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1969 Cannes Film Festival

The 22nd Cannes Film Festival took place from 8 to 23 May 1969. Italian filmmaker Luchino Visconti served as jury president for the main competition.

Jury
Main Competition Luchino Visconti, Italian filmmaker - Jury President • Chinghiz Aitmatov, Soviet author • Marie Bell, French actress and stage director • Jaroslav Boček, Czechoslovak • Veljko Bulajić, Yugoslav filmmaker • Stanley Donen, American filmmaker and choreographer • Jerzy Glucksman, Swedish student • Robert Kanters, French film critic • Sam Spiegel, American producer Short Films Competition • Charles Duvanel, Swiss • Mihnea Gheorghiu, Romanian • Claude Soulé, French CST official ==Official selection==
Official selection
In Competition The following feature films competed for the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film: Out of Competition The following films were selected to be screened out of competition: Short Films Competition The following short films competed for the Grand Prix International du Festival: • Le Ballet des Jacungos by Jean Manzon • Cîntecele Renasterii by Mirel Ilieşiu • Goldframe by Raoul Servais • ''L'Homme aux chats'' by Henri Glaeser • Moc osudu by Jiří BrdečkaNiebieska kula by Mirosław Kijowicz • La Pince à ongles by Jean-Claude CarrièreRed Arrows by John Edwards • Short Seven by Jonne Severijn • Su sambene non est aba by Luigi Gonzo & Manfredo ManfrediToccata by Herman van der Horst • El Triunfo de la muerte by José María Gutiérrez • Das Verräterische Herz by Paul Anczykowski • World of Man by Albert Fischer & Michael Collyer ==Parallel sections==
Parallel sections
International Critics' Week The following feature films were screened for the 8th International Critics' Week (8e Semaine de la Critique): • Cabascabo by Oumarou Ganda (Niger) • Charles mort ou vif by Alain Tanner (Switzerland) • Sziget a szárazföldön (The Lady from Constantinople) by Judit Elek (Hungary) • The Hour of the Furnaces (La Hora de los hornos) by Fernando Solanas (Argentina) • King, Murray by David Hoffman (United States) • More by Barbet Schroeder (Luxembourg) • ''My Girlfriend's Wedding'' by Jim McBride (United States) • Pagine chiuse by Gianni da Campo (Italy) • La Rosière de Pessac by Jean Eustache (France) • La Voie by Mohamed Slimane Riad (Algeria) • In the Year of the Pig by Emile de Antonio (United States) • Hunting Scenes from Bavaria (Jagdszenen aus Niederbayern) by Peter Fleischmann (West Germany) • Paris n’existe pas by Robert Benayoun (France) Directors' Fortnight The following films were screened for the 1969 Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalizateurs): • Acéphale by Patrick Deval (France) • Adam 2 by Jan Lenica (West Germany) • Ballade pour un chien by René Allio, Gérard Vergez (France) • Barravento by Glauber Rocha (Brazil) • ''Between Salt and Sweet Water (Entre la mer et l'eau douce)'' by Michel Brault (Canada) • Brandy in the Wilderness by Stanton Kaye (United States) • O Bravo Guerreiro by Gustavo Dahl (Brazil) • Brazil Year 2000 (Brasil Ano 2000) by Walter Lima Jr (Brazil) • Calcutta (doc.) by Louis Malle (France) • Capitu by Paulo César Saraceni (Brazil) • Capricci by Carmelo Bene (Italy) • ''Christopher's Movie Matinée'' by Mort Ransen (Canada) • Le Cinématographe by Michel Baulez (France) • De mère en fille (doc.) by Anne-Claire Poirier (Canada) • Death by Hanging (Kōshikei) by Nagisa Oshima (Japan) • Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (Shinjuku Dorobō Nikki) by Nagisa Oshima (Japan) • Drôle de jeu by Pierre Kast (France) • Duet for Cannibals by Susan Sontag (Sweden) • The Ernie Game by Don Owen (Canada) • ''L'été'' by Marcel Hanoun (France) • Face To Face (Cara a cara) by Júlio Bressane (Brazil) • La primera carga al machete by Manuel Octavio Gomez (Cuba) • Five Girls Around the Neck (Pět holek na krku) by Evald Schorm (Czechoslovakia) • Fuoco! by Gian Vittorio Baldi (Italy) • A Gentle Woman (Une femme douce) by Robert Bresson (France) • Les Gommes by Francis Deroisy (Belgium) • Head by Bob Rafelson (United States) • Het compromis by Philo Bregstein (Netherlands) • The Illiac Passion by Gregory Markopoulos (France) • Image, Flesh and Voice by Ed Emshwiller (United States) • Invasión by Hugo Santiago (Argentina) • Jardim de guerra by Neville dAlmeida (Brazil) • Le Joujou Chéri by Gabriel Axel (Denmark) • Kid Sentiment by Jacques Godbout (Canada) • Le lit de la Vierge by Philippe Garrel (France) • Lucía by Humberto Solas (Cuba) • Mai 68, la belle ouvrage (doc.) by Jean-Luc Magneron (France) • Marie by Marta Meszaros (Hungary) • Marketa Lazarová by František Vláčil (Czechoslovakia) • A Matrimony (Eine Ehe) by Hans Rolf Strobel, Heinrich Tichawsky (West Germany) • Money, Money by José Varela (France) • The Most Beautiful Age by Jaroslav Papoušek (Czechoslovakia) • Mumbo-Jumbo by Jean-Luc Magneron (France) • Nocturne 29 by Pere Portabella (Spain) • Nous n’irons plus au bois by Georges Dumoulin (France) • Our Lady of the Turks (Nostra Signora dei Turchi) by Carmelo Bene (Italy) • Partner by Bernardo Bertolucci (Italy) • Paul by Diourka Medveczky (France) • Paulina Is Leaving (Paulina s’en va) by André Téchiné (France) • La Poupée Rouge by Francis Leroi (France) • ''The Rape of a Sweet Young Girl (Le viol d'une jeune fille douce)'' by Gilles Carle (Canada) • Rhodesia Countdown by Michael Raeburn (Southern Rhodesia) • Scratch Harry by Alex Matter (United States) • Sirocco (Sirokkó) by Miklos Jancso (Hungary) • The Smugglers (Les contrebandières) by Luc Moullet (France) • Soliloquy by Stephen Dwoskin (United Kingdom) • ''Straight to the Heart (Jusqu'au cœur)'' by Jean Pierre Lefebvre (Canada) • Terry Withmore For an Example by Bill Brodie (Sweden) • Three by James Salter (United States) • A Time of Roses (Ruusujen aika) by Risto Jarva (Finland) • The Trip by Roger Corman (United States) • Tu imagines Robinson by Jean-Daniel Pollet (France) • Vie provisoire by Mauricio Gomez Leite (Brazil) • Les vieilles lunes by David Fahri (Switzerland) • Vive la mort by Francis Reusser (Switzerland) • Le Voyage by Fernando Cony Campos (Brazil) • Wheel of Ashes by Peter Goldman (United States) • Yvon, Yvonne by Claude Champion (Switzerland) :Short films5/7/35 by Jean Mazeas (France) • Adrien s’éloigne by Claude Guillemot (France) • Arrabal by Jacques Poitrenaud (France) • Athènes, ville sourire by Lambros Liaropoulos (Greece) • Black Movie by Adrian (filmmaker) (France) • Chinese Chekers by Stephen Dwoskin (United Kingdom) • Einer Mädchenhaut by Klaus Schönherr (France) • Erin Ereinté by Jean-Paul Aubert (France) • Flash-Parc by Frank Cassenti (France) • Fuses by Carolee Schneemann (United States) • Galaxie by Gregory Markopoulos (France) • Gedanken beim Befühlen by Klaus Schönherr (France) • Hemingway by Fausto Canel (Cuba) • Jeanne et la moto by Diourka Medveczky (France) • Journal de séjour a Marseille by C. Lindenmeyer, Gérard Levy-Clerc (France) • La page dévoilée by Jim Hodgetts et Mike Marshall (France) • La poursuite impitoyable by J.J. Schakmundes, R. Guillon (France) • Le mariage de Clovis by Daniel Duval (France) • Le Sursitaire by Serge Huet (France) • Les Stabiles by Christian Lara (France) • Libi by Otto Muehl (France) • Marie et le Curé by Diourka Medveczky (France) • Miss Paris et le Majordome by Georges Dumoulin (France) • Monsieur Jean-Claude Vaucherin by Pascal Aubier (France) • N.O.T.H.I.N.G. by Paul Sharits (France) • Naissant by Stephen Dwoskin (United Kingdom) • On the Every Day of the Eyes of Death by Robert Beavers (France) • Paris des Négritudes by Jean Schmidt (France) • Permanence by Busioc Ionesco (Romania) • Que s’est-il passé en Mai? by Jean-Pierre Savignac (France) • Rohfilm by G. Hein (France) • S. Macht am Sonntag-Nachmittag keinen Film by Dieter Meier (France) • Scenes from Under Childhood by Stan Brakhage (France) • Souvenir de la nuit du 4 by Patrice Gauthier, Henry Lange (France) • Speak by John Latham (United Kingdom) • The Mysteries by Gregory Markopoulos (France) • Twice a Man by Gregory Markopoulos (France) • Untebrochene Flugverbindungen by Dieter Meier (France) • Versucht mit Synth. Ton by Kurt Kren (France) • Winged Dialogue by Robert Beavers (France) ==Official Awards==
Official Awards
Main Competition Grand Prix du Festival International du Film: If.... by Lindsay AndersonGrand Prix Spécial du Jury: Ådalen 31 by Bo WiderbergBest Director: • Glauber Rocha for Antonio das MortesVojtěch Jasný for All My Good CountrymenBest Actress: Vanessa Redgrave for IsadoraBest Actor: Jean-Louis Trintignant for ZJury Prize: Z by Costa Gavras (Unanimously) • Best First Work: Easy Rider by Dennis Hopper Short Films Competition Grand Prix International du Festival: Cîntecele Renasterii by Mirel Ilieşiu • Prix spécial du Jury: La Pince à ongles by Jean-Claude Carrière == Independent Awards ==
Independent Awards
=== FIPRESCI Prize === • Andrei Rublev by Andrei Tarkovsky Commission Supérieure TechniqueTechnical Grand Prize - Special Mention: All My Good Countrymen by Vojtěch JasnýShort film - Special Mention: • Cîntecele Renasterii by Mirel Ilieşiu • Toccata by Herman van der Horst ==References==
Media
• INA: Opening of the 1969 Festival (commentary in French) • INA: Closing ceremony Cannes 1969 (commentary in French) == External links ==
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