1993 Cannes Film Festival

1993 Cannes Film Festival
	Official poster of the 46th Cannes Film Festival, featuring still of Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman from Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious.
Opening film	My Favorite Season
Closing film	Toxic Affair
Location	Cannes, France
Founded	1946
Awards	Palme d'Or:; Farewell My Concubine; The Piano
Hosted by	Jeanne Moreau
No. of films	23 (In Competition)
Festival date	13 May 1993 – 24 May 1993
Website	festival-cannes.com/en
Cannes Film Festival
	1994 1992

The 46th Cannes Film Festival took place from 13 to 24 May 1993.^[2]^[3] French filmmaker Louis Malle served as jury president for the main competition. French actress Jeanne Moreau hosted the opening and closing ceremonies.^[4]

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The Palme d'Or was jointly award to Chinese filmmaker Chen Kaige for the drama film Farewell My Concubine and New Zealand filmmaker Jane Campion for the drama film The Piano.^[5]^[6] Campion became the first woman to ever win the festival's top prize.

The festival opened with My Favorite Season by André Téchiné,^[7] and closed with Toxic Affair by Philomène Esposito.^[8]^[9]

Main competition

Louis Malle, French filmmaker - Jury President^[10]
Claudia Cardinale, Italian actress
Inna Churikova, Russian actress
Judy Davis, Australian actress
Abbas Kiarostami, Iranian filmmaker
Emir Kusturica, Bosnian filmmaker
William Lubtchansky, French cinematographer
Tom Luddy, American producer
Gary Oldman, British actor
Augusto M. Seabra, Portuguese film critic

Camera d'Or

Micheline Presle, French actress - Jury President
Gabriel Auer, French director
Anne De Gasperi, French journalist
Attilio D’Onofrio, Italian film critic
Rémy Pages, French film critic
Tony Rayns, British film critic and screenwriter
Lia Somogyi, Hungarian film critic
Aruna Vasudev, Indian film critic, author, editor, painter and filmmaker

In Competition

The following feature films competed for the Palme d'Or:^[11]

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English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production Country
Body Snatchers		Abel Ferrara	United States
Broken Highway		Laurie McInnes	Australia
Dyuba-Dyuba	Дюба-Дюба	Aleksandr Khvan	Russia
The Escort	La scorta	Ricky Tognazzi	Italy
Falling Down		Joel Schumacher	United States
Faraway, So Close!	In weiter Ferne, so nah!	Wim Wenders	Germany
Farewell My Concubine	霸王别姬	Chen Kaige	China
Fiorile		Paolo and Vittorio Taviani	Italy, France, Germany
Frauds		Stephan Elliott	Australia
Friends		Elaine Proctor	South Africa
King of the Hill		Steven Soderbergh	United States
Libera me		Alain Cavalier	France
Louis, the Child King	Louis, enfant roi	Roger Planchon	France
Magnificat		Pupi Avati	Italy
The Man by the Shore	L'Homme sur les quais	Raoul Peck	Haiti, France, Germany, Canada
Mazeppa		Bartabas	France
Much Ado About Nothing		Kenneth Branagh	United Kingdom, United States
My Favorite Season (opening film)	Ma saison préférée	André Téchiné	France
Naked		Mike Leigh	United Kingdom
The Piano		Jane Campion	New Zealand, Australia, France
The Puppetmaster	戲夢人生	Hou Hsiao-hsien	Taiwan
Raining Stones		Ken Loach	United Kingdom
Splitting Heirs		Robert Young	United Kingdom

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Un Certain Regard

The following films were selected for Un Certain Regard section:^[12]

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English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production Country
The Act in Question	El Acto en cuestión	Alejandro Agresti	Argentina
Anchoress		Chris Newby	United Kingdom
Bedevil		Tracey Moffatt	Australia
The Bird of Happiness	El Pájaro de la Felicidad	Pilar Miró	Spain
Bodies, Rest & Motion		Michael Steinberg	United States
Charlie and the Doctor		Ralph C. Parsons	France
Derailment	Avsporing	Unni Straume	Norway, France
Desperate Remedies		Stewart Main and Peter Wells	New Zealand
The End of the World	O Fim do Mundo	João Mário Grilo	Portugal
Excursion to the Bridge of Friendship		Christina Andreef	Australia
Foreboding	Şi va fi...	Valeriu Jereghi	Russia, Romania
François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits	François Truffaut: Portraits volés	Serge Toubiana and Michel Pascal	France
The Great Pumpkin	Il grande cocomero	Francesca Archibugi	Italy
Latcho Drom		Tony Gatlif	France
Moving	お引越し	Shinji Sōmai	Japan
The Music of Chance		Philip Haas	United States
October	Oktyabr	Abderrahmane Sissako	France, Mauritania
Remote Control	Sódóma Reykjavík	Óskar Jónasson	Iceland
The Scent of Green Papaya	Mùi đu đủ xanh	Tran Anh Hung	France, Vietnam
Sonatine	ソナチネ	Takeshi Kitano	Japan
Stroke		Mark Sawers	Canada
The Young Girls Turn 25	Les demoiselles ont eu 25 ans	Agnès Varda	France
Wendemi, The Good Lord's Child	Wendemi, l'enfant du bon Dieu	Saint Pierre Yaméogo	Burkina Faso, France
The Wrong Man		Jim McBride	United States

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Out of Competition

The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:^[12]

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English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production Country
The Baby of Mâcon		Peter Greenaway	United Kingdom, France, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands
Cliffhanger		Renny Harlin	United States
Mad Dog and Glory		John McNaughton	United States
Madadayo	まあだだよ	Akira Kurosawa	Japan
Toxic Affair (closing film)		Philomène Esposito	France

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Short film competition

The following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or:^[12]

Ævintýri á okkar tímum by Inga Lísa Middleton
Coffee and Cigarettes III by Jim Jarmusch
De 4 jaargetijden by Maarten Koopman
Le goût du fer by Rémi Bernard
Lenny Minute 1: Lenny Meets the Giant Blue Sheila Doll by Glenn Standring
Mama Said by Michael Costanza
Me voy a escapar by Juan Carlos de Llaca
Robokip by Rudolf Mestdagh
The Singing Trophy by Grant Lahood
Der Sortierer by Stephan Puchner

International Critics' Week

The following films were screened for the 32nd International Critics' Week (32e Semaine de la Critique):^[13]

Feature film competition

Cronos by Guillermo del Toro (Mexico)
Faut-il aimer Mathilde? by Edwin Baily (France)
Requiem for a Handsome Bastard (Requiem pour un beau sans cœur) by Robert Morin (Canada)
Combination Platter by Tony Chan (United States)
Don't Call Me Frankie by Thomas A. Fucci (United States)
Abissinia by Francesco Martinotti (Italy)
Les histoires d’amour finissent mal… en général by Anne Fontaine (France)

Short film competition

The Debt by Bruno de Almeida (United States)
Take My Breath Away by Andrew Shea (United States)
Passage à l’acte by Martin Arnold (Austria)
Sotto le unghie by Stefano Sollima (Italy)
Falstaff on the Moon by Robinson Savary (France)
Springing Lenin by Andrei Nekrasov (United Kingdom)
Schwarzfahrer by Pepe Danquart (Germany)

Directors' Fortnight

The following films were screened for the 1993 Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalizateurs):^[14]

Vaterland by Yevgeniy Lungin
Sundays on Leave (È pericoloso sporgersi) by Nae Caranfil
Fausto by Rémy Duchemin
Grand bonheur by Hervé Le Roux
Child Murders (Gyekgyilkossagok) by Ildikó Szabó
I Love a Man in Uniform by David Wellington
Je m'appelle Victor by Guy Jacques
La Ardilla Roja by Julio Medem
La Place d’un autre by René Féret
The Blue Kite (Lan Fengzeng) by Tian Zhuangzhuang
Le Mari de Léon by Jean-Pierre Mocky
Lolo by Francisco Athié
Menace II Society by Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes
Mi Vida Loca by Allison Anders
Me Ivan, You Abraham (Moi Ivan, Toi Abraham) by Yolande Zauberman
Padma Nadir Majhi by Goutam Ghose
Pilkkuja ja pikkuhousuja (Lyrics and Lace) by Matti Ijäs
Ruby in Paradise by Victor Nuñez
Shadows in a Conflict (Sombras en una batalla) by Mario Camus
The Snapper by Stephen Frears
Abraham's Valley (Vale Abraão) by Manoel De Oliveira

Short films

Comment font les gens by Pascale Bailly
L'Exposé by Ismaël Ferroukhi
José Jeannette by Bruno Nicolini
Le Regard de l’autre by Bruno Rolland
Qui est-ce qui a éteint la lumière? by Xavier Auradon
Reste by Marie Vermillard
Rives by Erick Zonca
La Vis by Didier Flamand

FIPRESCI Prizes

Farewell My Concubine by Chen Kaige (In competition)^[17]
Child Murders by Ildikó Szabó (Directors' Fortnight)

Commission Supérieure Technique

Technical Grand Prize: Jean Gargonne and Vincent Arnardi (for technical achievements in images and sound) for Mazeppa
- Special Mention: Grant Lahood (for technical achievements in images and sound) for The Singing Trophy^[16]

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

Libera me by Alain Cavalier^[18]
- Special Mention: The Great Pumpkin by Francesca Archibugi^[16]

Award of the Youth

Foreign Film: The Red Squirrel by Julio Médem^[16]
French Film:
- Me Ivan, You Abraham by Yolande Zauberman
- The Scent of Green Papaya by Tran Anh Hung

International Critics' Week

Mercedes-Benz Award: Cronos by Guillermo del Toro^[16]
Canal+ Award: The Debt by Bruno de Almeida
Kodak Short Film Award: L'Exposé by Ismaël Ferroukhi^[16]

[1]
"Posters 1993". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 14 December 2013.
[2]
"46ème Festival International du Film - Cannes". cinema-francais.fr (in French). Retrieved 7 June 2017.
[3]
"1993 Cannes Film Festival". infoplease.com. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
[4]
"Cannes Goods". Chicago Tribune. 30 May 1993. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
[5]
"1993 - La leçon de cinéma (The cinema lesson)". cannes-fest.com (in French). Retrieved 7 June 2017.
[6]
Rockwell, John (14 May 1993). "At Cannes, More Of Everything, Including Films". The New York Times. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
[7]
"Review: 'My Favorite Season'". variety.com. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
[8]
"All the glitter but few glitterati Cannes Film Festival sadly lacking stars Cannes Film Festival". baltimoresun.com. Archived from the original on 2013-12-14. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
[9]
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[10]
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[11]
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[12]
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[13]
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[14]
"Quinzaine 1993". quinzaine-realisateurs.com. Retrieved 9 June 2017.
[15]
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[16]
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[17]
"FIPRESCI Awards 1993". fipresci.org. Retrieved 27 June 2017.
[18]
"Jury Œcuménique 1993". cannes.juryoecumenique.org. Retrieved 27 June 2017.

INA: Opening of the 1993 Festival (commentary in French)
INA: List of winners of the 1993 festival (commentary in French)

1993 Cannes Film Festival (web.archive)
Official website Retrospective 1993 Archived 2019-01-20 at the Wayback Machine
Cannes Film Festival Awards for 1993 at Internet Movie Database

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"Posters 1993". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 14 December 2013.

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"46ème Festival International du Film - Cannes". cinema-francais.fr (in French). Retrieved 7 June 2017.

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"1993 Cannes Film Festival". infoplease.com. Retrieved 25 May 2017.

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"Cannes Goods". Chicago Tribune. 30 May 1993. Retrieved 25 May 2017.

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"1993 - La leçon de cinéma (The cinema lesson)". cannes-fest.com (in French). Retrieved 7 June 2017.

[6] [6]
Rockwell, John (14 May 1993). "At Cannes, More Of Everything, Including Films". The New York Times. Retrieved 25 May 2017.

[7] [7]
"Review: 'My Favorite Season'". variety.com. Retrieved 25 May 2017.

[8] [8]
"All the glitter but few glitterati Cannes Film Festival sadly lacking stars Cannes Film Festival". baltimoresun.com. Archived from the original on 2013-12-14. Retrieved 25 May 2017.

[9] [9]
"Will French Film Queens Deneuve, Adjani Get Along? No Cannes Do". chicagotribune.com. Retrieved 25 May 2017.

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"All Juries 1993". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.

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"Awards 1993 : All Awards". Cannes Film Festival. Archived from the original on December 22, 2015. Retrieved December 22, 2015.

[selection-12] [12]
"Official Selection 1993: All the Selection". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 14 December 2013.

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"32e Selecion de la Semaine de la Critique - 1993". archives.semainedelacritique.com. Retrieved 9 June 2017.

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"Quinzaine 1993". quinzaine-realisateurs.com. Retrieved 9 June 2017.

[awards-15] [15]
"Awards 1993: All Awards". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 14 December 2013.

[IMDb-16] [16]
"Cannes Film Festival Awards for 1993". imdb.com. Retrieved 27 June 2017.

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"FIPRESCI Awards 1993". fipresci.org. Retrieved 27 June 2017.

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"Jury Œcuménique 1993". cannes.juryoecumenique.org. Retrieved 27 June 2017.

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Cannes Film Festival
Official poster of the 46th Cannes Film Festival, featuring still of Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman from Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious.^[1]
Opening film	My Favorite Season
Closing film	Toxic Affair
Location	Cannes, France
Founded	1946
Awards	Palme d'Or: Farewell My Concubine The Piano
Hosted by	Jeanne Moreau
No. of films	23 (In Competition)
Festival date	13 May 1993 (1993-05-13) – 24 May 1993 (1993-05-24)
Website	festival-cannes.com/en
1994 1992

Main competition

Camera d'Or

In Competition

Un Certain Regard

Out of Competition

Short film competition

International Critics' Week

Directors' Fortnight

In Competition

Commission Supérieure Technique

Award of the Youth

International Critics' Week

Main competition

Camera d'Or

In Competition

Un Certain Regard

Out of Competition

Short film competition

International Critics' Week

Directors' Fortnight

In Competition

Commission Supérieure Technique

Award of the Youth

International Critics' Week

Juries

Official selection

Parallel sections

Official Awards

Independent Awards

References

Media

External links