# 1983 Cannes Film Festival

The 36th Cannes Film Festival took place from 7 to 19 May 1983. American author William Styron served as jury president for the main competition.
Japanese filmmaker Shōhei Imamura won the Palme d'Or, the festival's top prize, for the drama film The Ballad of Narayama.
In 1983, the festival's new main building, the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès, was inaugurated. Initially many described it as "a hideous concrete blockhouse", nicknaming it The Bunker.
The festival opened with The King of Comedy by Martin Scorsese, and closed with WarGames by John Badham.

## Juries
### Main competition

* William Styron, American author - Jury President
* Henri Alekan, French cinematographer
* Yvonne Baby, French journalist and author
* Sergei Bondarchuk, Soviet filmmaker and actor
* Youssef Chahine, Egyptian filmmaker
* Souleymane Cissé, Malian filmmaker
* Gilbert de Goldschmidt, French producer
* Mariangela Melato, Italian actress
* Karel Reisz, British filmmaker
* Lia van Leer, Israeli founder of the Haifa Cinematheque, the Jerusalem Cinematheque, the Israel Film Archive and the Jerusalem Film Festival

### Camera d'Or

* Bernard Jubard, French - Jury President
* Philippe Carcassonne, French producer
* Dan Fainaru, Israeli
* Monique Grégoire, French
* Alexis Grivas, Mexican
* Adrienne Hancia, American
* Jean-Daniel Simon, French filmmaker

## Official selection
### In Competition

The following feature films competed for the Palme d'Or:
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| L'Argent | L'Argent | Robert Bresson | France, Switzerland |
| The Ballad of Narayama | 楢山節考 | Shōhei Imamura | Japan |
| Carmen | Carmen | Carlos Saura | Spain |
| Cross Creek | Cross Creek | Martin Ritt | United States |
| The Death of Mario Ricci | La mort de Mario Ricci | Claude Goretta | France, Switzerland |
| Duvar | Duvar | Yılmaz Güney | Turkey, France |
| Eréndira | Eréndira | Ruy Guerra | Mexico, France, West Germany |
| Forbidden Relations | Visszaesők | Zsolt Kézdi-Kovács | Hungary |
| Heat and Dust | Heat and Dust | James Ivory | United Kingdom |
| The King of Comedy (opening film) | The King of Comedy (opening film) | Martin Scorsese | United States |
| Kharij | Kharij | Mrinal Sen | India |
| Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence | 戦場のメリークリスマス | Nagisa Ōshima | Japan, United Kingdom, New Zealand |
| Monty Python's The Meaning of Life | Monty Python's The Meaning of Life | Terry Jones | United Kingdom |
| Moon in the Gutter | La Lune dans le caniveau | Jean-Jacques Beineix | France |
| Nostalghia | Nostalghia | Andrei Tarkovsky | Soviet Union, Italy |
| One Deadly Summer | L'Été meurtrier | Jean Becker | France |
| Station for Two | Вокзал для двоих | Eldar Ryazanov | Soviet Union |
| The Story of Piera | Storia di Piera | Marco Ferreri | Italy |
| El Sur | El Sur | Víctor Erice | Spain |
| Tender Mercies | Tender Mercies | Bruce Beresford | United States |
| The Wounded Man | L'Homme blessé | Patrice Chéreau | France |
| The Year of Living Dangerously | The Year of Living Dangerously | Peter Weir | Australia, United States |

### Un Certain Regard

The following films were selected for the Un Certain Regard section:
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| Bella Donna | Bella Donna | Peter Keglevic | West Germany |
| Caballo salvaje | Caballo salvaje | Joaquín Cortés | Venezuela |
| Can She Bake a Cherry Pie? | Can She Bake a Cherry Pie? | Henry Jaglom | United States |
| The Eighties | Les Années 80 | Chantal Akerman | Belgium, France |
| The Haircut | The Haircut | Tamar Simon Hoffs | United States |
| The Herdsman | 牧马人 | Xie Jin | China |
| Humanonon | Humanonon | Michel François | France |
| La matiouette ou l'arrière-pays | La matiouette ou l'arrière-pays | André Téchiné | France |
| Nešto između | Nešto između | Srđan Karanović | Yugoslavia |
| News Items | Faits divers | Raymond Depardon | France |
| The Pool Hustlers | Io, Chiara e lo scuro | Maurizio Ponzi | Italy |
| Poverty Certificate | Le certificat d'indigence | Moussa Bathily | Senegal |
| The Shimmering Beast | La bête lumineuse | Pierre Perrault | Canada |
| Twenty Years of African Cinema | Caméra d'Afrique | Férid Boughedir | Tunisia |
| Ulysse | Ulysse | Agnès Varda | France |
| Zappa | Zappa | Bille August | Denmark |

### Out of Competition

The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| Angelo My Love | Angelo My Love | Robert Duvall | United States |
| Boat People | 投奔怒海 | Ann Hui | Hong Kong, China |
| Équateur | Équateur | Serge Gainsbourg | France, West Germany, Gabon |
| Holtpont | Holtpont | Ferenc Rofusz | Hungary |
| The Hunger | The Hunger | Tony Scott | United Kingdom, United States |
| The Man in the Silk Hat | L'homme au chapeau de soie | Maud Linder | France |
| Modori River | もどり川 | Tatsumi Kumashiro | Japan |
| Streamers | Streamers | Robert Altman | United States |
| Utu | Utu | Geoff Murphy | New Zealand |
| Walking, Walking | Cammina, cammina | Ermanno Olmi | Italy |
| WarGames (closing film) | WarGames (closing film) | John Badham | United States |
| The Wicked Lady | The Wicked Lady | Michael Winner | United Kingdom, United States |

### Short Films Competition

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

The following feature films were screened for the 22nd International Critics' Week (22e Semaine de la Critique):
* Betrayal (Løperjenten) by Vibeke Lokkeberg (Norway)
* Carnival in the Night (Yami no kānibaru) by Masashi Yamamoto (Japan)
* Le Destin de Juliette by Aline Issermann (France)
* Faux fuyants by Alain Bergala, Jean-Pierre Limosin (France)
* Lianna by John Sayles (United States)
* Menuet by Lili Rademakers (Belgium, Netherlands)
* The Princess (Adj király katonát) by Pal Erdöss (Hungary)

### Directors' Fortnight

The following films were screened for the 1983 Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalizateurs):
* Anguelos by Georges Katakouzinos
* Another Time, Another Place by Michael Radford
* Barbarosa by Fred Schepisi
* The Stationmaster's Wife (Bolwieser) by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
* The Compass Rose (La rosa de los vientos) by Patricio Guzman
* Daniel Takes a Train (Szerencsés Dániel) by Pal Sandor
* Dead End Street by Yaky Yosha
* Demons in the Garden (Demonios en el jardín) by Manuel Gutierrez Aragon
* Strange Fruits [de] (Eisenhans) by Tankred Dorst
* Grenzenlos by Josef Rödl
* The House of the Yellow Carpet (La casa del tappeto giallo) by Carlo Lizzani
* Just a Game (Rien qu'un jeu) by Brigitte Sauriol
* Last Days of the Victim (Últimos días de la víctima) by Adolfo Aristarain
* Local Hero by Bill Forsyth
* Miss Lonelyhearts by Michael Dinner (Brief mention in novel)
* No Trace of Sin (Sem Sombra De Pecado) by José Fonseca e Costa
* La rue étroite (Xiao Jie) by Yang Yanjin
* Rupture (al-Inquita - Breakdown) by Mohamed Chouikh
* A Woman in Flames (Die flambierte Frau) by Robert van Ackeren
    Short films
* 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

## Official Awards
### In Competition

* 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:
** The Only Forgotten Take of Casablanca by Charly Weller
** Too Much Oregano by Kerry Feltham

## Independent Awards
### FIPRESCI Prizes

* Nostalghia by Andrei Tarkovsky (In competition)
* Daniel Takes a Train by Pál Sándor (Directors' Fortnight)

### Commission Supérieure Technique

* Technical Grand Prize: Carmen by Carlos Saura

### Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

* Nostalghia by Andrei Tarkovsky

### Award of the Youth

* Foreign Film: Miss Lonelyhearts by Michael Dinner