# 1986 Cannes Film Festival

The 39th Cannes Film Festival took place from 8 to 19 May 1986. American filmmaker Sydney Pollack served as jury president for the main competition. British filmmaker Roland Joffé won the Palme d'Or, the festival's top prize, for the drama film The Mission.
The festival opened with Pirates by Roman Polanski, and closed with El amor brujo by Carlos Saura.

## Juries
### Main competition

* Sydney Pollack, American filmmaker, producer, and actor - Jury President
* Charles Aznavour, French-Armenian musician
* Sônia Braga, Brazilian actress
* Lino Brocka, Filipino filmmaker
* Tonino Delli Colli, Italian cinematographer
* Philip French, English film critic and producer
* Alexandre Mnouchkine, French-Russian producer
* István Szabó, Hungarian filmmaker
* Danièle Thompson, French filmmaker
* Alexandre Trauner, Hungarian-French production designer

### Camera d'Or

* Anne Fichelle - Jury President
* Christophe Ghristi, cinephile
* Lawrence Kardish cinephile
* Serge Leroy, French filmmaker
* Pierre Murat, film critic
* Ivan Starcevic, journalist
* Eva Zaoralova, journalist

## Official selection
### In Competition

The following feature films competed for the Palme d'Or:
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| After Hours | After Hours | Martin Scorsese | United States |
| Boris Godunov | Борис Годунов | Sergei Bondarchuk | Soviet Union, Poland, Czechoslovakia, West Germany |
| Evening Dress | Tenue de soirée | Bertrand Blier | France |
| Down by Law | Down by Law | Jim Jarmusch | United States |
| The Fringe Dwellers | The Fringe Dwellers | Bruce Beresford | Australia |
| Fool for Love | Fool for Love | Robert Altman | United States |
| Genesis | Genesis | Mrinal Sen | India |
| I Love You | I Love You | Marco Ferreri | France, Italy |
| The Last Image | الصور الأخير | Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina | Algeria |
| Love Me Forever or Never | Eu Sei Que Vou Te Amar | Arnaldo Jabor | Brazil |
| Max, My Love | Max, Mon Amour | Nagisa Ōshima | France, United States, Japan |
| The Mission | The Mission | Roland Joffé | United Kingdom |
| Mona Lisa | Mona Lisa | Neil Jordan | United Kingdom |
| Otello | Otello | Franco Zeffirelli | Italy, Netherlands |
| Poor Butterfly | Pobre mariposa | Raúl de la Torre | Argentina |
| Rosa Luxemburg | Rosa Luxemburg | Margarethe von Trotta | West Germany |
| Runaway Train | Runaway Train | Andrei Konchalovsky | United States |
| The Sacrifice | Offret | Andrei Tarkovsky | Sweden, United Kingdom, France |
| Scene of the Crime | Le lieu du crime | André Téchiné | France |
| Thérèse | Thérèse | Alain Cavalier | France |

### Un Certain Regard

The following films were selected for the Un Certain Regard section:
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| A Girl's Own Story | A Girl's Own Story | Jane Campion | Australia |
| Backlash | Backlash | Bill Bennett | Australia |
| Belizaire the Cajun | Belizaire the Cajun | Glen Pitre | United States |
| Burke & Wills | Burke & Wills | Graeme Clifford | Australia |
| Coming Up Roses | Rhosyn a Rhith | Stephen Bayly | United Kingdom |
| Das zweite Schraube-Fragment | Das zweite Schraube-Fragment | Walter Andreas Christen | Austria |
| Desert Bloom | Desert Bloom | Eugene Corr | United States |
| Laputa | Laputa | Helma Sanders-Brahms | West Germany |
| Man of Ashes | ريح السد | Nouri Bouzid | Tunisia |
| Passionless Moments | Passionless Moments | Jane Campion and Gerard Lee | Australia |
| A Promise | 人間の約束 | Yoshishige Yoshida | Japan |
| The Pied Piper | Krysař | Jiří Barta | Czechoslovakia, West Germany |
| Ricochets | שתי אצבעות מצידון | Eli Cohen | Israel |
| Salomè | Salomè | Claude d'Anna | Italy, France |
| Sunrise | 日出 | Yu Benzheng | China |
| Two Friends | | Jane Campion | Australia |
| The Unknown Soldier | Tuntematon sotilas | Rauni Mollberg | Finland |
| Welcome in Vienna | Wohin und zurück - Teil 3: Welcome in Vienna | Axel Corti | Austria |
| Where Are You Going? | За къде пътувате? | Rangel Vulchanov | Bulgaria |

### Out of Competition

The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| Absolute Beginners | Absolute Beginners | Julien Temple | United Kingdom |
| El amor brujo (closing film) | El amor brujo (closing film) | Carlos Saura | Spain |
| The Chipmunk Adventure | The Chipmunk Adventure | Janice Karman | United States |
| The Color Purple | The Color Purple | Steven Spielberg | United States |
| Don Quixote (unfinished) | Don Quixote (unfinished) | Orson Welles | Spain, Italy, United States |
| Hannah and Her Sisters | Hannah and Her Sisters | Woody Allen | United States |
| A Matter of Life and Death (1946) | A Matter of Life and Death (1946) | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger | United Kingdom |
| A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later | Un homme et une femme: Vingt ans déjà | Claude Lelouch | France |
| Pirates (opening film) | Pirates (opening film) | Roman Polanski | France, Tunisia, Poland |
| Precious Images (short) | | Chuck Workman | United States |
| You've Got Beautiful Stairs, You Know (short) | T'as de beaux escaliers tu sais | Agnès Varda | France |

### Short Films Competition

The following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or:
* 15-Août by Nicole Garcia (France)
* Heiduque by Y. Katsap, L. Gorokhov (Russia)
* A Gentle Spirit (Lagodna) by Piotr Dumala
* Le Vent by Csaba Varga
* Les Petites Magiciennes by Vincent Mercier, Yves Robert (France)
* Les Petits Coins by Pascal Aubier
* Miroir d'ailleurs by Willy Kempeneers
* Nouilles Sèches (Dry Noodles) by Dan Collins
* Peel by Jane Campion (Australia)
* Question d'optiques by Claude Luyet
* Quinoscopio by Juan Padron
* Street of Crocodiles by Brothers Quay
* Turbo Concerto by Martin Barry

## Parallel sections
### International Critics' Week

The following feature films were screened for the 25th International Critics' Week (25e Semaine de la Critique):
* 40 Square Meters of Germany (40 Quadratmeter Deutschland) by Tevfik Baser (West Germany)
* Devil in the Flesh by Scott Murray (Australia)
* La Dona del traghetto by Amedeo Fago (Italy)
* Esther by Amos Gitaï (Israel)
* Faubourg Saint-Martin by Jean-Claude Guiguet (France)
* San Antoñito by Pepe Sanchez (Colombia)
* Sleepwalk by Sara Driver (United States)

### Directors' Fortnight

The following films were screened for the 1986 Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalizateurs):
* Cactus by Paul Cox
* Comic Magazine (Komikku Zasshi Nanka Iranai) by Yōjirō Takita
* Dancing in the Dark by Leon Marr
* The Decline of the American Empire (Le Déclin de l'empire américain) by Denys Arcand
* Defence of the Realm by David Drury
* Devil in the Flesh (Diavolo in corpo) by Marco Bellocchio
* Giovanni Senzapensieri by Marco Colli
* Golden Eighties by Chantal Akerman
* Malandro (Ópera do Malandro) by Ruy Guerra
* Memoirs of a Sinner by Wojciech Has
* Qing Chun Jin by Nuanxin Zhang
* Schmutz by Paulus Manker
* She's Gotta Have It by Spike Lee
* Sid and Nancy by Alex Cox
* Sorekara by Yoshimitsu Morita
* Tarot by Rudolf Thome
* Visszaszamlalas by Pal Erdoss
* Working Girls by Lizzie Borden

## Official Awards
### In Competition

* Palme d'Or: The Mission by Roland Joffé
* Grand Prix: The Sacrifice by Andrei Tarkovsky
* Best Director: Martin Scorsese for After Hours
* Best Actress:
** Barbara Sukowa for Rosa Luxemburg
** Fernanda Torres for Love Me Forever or Never
* Best Actor:
** Michel Blanc for Evening Dress
** Bob Hoskins for Mona Lisa
* Best Artistic Contribution: Sven Nykvist (cinematography) fotThe Sacrifice
* Jury Prize: Thérèse by Alain Cavalier

### Caméra d'Or

* Noir et Blanc by Claire Devers

### Short Film Palme d'Or

* Peel by Jane Campion
* Jury Prize for Fiction: Les Petites Magiciennes by Vincent Mercier and Yves Robert
* Jury Prize for Animation: Heiduque by Y. Katsap, L. Gorokhov

## Independent Awards
### FIPRESCI Prizes

* The Decline of the American Empire by Denys Arcand (Directors' Fortnight)
* The Sacrifice by Andrei Tarkovsky (In competition)

### Commission Supérieure Technique

* Technical Grand Prize: The Mission by Roland Joffé

### Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

* The Sacrifice by Andrei Tarkovsky
** Special Mention: Thérèse by Alain Cavalier

### Award of the Youth

* Foreign Film: She's Gotta Have It by Spike Lee
* French Film: High Speed by Monique Dartonne and Michel Kaptur