The 9th Cannes Film Festival took place from 23 April to 10 May 1956. French actor, director and producer Maurice Lehmann served as jury president for the main competition.
The Palme d'Or, the festival's top prize, was awarded to The Silent World by Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Louis Malle.
In an effort to resolve some issues caused by the Cold War climate of the time, like special treatment towards Americans (who gave financial assistance to the festival) which displeased the Eastern Bloc, a rule to have films withdrawn under certain conditions was in effect until 1955, even though it had become a divisive issue within the festival directors, as it was seen as censorship. In 1956, it was officially decided to eliminate all such censorship from the selection.
The festival opened with Marie Antoinette Queen of France by Jean Delannoy and closed with The Roof by Vittorio De Sica.
Juries
Main competition
- Maurice Lehmann, French actor, director and producer - Jury President
- Arletty, French actress
- Louise Lévêque de Vilmorin, French writer and journalist
- Jacques-Pierre Frogerais, French
- Henri Jeanson, French writer and journalist
- Domenico Meccoli, Italian writer
- Otto Preminger, Austrian-American filmmaker and actor
- James Quinn, British film administrator, producer and exhibitor
- Roger Regent, French
- MarÃÂa Romero, Chilean
- Sergei Vasilyev, Soviet filmmaker and actor
Short films competition
- Francis Bolen, Belgian
- AntonÃÂn Brousil, Czechoslovak
- Henri Fabiani, French
- Paul Grimault, French filmmaker
- Jean Perdrix, French filmmaker
Official selection
In competition
The following feature films competed for the Palme d'Or:
Short films competition
The following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or:
- Aéroport de Luxembourg by Philippe Schneider
- Andre Modeste Gretry by Lucien Deroisy
- Le ballon rouge by Albert Lamorisse
- Bwana Kitoko by André Cauvin
- Ciganytanc by Tamas Banovich
- Columbia Musical Travelark: Wonders of Manhattan by Harry Foster
- La corsa delle rocche by Gian Luigi Polidoro
- Crne vode by Rudolf Sremec
- En de zee was niet meer by Bert Haanstra
- The Face of Lincoln by Edward Freed
- Festival Melody (Melodii festivalia) by Jerzy Bossak, R. Grigoriev, Ilya Kopalin, Iosif Poselski
- Fuji wa ikiteiru by Kenji Shimomura
- Gateway To the Antarctic by Duncan Carse
- Gerald McBoing on Planet Moo or Gerald McBoing! Boing! on Planet Moo by Robert Cannon
- Growing Coconuts by Fali Bilimoria
- Horizons nouveaux by Kurt Baum
- Karius and Bactus (Karius og Baktus) by Ivo Caprino
- Kati és a vadmacska by ÃÂgoston Kollányi
- Katsura rikyu by Minoru Kuribayashi
- Loutky Jiriho Trnky by Bruno Sefranek
- Magdana's Donkey (Lurdzha Magdany) by Tengiz Abuladze and Rezo Chkheidze
- Marinica by Ion Popescu-Gopo
- Nicolae Grigorescu by Ion Bostan
- Parabola d'oro by Vittorio De Seta
- Les pécheurs du cap by Errol Hinds
- Portrait of Soutland by Peter Roger Hunt
- Povest za tirnovgrad by Yuri Arnaudov
- Salut ÃÂ la France by Ric Eyrich, Thomas L. Rowe
- Salzburger Impressionen by Prof. Hanns Wagula
- The Shepherd by Julian Biggs
- Stvoreni syeta by E. Hofman
- Svedocanstva o tesli by Vladimir Pogacic
- Tant qu'il y aura des bêtes by Braissai
- Teatr lalek by Marian Ussorowski
- Together by Lorenza Mazzetti
- Tovarishch ukhodit v more by Nikita Kurikhin
- Vand fra eufrat by Theodor Christensen
Official awards
Main competition
Short films competition
Independent awards
References
Media
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