1991 Cannes Film Festival

The 44th Cannes Film Festival was held on May 9-20, 1991.

Jury

• Roman Polanski (Poland) (president)
• Férid Boughedir (Tunisia)
• Whoopi Goldberg (USA)
• Margaret Menegoz (France)
• Natalia Negoda (Russia)
• Alan Parker (UK)
• Jean-Paul Rappeneau (France)
• Hans Dieter Seidel (Germany)
• Vittorio Storaro (Italy)
• Vangelis (Greece)

Feature film competition

• A Rage in Harlem by Bill Duke
• Anna Karamazoff by Rustam Khamdamov
• Barton Fink by Ethan and Joel Coen
• Biān zǒu biān chàng by Chen Kaige
• Bix by Pupi Avati
• Europa by Lars von Trier
• Guilty by Suspicion by Irwin Winkler
• Homicide by David Mamet
• Hors la vie by Maroun Bagdadi
• Il portaborse by Daniele Luchetti
• Jungle Fever by Spike Lee
• La Belle Noiseuse by Jacques Rivette
• La carne by Marco Ferreri
• La double vie de Véronique by Krzysztof Kieślowski
• Lune froide by Patrick Bouchitey
• Malina by Werner Schroeter
• To meteoro vima tou pelargou by Theodoros Angelopoulos
• Tsareubiytsa by Karen Shakhnazarov
• Van Gogh by Maurice Pialat

Un Certain Regard

• A Captive in the Land by John Berry
• Boyz n the Hood by John Singleton
• Dar kouchehay-e eshq by Khosrow Sinai
• Halálutak és angyalok by Zoltán Kamondi
• Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse by Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper
• Holidays on the River Yarra by Leo Berkeley
• Ishanou by Aribam Syam Sharma
• L'entraînement du champion avant la course by Bernard Favre
• L'île au trésor by Raúl Ruiz
• Mest by Yermek Shinarbayev
• La mujer del puerto by Arturo Ripstein
• Laada by Drissa Toure
• Lebewohl, Fremde by Tevfik Başer
• Perekhod tovarishcha Chkalova cherez severnyy polyus by Maksim Pezhemsky
• Pogrzeb kartofla by Jan Jakub Kolski
• Sango Malo by Bassek Ba Kobhio
• Ta Dona by Adama Drabo
• Ucieczka z kina 'Wolnosc' by Wojciech Marczewski
• Ystävät, toverit by Rauni Mollberg
• Yumeji by Seijun Suzuki

Films out of competition

• In Bed with Madonna by Alek Keshishian
• Jacquot de Nantes by Agnès Varda
• Le film du cinéma suisse by Michel Soutter, Jean-François Amiguet
• Life Stinks by Mel Brooks
• Prospero's Books by Peter Greenaway
• Hachigatsu no rapusodī by Akira Kurosawa
• Thelma & Louise by Ridley Scott

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
• W.A.L. by Robert Turlo
• Z podniesionymi rekami by Mitko Panov

Awards

• Palme d'Or: Barton Fink by Ethan and Joel Coen
• Grand Prize of the Jury: La Belle Noiseuse by Jacques Rivette
• Jury Prize:
  • Europa by Lars von Trier
  • Hors la vie by Maroun Bagdadi
• Best Actor: John Turturro for Barton Fink
• Best Actress: Irène Jacob for La double vie de Véronique
• Best Supporting Actor: Samuel L. Jackson for Jungle Fever
• Best Director: Joel Coen for Barton Fink
• Short Film Palme d'Or: Z podniesionymi rekami by Mitko Panov
• Best Artistic Contribution: Europa by Lars von Trier
• Technical Grand Prize: Europa by Lars von Trier
• Caméra d'Or: Toto le Héros by Jaco Van Dormael
• Caméra d'Or - Special Mention:
  • Proof by Jocelyn Moorhouse
  • Sam & Me by Deepa Mehta
• SACD Award:
  • Best Short: Carne by Gaspar Noé
  • Best Feature: Young Soul Rebels by Isaac Julien
• Perspectives du Cinéma Award:
  • Cauchemar blanc by Mathieu Kassovitz
  • Cheb by Rachid Bouchareb
  • Le coup suprême by Jean-Pierre Sentier
• FIPRESCI Prize:
  • La double vie de Véronique by Krzysztof Kieślowski
  • Riff-Raff by Ken Loach
• Prize of the Ecumenical Jury: La double vie de Véronique by Krzysztof Kieślowski
• Prize of the Ecumenical Jury - Special Mention:
  • Jungle Fever by Spike Lee
  • La Belle Noiseuse by Jacques Rivette
• Award of the Youth:
  • Foreign Film: Toto le Héros by Jaco Van Dormael
  • French Film: Cheb by Rachid Bouchareb

External links

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