Cannes 1998
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- DirectorNanni MorettiStarsNanni MorettiSilvio OrlandoSilvia NonoNanni Moretti takes a comic look at the ebbs and flows of his life as he becomes a father for the first time. He struggles with distractions while trying to make a documentary of the Italian national elections.In Competition
- DirectorPatrice ChéreauStarsPascal GreggoryValeria Bruni TedeschiCharles BerlingFriends of a recently deceased minor painter Jean-Baptiste take a train in Paris for Limoges, where he wished to be buried, and all the people on the train have their problems.In Competition
- DirectorLodge KerriganStarsKatrin CartlidgeVincent D'OnofrioColm MeaneyA high-priced call girl, shocked by her mother's death, decides to get out of the business and have a baby. The steps that she takes to free herself from her pimp and find a father for the baby are the central story of this movie.In Competition
- DirectorHector BabencoStarsMiguel Ángel SoláMaria Luísa MendonçaWalter QuirozJuán returns to his native Buenos Aires after 20 years to visit his dying father and tries to find Ana, his old flame.In Competition
- DirectorRolf de HeerStarsHeather RoseJoey KennedyJohn BrumptonA woman with cerebral palsy communicates with the world via her computer with a voice box. Her caretaker is a short-tempered woman who begrudges the woman the care she needs. Things change when Rose bumps into a young man who starts giving her attention. This leads her to start fantasizing about a real sexual relationship. However, the caretaker takes an interest in the man, as well, which leads to the dramatic conclusion.In Competition
- DirectorTerry GilliamStarsJohnny DeppBenicio Del ToroTobey MaguireAn oddball journalist and his psychopathic lawyer travel to Las Vegas for a series of psychedelic escapades.In Competition
- DirectorThomas VinterbergStarsUlrich ThomsenHenning MoritzenThomas Bo LarsenAt Helge's 60th birthday party, some unpleasant family truths are revealed.In Competition
- DirectorHsiao-Hsien HouStarsTony Leung Chiu-waiMichiko HadaMichelle ReisIn the "flower houses" (upscale brothels) of Shanghai, various interweaving stories of love, loyalty, and deceit play out subtly.In Competition
- DirectorHal HartleyStarsThomas Jay RyanJames UrbaniakParker PoseyAn introverted garbageman writes his thoughts in a notebook after Henry Fool, writer and ex-con, rents the basement and gives him a notebook and the idea. He writes poetry and Henry helps him along.In Competition
- DirectorLars von TrierStarsBodil JørgensenJens AlbinusAnne Louise HassingThe group of people gather at the house in Copenhagen suburb to break all the limitations and to bring out the "inner idiot" in themselves.In Competition
- DirectorJohn TurturroStarsLeo BassiHenri BéharMaurizio BenazzoA turn-of-the-20th-century theatre repertory company rejects the latest project of their beloved playwright Tuccio, kicking off a saga of intrigue surrounding the influential critic Bevalaqua and star Celimene.In Competition
- DirectorAleksey GermanStarsYuriy TsuriloNina RuslanovaJüri Järvet Jr.Late winter 1953. The lives of nearly half the planet are in Stalin's hands.In Competition
- DirectorBenoît JacquotStarsIsabelle HuppertVincent MartinezVincent LindonFashion executive Dominique's obsession for Quentin, a young bisexual hustler, fills her desire for physical love but leaves her taxed emotionally. Twists and turns in the relationship, along with the man's violent and abusive nature, force Dominique to reconcile the conflicts created by her passion. In this quest, Dominique is aided [and sometimes hindered] by friends, clients, and Quentin's former and current acquaintances.In Competition
- DirectorClaude MillerStarsClément van den BerghEmmanuelle BercotYves VerhoevenA schoolboy Nicholas always worries about something. When he goes on a school skiing trip, all his visions and nightmares take him over.In Competition
- DirectorVíctor GaviriaStarsLeidy María 'Lady' TabaresMarta CorreaMileider Gil13-year-old Monica leads a street life, making her living by selling flowers to couples in local nightspots, she is joined by 10-year-old Andrea who runs out of her house after her mother beats her.In Competition
- DirectorErick ZoncaStarsÉlodie BouchezNatacha RégnierGrégoire ColinThe lives of two dissimilar girls turned out in different ways.In Competition
- DirectorRoberto BenigniStarsRoberto BenigniNicoletta BraschiGiorgio CantariniWhen an open-minded Jewish waiter and his son become victims of the Holocaust, he uses a perfect mixture of will, humor and imagination to protect his son from the dangers around their camp.In Competition
- DirectorTheodoros AngelopoulosStarsBruno GanzIsabelle RenauldFabrizio BentivoglioFamous writer Alexander is very ill and has little time left to live. He meets a little boy on the street, who is an illegal immigrant from Albania, and goes on a journey with him to take the boy home.In Competition
- DirectorKen LoachStarsPeter MullanLouise GoodallGary LewisTwo thirty-somethings, unemployed former alcoholic Joe and community health worker Sarah, begin a romantic relationship in one of Glasgow''s toughest neighborhoods.In Competition
- DirectorJohn BoormanStarsBrendan GleesonAdrian DunbarSean McGinleyThe real-life story of Dublin folk hero and criminal Martin Cahill, who pulled off two daring robberies in Ireland with his team, but attracted unwanted attention from the police, the I.R.A., the U.V.F., and members of his own team.In Competition
- DirectorTsai Ming-liangStarsKuei-Mei YangKang-sheng LeeMiao TienWhile never-ending rain and a strange disease spread by cockroaches ravage Taiwan, a plumber makes a hole between two apartments and the inhabitants of each form a unique connection, enacted in musical numbers.In Competition
- DirectorTodd HaynesStarsEwan McGregorJonathan Rhys MeyersChristian BaleIn 1984, British journalist Arthur Stuart investigates the career of 1970s glam superstar Brian Slade, who was heavily influenced in his early years by hard-living and rebellious American singer Curt Wild.In Competition
- DirectorLaetitia MassonStarsSandrine KiberlainSergio CastellittoJean-François StéveninA Private detective is hired to trace a woman who ran away and disappeared on her wedding day. The movie follows him and recounts the story of her life through her eyes and the eyes of those interviewed by the detective.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorJeremy ThomasStarsJohn HurtChristian BaleDaniel BenzaliBobby Platt is a mentally slow young man who escapes an abusive, hateful stepfather who has killed his pets one by one. To save himself, Bobby runs away and meets a strange old man who wanders the highways to bury roadkill animals. Bobby becomes the old man's apprentice and learns to see the world of nature in a strange idyllic way. But soon the shadow of his stepfather catches up to him and Bobby's world explodes into a grotesque nightmare.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorGarin NugrohoStarsSarah AzhariDeni ChristantraChristine HakimThe Indonesian society is seen through a middle-aged lady's eyes in her daily encounters with the street children who work and live off the harsh and sleazy world of adults.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorClaude MouriérasStarsFrédéric PierrotMuriel MayetteVincent DénériazA family of farmers has to deal with the retarded elder son. He gets everybody bored and tired of him, even his cow to whom he goes to talk to several times a day.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorArturo RipsteinStarsFrancisco RabalKaty JuradoEdwarda Gurrola"La Nueva Jerusalem" is a small community of believers lead by Papá Basilio (Rabal) and Mamá Dorita (Jurado). They're waiting for the second coming of Christ, so they've abandoned the world, searching for a new spiritual life. Mamá Dorita sees in young Tomasa (Gurrola) the signals of the chosen one. The young girl will be the new leader in "La Nueva Jerusalem".Un Certain Regard
- DirectorKen YunomeStarsJeff Lynn MillerJane JepsonChend AdenA young man gets obsessed with a mysterious older woman. After her tragic death he starts a strange sexual affair with her teenage daughter.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorAlex van WarmerdamStarsAlex van WarmerdamAnnet MalherbeAriane SchluterThe wife of an illiterate farmer hires a beautiful woman to teach him how to read and write.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorSamira MakhmalbafStarsMassoumeh NaderiZahra NaderiGhorban Ali NaderiAfter twelve years of imprisonment by their own parents, two sisters are finally released by social workers to face the outside world for the first time.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsBörje AhlstedtMarie RichardsonErland JosephsonInventor Carl Åkerblom is a rosy-cheeked 54 year-old admirer of Franz Schubert - and a patient in the psychiatric ward of Akademiska Hospital in Uppsala, after having attempted to beat to death his fiancée, Pauline Thibault. Together with another patient, Professor Osvald Vogler, they set up a film project: the living talkie. Before long, they set off on a frantic tour with their film, "The Joy of the Joyous Girl"...Un Certain Regard
- DirectorSiegfriedStarsÉlodie BouchezRoschdy ZemGérald ThomassinA shaky camera takes us through Paris: the winding tunnels where the Metro trains run; the glittering neon-lit city streets; on shopping trolleys through stores; up onto abandoned roofs; and into the labyrinth of fear and desire. Meet young Parisienne Louise. She has a "wonderful life" together with her boyfriend and her gang. They live in a self-made sanctuary where life floats along on thefts, drug dealing and odds and ends. But her life changes the day she meets Gaby, an abandoned boy who's learnt to look after himself, and the slacking dandy Remi.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorJohn MayburyStarsDerek JacobiDaniel CraigTilda SwintonBiography of British painter Francis Bacon focuses on his relationship with his lover, George Dyer, a former small time crook.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorPaul AusterStarsHarvey KeitelMira SorvinoRichard EdsonA famous jazz saxophonist's life is forever changed after he is accidentally shot.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorPaulo RochaStarsIsabel RuthLima DuarteJoana BárciaA look at jealousy in its many shapes through romances, riches and murders.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorTeresa VillaverdeStarsAna MoreiraAlexandre PintoNelson VarelaThree homeless teenagers rejects struggle to survive together. Of them, Andreia is pregnant, while Pedro and Ricardo hustle, steal and are exploited by a pornographer.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorAngela SchanelecStarsSophie AignerVincent BranchetKatharina EckerfeldMimmi is a very lonely girl not knowing what to do with her life. On the search for friends and boy-friends she strays lonely in different cities.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorGyörgy FehérStarsIldikó BánságiDjoko RosicJános DerzsiIn this black-and-white Hungarian version of James M. Cain's The Postman Always Rings Twice, a wife and her lover plot to kill her older husband.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorMario MartoneStarsAndrea RenziIaia ForteMaurizio BizziA group of actors meet with little money in a unofficial theatre in Naples' Spanish Boroughs. Director's plan is to travel to Sarajevo, still under siege, to stage a classic Eschilus' play about civil war in Tebe. While they rehearse in the theatre cast members come and go and another kind of war goes on every day in nearby streets of old Naples.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorRobert DuvallStarsRobert DuvallTodd AllenPaul BaggetAfter his happy life spins out of control, a preacher from Texas changes his name, goes to Louisiana and starts preaching on the radio.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorStanley TucciStarsOliver PlattStanley TucciWalker JonesWrongly accused of physically abusing a fellow actor, starving thespians Arthur and Maurice find themselves pursued by the law aboard a cruise ship.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorPaul ArdenStarsAnnie Lees-JonesHerminio MoleroArnold PearceA normal life is out of our hero's grasp in this surreal parable on what it is to be different.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorHong Sang-sooStarsJong-hak BaekOh Yun-hongKim Yu-seokHelmed by one of Korea's leading directors, Hong Sang-soo, Jisook joins two of her girlfriends for a holiday in Korea's Kangwon Province. But in an eerie twist of fate, her former lover, Sangkwon, plans a getaway for the same destination, where tragedy brings them together once again.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorLaila PakalninaStarsIgors BuraksVadims GrossmansJaan TätteThe Shoe is set in a seaside Latvian town in the 1950s and deals with absurd laws of life in a border state. The intriguing black-and-white is a contemporary retro tale about Cinderella's slipper, which, in this variation, is found on the beach in a border zone. Russian soldiers take on the role of the prince. But who is Cinderella?Un Certain Regard
- DirectorJean-Pierre LimosinStarsShinji TakedaHinano YoshikawaKaori MizushimaThe police are tracking a man who shoots at people. But the young sister of a detective find that he's not the mad vigilante portrayed in newspapers.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorDarezhan OmirbayevStarsTalgat AssetovRoksana AbouovaYe. AbdigaliyevMarat works as a personal driver in Almaty, capital of Kazakhstan. When he hits a Mercedes, the nightmare begins. The loan he accepts to pay for the damages puts him at the mercy of a Mafia boss.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorDenis VilleneuveStarsPascale BussièresAlexis MartinSerge ThériaultAfter surviving a car wreck virtually unscathed, a young model compels her best friend to impregnate her at the salt flats in Utah.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorRithy PanhStarsChea Lyda ChanRatha KeoSra N'Gath KheavAfter the end of the Cambodian Civil War, people in Cambodia struggled in their return to their normal lives. Among them is a kick boxer Savannah (Narith Roeun). A survivor of the war, who lost most of his family to the horrors of the Khmer Rouge, he lives with his uncle in Phnom Penh. Savannah begins a romance with a 19-year-old bar girl, Srey Poeuv (Chea Lyda Chan). She is humiliated by her debts to the bar's owner, and is forced to keep working. Savannah wants to help Srey clear her debt, so he teams up with an ex-soldier and plans a crime that could net him some money.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorJake KasdanStarsBill PullmanBen StillerRyan O'NealThe world's greatest detective Daryl Zero aided by his associate Steve Arlo investigates a complex and mysterious case of blackmail and missing keys for shady tycoon Gregory Stark who is less than forthcoming about what is really happening!Un Certain Regard
- DirectorJohn LandisStarsDan AykroydJohn GoodmanWalter LevineElwood must reunite the old band, with a few new members, and go on another "Mission from God."Out of Competition
- DirectorRoland EmmerichStarsMatthew BroderickJean RenoMaria PitilloFrench nuclear tests irradiate an iguana into a giant monster that heads off to New York City. The American military must chase the monster across the city to stop it before it reproduces.Out of Competition
- DirectorMike NicholsStarsJohn TravoltaEmma ThompsonKathy BatesA man joins the political campaign of a smooth-operator candidate for President of the United States of America.Out of Competition
- DirectorAlex ProyasStarsRufus SewellKiefer SutherlandJennifer ConnellyA man struggles with memories of his past, which include a wife he cannot remember and a nightmarish world no one else ever seems to wake up from.Special Screenings
- DirectorRoland JofféStarsPatricia ArquetteDermot MulroneyMary-Louise ParkerSandra is married to Jake, an alcoholic executive, but has a secret relationship with her brother-in-law Ben, who is attracted to Peggy, a woman who hides a dark side known to few. When Sandra finds out, Ben mysteriously disappears.Special Screenings
- DirectorManoel de OliveiraStarsLuís Miguel CintraJosé PintoIsabel RuthThey are famous, weighed down by honour, celebrated, highly esteemed - aged and ancient. The father, in an attempt to save his son from becoming decrepit tries to drive his son to suicide. He has his work cut out for him. When the curtain falls on this tragic comedy, we have been moved in time to Porto in the thirties. Suzy, a kept woman, who is probably going to die on the operating table, sums up her philosophy on life: "This is but a detail." To comfort the dandy who has just had a very intense affair with this women, a friend tells him the tale of Fisalina. A country girl who discovers that her fingertips are made of gold. She becomes the mother of a river for a thousand years.Special Screenings
- DirectorShôhei ImamuraStarsAkira EmotoKumiko AsôJacques GamblinAt the end of WWII, Japanese doctor Akagi searches for the cure for hepatitis in the prisoner-of-war camp.Special Screenings
- DirectorCarlos SauraStarsMiguel Ángel SoláCecilia NarovaMía MaestroMario Suarez is a forty-something tango artist, whose wife Laura has left him. He leaves his apartment and starts preparing a film about tango.Special Screenings
- DirectorGaspar NoéStarsPhilippe NahonBlandine LenoirFrankie PainA horse butcher's life and mind begin to break down as he lashes out against various factions of society while attempting to reconnect with his estranged daughter.International Critics' Week
- DirectorHur Jin-hoStarsHan Suk-kyuShim Eun-haShin GooHahn Suk-Kyu suffers from a fatal disease. He meets Shim Eun-Ha and falls in love with her. Will their love story have a tragic ending?International Critics' Week
- DirectorSantiago SeguraStarsSantiago SeguraJavier CámaraNeus AsensiJosé Luis Torrente, a former policeman fights against the oriental mafia in Madrid.International Critics' Week
- DirectorOskar ReifStarsJitka AndelováJirí DedJana DrbohlavováAn erotically-charged drama by the late Park Chul-soo, intertwining stories of three characters whose joy, passion and despair played out on the same bed are tangled like a puzzle.International Critics' Week
- DirectorKarim TraïdiaStarsJaap SpijkersMonic HendrickxRudi FalkenhagenPolish deceived woman hides from pimps on a Dutch farm, and shares an intriguing romance with the farmer.International Critics' Week
- DirectorFrançois OzonStarsÉvelyne DandryFrançois MarthouretMarina de VanThe adventures of an upper-class suburban family abruptly confronted with the younger brother's discovery of his homosexuality, the elder sister's suicide attempt and how much do you want-masochist tendencies, and the intrusion of a very free-spirited maid and her husband it all starts with the arrival of an innocent-looking rat.International Critics' Week
- DirectorNiki CaroStarsNorman ForseyJohn HancoxIan HughesNiki Caro directed this romantic drama from New Zealand, adapted from Peter Wells' story, Of Memory & Desire, about the doomed affair of a Japanese couple on their honeymoon in New Zealand. The body of Keiji is pulled ashore on a New Zealand beach; his widow Sayo then tells the tale in flashback: Attracted to Keiji, Sayo marries him over the objections of his mother. Keiji becomes depressed when it seems he cannot consummate their marriage.International Critics' Week
- DirectorJack BlumStarsLenore ZannElisabeth RosenShawn DoyleA 13 year old with an over-sexed mother starts an affair with her mother's live-in boy friend.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorVincent RavalecStarsYvan AttalVirginie LanouéYann ColletteDirectors' Fortnight
- DirectorBruno BontzolakisStarsAlexandre CarrièreNicolas DucronFlorence MasureOn leaving the army, Nicolas and Thierry postpone the inevitable period of unemployment by leaving to camp by the sea, where they meet two women.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorGilles BourdosStarsAnouk GrinbergGrégoire ColinXavier BeauvoisIn Paris, a woman is making enquiries: Why did leftist Alfred Katz simply disappear in 1938? In that year, Alfred, worker and poet, is politically active in a Parisian Trotskyite cell. Hitler's Non-Aggression Pact with the Soviet Union has heightened the tension between local supporters of Trotsky and Stalin. Alfred attends a wild party being held by surrealists, even though his association with artists creates trouble for him within the cell. There he meets Mila, a glamorous and uninhibited prostitute from the brothel called the "Sphinx". Alfred soon meets Mila's other lover too, Félix... An American comrade and her Belgian companion arrive to establish a direct link between the cell and Trotsky in Mexico. As prominent Trotskyites begin to die or disappear, Alfred and Mila marry. Has an agent of Stalin's secret police infiltrated the group?Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorTodd SolondzStarsJane AdamsJon LovitzPhilip Seymour HoffmanThe lives of several individuals intertwine as they go about their lives in their own unique ways, engaging in acts which society as a whole might find disturbing in a desperate search for human connection.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorAna KokkinosStarsAlex DimitriadesElle MandalisDamien FotiouA 19 year old Greek Australian youth struggles with his sexual identity and has one clumsy heterosexual and several homosexual encounters.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorLisa CholodenkoStarsRadha MitchellAlly SheedyPatricia ClarksonA young female intern at a small magazine company and a drug-addicted lesbian photographer slowly fall in love while exploiting each other to advance their respective careers.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorJacques NolotStarsMathilde MonéHenri GardeyJacques NolotJacques Pruez, supporting actor, returns to the country to attend the last days of his mother. A prisoner of his past, Jacques, roams the streets at night and relives the moments that made him different from other members of his family.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorPaul LeniStarsMary PhilbinConrad VeidtJulius MolnarWhen a proud noble refuses to kiss the hand of the despotic King James in 1690, he is cruelly executed and his son surgically disfigured.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorMimmo CaloprestiStarsValeria Bruni TedeschiFabrizio BentivoglioGérard DepardieuA woman suffering from compulsive-type psychological problems falls for an older divorced neighbour. Will her love be returned? A slow story of confusion and loneliness.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorAbderrahmane SissakoStarsAbderrahmane SissakoNana BabyMohamed SissakoIn the last days of 1999, after a few shots of a French supermarket, abundant in food and color, we hear Dramane compose a letter home to his father in Mali whom he then visits in the village of Sokolo. He meets the lovely Nana, and there are possibilities. People place long-distance calls from the post office. "Reaching people," says the postmaster, "is a matter of luck." Contrasts between Paris and Sokolo - between Mali and France and between Africa and Europe - are underscored by voice-over poems and comments by Aimé Césaire. A man dictates a letter to a brother in France: what is the nature of their hardships? People look for their place on this earth.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorZaïda Ghorab-VoltaStarsAndrée DamantAurélia PetitLise PayenMonique, a 57-year-old worker, is put in early retirement. Her life then takes a different turn in that she can now take advantage of long days without work. For her two daughters life is changing as well. The former, Gisèle, who wants to become an actress, has passed the entrance exam to the Conservatoire d'Art Dramatique de Paris and can contemplate making her dream come true. As for Sandra, her rebellious sister, she has just been discharged from the hospital where she was treated after a suicide attempt and is on her way to the holidays with friends and - possibly - on the road to more serenity.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorDon McKellarStarsDon McKellarSandra OhRoberta MaxwellA group of very different individuals with different ideas of how to face the end come together as the world is expected to end in six hours at the turn of the century.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorYvan Le MoineStarsJean-Yves TualAnita EkbergDyna GauzyLucien is a dwarf, who works hard in a large legal office. His only friend is trapeze circus artist Isis. One day he gets the attention of singer Paola Bendoni and falls in love with her.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorAleksey BalabanovStarsSergey MakovetskiyDinara DrukarovaAnzhelika NevolinaDariya the maid getting a boy to touch her large breast is just one incident that occurs when Yohan and Victor infiltrate two families, forcing young Liza and blind Ekaterina to appear in porn, but they are not so innocent themselves.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorAlain TannerStarsFrancis FrappatCarlos RodriguesPaulo PinaIn Lisbon, French author Paul meets various people from his past who uncover forgotten memories.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorMarc LevinStarsSaul WilliamsSonja SohnBonz MaloneGrand Jury Prize, 1998 Sundance Film Festival. A talented youth (Saul Williams) copes with urban crime and despair by competing in poetry slams. Sonja Sohn of "The Wire" costars.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorTamara JenkinsStarsNatasha LyonneAlan ArkinBryna WeissIn 1976, a lower-middle-class teenager struggles to cope living with her neurotic family of nomads on the outskirts of Beverly Hills.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorKwang-Mo LeeStarsLee InAhn Sung-kiYoo-Jung BaeA story of two 13-year-old boys in a small country village during the last days of the Korean War. Sungmin's father gets a job at US army camp through his daughter's American boyfriend, and the family gets richer. But Changhee's father has been long-lost and his mother can't even afford one meal a day for her children. One day, the boys peep into a deserted mill-house which is unofficially used for prostitution, and find out Changhee's mother with a GI soldier. Changhee sets fire to the place and runs away. Months later, Sungmin hears a rumor that his best friend has been killed by a group of angry American soldiers and makes an empty grave with other boys. A year later, Sungmin's father gets fired for stealing things from the camp. Sangmin goes to Changhee's grave to bid farewell and the family leaves the village.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorPawel PawlikowskiStarsSergey BodrovAnna FrielVladimir IlinVadik Chernyshov is an impoverished dreamer who spends his life drifting though Moscow with a video camera, hoping to shoot footage that will interest Western press agencies. He falls in love with the beautiful Helen, an English media executive, and subsequently they must contend with the barriers that their different backgrounds present.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorZiad DoueiriStarsRami DoueiriNaamar SahliMohamad ChamasIn April, 1975, civil war breaks out; Beirut is partitioned along a Moslem-Christian line. Tarek is in high school, making Super 8 movies with his friend, Omar. At first the war is a lark: school has closed, the violence is fascinating, getting from West to East is a game. His mother wants to leave; his father refuses. Tarek spends time with May, a Christian, orphaned and living in his building. By accident, Tarek goes to an infamous brothel in the war-torn Olive Quarter, meeting its legendary madam, Oum Walid. He then takes Omar and May there using her underwear as a white flag for safe passage. Family tensions rise. As he comes of age, the war moves inexorably from adventure to tragedy.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorAnne BenhaïemArnaud DommercStarsPhilippe SunerAnne BenhaïemMarie-Eve DadounWhat happens in a brief love affair when a young woman meets a man in Paris and takes him back on a vacation to visit her mother in the Cevennes mountains.ACID
- DirectorCharles CastellaStarsFabienne BabeCharles CastellaLuc Leclerc du SablonACID
- DirectorLaurent AchardStarsMartin MihelichLaetitia LegrixMireille RousselA young woman's return home brings up troubles from the past, while her teenage sister is anxious for the future.ACID
- DirectorDenis GheerbrantACID
- DirectorRoger KahaneStarsJérôme DeschampsDorian LambertAgnès SoralOccupied France. A young woman is shoved into a car by Germans, then loaded into a boxcar... At the Bussières station, a railway worker, Julien, hears voices inside one of the sealed boxcars of the stopped train. A note slips through a crack. "I'm alive and I love you. Sarah." Julien visits the address on the note and finds a family of Hungarian Jews: two grandparents, and Sarah's son Thibaud, age 4. Julien offers to help with forged papers. They give him Sarah's diary for safekeeping. Later, when he returns, he finds the house ransacked, the grandparents gone. Julien takes Thibaud home. His girlfriend Lucie senses something is wrong. She's right; Julien has fallen for the personality he finds in Sarah's diary...ACID
- DirectorNouri BouzidStarsAmel HedhiliNadia KaciLeila NassimAmina a married Muslim woman living in Tunis with her two daughters. Even though she is allowed certain freedoms as a Muslim woman this is curtailed when she meets her old friend from school Aida.ACID
- DirectorPierre CarlesStarsFrançois LéotardAlain DuhamelAnne SinclairPierre Carles receives an order from a television channel to make a short film on television. The documentary traces the reason why it will never be broadcast on television.ACID
- DirectorJacques KébadianStarsDodo WagauéIn March 1996 the French government decided to expel all African family who did not have papers from the city of Paris. During a six month period of time, the director followed many of the families and got there testimonials about how it felt to be discriminated against by the French on film. Eventually the documentary focuses on one man who emerges at the center of the fight to not to be sent back to Africa. In the end he is sent back to his native Mali, the director and his camera accompany him.ACID
- DirectorS. Pierre YameogoStarsAmadou BourouAli GuentasAbdoulaye KomboudriACID