1988 Cannes Film Festival

The 41st Cannes Film Festival took place from 11 to 23 May 1988. Italian filmmaker Ettore Scola served as jury president for the main competition.

Danish filmmaker Bille August won the Palme d'Or, the festival's top prize, for his drama film Pelle the Conqueror.

The festival opened with The Big Blue by Luc Besson, and closed with Willow by Ron Howard.

Juries

Main competition

• Ettore Scola, Italian filmmaker - Jury President
• Claude Berri, French filmmaker, producer, and actor
• William Goldman, American author
• Nastassja Kinski, German actress
• George Miller, Australian filmmaker
• Robby Müller, Dutch cinematographer
• Héctor Olivera, Argentine filmmaker and producer
• David Robinson, British film critic
• Yelena Safonova, Soviet actress
• Philippe Sarde, French composer

Camera d'Or

• Danièle Delorme, French actress - Jury President
• Carlos Avellar, journalist
• Jacques Champreux, French director
• Henry Chapier, French film critic
• Chantal Calafato, cinephile
• Bernard Jubard
• Ekaterina Oproiu, journalist
• David Streiff, cinephile

Official selection

In Competition

The following feature films competed for the Palme d'Or:

Un Certain Regard

The following films were selected for the Un Certain Regard section:

Out of Competition

The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:

Special Screenings

The following films were selected to receive a special screening:

Short film competition

The following short films competed for the Palme d'Or du court métrage:

• Ab Ovo / Homoknyomok (Traces of Sand) by Ferenc Cako
• Bukpytacy (Fioritures) by Gary Bardine
• Cat & Mousse by David Lawson
• Chet's Romance by Bertrand Fevre
• Out of Town by Norman Hull
• Pas-ta-shoot-ah by Maurizio Forestieri
• Pleasure Domes by Maggie Fooke
• Sculpture Physique by Yann Piquer, Jean Marie Maddeddu
• Super Freak by Gisela Ekholm, Per Ekholm

Parallel sections

International Critics' Week

The following feature films were screened for the 27th International Critics' Week (27e Semaine de la Critique):

Feature film competition

• Begurebis gadaprena by Temür Babluani (Soviet Union)
• Full Moon (Dolunay) by Sahin Kaygun (Turkey)
• Tokyo Pop by Fran Rubel Kuzui (USA)
• The Well (Jing) by Yalin Li (China)
• Testament by John Akomfrah (United Kingdom)
• Portrait of a Life (Ekti Jiban) by Raja Mitra (India)
• My Dear Subject (Mon cher sujet) by Anne-Marie Miéville (France, Switzerland)

Short film competition

• La face cachée de la lune by Yvon Marciano (France)
• Metropolis Apocalypse by Jon Jacobs (United Kingdom)
• Artisten (The Artist) by Jonas Grimas (Sweden)
• Klatka (The cage) by Olaf Olszewski (Poland)
• Cidadao Jatoba (Citizen Jatoba) by Maria Luiza Aboïm (Brazil)
• Blues Black and White by Markus Imboden (Switzerland)

Directors' Fortnight

The following feature films were screened for the 1988 Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalizateurs):

• Amerika, Terra Incognita by Diego Risquez
• Daughter of the Nile (Ni luo he nu er) by Hou Hsiao-Hsien
• ' by Robert Van Ackeren
• Distant Voices, Still Lives by Terence Davies
• Ei by Danniel Danniel
• The Heat Line (La Ligne de chaleur) by Hubert-Yves Rose
• Herseye Ragmen by Orhan Oguz
• Légendes Vivantes by Nodar Managadzé
• Mars Froid by Igor Minayev
• Natal da Portela by Paulo Cezar Saraceni
• Noujoum A’nahar by Oussama Mohammad
• Salaam Bombay! by Mira Nair
• Summer Thefts (Sarikat Sayfeya) by Yousry Nasrallah
• Soursweet by Mike Newell
• Stormy Monday by Mike Figgis
• The Story of Fausta (Romance Da Empregada) by Bruno Barreto
• Tabataba by Raymond Rajaonarivelo
• The Suitors by Ghasem Ebrahimian

Official Awards

In Competition

• Palme d'Or: Pelle the Conqueror by Bille August
• Grand Prix: A World Apart by Chris Menges
• Best Director: Fernando Solanas for Sur
• Best Actress: Barbara Hershey, Jodhi May and Linda Mvusi for A World Apart
• Best Actor: Forest Whitaker for Bird
• Best Artistic Contribution: Peter Greenaway for Drowning by Numbers
• Jury Prize: A Short Film About Killing by Krzysztof Kieślowski

Caméra d'Or

• Salaam Bombay! by Mira Nair

Short films

Short Film Palme d'Or

• Vykrutasy by Garri Bardin
• Short Film Prize for Animation: Traces of Sand by Ferenc Cako
• Short Film Prize for Fiction: Physical Sculpture by Yann Piquer and Jean Marie Maddeddu

Independent Awards

FIPRESCI Prizes

• A Short Film About Killing by Krzysztof Kieślowski (In competition)
• ' by Marcel Ophüls (Un Certain Regard)
• Distant Voices, Still Lives by Terence Davies (Directors' Fortnight)

Commission Supérieure Technique

• Technical Grand Prize: Bird, for the quality of the soundtrack

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

• A World Apart by Chris Menges
• Special Mention: The Revolving Doors by Francis Mankiewicz

Award of the Youth

• Foreign Film: Herseye Ragmen by Orhan Oguz
• French Film: Mon cher sujet by Anne-Marie Miéville

Other awards

• Audience Award: Salaam Bombay! by Mira Nair

References

Media

• INA: Opening of the 1988 Cannes Festival <small>(commentary in French)</small>
• INA: List of winners of the 1988 festival <small>(commentary in French)</small>

External links

• 1988 Cannes Film Festival (web.archive)
• Official website Retrospective 1988
• Cannes Film Festival Awards for 1988 at Internet Movie Database