The 25th annual Cannes Film Festival took place from 4 to 19 May 1972. American filmmaker Joseph Losey served as jury president for the main competition.
The Grand Prix du Festival International du Film, then the festival's main prize, was unanimously jointly awarded to Italian drama films The Working Class Goes to Heaven by Elio Petri and The Mattei Affair by Francesco Rosi.
The festival opened with L'aventure, c'est l'aventure by Claude Lelouch, and closed with Frenzy by Alfred Hitchcock.
Juries
Main Competition
- Joseph Losey, American filmmaker - Jury President
- Bibi Andersson, Swedish actress
- Georges Auric, French composer
- Erskine Caldwell, American writer
- Mark Donskoy, Soviet filmmaker
- MiloÃ
¡ Forman, Czechoslovakian filmmaker
- Giorgio Papi, Italian producer
- Jean Rochereau, French journalist
- Alain Tanner, Swiss filmmaker
- Naoki Togawa, Japanese
Short Films Competition
- Frédéric Rossif, French filmmaker - Jury President
- Istvan Dosai, Hungarian cinematographer
- Vicente Pineda, Italian journalist
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 Short Film Palme d'Or:
Parallel sections
International Critics' Week
The following feature films were screened for the 11th International Critics' Week (11e Semaine de la Critique):
- Avoir 20 ans dans les Aurès by René Vautier (France)
- Fritz the Cat by Ralph Bakshi (United States)
- The Hamburg Uprising of 1923 (Der Hamburger Aufstand Oktober 1923) by Reiner Etz, Gisela Tuchtenhagen, Klaus Wildenhahn (West Germany)
- Dirty Money (La Maudite Galette) by Denys Arcand (Canada)
- Pilgrimage by Beni Montreso (United States)
- The Trial of Catonsville Nine by Gorgon Davidson (United States)
- Winter Soldier (Anonymous) (United States)
- Prata Palomares by André Faria (Brazil) (screening was canceled at the request of the Brazilian government)
Directors' Fortnight
The following films were screened for the 1972 Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalizateurs):
Short films
- Autoportrait d'un pornographe by Robert Swaim (France)
- Camille ou la comédie catastrophique by Claude Miller (France)
- Celui qui venait d'ailleurs by Atahualpa Lichy, J.P. Torok (France)
- Das Kaputte Kino by H.H.K. Schoenherr (Switzerland)
- Death of a Sandwichman by G. Henderickx, Robbe De Hert (Belgium)
- Drug Abuse by Pat Lehman (United States)
- Empereur Tomato-Ketchup by Shuji Terayama (Japan)
- Homo Augens by Ante Zaninovic (Yougoslavie)
- Kamasutra Rides Again by Bob Godfrey (United Kingdom)
- La Chute by Paul Dopff (France)
- Le Cabot by P. Letellier J. (France)
- Le Sourire by Paul Dopff (France)
- Légendes et chateaux by Patrick Hella (Belgium)
- Luger by Georges Bensoussan (France)
- Saint-Denis sur Avenir by Sarah Maldoror (France)
- Yunbogi no nikki by Nagisa Oshima (Japan)
Official Awards
In Competition
Short Films Competition
Independent Awards
Commission Supérieure Technique
References
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