films over a 40-year career.-Early life:...
  
  , Bill Bryden
  Bill Bryden
  William Campbell Rough Bryden CBE is a British stage- and film director and screenwriter.-Biography:...
  
  , Jean-Luc Godard
  Jean-Luc Godard
  Jean-Luc Godard is a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic. He is often identified with the 1960s French film movement, French Nouvelle Vague, or "New Wave"....
  
  , Derek Jarman
  Derek Jarman
  Michael Derek Elworthy Jarman was an English film director, stage designer, diarist, artist, gardener and author.-Life:...
  
  , Franc Roddam
  Franc Roddam
  Francis George "Franc" Roddam is an English film director, businessman, screenwriter, television producer and publisher. He is married to photographer, Leila Ansari, and has six children from previous marriages. He currently lives in London.-Career:Roddam's films include "Quadrophenia", "K2",...
  
  , Nicolas Roeg
  Nicolas Roeg
  Nicolas Jack Roeg, CBE, BSC is an English film director and cinematographer.-Life and career:Roeg was born in London, the son of Mabel Gertrude and Jack Nicolas Roeg...
  
  , Ken Russell
  Ken Russell
  Henry Kenneth Alfred "Ken" Russell was an English film director, known for his pioneering work in television and film and for his flamboyant and controversial style. He attracted criticism as being obsessed with sexuality and the church...
  
  , Charles Sturridge
  Charles Sturridge
  Charles B. G. Sturridge is an English screenwriter, producer, stage, television and film director.-Personal life:Sturridge was born in London, England to Alyson Bowman Vaughan and Jerome Sturridge. He was educated at Stonyhurst College...
  
  , Julien Temple
  Julien Temple
  Julien Temple is an English film, documentary and music video director. He began his career with short films featuring the Sex Pistols, and has continued with various off-beat projects, including The Great Rock And Roll Swindle, Absolute Beginners and a documentary film about Glastonbury.-Temple...
  
  
• Az utolsó kézirat
  The Last Manuscript
  The Last Manuscript is a 1987 Hungarian drama film directed by Károly Makk. It was entered into the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Jozef Króner - György Nyáry* Aleksander Bardini - Márk * Eszter Nagy-Kálózy - Flóra...
  
  by Károly Makk
• Barfly
  Barfly (film)
  Barfly is a 1987 American film which is a semi-autobiography of poet/author Charles Bukowski during the time he spent drinking heavily in Los Angeles. The screenplay by Bukowski was commissioned by the French film director Barbet Schroeder – it was published, with illustrations by the author, in...
  
  by Barbet Schroeder
  Barbet Schroeder
  Barbet Schroeder is a Franco-Swiss movie director and producer who started his career in French cinema in the 1960s, working together with directors such as Jean-Luc Godard and Jacques Rivette.-Life and career:...
  
  
• The Belly of an Architect
  The Belly of an Architect
  The Belly of an Architect is a 1987 film drama written and directed by Peter Greenaway, featuring original music by Glenn Branca and Wim Mertens....
  
  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...
  
  
• Champ d'honneur by Jean-Pierre Denis
  Jean-Pierre Denis
  Jean-Pierre Denis is a French film director and screenwriter. He has directed six films between 1980 and 2005. His film Field of Honor was entered into the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:* Histoire d'Adrien...
  
  
• Cronaca di una morte annunciata
  Chronicle of a Death Foretold (film)
  Chronicle of a Death Foretold is a drama film directed by Francesco Rosi adapted by Tonino Guerra from the eponymous novel by Gabriel García Márquez. It stars Rupert Everett, Ornella Muti, Anthony Delon and Gian Maria Volonté. The film premiered at Cannes film festival in May 1987.-Plot :Cristóbal...
  
  by Francesco Rosi
  Francesco Rosi
  Francesco Rosi is an Italian film director. He is the father of actress Carolina Rosi.-Biography:After studying Law, but hoping to study film, Rosi entered the industry as an assistant to Luchino Visconti on La Terra trema...
  
  
• Der Himmel über Berlin
  Wings of Desire
  Wings of Desire is a 1987 Franco-German romantic fantasy film directed by Wim Wenders. The film is about invisible, immortal angels who populate Berlin and listen to the thoughts of the human inhabitants and comfort those who are in distress...
  
  by Wim Wenders
  Wim Wenders
  Ernst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders is a German film director, playwright, author, photographer and producer.-Early life:Wenders was born in Düsseldorf. He graduated from high school in Oberhausen in the Ruhr area. He then studied medicine and philosophy in Freiburg and Düsseldorf...
  
  
• La famiglia
  La famiglia (1987 film)
  La famiglia is an Italian award-winning 1987 film, directed by Ettore Scola and starred by Vittorio Gassman, Fanny Ardant, Philippe Noiret and Stefania Sandrelli...
  
  by Ettore Scola
• The Glass Menagerie
  The Glass Menagerie (1987 film)
  The Glass Menagerie is a 1987 American drama film directed by Paul Newman. It is a replication of a production of the Tennessee Williams play of the same title that originated at the Williamstown Theatre Festival and then transferred to the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut.The film is...
  
  by Paul Newman
  Paul Newman
  Paul Leonard Newman was an American actor, film director, entrepreneur, humanitarian, professional racing driver and auto racing enthusiast...
  
  
• Monanieba by Tengiz Abuladze
  Tengiz Abuladze
  Tengiz Abuladze was a Georgian film director.Abuladze studied theatre direction at the Shota Rustaveli Theatre Institute, Tbilisi, Georgia, and filmmaking at the VGIK in Moscow. He graduated VGIK in 1952 and in 1953 he joined Gruziya-film as a director...
  
  
• Oci ciornie 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...
  
  
• Pierre et Djemila
  Pierre and Djemila
  Pierre and Djemila is a 1987 French drama film directed by Gérard Blain. It was entered into the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Abdelkader - Djaffar* Djedjigua Ait-Hamouda - Aicha* Jean-Pierre André - Pierre Landry* Jacques Brunet - Pere De Pierre...
  
  by Gérard Blain
  Gérard Blain
  Gérard Blain was a French actor and film director. He appeared in 60 films between 1944 and 2000. He also directed nine films between 1971 and 2000.-Selected filmography:* Les Mistons...
  
  
• Prick Up Your Ears
  Prick Up Your Ears
  Prick Up Your Ears is a 1987 film, directed by Stephen Frears, about the playwright Joe Orton and his lover Kenneth Halliwell. The screenplay was written by Alan Bennett, based on the book by John Lahr...
  
  by Stephen Frears
  Stephen Frears
  Stephen Arthur Frears is an English film director.-Early life:Frears was born in Leicester, England to Ruth M., a social worker, and Dr Russell E. Frears, a general practitioner and accountant. He did not find out that his mother was Jewish until he was in his late 20s...
  
  
• Shinran: Shiroi michi
  Shinran: Path to Purity
  is a 1987 Japanese drama film directed by Rentaro Mikuni. The film won the Jury Prize at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Junkyu Moriyama - Zenshin * Michiyo Ookusu - Keishin, Shinran's wife* Ako - Shiina* Kazuo Andoh - Kazuto* Sen Hara - Ayae...
  
  by Rentaro Mikuni
• Shy People
  Shy People
  Shy People is a critically acclaimed 1987 American drama about two branches of a family that reunite with tragic results, starring Barbara Hershey, Jill Clayburgh, and Martha Plimpton. It was directed by Andrei Konchalovsky, written by Konchalovsky, Marjorie David and Gerard Brach, and features...
  
  by Andrei Konchalovsky
  Andrei Konchalovsky
  Andrei Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky is a Soviet-American and Russian film director, film producer and screenwriter....
  
  
• Um Trem para as Estrelas
  Subway to the Stars
  Subway to the Stars is a 1987 Brazilian drama film directed by Carlos Diegues. It was entered into the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Guilherme Fontes - Vinicius* Milton Gonçalves - Freitas* Taumaturgo Ferreira - Dream...
  
  by Carlos Diegues
  Carlos Diegues
  Carlos Diegues, also known as Cacá Diegues, is a Brazilian film director. He is best known as a member of the Cinema Novo movement.-Filmography:* 2010 O Grande Circo Místico...
  
  
• Un homme amoureux
  A Man in Love (film)
  A Man in Love is a 1987 French-Italian drama film directed by Diane Kurys. Her first English language film, it was entered into the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Peter Coyote - Steve Elliott* Greta Scacchi - Jane Steiner...
  
  by Diane Kurys
  Diane Kurys
  Diane Kurys is a French filmmaker and actress. Several of her films as director are autobiographical. Born in Lyon, Rhône, France, her parents divorced when she was a child. She began as an actress with Jean-Louis Barrault's company. She gained film stardom, but didn't like the roles she was...
  
  
• Sous le soleil de Satan
  Under the Sun of Satan
  Under the Sun of Satan is a 1987 French film directed by Maurice Pialat. It is based on the 1926 novel of the same name by Georges Bernanos, and tells the story of a devout priest who becomes involved with a murderess...
  
  by Maurice Pialat
  Maurice Pialat
  Maurice Pialat was a French film director, screenwriter and actor noted for the rigorous and unsentimental style of his films...
  
  
• Yeelen
  Yeelen
  Yeelen is a 1987 Malian film directed by Souleymane Cissé. It is filmed in the Bambara and Fula languages, and is based on a legend told by the Bambara people...
  
  by Souleymane Cissé
  Souleymane Cissé
  -Biography:Raised in a Muslim family, Souleymane Cissé was a passionate cinephile from childhood. He attended secondary school in Dakar, and returned to Mali in 1960 after national independence....
  
  
• Zegen
  Zegen
  is a 1987 Japanese film by director Shohei Imamura. It was entered into the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.- Plot :This black comedy is a satire of Japan's 20th century imperialism. By taking the story of Iheiji Muraoka, who built brothels for the Japanese military, Imamura is able to make comments on...
  
  by Shōhei Imamura
  Shohei Imamura
  was a Japanese film director. Imamura was the first Japanese director to win two Palme d'Or awards.His eldest son Daisuke Tengan is also a script writer and film director, and worked on the screenplays to Imamura's filmsThe Eel , Dr...
  
  

Un Certain Regard

• A Gathering of Old Men
  A Gathering of Old Men (film)
  A Gathering of Old Men is a 1987 American television drama film directed by Volker Schlöndorff and based on the novel of the same name. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Louis Gossett Jr...
  
  by Volker Schlöndorff
  Volker Schlöndorff
  Volker Schlöndorff is a Berlin-based German filmmaker who has worked in Germany, France and the United States...
  
  
• A Month in the Country
  A Month in the Country (film)
  A Month in the Country is a 1987 British film directed by Pat O'Connor. The film is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by J. L. Carr, and stars Colin Firth, Kenneth Branagh, Natasha Richardson and Patrick Malahide...
  
  by Pat O'Connor
  Pat O'Connor (director)
  Pat O'Connor, born in Ardmore, County Waterford, is an Irish film director.In 1982, O'Connor won a Jacob's Award for his direction of the RTÉ TV adaptation of William Trevor's short story, Ballroom of Romance starring Cyril Cusack and Brenda Fricker. It was shot near the village of Ballycroy,...
  
  
• And the Pursuit of Happiness
  And the Pursuit of Happiness
  And the Pursuit of Happiness is a 1986 documentary film directed by Louis Malle about the experiences of immigrants in the United States during the 1980s. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:...
  
  by Louis Malle
  Louis Malle
  Louis Malle was a French film director, screenwriter, and producer. He worked in both French cinema and Hollywood. His films include Ascenseur pour l'échafaud , Atlantic City , and Au revoir, les enfants .- Early years in France :Malle was born into a wealthy industrialist family in Thumeries,...
  
  
• Babettes Gaestebud
  Babette's Feast
  Babette's Feast is a 1987 Danish film directed by Gabriel Axel. The film's screenplay was written by Axel based on the story by Isak Dinesen , who also wrote the story which inspired the 1985 Academy Award winning film Out of Africa...
  
  by Gabriel Axel
  Gabriel Axel
  Gabriel Axel is an Oscar winning Danish film director, actor, writer and producer, best known for the Oscar-winning Babette's Feast , which he wrote and directed....
  
  
• Cartoline italiane
  Italian Postcards
  Italian Postcards is a 1987 Italian drama film directed by Memè Perlini. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Geneviève Page* Lindsay Kemp* Christiana Borghi* David Brandon* Stefano Davanzati...
  
  by Memè Perlini
  Memè Perlini
  Memè Perlini is an Italian actor and film director. His debut film as a director, Italian Postcards, was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.-External links:...
  
  
• Das weite Land
  The Distant Land
  The Distant Land is a 1987 Austrian-German drama film directed by Luc Bondy. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Michel Piccoli - Friedrich Hofreiter* Bulle Ogier - Génia* Wolfgang Hübsch - Mauer...
  
  by Luc Bondy
  Luc Bondy
  - Biography :Trained in Paris with the theatre teacher Jacques Lecoq, he received a job in 1969 as an assistant at the Hamburg Thalia Theatre. In a surprise, he took over in 1985 after the resignation of Peter Stein at the Schaubühne in Berlin. He also worked as a producer of both plays and operas...
  
  
• Epidemic
  Epidemic (film)
  Epidemic is a 1987 film directed by Lars von Trier. It is the second of Trier's films known collectively as the Europa trilogy. The other two films in the trilogy are The Element of Crime and Europa ....
  
  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....
  
  
• Hôtel de France
  Hôtel de France
  Hôtel de France is a 1987 French drama film directed by Patrice Chéreau. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Laurent Grévill - Michel* Valeria Bruni Tedeschi - Sonia* Vincent Perez - Serge...
  
  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...
  
  
• Hud
  Hud (1986 film)
  Hud is a 1986 Norwegian crime film directed by and starring Vibeke Løkkeberg. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Vibeke Løkkeberg - Vilde* Keve Hjelm - Sigurd - Vilde's Stepfather...
  
  by Vibeke Løkkeberg
  Vibeke Løkkeberg
  Vibeke Løkkeberg is a Norwegian film actress and director. She appeared in 12 films between 1967 and 1991. Her film Hud was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.-Selected filmography:...
  
  
• Jenatsch
  Jenatsch (film)
  Jenatsch is a 1987 French-Swiss drama film directed by Daniel Schmid. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Michel Voïta - Christophe Sprecher* Christine Boisson - Nina...
  
  by Daniel Schmid
• La casa de Bernarda Alba
  The House of Bernarda Alba (1987 film)
  The House of Bernarda Alba is a 1987 Spanish drama film directed by Mario Camus. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival...
  
  by Mario Camus
• Ormens väg på hälleberget
  The Serpent's Way
  The Serpent's Way is a 1986 Swedish drama film directed by Bo Widerberg. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Stina Ekblad - Tea Alexisdotter* Stellan Skarsgård - Karl Orsa Markström...
  
  by Bo Widerberg
• Prostaya smert
  A Simple Death
  A Simple Death is a 1985 Soviet drama film directed by Alexander Kaidanovsky. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Valeriy Priyomykhov - Ivan Ilyich* Alisa Frejndlikh* Vytautas Paukste...
  
  by Alexander Kaidanovsky
• Przypadek
  Blind Chance
  Blind Chance is a Polish film directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski. Made in 1981, the film was suppressed by the Polish authorities for several years, until its delayed release in 1987...
  
  by 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:...
  
  
• Robinzoniada, anu chemi ingliseli Papa
  Robinsonada or My English Grandfather
  Robinsonada or My English Grandfather is a 1986 Georgian comedy film directed by Nana Djordjadze. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Caméra d'Or.-Plot:...
  
  by Nana Djordjadze
  Nana Djordjadze
  Nana Jorjadze is a Georgian film director, scriptwriter and actress.Jorjadze was born in Tbilisi, and graduated first from a local musical school , and then from the architectural department at the Tbilisi State Academy of Fine Arts...
  
  
• Sofia
  Sofia (film)
  Sofia is a 1987 Argentine drama film directed by Alejandro Doria. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Dora Baret - Sofía* Héctor Alterio - Pedro's father* Graciela Dufau - Pedro's mother...
  
  by Alejandro Doria
  Alejandro Doria
  Alejandro Doria was a noted Argentine cinema and television director.-Life and work:Born in Buenos Aires in 1936, he first worked for Argentine television in 1965 as a writer for a local variety show, Show rambler....
  
  
• Someone to Love by Henry Jaglom
  Henry Jaglom
  - Life and career :Born January 26, 1941 in London, England to Simon and Marie Jaglom, Henry Jaglom trained with Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio in New York, where he acted, wrote and directed off-Broadway theater and cabaret before settling in Hollywood in the late 1960s...
  
  
• Un hombre de éxito
  A Successful Man
  A Successful Man is a 1985 Cuban drama film directed by Humberto Solás. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival...
  
  by Humberto Solás
  Humberto Solás
  Humberto Solás was a Cuban film director, credited with directing the classic film Lucía , which explored the lives of Cuban women during different periods in Cuban history....
  
  
• Xiangnu xiaoxiao
  A Girl from Hunan
  A Girl from Hunan is a 1986 Chinese drama film directed by Xie Fei and U Lan. The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival, and was one of the first mainland Chinese films to be commercially screened in the United States...
  
  by Xie Fei
  Xie Fei (director)
  Xie Fei is a world-recognized Chinese film director. Xie was born in Yan'an, Shaanxi Province.A graduate of the Beijing Film Academy, Xie has also taught at his alma mater as a vice-president of that institution.-Selected films:-External links:...
  
  
• Yer demir gök bakir
  Iron Earth, Copper Sky
  Iron Earth, Copper Sky is a 1987 German-Turkish drama film, written, produced and directed by Zülfü Livaneli based on the novel of the same name by Yaşar Kemal, featuring Rutkay Aziz as a simple villager elevated to sainthood status while still alive...
  
  by Zülfü Livaneli
  Zülfü Livaneli
  Ömer Zülfü Livanelioğlu is a popular Turkish folk musician , a novelist, newspaper columnist and a film director who has been highly popular for decades...
  
  

Films out of competition

• Aida
  Aida (1953 film)
  Aida is a 1953 Italian film version of the opera Aida by Giuseppe Verdi. It was directed by Clemente Fracassi and produced by Gregor Rabinovitch and Federico Teti. The screenplay was adapted by Fracassi, Carlo Castelli, Anna Gobbi and Giorgio Salviucci from the libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni...
  
  by Clemente Fracassi
  Clemente Fracassi
  Clemente Fracassi was an Italian film producer, director and screenwriter. His career spanned from 1939 to 1967.-Selected filmography:* To Live in Peace * Senza pietà...
  
  
• Awdat mowatin
  Return of a Citizen
  Return of a Citizen is a 1986 Egyptian drama film directed by Mohamed Khan. It was screened out of competition at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Ahmed Abdelaziz* Mervat Amin* Yehia El-Fakharany* Abdel Moneim Ibrahim* Sherif Mounir...
  
  by Mohamed Khan
  Mohamed Khan
  Mohamed Hamed Hassan Khan is an Egyptian-Pakistani film director, screenwriter and actor.-Biography:Born on October 26, 1942 to an Egyptian mother and a Pakistani father, He completed his high school in Egypt, then traveled to England where studied at the London School of Film Technique Mohamed...
  
  
• Boris Godunov
  Boris Godunov (1954 film)
  Boris Godunov is a 1954 Soviet drama film directed by Vera Stroyeva, based on the opera of the same name by Modest Mussorgsky. It was screened out of competition at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Alexander Pirogov as Boris Godunov...
  
  by Vera Stroyeva
  Vera Stroyeva
  Vera Stroyeva was a Soviet film director and screenwriter. She directed 13 films between 1930 and 1970. Her film Boris Godunov was screened out of competition at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival....
  
  
• Caméra arabe by Férid Boughedir
  Férid Boughedir
  Férid Boughedir is a Tunisian film director and screenwriter. He has directed five films since 1983. His film Caméra d'Afrique was screened at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:* Caméra d'Afrique * Caméra arabe...
  
  
• Don Quichotte
  Adventures of Don Quixote (film)
  Adventures of Don Quixote is the English title of a film adaptation of the classic Miguel de Cervantes novel, directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst, starring the famous operatic bass Feodor Chaliapin. Although the film stars Chaliapin, it is not an opera; however, he does sing three songs in it. It is...
  
  by Georg Wilhelm Pabst
  Georg Wilhelm Pabst
  -Biography:Pabst was born in Raudnitz, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary , the son of a railroad employee.Returning from the United States, he was in France when World War I began...
  
  
• Feathers
  Feathers (film)
  Feathers is a 1987 Australian drama film directed by John Ruane. It was screened out of competition at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* James Laurie - James* Neil Melville - Bert* Rebecca Gilling - Fran* Julie Forsyth - Olla* John Flaus - Doug...
  
  by John Ruane
• Intervista
  Intervista
  Intervista is a 1987 film by the Italian film director Federico Fellini.-Plot:Interviewed by a Japanese TV crew for a news report on his latest film, Fellini takes the viewer behind the scenes at Cinecittà. A nighttime set is prepared for a sequence that Fellini defines as “the prisoner’s dream”...
  
  by Federico Fellini
  Federico Fellini
  Federico Fellini, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI , was an Italian film director and scriptwriter. Known for a distinct style that blends fantasy and baroque images, he is considered one of the most influential and widely revered filmmakers of the 20th century...
  
  
• Good morning Babilonia by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
  Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
  Paolo and Vittorio Taviani are noted Italian film directors and screenwriters...
  
  
• Hēi Pào Shìjiàn
  The Black Cannon Incident
  The Black Cannon Incident is a 1985 Chinese black comedy film satirizing the bureaucracy and paranoia of Chinese authority. Presented by Xi'an Film Studio and directed by Huang Jianxin, it stars Gao Ming, Gerhard Olschewski, and Liu Zifeng....
  
  by Huang Jianxin
  Huang Jianxin
  Huang Jianxin is a Chinese film director. He is normally considered part of the fifth generation of Chinese filmmakers , due to shared traits in his works, although he was not a strictly a member of the inaugural 1982 class of the Beijing Film Academy...
  
  
• Hôtel du Paradis
  Hôtel du Paradis
  Hôtel du Paradis is a 1986 French drama film directed by Jana Boková. It was screened out of competition at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Carola Regnier – Sarah* Fernando Rey – Joseph* Marika Rivera – Marika* Artus de Penguern – Patric...
  
  by Jana Bokova
  Jana Boková
  Jana Boková is a Czech film director.Boková was born in Prague, but left Czechoslovakia in August 1968 to attend a conference of art students in Austria, then emigrated to Paris, France to study at the Sorbonne. She then lived in the United States where she worked as a photographer for Rolling...
  
  
• L'Inhumaine
  L'Inhumaine
  L'Inhumaine is a 1924 French drama-science fiction film directed by Marcel L'Herbier. It was notable for its experimental techniques and for the collaboration of many leading practitioners in the decorative arts, architecture and music...
  
  by Marcel L'Herbier
  Marcel L'Herbier
  Marcel L'Herbier, Légion d'honneur, was a French film-maker, who achieved prominence as an avant-garde theorist and imaginative practitioner with a series of silent films in the 1920s. His career as a director continued until the 1950s and he made more than 40 feature films in total...
  
  
• Le cinéma dans les yeux by Laurent Jacob, Gilles Jacob
• Il medium by Gian Carlo Menotti
  Gian Carlo Menotti
  Gian Carlo Menotti was an Italian-American composer and librettist. Although he often referred to himself as an American composer, he kept his Italian citizenship. He wrote the classic Christmas opera, Amahl and the Night Visitors, among about two dozen other operas intended to appeal to popular...
  
  
• Louise
  Louise (film)
  Louise is a 1939 French musical film directed by Abel Gance. It was screened out of competition at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival. It is based on the opera of the same name by Gustave Charpentier.-Cast:* Grace Moore - Louise* Georges Thill - Julien...
  
  by Abel Gance
  Abel Gance
  Abel Gance was a French film director and producer, writer and actor. He is best known for three major silent films: J'accuse , La Roue , and the monumental Napoléon .-Early life:...
  
  
• Macbeth
  Macbeth (1987 film)
  Macbeth is a 1987 French film of Verdi's opera Macbeth Directed by Claude d'Anna, it was screened out of competition at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Leo Nucci - Macbeth...
  
  by Claude d'Anna
  Claude d'Anna
  Claude d'Anna is a French film director and screenwriter. He has directed 16 films since 1970. His film Salome was screened in the Un Certain Regard section the 1986 Cannes Film Festival...
  
  
• Pagliacci
  Pagliacci (1982 film)
  Pagliacci is a 1982 Italian film of Ruggero Leoncavallo's opera Pagliacci, directed by Franco Zeffirelli. Including Placido Domingo and Teresa Stratas in the starring roles, all the actors were opera singers who sang their own parts. Pagliacci was shot on location in Vizzini, Sicily, at Milan's La...
  
  by Franco Zeffirelli
  Franco Zeffirelli
  Franco Zeffirelli KBE is an Italian director and producer of films and television. He is also a director and designer of operas and a former senator for the Italian center-right Forza Italia party....
  
  
• Radio Days
  Radio Days
  Radio Days is a 1987 comedy film directed by Woody Allen. The film looks back on an American family's life during the Golden Age of Radio using both music and memories to tell the story.-Plot:...
  
  by Woody Allen
  Woody Allen
  Woody Allen is an American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, jazz musician, author, and playwright. Allen's films draw heavily on literature, sexuality, philosophy, psychology, Jewish identity, and the history of cinema...
  
  
• Raising Arizona
  Raising Arizona
  Raising Arizona is a 1987 comedy film directed by the Coen Brothers and starring Nicolas Cage, Holly Hunter, William Forsythe, John Goodman, Frances McDormand and Randall "Tex" Cobb. Not a blockbuster at the time of its release, it has since achieved cult status...
  
  by the Coen brothers
  Coen Brothers
  Joel David Coen and Ethan Jesse Coen known together professionally as the Coen brothers, are American filmmakers...
  
  
• Richard et Cosima
  Wahnfried (film)
  Wahnfried is a 1986 German-French drama film directed by Peter Patzak about the life of Richard Wagner. It was screened out of competition at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Otto Sander - Richard Wagner* Tatja Seibt - Cosima Wagner...
  
  by Peter Patzak
  Peter Patzak
  Peter Patzak is an Austrian film director and screenwriter. He has directed 60 films since 1973. His film Kassbach – Ein Porträt was entered into the 29th Berlin International Film Festival and his film Wahnfried was screened out of competition at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.-Selected...
  
  
• Slam Dance
  Slam Dance (film)
  Slam Dance is a 1987 thriller directed by Wayne Wang and starring Virginia Madsen, Tom Hulce, and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio. It was screened out of competition at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.-Plot:A married cartoonist named C.C...
  
  by Wayne Wang
  Wayne Wang
  Wayne Wang is a Chinese American film director.-Biography:Wang was born and raised in Hong Kong, and named after his father's favorite movie star, John Wayne...
  
  
• Something Wild by Jonathan Demme
  Jonathan Demme
  Robert Jonathan Demme is an American filmmaker, producer and screenwriter. Best known for directing The Silence of the Lambs, which won him the Academy Award for Best Director, he has also directed the acclaimed movies Philadelphia, Rachel Getting Married, the Talking Heads concert movie Stop...
  
  
• The Sentimental Bloke
  The Sentimental Bloke
  The Sentimental Bloke is an Australian silent film based on the 1915 poem The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke by C.J. Dennis.The film, from the Southern Cross Feature Film Company of Adelaide, was made by Raymond Longford and Lottie Lyell, at that time the best known partnership in Australian cinema...
  
  by Raymond Longford
  Raymond Longford
  Raymond Longford was a prolific Australian film director, writer, producer and actor during the silent era. Longford was a major director of the silent film era of the Australian cinema. He formed a production team with Lottie Lyell...
  
  
• The Whales of August
  The Whales of August
  The Whales of August is a 1987 film starring Bette Davis and Lillian Gish as elderly sisters. Also in the cast were Ann Sothern as one of their friends, and Vincent Price as a peripheral member of the former Russian aristocracy. The film was shot on location on Maine's Cliff Island. The house...
  
  by Lindsay Anderson
  Lindsay Anderson
  Lindsay Gordon Anderson was an Indian-born, British feature film, theatre and documentary director, film critic, and leading light of the Free Cinema movement and the British New Wave...
  
  
• Tough Guys Don't Dance
  Tough Guys Don't Dance (film)
  Tough Guys Don't Dance is a 1987 film written and directed by Norman Mailer based on his novel of the same name. It is a murder mystery/film noir piece that was scorned by audiences and critics alike. It was screened out of competition at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.The script had revisions done...
  
  by Norman Mailer
  Norman Mailer
  Norman Kingsley Mailer was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, poet, playwright, screenwriter, and film director.Along with Truman Capote, Joan Didion, Hunter S...
  
  

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...
  
  : Sous le soleil de Satan
  Under the Sun of Satan
  Under the Sun of Satan is a 1987 French film directed by Maurice Pialat. It is based on the 1926 novel of the same name by Georges Bernanos, and tells the story of a devout priest who becomes involved with a murderess...
  
  by Maurice Pialat
  Maurice Pialat
  Maurice Pialat was a French film director, screenwriter and actor noted for the rigorous and unsentimental style of his films...
  
  
• Grand Prix
  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...
  
  : Monanieba by Tengiz Abuladze
  Tengiz Abuladze
  Tengiz Abuladze was a Georgian film director.Abuladze studied theatre direction at the Shota Rustaveli Theatre Institute, Tbilisi, Georgia, and filmmaking at the VGIK in Moscow. He graduated VGIK in 1952 and in 1953 he joined Gruziya-film as a director...
  
  
• 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....
  
  :
  • Shinran: Shiroi michi
    Shinran: Path to Purity
    is a 1987 Japanese drama film directed by Rentaro Mikuni. The film won the Jury Prize at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Junkyu Moriyama - Zenshin * Michiyo Ookusu - Keishin, Shinran's wife* Ako - Shiina* Kazuo Andoh - Kazuto* Sen Hara - Ayae...
    
    by Rentaro Mikuni
  • Yeelen
    Yeelen
    Yeelen is a 1987 Malian film directed by Souleymane Cissé. It is filmed in the Bambara and Fula languages, and is based on a legend told by the Bambara people...
    
    by Souleymane Cissé
    Souleymane Cissé
    -Biography:Raised in a Muslim family, Souleymane Cissé was a passionate cinephile from childhood. He attended secondary school in Dakar, and returned to Mali in 1960 after national independence....
    
    
• 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:* * ....
  
  : Marcello Mastroianni
  Marcello Mastroianni
  Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni, Knight Grand Cross was an Italian film actor. His honours included British Film Academy Awards, Best Actor awards at the Cannes Film Festival and two Golden Globe Awards.- Personal life :...
  
   for Oci ciornie
• 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:* * ....
  
  : Barbara Hershey
  Barbara Hershey
  Barbara Hershey , also known as Barbara Seagull, is an American actress. In a career spanning nearly 50 years, she has played a variety of roles on television and in cinema, in several genres including westerns and comedies...
  
   for Shy People
  Shy People
  Shy People is a critically acclaimed 1987 American drama about two branches of a family that reunite with tragic results, starring Barbara Hershey, Jill Clayburgh, and Martha Plimpton. It was directed by Andrei Konchalovsky, written by Konchalovsky, Marjorie David and Gerard Brach, and features...
  
  
• 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....
  
  : Wim Wenders
  Wim Wenders
  Ernst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders is a German film director, playwright, author, photographer and producer.-Early life:Wenders was born in Düsseldorf. He graduated from high school in Oberhausen in the Ruhr area. He then studied medicine and philosophy in Freiburg and Düsseldorf...
  
   for Der Himmel über Berlin
  Wings of Desire
  Wings of Desire is a 1987 Franco-German romantic fantasy film directed by Wim Wenders. The film is about invisible, immortal angels who populate Berlin and listen to the thoughts of the human inhabitants and comfort those who are in distress...
  
  
• 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....
  
  : Palisade by Laurie McInnes
• Best Artistic Contribution: Stanley Myers
  Stanley Myers
  Stanley Myers , was a prolific British film composer who scored over sixty films. Born in Birmingham, as a teenager Myers went to King Edward's School in Edgbaston, a suburb of Birmingham...
  
   (composer) for Prick Up Your Ears
  Prick Up Your Ears
  Prick Up Your Ears is a 1987 film, directed by Stephen Frears, about the playwright Joe Orton and his lover Kenneth Halliwell. The screenplay was written by Alan Bennett, based on the book by John Lahr...
  
  
• Technical Grand Prize: Le cinéma dans les yeux by Gilles Jacob, Laurent Jacob
• 40th Anniversary Prize: Intervista
  Intervista
  Intervista is a 1987 film by the Italian film director Federico Fellini.-Plot:Interviewed by a Japanese TV crew for a news report on his latest film, Fellini takes the viewer behind the scenes at Cinecittà. A nighttime set is prepared for a sequence that Fellini defines as “the prisoner’s dream”...
  
  by Federico Fellini
  Federico Fellini
  Federico Fellini, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI , was an Italian film director and scriptwriter. Known for a distinct style that blends fantasy and baroque images, he is considered one of the most influential and widely revered filmmakers of the 20th century...
  
  
• 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 ....
  
  : Robinzoniada, anu chemi ingliseli Papa
  Robinsonada or My English Grandfather
  Robinsonada or My English Grandfather is a 1986 Georgian comedy film directed by Nana Djordjadze. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Caméra d'Or.-Plot:...
  
  by Nana Djordjadze
  Nana Djordjadze
  Nana Jorjadze is a Georgian film director, scriptwriter and actress.Jorjadze was born in Tbilisi, and graduated first from a local musical school , and then from the architectural department at the Tbilisi State Academy of Fine Arts...
  
  
• Perspectives du Cinéma Award:
  • Retour by Sylvie Guedel
  • Un amour à Paris 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....
    
    
• Perspectives du Cinéma Award - Special Mention:
• Boccetta revient de guerre by Jean-Pierre Sinapi
• 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...
  
  :
  • Monanieba by Tengiz Abuladze
    Tengiz Abuladze
    Tengiz Abuladze was a Georgian film director.Abuladze studied theatre direction at the Shota Rustaveli Theatre Institute, Tbilisi, Georgia, and filmmaking at the VGIK in Moscow. He graduated VGIK in 1952 and in 1953 he joined Gruziya-film as a director...
    
    
  • Urs al-jalil
    Wedding in Galilee
    Wedding in Galilee is a 1987 film directed by Michel Khleifi. It was awarded the International Critics Prize at Cannes in 1987.-Synopsis:...
    
    by Michel Khleifi
    Michel Khleifi
    Michel Khleifi is a Palestinian film writer, director and producer. He emigrated from Israel in 1970 and now resides in Belgium. There, he studied television and theatre directing at the Institut National Supérieur des Arts du Spectacle . After graduating from INSAS, he worked in Belgium...
    
    
  • Wish You Were Here
    Wish You Were Here (1987 film)
    Wish You Were Here is a 1987 British drama/comedy film starring Emily Lloyd and Tom Bell. The film was written and directed by David Leland. The original music score was composed by Stanley Myers.-Plot:...
    
    by David Leland
    David Leland
    David Leland is a director, screenwriter and actor who came to international fame with his directorial debut Wish You Were Here in 1987.-Life:...
    
    
• 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...
  
  : Monanieba by Tengiz Abuladze
  Tengiz Abuladze
  Tengiz Abuladze was a Georgian film director.Abuladze studied theatre direction at the Shota Rustaveli Theatre Institute, Tbilisi, Georgia, and filmmaking at the VGIK in Moscow. He graduated VGIK in 1952 and in 1953 he joined Gruziya-film as a director...
  
  
• Prize of the Ecumenical Jury - Special Mention:
  • Babettes gæstebud
    Babette's Feast
    Babette's Feast is a 1987 Danish film directed by Gabriel Axel. The film's screenplay was written by Axel based on the story by Isak Dinesen , who also wrote the story which inspired the 1985 Academy Award winning film Out of Africa...
    
    by Gabriel Axel
    Gabriel Axel
    Gabriel Axel is an Oscar winning Danish film director, actor, writer and producer, best known for the Oscar-winning Babette's Feast , which he wrote and directed....
    
    
  • Yeelen
    Yeelen
    Yeelen is a 1987 Malian film directed by Souleymane Cissé. It is filmed in the Bambara and Fula languages, and is based on a legend told by the Bambara people...
    
    by Souleymane Cissé
    Souleymane Cissé
    -Biography:Raised in a Muslim family, Souleymane Cissé was a passionate cinephile from childhood. He attended secondary school in Dakar, and returned to Mali in 1960 after national independence....
    
    
• Award of the Youth:
  • Foreign Film: I've Heard the Mermaids Singing
    I've Heard the Mermaids Singing
    I've Heard the Mermaids Singing is a 1987 theatrical-release feature film, directed by Patricia Rozema. The title is taken from The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot.-Plot:...
    
    by Patricia Rozema
    Patricia Rozema
    Patricia Rozema is a Canadian film director and screenwriter.-Life and career:Rozema was born in Kingston, Ontario and raised in Sarnia, Ontario. Her parents, Jacoba Berandina and Jan Rozema, were Dutch Calvinists. Television was severely restricted and she didn’t go to a movie theatre until she...
    
    
  • French Film: Not awarded

External links

• 1987 Cannes Film Festival
• Cannes Film Festival:1987 at Internet Movie Database
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