1983 Cannes Film Festival

Juries

Main competition

• William Styron Jury President
• Henri Alekan
• Yvonne Baby
• Sergei Bondarchuk
• Youssef Chahine
• Souleymane Cissé
• Gilbert de Goldschmidt
• Mariangela Melato
• Karel Reisz
• Lia Van Leer

  Camera d'Or

• Philippe Carcassonne
• Dan Fainaru
• Monique Grégoire
• Alexis Grivas
• Adrienne Hancia
• Bernard Jubard
• Jean-Daniel Simon

  Official selection

In competition - Feature film

• L'Argent by Robert Bresson
• The Ballad of Narayama by Shohei Imamura
• Carmen by Carlos Saura
• Cross Creek by Martin Ritt
• The Death of Mario Ricci by Claude Goretta
• Duvar by Yılmaz Güney
• Eréndira by Ruy Guerra
• Forbidden Relations by Zsolt Kézdi-Kovács
• Heat and Dust by James Ivory
• The King of Comedy by Martin Scorsese
• Kharij by Mrinal Sen
• Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence by Nagisa Oshima
• Monty Python's The Meaning of Life by Terry Jones
• Moon in the Gutter by Jean-Jacques Beineix
• Nostalghia by Andrei Tarkovsky
• One Deadly Summer by Jean Becker
• The South by Víctor Erice
• Station for Two by Eldar Ryazanov
• The Story of Piera by Marco Ferreri
• Tender Mercies by Bruce Beresford
• The Wounded Man by Patrice Chéreau
• The Year of Living Dangerously by Peter Weir

  Un Certain Regard

• Bella Donna by Peter Keglevic
• La bête lumineuse by Pierre Perrault
• Caballo salvaje by Joaquín Cortés
• Can She Bake a Cherry Pie? by Henry Jaglom
• Le certificat d'indigence by Moussa Bathily
• The Eighties by Chantal Akerman
• The Haircut by Tamar Simon Hoffs
• The Herdsman by Xie Jin
• La matiouette ou l'arrière-pays by André Téchiné
• Nešto između by Srdjan Karanovic
• News Items by Raymond Depardon
• The Pool Hustlers by Maurizio Ponzi
• Twenty Years of African Cinema by Férid Boughedir
• Ulysse by Agnès Varda
• Zappa by Bille August

  Films out of competition

• Angelo My Love by Robert Duvall
• Boat People by Ann Hui
• Walking, Walking by Ermanno Olmi
• Équateur by Serge Gainsbourg
• Holtpont by Ferenc Rofusz
• The Man in the Silk Hat by Maud Linder
• Modori River by Tatsumi Kumashiro
• Streamers by Robert Altman
• The Hunger by Tony Scott
• The Wicked Lady by Michael Winner
• Utu by Geoff Murphy
• WarGames by John Badham

  Short film competition

• Ad astra by Ferenc Cakó
• Un Arrivo by Dominique De Fazio
• The Butterfly by Dieter Müller
• Don Kichot by Krzysztof Raynoch
• L'Égout by Maria Eugenia Santos
• La Fonte de Barlaeus by Pierre-Henry Salfati
• Haast een hand by Gerrit van Dijk, Jacques Overtoom, Peter Sweenen
• Je sais que j'ai tort mais demandez à mes copains ils disent la même chose by Pierre Levy
• The Only Forgotten Take of Casablanca by Charly Weller
• Too Much Oregano by Kerry Feltham

  Parallel sections

International Critics' Week

• Betrayal by Vibeke Lokkeberg
• Carnival in the Night by Masashi Yamamoto
• Le Destin de Juliette by Aline Issermann
• Faux fuyants by Alain Bergala, Jean-Pierre Limosin
• Lianna by John Sayles
• Menuet by Lili Rademakers
• The Princess by Pal Erdöss

  Directors' Fortnight

• Anguelos by Georges Katakouzinos
• Another Time, Another Place by Michael Radford
• Barbarosa by Fred Schepisi
• Bolwieser by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• The Compass Rose by Patricio Guzman
• Daniel Takes a Train by Pal Sandor
• Dead End Street by Yaky Yosha
• Demons in the Garden by Manuel Gutierrez Aragon
• Eisenhans by Tankred Dorst
• Grenzenlos by Josef Rödl
• The House of the Yellow Carpet by Carlo Lizzani
• Just a Game by Brigitte Sauriol
• Last Days of the Victim by Adolfo Aristarain
• Local Hero by Bill Forsyth
• Miss Lonelyhearts by Michael Dinner
• No Trace of Sin by José Fonseca e Costa
• La rue étroite by Yang Yanjin
• Rupture by Mohamed Chouikh
• A Woman in Flames by Robert van Ackeren
• Alchimie by Michèle Miron, Richard Clark
• Conte Obscur by Manuel Gómez
• Dédicace by Marie Brazeau
• The Life And Death of Joe Soap by Lewis John Cooper
• Phalloctere by Manuel Gómez
• Saudade by Carlos Porto de Andrade Jr, Leonardo Crescenti Neto

  Awards

Official awards

• Palme d'Or: The Ballad of Narayama by Shōhei Imamura
• Grand Prix: Monty Python's The Meaning of Life by Terry Jones
• Best Director :
• *Robert Bresson for L'Argent
• * Andrei Tarkovsky for Nostalghia
• Best Actress: Hanna Schygulla for The Story of Piera
• Best Actor: Gian Maria Volonté for The Death of Mario Ricci
• Best Artistic Contribution: Carmen by Carlos Saura
• Jury Prize: Kharij by Mrinal Sen

• Caméra d'Or: The Princess by Pál Erdöss

• Short Film Palme d'Or: Je sais que j'ai tort mais demandez à mes copains ils disent la même chose by Pierre Levy
• Jury Prize - Best Short Film: The Only Forgotten Take of Casablanca by Charly Weller & Too Much Oregano by Kerry Feltham

  Independent awards

• Nostalghia by Andrei Tarkovsky
• Daniel Takes a Train by Pál Sándor

• Technical Grand Prize: Carmen by Carlos Saura

• Prize of the Ecumenical Jury: Nostalghia by Andrei Tarkovsky

• Foreign Film: Miss Lonelyhearts by Michael Dinner

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