1971 Cannes Film Festival

The 24th Cannes Film Festival took place from 12 to 27 May 1971. French actress MichÃÂ¨le Morgan served as jury president for the main competition. The Grand Prix du Festival International du Film, then the festival's main prize, was awarded to The Go-Between by Joseph Losey.

This edition paid tribute to Charlie Chaplin and honored him with the title of Commander of the national order of the Legion of Honor.

The festival opened with Gimme Shelter by David Maysles, Albert Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin, and closed with The Married Couple of the Year Two by Jean-Paul Rappeneau.

Juries

Main Competition

MichÃÂ¨le Morgan, French actress - Jury President
Pierre Billard, French journalist and film critic
Michael Birkett, British producer
Anselmo Duarte, Brazilian filmmaker
IstvÃÂ¡n GaÃÂ¡l, Hungarian filmmaker
Sergio Leone, Italian filmmaker
Aleksandar PetroviÃÂ, Yugoslav filmmaker
Maurice Rheims, French art historian and novelist
Erich Segal, American author

Short Films Competition

VÃÂ©ra Volmane, Franch journalist - Jury President
Charles Duvanel, Swiss
Etienne Novella, Franch

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:

Le Chasseur by FranÃÂ§ois Reichenbach
The Deadly Trap (La Maison sous les Arbres) by RenÃÂ© ClÃÂ©ment
The Friends (Les amis) by GÃÂ©rard Blain
Gimme Shelter by David Maysles, Albert Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin
The Hellstrom Chronicle by Walon Green
Narcissus by Peter Foldes
The Sacred Fire (Le feu sacrÃÂ©) by Vladimir Forgency
The Trojan Women by Michael Cacoyannis

Short Films Competition

The following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or:

Astronaut Coffee Break by Edward Casazza
Centinelas del silencio by Robert Amram
Fair Play by Bronislaw Zeman
Hans Hartrung by Christian Ferlet
I mari della mia fantasia by Ernesto G. Laura
Jardin by Claude Champion
La fin du jeu by Renaud Walter
Le coeur renverse by Maurice Frydland
Memorial by James Allen
Mixed-Double by Bent Barfod
Patchwork by Georges Schwizgebel, Claude Luyet, Daniel Suter, Manolo Otero, GÃÂ©rald Poussin
Paul Delvaux, ou les femmes dÃÂ©fendues by Henri Storck
Star Spangled Banner by Roger Flint
Stuiter by Jan Oonk
Une statuette by Carlos Vilardebo

Parallel Sections

International Critics' Week

The following feature films were screened for the 10th International Critics' Week (10e Semaine de la Critique):

' by Morley Markson (Canada)

Bronco Bullfrog by Barney Platts-Mills (United Kingdom)

ExpÃÂ©dition punitive by Magyar DessÃÂ¶ (Hungary)

' by (West Germany)
Loving Memory by Tony Scott (United Kingdom)
A Matter of Life (Question de vie) by AndrÃÂ© ThÃÂ©berge (Canada)
Le Moindre geste by Jean-Pierre Daniel, Fernand Deligny (France)
Les Passagers by Annie Tresgot (Algeria)
Trash by Paul Morrissey (United States)
Viva la muerte by Fernando Arrabal (Tunisia, France)

Directors' Fortnight

The following films were screened for the 1971 Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des RÃÂ©alizateurs):

Acadia, Acadia (L'Acadie, L'Acadie?!?) by Michel Brault and Pierre Perrault (Canada)
Are You Afraid? (Er i bange?) (doc.) by Henning Carlsen (Denmark)
Badou Boy by Djibril Diop Mambety (Senegal)
Bang Bang by AndrÃÂ©a Tonacci (Brazil)
Birds, Orphans and Fools (VtÃÂ¡ÃÂkovia, siroty a blÃÂ¡zni) by Juraj Jakubisko (France, Czechoslovakia)
Brother Carl by Susan Sontag (Sweden)
The Ceremony (Gishiki) by Nagisa Oshima (Japan)
Cleopatra by Michel Auder (United States)
The Cow (GÃÂv) by Dariush Mehrjui (Iran)
Cuadecuc, vampir by Pere Portabella (Spain)
Don't Deliver Us from Evil (Mais ne nous dÃÂ©livrez pas du mal) by JoÃÂ«l SÃÂ©ria (France)
Du Cote D'Orouet by Jacques Rozier (France)
Dziura w ziemi by Andrzej Kondratiuk (Poland)
Agnus dei (ÃÂgi bÃÂ¡rÃÂ¡ny) by MiklÃÂ³s JancsÃÂ³ (Hungary)
Equinox (Equinozio) by Maurizio Ponzi (Italy)
A Fable by Al Freeman Jr. (United States)
Fata Morgana by Werner Herzog (West Germany)
Festival panafricain d'Alger 1969 (doc.) by William Klein (Algeria)
La fin des PyrÃÂ©nÃÂ©es by Jean-Pierre Lajournade (France)
Four Nights of a Dreamer (Quatre nuits d'un rÃÂªveur) by Robert Bresson (France)
Goin' Down the Road by Donald Shebib (Canada)
How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman (Como era gostoso o meu francÃÂªs) by Nelson Pereira Dos Santos (Brazil)
It Is Necessary to Be Among the Peoples of the World to Know Them (Faut aller parmi l'monde pour le savoir) by Fernand Dansereau (Canada)
Lea in Winter (LÃÂ©a l'hiver) by Marc Monnet (France)
Lenz by George Moorse (West Germany)
The Machine by A. Shermann, J. Rozenberg (Switzerland)
Le MaÃÂ®tre du temps (doc.) by Jean-Daniel Pollet (France)
Makin' It by Simon Hartog (United Kingdom)
Mare's Tail by David Larcher (United Kingdom)
Mathias Kneissl by Reinhard Hauff (West Germany)
MÃÂ©xico, la revoluciÃÂ³n congelada by Raymundo Gleyzer (Argentina)
O CapitÃÂ£o Bandeira Contra o Dr. Moura Brasil (Moi, Schizo) by AntÃÂ´nio Calmon (Brazil)
Ni vainqueurs, ni vaincus by A. Cabado, N. Spoliansky (Argentina)
Of Gods and the Undead (Os Deuses e os Mortos) by Ruy Guerra (Brazil)
The Past That Lives by Philo Bregstein (Netherlands)
Prea mic pentru un razboi atÃÂ®t de mare by Radu Gabrea (Romania)
Puntos suspensivos o Esperando a los bÃÂ¡rbaros by Edgardo Cozarinsky (Argentina)
Rape (Voldtekt) by Anja Breien (Norway)
The Salamander (La salamandre) by Alain Tanner (Switzerland, France)
Sex Jack (Seikozu) by KÃÂji Wakamatsu (Japan)
StafÃÂ©ta by AndrÃÂ¡s KovÃÂ¡cs (Hungary)
The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach (Der plÃÂ¶tzliche Reichtum der armen Leute von Kombach) by Volker SchlÃÂ¶ndorff (West Germany)
Los testigos by Charles Elsesser (Chile)
Those Damned Savages (Les maudits sauvages) by Jean Pierre Lefebvre (Canada)
THX 1138 by George Lucas (United States)
Tokyo senso sengo hiwa by Nagisa Oshima (Japan)
Umut by YÃÂ±lmaz GÃÂ¼ney (Turkey)
Valparaiso, Valparaiso by Pascal Aubier (France)
Voto mÃÂ¡s fusil by Helvio Soto (Chile)
W.R. - Misterije organizma by DuÃÂ¡an Makavejev (Yugoslavia)
Wanda by Barbara Loden (United States)