Jury

• Roman Polanski
  Roman Polanski
  Roman Polanski is a French-Polish film director, producer, writer and actor. Having made films in Poland, Britain, France and the USA, he is considered one of the few "truly international filmmakers."...
  
   (Poland) (president)
• 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...
  
   (Tunisia)
• Whoopi Goldberg
  Whoopi Goldberg
  Whoopi Goldberg is an American comedian, actress, singer-songwriter, political activist, author and talk show host.Goldberg made her film debut in The Color Purple playing Celie, a mistreated black woman in the Deep South. She received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress and won...
  
   (USA)
• Margaret Menegoz
  Margaret Ménégoz
  Margaret Ménégoz is a German-French film producer. She has produced over 50 films since 1976. She was a member of the jury at the 40th Berlin International Film Festival...
  
   (France)
• Natalia Negoda (Russia)
• Alan Parker
  Alan Parker
  Sir Alan William Parker, CBE is an English film director, producer, writer and actor. He has been active in both the British cinema and American cinema and was a founding member of the Directors Guild of Great Britain.-Life and career:...
  
   (UK)
• Jean-Paul Rappeneau
  Jean-Paul Rappeneau
  Jean-Paul Rappeneau is a French film director, screenwriter, and actor.He started out in film as an assistant and screenwriter collaborating with Louis Malle on Zazie dans le metro in 1960 and Vie privee in 1961...
  
   (France)
• Hans Dieter Seidel (Germany)
• 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:...
  
   (Italy)
• Vangelis
  Vangelis
  Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou is a Greek composer of electronic, progressive, ambient, jazz, pop rock and orchestral music, under the artist name Vangelis...
  
   (Greece)

Feature film competition

• A Rage in Harlem by Bill Duke
  Bill Duke
  William Henry "Bill" Duke, Jr. is an American actor and film director with over 30 years of experience. Known for his physically imposing frame, Duke's work frequently dwells within the action/crime and drama genres but also includes comedy.-Early life:Duke was born in Poughkeepsie, New York, the...
  
  
• Anna Karamazoff
  Anna Karamazoff
  Anna Karamazoff is a 1991 Soviet drama film directed by Rustam Khamdamov. It was entered into the 1991 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Jeanne Moreau - Woman* Yelena Solovey - Silent Film Star * Natalya Leble - Natasha...
  
  by Rustam Khamdamov
• Barton Fink
  Barton Fink
  Barton Fink is a 1991 American film, written, directed, and produced by the Coen brothers. Set in 1941, it stars John Turturro in the title role as a young New York City playwright who is hired to write scripts for a movie studio in Hollywood, and John Goodman as Charlie, the insurance salesman who...
  
  by Ethan and Joel Coen
  Coen Brothers
  Joel David Coen and Ethan Jesse Coen known together professionally as the Coen brothers, are American filmmakers...
  
  
• Biān zǒu biān chàng
  Life on a String (film)
  Life on a String is a 1991 Chinese film by acclaimed film director Chen Kaige. Made before his international breakthrough Farewell, My Concubine, Life on a String is a more intimate and philosophical affair, telling the story of a blind sanxian player and his young disciple. The film was based on...
  
  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:...
  
  
• Bix
  Bix (film)
  Bix is a 1991 Italian drama film about the final years of cornet player Bix Beiderbecke. It was directed by Pupi Avati and was entered into the 1991 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:...
  
  by Pupi Avati
  Pupi Avati
  Giuseppe Avati, better known as Pupi Avati is an Italian film director, producer, and screenwriter.-Early life and career:...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• Guilty by Suspicion
  Guilty by Suspicion
  Guilty by Suspicion is a 1991 film about the Hollywood blacklist and associated activities stemming from McCarthyism and the House Un-American Activities Committee...
  
  by Irwin Winkler
  Irwin Winkler
  Irwin Winkler is an American film producer and director. He is the producer or director of 50 major motion pictures, dating back to 1967's Double Trouble, starring Elvis Presley. The fourth film he produced, They Shoot Horses, Don't They? , starring Jane Fonda, was nominated for nine Academy Awards...
  
  
• Homicide
  Homicide (1991 film)
  Homicide is a mystery film crime drama written and directed by David Mamet, and released in 1991. The film's cast includes Joe Mantegna, William H. Macy, and Ving Rhames...
  
  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...
  
  
• Hors la vie by Maroun Bagdadi
• Il portaborse
  The Yes Man
  The Yes Man is a 1991 Italian drama film directed by Daniele Luchetti. It was entered into the 1991 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Silvio Orlando - Luciano Sandulli* Nanni Moretti - Cesare Botero* Giulio Brogi - Francesco Sanna* Anne Roussel - Juliette...
  
  by Daniele Luchetti
  Daniele Luchetti
  Daniele Luchetti is an Italian film director, screenwriter and actor.He was born in Rome. He debuted as assistant director for Nanni Moretti in Bianca and La messa è finita...
  
  
• Jungle Fever
  Jungle Fever
  Jungle Fever is a 1991 American drama film directed by Spike Lee, starring Wesley Snipes and Annabella Sciorra. It was Lee's fifth feature-length film. The film mainly explores interracial relationships...
  
  by Spike Lee
  Spike Lee
  Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee is an American film director, producer, writer, and actor. His production company, 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks, has produced over 35 films since 1983....
  
  
• La Belle Noiseuse
  La Belle Noiseuse
  La Belle Noiseuse is a 1991 film directed by Jacques Rivette and starring Michel Piccoli, Jane Birkin, and Emmanuelle Béart. Its title means "The Beautiful Troublemaker"...
  
  by Jacques Rivette
  Jacques Rivette
  Jacques Rivette is a French film director. His most well known films include Celine and Julie Go Boating, La Belle Noiseuse and the cult film Out 1....
  
  
• La carne
  The Flesh
  The Flesh is a 1991 Italian drama film directed by Marco Ferreri. It was entered into the 1991 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Sergio Castellitto - Paolo* Francesca Dellera - Francesca* Philippe Léotard* Farid Chopel* Petra Reinhardt* Gudrun Gundelach...
  
  by Marco Ferreri
• La double vie de Véronique
  The Double Life of Véronique
  The Double Life of Véronique is a 1991 French- and Polish-language film directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski, co-written by Kieślowski and Krzysztof Piesiewicz, starring Irène Jacob, with original music by Zbigniew Preisner. The film was Kieślowski's first to be produced partly outside Poland.A...
  
  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:...
  
  
• Lune froide
  Cold Moon
  Cold Moon is a 1991 French drama film directed by Patrick Bouchitey. It was entered into the 1991 Cannes Film Festival. It is based on the Charles Bukowski short stories "The Copulating Mermaid of Venice" and "Trouble with the Battery".-Cast:...
  
  by Patrick Bouchitey
  Patrick Bouchitey
  Patrick Bouchitey is a French actor and film director. He has appeared in 81 films and television shows since 1972. His film Cold Moon was entered into the 1991 Cannes Film Festival.-Selected filmography:...
  
  
• Malina
  Malina (film)
  Malina is a 1991 German-Austrian drama film directed by Werner Schroeter. It was entered into the 1991 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Isabelle Huppert - The Woman* Mathieu Carrière - Malina* Can Togay - Ivan* Fritz Schediwy - Father...
  
  by Werner Schroeter
  Werner Schroeter
  Werner Schroeter was a German film director and screenwriter, who some consider among the most important German writer-directors of the post-war period.-Biography:...
  
  
• To meteoro vima tou pelargou
  The Suspended Step of the Stork
  The Suspended Step of the Stork is a 1991 Greek film directed by Theodoros Angelopoulos. It was entered into the 1991 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Marcello Mastroianni as Missing Politician* Jeanne Moreau as The Woman...
  
  by Theodoros Angelopoulos
• Tsareubiytsa
  The Assassin of the Tsar
  The Assassin of the Tsar is a 1991 Russian film. It was entered into the 1991 Cannes Film Festival.- Plot :Timofyev is a patient in an asylum who claims to be the man who killed Tsar Alexander II in 1881, and his grandson Tsar Nicholas II in 1918.-Cast:* Oleg Yankovsky — Dr.Smirnov / Tsar...
  
  by Karen Shakhnazarov
  Karen Shakhnazarov
  Karen Georgievich Shakhnazarov is a Soviet and Russian-Armenian filmmaker, producer and screenwriter. He became the Director General of the Mosfilm studios in 1998.Shakhnazarov is the son of a prominent politician of Armenian descent, Georgy Shakhnazarov....
  
  
• Van Gogh 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...
  
  

Un Certain Regard

• A Captive in the Land
  A Captive in the Land
  A Captive in the Land is a 1993 film based on a novel by James Aldridge, starring Sam Waterston as Royce, Aleksandr Potapov as Averyanov, and Keir Giles as Squadron Leader Cook. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival. Directed by John Berry...
  
  by John Berry
  John Berry (film director)
  John Berry was an American film director, who went into self-exile in France when his career was interrupted by the Hollywood blacklist.-Early Life:...
  
  
• Boyz n the Hood
  Boyz N the Hood
  Boyz n the Hood is a 1991 American hood film written and directed by John Singleton. Starring Cuba Gooding, Jr., Ice Cube, Laurence Fishburne, Morris Chestnut, Nia Long, Angela Bassett and Regina King, the film depicts life in poor South Central Los Angeles, California and was filmed and released...
  
  by John Singleton
• Dar kouchehay-e eshq
  In the Alleys of Love
  In the Alleys of Love is an Iranian war film about Khorramshahr shortly after the Iran–Iraq War. Shot in colour on 35mm film it lasts 83 minutes.Khosrow Sinai wrote, directed, and produced the film and composed the music.-Film festivals:...
  
  by Khosrow Sinai
  Khosrow Sinai
  Khosrow Sinai is an Iranian film director. His works are usually based on social documentations. He was the first Iranian film director to win an international prize after the Islamic revolution in Iran...
  
  
• Halálutak és angyalok
  Paths of Death and Angels
  Paths of Death and Angels is a 1991 Hungarian drama film directed by Zoltán Kamondi. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Enikő Eszenyi - Ilona* Rudolf Hrusínský - Schrevek József...
  
  by Zoltán Kamondi
  Zoltán Kamondi
  Zoltán Kamondi is a Hungarian film director, actor screenwriter and producer. He was born in 1960 in Budapest, Hungary. After finishing his studies at the Faculty of Art, he went on to get a degree in film directing at the Academy of Drama and Film, where he graduated in 1988. He has won many...
  
  
• Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
  Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
  Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse is a 1991 documentary film about the production of Apocalypse Now.-Synopsis:The title is derived from the source material for Apocalypse Now, the Joseph Conrad novella Heart of Darkness...
  
  by Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper
• Holidays on the River Yarra
  Holidays on the River Yarra
  Holidays on the River Yarra is a 1991 Australian drama film directed by Leo Berkeley. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Craig Adams - Eddie* Luke Elliot - Mick* Alex Menglet - Big Mac...
  
  by Leo Berkeley
• Ishanou by Aribam Syam Sharma
  Aribam Syam Sharma
  Aribam Syam Sharma is a film director and composer from Manipur in India. He debuted in the Manipuri film scene as an actor in the movie Matangi Manipur. In 1974 he directed his first movie Lamja Parshuram. His fourth movie as a director, Imagi Ningthem brought him international recognition when...
  
  
• L'entraînement du champion avant la course
  L'entraînement du champion avant la course
  L'entraînement du champion avant la course is a 1991 French drama film directed by Bernard Favre. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Richard Berry - Fabrice* Valérie Mairesse - Loren...
  
  by Bernard Favre
• L'île au trésor
  Treasure Island (1985 film)
  Treasure Island is a 1985 Chilean-French adventure film directed by Raúl Ruiz. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Melvil Poupaud - Jim Hawkins* Martin Landau - Old Captain...
  
  by Raúl Ruiz
• Mest
  The Red Flute
  The Red Flute is a 1989 Soviet drama film directed by Yermek Shinarbayev. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Aleksandr Pan* Valentina Te* Kasym Zhakibayev* Lyubov Germanova* Oleg Li...
  
  by Yermek Shinarbayev
  Yermek Shinarbayev
  Yermek Shinarbayev is a Soviet film director. His film Mest was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:* Sestra moya, Lyusya * Vyyti iz lesa na polyanu * Mest...
  
  
• La mujer del puerto
  Woman of the Port (1991 film)
  Woman of the Port is a 1991 Mexican drama film directed by Arturo Ripstein. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Damián Alcázar - Marro* Alejandro Parodi - Carmelo* Juan Pastor - Simón...
  
  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...
  
  
• Laada by Drissa Toure
• Lebewohl, Fremde
  Lebewohl, Fremde
  Lebewohl, Fremde is a 1991 German drama film directed by Tevfik Başer. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Grazyna Szapolowska - Karin* Müsfik Kenter - Deniz* Gustav-Peter Wöhler - Claus...
  
  by Tevfik Başer
  Tevfik Başer
  Tevfik Başer is a Turkish-German film director and screenwriter. His film Lebewohl, Fremde was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:* Zwischen Gott und Erde...
  
  
• Perekhod tovarishcha Chkalova cherez severnyy polyus
  Perekhod tovarishcha Chkalova cherez severnyy polyus
  Perekhod tovarishcha Chkalova cherez severnyy polyus is a 1990 Soviet comedy film directed by Maksim Pezhemsky. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival....
  
  by Maksim Pezhemsky
  Maksim Pezhemsky
  Maksim Pezhemsky is a Russian film director and screenwriter. His film Perekhod tovarishcha Chkalova cherez severnyy polyus was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:...
  
  
• Pogrzeb kartofla
  Burial of a Potato
  Burial of a Potato is a 1990 Polish drama film directed by Jan Jakub Kolski. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Franciszek Pieczka - Mateusz Szewczyk* Adam Ferency - Stefan Gorzelak...
  
  by Jan Jakub Kolski
  Jan Jakub Kolski
  Jan Jakub Kolski is a Polish film director, cinematographer, and writer.-Early life and career:Kolski comes from a family closely connected to cinema. His father, Roman Kolski, and his sister, Ewa Pakulska were film editors. His brother, Włodzimierz Kolski, is a production manager. His paternal...
  
  
• Sango Malo by Bassek Ba Kobhio
• Ta Dona
  Fire! (1991 film)
  Fire! is a 1991 Malian drama film directed by Adama Drabo. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Djeneba Diawara - Koro* Mamadou Fomba* Balla Moussa Keita - Fakoro...
  
  by Adama Drabo
  Adama Drabo
  Adama Drabo was a Malian filmmaker and playwright.- Biography :Adama Drabo showed an interest in film since his childhood in the Malian capital of Bamako...
  
  
• Ucieczka z kina 'Wolnosc'
  Escape from the 'Liberty' Cinema
  Escape from the 'Liberty' Cinema is a 1990 Polish comedy film directed by Wojciech Marczewski. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Michal Bajor - Krytyk* Artur Barcis* Aleksander Bednarz - Edward...
  
  by Wojciech Marczewski
  Wojciech Marczewski
  Wojciech Marczewski is a Polish film director and screenwriter. He directed twelve films between 1968 and 2001.His 1981 film Dreszcze won the Silver Bear - Special Jury Prize at the 32nd Berlin International Film Festival...
  
  
• Ystävät, toverit
  Friends, Comrades
  Friends, Comrades is a 1990 Finnish drama film directed by Rauni Mollberg. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Mikk Mikiver - Arno Jurmala* Stina Ekblad - Lisa Jurmala* Hannu Lauri - Jaunkahns...
  
  by Rauni Mollberg
  Rauni Mollberg
  Rauni Mollberg was a Finnish film director who directed movies and TV movies.In 1963 Mollberg directed movies for YLE. He directed a version of The Unknown Soldier in 1985, 30 years after Edvin Laine directed the original version of it. Mollberg's movie's plot was same as Laine's movie...
  
  
• Yumeji
  Yumeji
  is a 1991 independent Japanese film directed by Seijun Suzuki. It is a semi-fictional account of poet and painter Takehisa Yumeji. It also forms the final part of Suzuki's Taishō Roman Trilogy, preceded by Zigeunerweisen and Kagero-za , surrealistic psychological dramas and ghost stories linked by...
  
  by Seijun Suzuki
  Seijun Suzuki
  , born Seitaro Suzuki on May 24, 1923, is a Japanese filmmaker, actor, and screenwriter. His films are renowned by film enthusiasts worldwide for their jarring visual style, irreverent humour, nihilistic cool and entertainment-over-logic sensibility...
  
  

Films out of competition

• In Bed with Madonna
  Truth or Dare (documentary)
  Madonna: Truth or Dare is a 1991 American documentary film chronicling the life of American singer-songwriter Madonna during her 1990 Blond Ambition World Tour...
  
  by Alek Keshishian
  Alek Keshishian
  Alek Keshishian is a Lebanese-born Armenian film director. He is best known for his 1991 film Madonna: Truth or Dare, which for a time was the highest-grossing documentary of all time....
  
  
• Jacquot de Nantes
  Jacquot de Nantes
  Jacquot de Nantes is a 1991 French drama film directed by Agnès Varda. It was screened out of competition at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival....
  
  by Agnès Varda
  Agnès Varda
  Agnès Varda is a French film director and professor at the European Graduate School. Her movies, photographs, and art installations focus on documentary realism, feminist issues, and social commentary — with a distinct experimental style....
  
  
• Le film du cinéma suisse by Michel Soutter
  Michel Soutter
  Michel Soutter was a Swiss film director and screenwriter. He directed 13 films between 1967 and 1991. His 1982 film L'amour des femmes was entered into the 32nd Berlin International Film Festival.-Filmography:...
  
  , Jean-François Amiguet
  Jean-François Amiguet
  Jean-François Amiguet is a Swiss film director and screenwriter. His film Lounge Chair was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:* Alexandre * La méridienne...
  
  
• Life Stinks
  Life Stinks
  Life Stinks is a 1991 comedy-drama directed by and starring Mel Brooks. It is known as one of the few Mel Brooks comedies that is not a parody, nor at any time does the film break the fourth wall. It co-stars Lesley Ann Warren, Howard Morris and Jeffrey Tambor...
  
  by Mel Brooks
  Mel Brooks
  Mel Brooks is an American film director, screenwriter, composer, lyricist, comedian, actor and producer. He is best known as a creator of broad film farces and comic parodies. He began his career as a stand-up comic and as a writer for the early TV variety show Your Show of Shows...
  
  
• Prospero's Books
  Prospero's Books
  Prospero's Books , written and directed by Peter Greenaway, is a cinematic adaptation of The Tempest, by William Shakespeare. John Gielgud is Prospero, the protagonist who provides the off-screen narration and the voices to the other story characters...
  
  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...
  
  
• Hachigatsu no rapusodī
  Rhapsody in August
  is a 1991 Japanese film by Akira Kurosawa. The story centers on an elderly hibakusha, who lost her husband in the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki, caring for her four grandchildren over the summer. She learns of a long-lost brother, Suzujiro, living in Hawaii who wants her to visit him before he dies...
  
  by Akira Kurosawa
  Akira Kurosawa
  was a Japanese film director, producer, screenwriter and editor. Regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema, Kurosawa directed 30 filmsIn 1946, Kurosawa co-directed, with Hideo Sekigawa and Kajiro Yamamoto, the feature Those Who Make Tomorrow ;...
  
  
• Thelma & Louise by Ridley Scott
  Ridley Scott
  Sir Ridley Scott is an English film director and producer. His most famous films include The Duellists , Alien , Blade Runner , Legend , Thelma & Louise , G. I...
  
  

Short film competition

• Broken Skin by Anna Campion
• Casino by Gil Bauwens
• Ja walesa by Jacek Skalski
• Les éffaceurs by Gérald Frydman
• Mal de blocs by Marc Saint-Pierre and Nathalie Saint-Gelais
• Nokturno by Nikola Majdak
• Push Comes to Shove by Bill Plympton
  Bill Plympton
  William "Bill" Calvin Plympton is an American animator, former cartoonist, director, screenwriter and producer best known for his 1987 Academy Award-nominated animated short Your Face. and his series of shorts Guard Dog, Guide Dog, Hot Dog and Horn Dog.- Biography :Bill Plympton was born in...
  
  
• W.A.L. by Robert Turlo
• Z podniesionymi rekami by Mitko Panov

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...
  
  : Barton Fink
  Barton Fink
  Barton Fink is a 1991 American film, written, directed, and produced by the Coen brothers. Set in 1941, it stars John Turturro in the title role as a young New York City playwright who is hired to write scripts for a movie studio in Hollywood, and John Goodman as Charlie, the insurance salesman who...
  
  by Ethan and Joel Coen
  Coen Brothers
  Joel David Coen and Ethan Jesse Coen known together professionally as the Coen brothers, are American filmmakers...
  
  
• 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 Belle Noiseuse
  La Belle Noiseuse
  La Belle Noiseuse is a 1991 film directed by Jacques Rivette and starring Michel Piccoli, Jane Birkin, and Emmanuelle Béart. Its title means "The Beautiful Troublemaker"...
  
  by Jacques Rivette
  Jacques Rivette
  Jacques Rivette is a French film director. His most well known films include Celine and Julie Go Boating, La Belle Noiseuse and the cult film Out 1....
  
  
• 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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  • 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....
    
    
  • Hors la vie by Maroun Bagdadi
• 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:* * ....
  
  : 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...
  
   for Barton Fink
  Barton Fink
  Barton Fink is a 1991 American film, written, directed, and produced by the Coen brothers. Set in 1941, it stars John Turturro in the title role as a young New York City playwright who is hired to write scripts for a movie studio in Hollywood, and John Goodman as Charlie, the insurance salesman who...
  
  
• 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:* * ....
  
  : Irène Jacob
  Irène Jacob
  Irène Marie Jacob is a French-born Swiss actress considered one of the preeminent French actresses of her generation. Jacob gained international recognition and acclaim through her work with Polish film director Krzysztof Kieślowski, who cast her in the lead role of The Double Life of Véronique...
  
   for La double vie de Véronique
  The Double Life of Véronique
  The Double Life of Véronique is a 1991 French- and Polish-language film directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski, co-written by Kieślowski and Krzysztof Piesiewicz, starring Irène Jacob, with original music by Zbigniew Preisner. The film was Kieślowski's first to be produced partly outside Poland.A...
  
  
• Best Supporting Actor: Samuel L. Jackson
  Samuel L. Jackson
  Samuel Leroy Jackson is an American film and television actor and film producer. After becoming involved with the Civil Rights Movement, he moved on to acting in theater at Morehouse College, and then films. He had several small roles such as in the film Goodfellas before meeting his mentor,...
  
   for Jungle Fever
  Jungle Fever
  Jungle Fever is a 1991 American drama film directed by Spike Lee, starring Wesley Snipes and Annabella Sciorra. It was Lee's fifth feature-length film. The film mainly explores interracial relationships...
  
  
• 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....
  
  : Joel Coen
  Coen Brothers
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   for Barton Fink
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• Short Film Palme d'Or
  Short Film Palme d'Or
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  : Z podniesionymi rekami by Mitko Panov
• Best Artistic Contribution: Europa by Lars von Trier
  Lars von Trier
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• Technical Grand Prize: Europa by Lars von Trier
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• Caméra d'Or
  Caméra d'Or
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  : Toto le Héros
  Toto le Héros
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  by Jaco Van Dormael
  Jaco Van Dormael
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• Caméra d'Or - Special Mention:
  • Proof
    Proof (1991 film)
    Proof is a 1991 Australian film by Jocelyn Moorhouse starring Hugo Weaving, Geneviève Picot and Russell Crowe. It was chosen as "Best Film" at the 1991 Australian Film Institute Awards, along with 5 other awards, including Moorhouse for "Best Director", Weaving for "Best Leading Actor", and Crowe...
    
    by Jocelyn Moorhouse
    Jocelyn Moorhouse
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  • Sam & Me by Deepa Mehta
    Deepa Mehta
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• SACD Award:
  • Best Short: Carne
    Carne (film)
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    by Gaspar Noé
    Gaspar Noé
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  • Best Feature: Young Soul Rebels
    Young Soul Rebels
    Young Soul Rebels is a 1991 critically acclaimed coming-of-age/drama British film written by Isaac Julien and Paul Hallam, and directed by Juilen. The film examines the interaction between youth cultural movements during the late 1970s in the UK. Namely skinheads, punks and soulboys along with the...
    
    by Isaac Julien
    Isaac Julien
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• Perspectives du Cinéma Award:
  • Cauchemar blanc
    Cauchemar Blanc
    Cauchemar Blanc is a 1991 short film by Matthieu Kassovitz, based on the comic written for the screen by Moebius.- Plot :...
    
    by Mathieu Kassovitz
    Mathieu Kassovitz
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  • Cheb by Rachid Bouchareb
    Rachid Bouchareb
    Rachid Bouchareb is a French film director of Algerian descent.From 1977 to 1983, he worked as an assistant director for France’s state television production company, Société française de production . Subsequetly, he worked for broadcasters TF1 and Antenne 2...
    
    
  • Le coup suprême by Jean-Pierre Sentier
• FIPRESCI Prize
  FIPRESCI
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  :
  • La double vie de Véronique
    The Double Life of Véronique
    The Double Life of Véronique is a 1991 French- and Polish-language film directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski, co-written by Kieślowski and Krzysztof Piesiewicz, starring Irène Jacob, with original music by Zbigniew Preisner. The film was Kieślowski's first to be produced partly outside Poland.A...
    
    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:...
    
    
  • Riff-Raff 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...
    
    
• 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...
  
  : La double vie de Véronique
  The Double Life of Véronique
  The Double Life of Véronique is a 1991 French- and Polish-language film directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski, co-written by Kieślowski and Krzysztof Piesiewicz, starring Irène Jacob, with original music by Zbigniew Preisner. The film was Kieślowski's first to be produced partly outside Poland.A...
  
  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:...
  
  
• Prize of the Ecumenical Jury - Special Mention:
  • Jungle Fever
    Jungle Fever
    Jungle Fever is a 1991 American drama film directed by Spike Lee, starring Wesley Snipes and Annabella Sciorra. It was Lee's fifth feature-length film. The film mainly explores interracial relationships...
    
    by Spike Lee
    Spike Lee
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  • La Belle Noiseuse
    La Belle Noiseuse
    La Belle Noiseuse is a 1991 film directed by Jacques Rivette and starring Michel Piccoli, Jane Birkin, and Emmanuelle Béart. Its title means "The Beautiful Troublemaker"...
    
    by Jacques Rivette
    Jacques Rivette
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• Award of the Youth:
  • Foreign Film: Toto le Héros
    Toto le Héros
    Toto le Héros is a 1991 Belgian film by Belgian film director and screenwriter Jaco Van Dormael.-Plot:...
    
    by Jaco Van Dormael
    Jaco Van Dormael
    Jaco Van Dormael is a Belgian film director, screenwriter and playwright. His complex and critically acclaimed films are especially noted for their respectful and sympathetic portrayal of people with mental and physical disabilities.- Biography :In the 1980s, he became interested in filmmaking and...
    
    
  • French Film: Cheb by Rachid Bouchareb
    Rachid Bouchareb
    Rachid Bouchareb is a French film director of Algerian descent.From 1977 to 1983, he worked as an assistant director for France’s state television production company, Société française de production . Subsequetly, he worked for broadcasters TF1 and Antenne 2...
    
    

External links

• 1991 Cannes Film Festival
• Cannes Film Festival:1991 at Internet Movie Database
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