1988 Cannes Film Festival

Juries

Main competition

• Ettore Scola Jury President
• Claude Berri
• David Robinson
• Yelena Safonova
• George Miller
• Hector Olivera
• Nastassja Kinski
• Philippe Sarde
• Robby Muller
• William Goldman - Goldman wrote about the experience in his book Hype and Glory.

  Camera d'Or

• Danièle Delorme President
• Bernard Jubard
• Carlos Avellar
• Chantal Calafato
• David Streiff
• Ekaterina Oproiu
• Henry Chapier
• Jacques Champreux

  Official selection

In competition - Feature films

• The Abyss by André Delvaux
• Bird by Clint Eastwood
• The Cannibals by Manoel de Oliveira
• Chocolat by Claire Denis
• El Dorado by Carlos Saura
• Drowning by Numbers by Peter Greenaway
• L'enfance de l'art by Francis Girod
• Hanussen by István Szabó
• King of the Children by Chen Kaige
• Love and Fear by Margarethe von Trotta
• ' by Vicente Aranda
• Miles from Home by Gary Sinise
• Pascali's Island by James Dearden
• The Passenger – Welcome to Germany by Thomas Brasch
• Patty Hearst by Paul Schrader
• Pelle the Conqueror by Bille August
• ' by Vincent Ward
• A Short Film About Killing by Krzysztof Kieślowski
• Sur by Fernando Solanas
• A World Apart by Chris Menges
• Wuthering Heights by Yoshishige Yoshida

  Un Certain Regard

• Among Grey Stones by Kira Muratova
• Antarjali Jatra by Gautam Ghose
• The Harms Case by Slobodan D. Pesic
• Havinck by Frans Weisz
• by Marcel Ophüls
• It's Happening Tomorrow by Daniele Luchetti
• Katinka by Max von Sydow
• Lamento by François Dupeyron
• Lounge Chair by Jean-François Amiguet
• Mapantsula by Oliver Schmitz
• The Mask by Fiorella Infascelli
• Natalia by Bernard Cohn
• Night Journey by Ömer Kavur
• On the Silver Globe by Andrzej Żuławski
• The Raggedy Rawney by Bob Hoskins
• The Revolving Doors by Francis Mankiewicz
• Rouge of the North by Fred Tan
• Sand and Blood by Jeanne Labrune
• A Song of Air by Merilee Bennett
• Stalin's Disciples by Nadav Levitan
• Time of Violence by Ludmil Staikov
• Why? by Karel Smyczek

  Out of competition

• Le Grand Bleu by Luc Besson
• The Blue Iguana by John Lafia
• by Bill Couturié
• Histoires du cinéma by Jean-Luc Godard
• The Milagro Beanfield War by Robert Redford
• Willow by Ron Howard

  Short film competition

• Ab Ovo / Homoknyomok by Ferenc Cako
• Bukpytacy by Gary Bardine
• Cat & Mousse by David Lawson
• Chet's Romance by Bertrand Fevre
• Les Dômes du Plaisir by Maggie Fooke
• 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

• Begurebis gadaprena by Temur Babluani
• Full Moon by Sahin Kaygun
• Tokyo Pop by Fran Rubel Kuzui
• The Well by Yalin Li
• Testament by John Akomfrah
• Portrait of a Life by Raja Mitra
• My Dear Subject by Anne-Marie Miéville

• La face cachée de la lune by Yvon Marciano
• Metropolis Apocalypse by Jon Jacobs
• Artisten by Jonas Grimas
• Klatka by Olaf Olszewski
• Cidadao Jatoba by Maria Luiza Aboïm
• Blues Black and White by Markus Imboden

  Directors' Fortnight

• Amerika, Terra Incognita by Diego Risquez
• Daughter of the Nile by Hou Hsiao-Hsien
• Die Venusfalle by Robert Van Ackeren
• Distant Voices, Still Lives by Terence Davies
• Ei by Danniel Danniel
• Herseye Ragmen by Orhan Oguz
• La Ligne de Chaleur by Hubert-Yves Rose
• 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 by Yousry Nasrallah
• Soursweet by Mike Newell
• Stormy Monday by Mike Figgis
• The Story of Fausta by Bruno Barreto
• Tabataba by Raymond Rajaonarivelo
• The Suitors by Ghasem Ebrahimian

  Awards

Official awards

• Palme d'Or: Pelle erobreren 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: Krótki film o zabijaniu by Krzysztof Kieślowski

• Caméra d'Or: Salaam Bombay! by Mira Nair

• 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, Jean Marie Maddeddu

  Independent awards

• Krótki film o zabijaniu by Krzysztof Kieślowski
• ' by Marcel Ophüls
• Distant Voices, Still Lives by Terence Davies

• Audience Award: Salaam Bombay!'' by Mira Nair

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