1972 Cannes Film Festival

Jury

• Joseph Losey Jury President
• Bibi Andersson
• Georges Auric
• Erskine Caldwell
• Mark Donskoi
• Miloš Forman
• Giorgio Papi
• Jean Rochereau
• Alain Tanner
• Naoki Togawa

• Frédéric Rossif President
• Istvan Dosai
• Vicente Pineda

  Official selection

In competition - Feature film

• Dear Louise by Philippe de Broca
• A Fan's Notes by Eric Till
• Havoc by Peter Fleischmann
• Hearth Fires by Serge Korber
• I Love You Rosa by Moshé Mizrahi
• Images by Robert Altman
• Jeremiah Johnson by Sydney Pollack
• King, Queen, Knave by Jerzy Skolimowski
• Malpertuis by Harry Kümel
• The Mattei Affair by Francesco Rosi
• Oil Lamps by Juraj Herz
• Pearl in the Crown by Kazimierz Kutz
• Red Psalm by Miklós Jancsó
• The Ruling Class by Peter Medak
• The Seduction of Mimi by Lina Wertmüller
• Silence by Masahiro Shinoda
• Slaughterhouse-Five by George Roy Hill
• Solaris by Andrei Tarkovsky
• The Surveyors by Michel Soutter
• To Find a Man by Buzz Kulik
• Trotta by Johannes Schaaf
• The True Nature of Bernadette by Gilles Carle
• The Visitors by Elia Kazan
• We Won't Grow Old Together by Maurice Pialat
• The Working Class Goes to Heaven by Elio Petri

  Films out of competition

• Asta Nielsen by Asta Nielsen
• Bröder Carl by Susan Sontag
• Faustine et le bel été by Nina Companéez
• Frenzy by Alfred Hitchcock
• L'aventure c'est l'aventure by Claude Lelouch
• La dérive by Paula Delsol
• La Génération du désert by Nicole Stéphane
• Une guerre pour une paix by Nicole Stéphane
• Lisa and the Devil by Mario Bava
• Den gale dansker by Kirsten Stenbæk
• Le lys de mer by Jacqueline Audry
• Hvezda Betlémská by Hermína Týrlová
• Alye maki Issyk-Kulya by Bolotbek Shamshiyev
• Les Jeunes Filles En Fleurs by David Hamilton, Philippe Leroi
• Macbeth by Roman Polanski
• Marie by Márta Mészáros
• Merry-Go-Round by Kirsten Stenbæk
• Papa, les petits bateaux by Nelly Kaplan
• Roma by Federico Fellini
• Serata by Malvina Ursianu
• Sziget a szárazföldön by Judit Elek

  Short film competition

• Atlantyda by Piotr Szpakowicz
• The Birth of Aphrodite by Leland Auslender
• Le Fusil à lunette by Jean Chapot
• Giovanni Michelucci by Fernando Cerchio
• Hundertwasser's Rainy Day by Peter Schamoni
• Jour de classe by Henri Jouf
• Magic Graz by Curt M. Faudon
• Malka dnevna muzika by Ivan Vesselinov
• Mini by Stoian Doukov
• I Omorfia tou thanatou by Nestoras Matsas
• Operation X-70 by Raoul Servais
• Pour solde de tout compte by Louis Pitzele
• Een Zeer zonnige wereld by Pieter De Groot
• Zikkaron by Laurent Coderre

  Parallel sections

International Critics' Week

• Avoir 20 ans dans les Aurès by René Vautier
• Fritz the Cat by Ralph Bakshi
• The Hamburg Uprising of 1923 by Reiner Etz, Gisela Tuchtenhagen, Klaus Wildenhahn
• Dirty Money by Denys Arcand
• Pilgrimage by Beni Montreso
• The Trial of Catonsville Nine by Gorgon Davidson
• Winter Soldier
• Prata Palomares'' by André Faria

  Directors' Fortnight

• Alianza para el progreso by Julio César Ludueña
• All the Advantages by Christopher Mason
• The Birch Wood by Andrzej Wajda
• Confessions Among Actresses by Yoshishige Yoshida
• The Days of Water by Manuel Octavio Gómez
• Diary of a Suicide by Stanislav Stanojevic
• Los dias del amor by Alberto Isaac
• The Dupes by Tewfik Saleh
• Emitai by Ousmane Sembene
• ' by
• Family Life by Ken Loach
• Film Portrait doc.) by [Jerome Hill
• Il gesto by Marcello Grottesi
• Hail by Fred Levinson
• Heat by Paul Morrissey
• Homolka a tobolka by Jaroslav Papoušek
• Land of Silence and Darkness by Werner Herzog
• Luminous Procuress by Steven Arnold
• Marjoe by Howard Smith, Sarah Kernochan
• Les mattes by Jean-Claude Labrecque
• The People by John Korty
• Postchi by Dariush Mehrjui
• ¡Qué hacer! by Saul Landau, Raoul Ruiz, James Becket, Bill Yarhaus, Nina Serrano
• ' by Paul Leduc
• Le Sang by Jean-Daniel Pollet
• São Bernardo by Leon Hirszman
• Savages by James Ivory
• Shura by Toshio Matsumoto
• St. Michael Had a Rooster by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
• Summer Soldiers by Hiroshi Teshigahara
• La tecnica e il rito by Miklós Jancsó
• Der Tod der Maria Malibran by Werner Schroeter
• Week-end à Sochaux by Groupe Medvedkine
• Wezwanie by Wojciech Solarz
• Die Zelle by Horst Bienek
• Autoportrait d'un pornographe by Robert Swaim
• Camille ou la comédie catastrophique by Claude Miller
• Celui qui venait d'ailleurs by Atahualpa Lichy, J.P. Torok
• Das Kaputte Kino by H.H.K. Schoenherr
• Death of a Sandwichman by G. Henderickx, Robbe De Hert
• Drug Abuse by Pat Lehman
• Empereur Tomato-Ketchup by Shuji Terayama
• Homo Augens by Ante Zaninovic
• Kamasutra Rides Again by Bob Godfrey
• La Chute by Paul Dopff
• Le Cabot by P. Letellier J.
• Le Sourire by Paul Dopff
• Légendes et chateaux by Patrick Hella
• Luger by Georges Bensoussan
• Saint-Denis sur Avenir by Sarah Maldoror
• Yunbogi no nikki by Nagisa Oshima

  Awards

Official awards

• Grand Prix du Festival International du Film:
• *The Working Class Goes to Heaven by Elio Petri
• *The Mattei Affair by Francesco Rosi
• Grand Prix Spécial du Jury: Solaris by Andrei Tarkovsky
• Best Director: Miklós Jancsó for Red Psalm
• Best Actress: Susannah York for Images
• Best Actor: Jean Yanne for We Won't Grow Old Together
• Jury Prize: Slaughterhouse-Five by George Roy Hill

• Grand Prix International du Festival: Le Fusil à lunette by Jean Chapot
• Prix spécial du Jury: Operation X-70 by Raoul Servais

  Independent awards

• FIPRESCI Prize: Avoir 20 ans dans les Aurès by René Vautier

• Technical Grand Prize: Zikkaron by Laurent Coderre

• Special Mention: Gian Maria Volonté for La Classe operaia va in paradiso and Il Caso Mattei

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