# 1993 Cannes Film Festival

The 46th Cannes Film Festival took place from 13 to 24 May 1993. French filmmaker Louis Malle served as jury president for the main competition. French actress Jeanne Moreau hosted the opening and closing ceremonies.
The Palme d'Or was jointly award to Chinese filmmaker Chen Kaige for the drama film Farewell My Concubine and New Zealand filmmaker Jane Campion for the drama film The Piano. Campion became the first woman to ever win the festival's top prize.
The festival opened with My Favorite Season by André Téchiné, and closed with Toxic Affair by Philomène Esposito.

## Juries
### Main competition

* Louis Malle, French filmmaker - Jury President
* Claudia Cardinale, Italian actress
* Inna Churikova, Russian actress
* Judy Davis, Australian actress
* Abbas Kiarostami, Iranian filmmaker
* Emir Kusturica, Bosnian filmmaker
* William Lubtchansky, French cinematographer
* Tom Luddy, American producer
* Gary Oldman, British actor
* Augusto M. Seabra, Portuguese film critic

### Camera d'Or

* Micheline Presle, French actress - Jury President
* Gabriel Auer, French director
* Anne De Gasperi, French journalist
* Attilio D’Onofrio, Italian film critic
* Rémy Pages, French film critic
* Tony Rayns, British film critic and screenwriter
* Lia Somogyi, Hungarian film critic
* Aruna Vasudev, Indian film critic, author, editor, painter and filmmaker

## Official selection
### In Competition

The following feature films competed for the Palme d'Or:
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| Body Snatchers | Body Snatchers | Abel Ferrara | United States |
| Broken Highway | Broken Highway | Laurie McInnes | Australia |
| Dyuba-Dyuba | Дюба-Дюба | Aleksandr Khvan | Russia |
| The Escort | La scorta | Ricky Tognazzi | Italy |
| Falling Down | Falling Down | Joel Schumacher | United States |
| Faraway, So Close! | In weiter Ferne, so nah! | Wim Wenders | Germany |
| Farewell My Concubine | 霸王别姬 | Chen Kaige | China |
| Fiorile | Fiorile | Paolo and Vittorio Taviani | Italy, France, Germany |
| Frauds | Frauds | Stephan Elliott | Australia |
| Friends | Friends | Elaine Proctor | South Africa |
| King of the Hill | King of the Hill | Steven Soderbergh | United States |
| Libera me | Libera me | Alain Cavalier | France |
| Louis, the Child King | Louis, enfant roi | Roger Planchon | France |
| Magnificat | Magnificat | Pupi Avati | Italy |
| The Man by the Shore | L'Homme sur les quais | Raoul Peck | Haiti, France, Germany, Canada |
| Mazeppa | Mazeppa | Bartabas | France |
| Much Ado About Nothing | Much Ado About Nothing | Kenneth Branagh | United Kingdom, United States |
| My Favorite Season (opening film) | Ma saison préférée | André Téchiné | France |
| Naked | Naked | Mike Leigh | United Kingdom |
| The Piano | The Piano | Jane Campion | New Zealand, Australia, France |
| The Puppetmaster | 戲夢人生 | Hou Hsiao-hsien | Taiwan |
| Raining Stones | Raining Stones | Ken Loach | United Kingdom |
| Splitting Heirs | Splitting Heirs | Robert Young | United Kingdom |

### Un Certain Regard

The following films were selected for Un Certain Regard section:
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| The Act in Question | El Acto en cuestión | Alejandro Agresti | Argentina |
| Anchoress | Anchoress | Chris Newby | United Kingdom |
| Bedevil | Bedevil | Tracey Moffatt | Australia |
| The Bird of Happiness | El Pájaro de la Felicidad | Pilar Miró | Spain |
| Bodies, Rest & Motion | Bodies, Rest & Motion | Michael Steinberg | United States |
| Charlie and the Doctor | Charlie and the Doctor | Ralph C. Parsons | France |
| Derailment | Avsporing | Unni Straume | Norway, France |
| Desperate Remedies | Desperate Remedies | Stewart Main and Peter Wells | New Zealand |
| The End of the World | O Fim do Mundo | João Mário Grilo | Portugal |
| Excursion to the Bridge of Friendship | Excursion to the Bridge of Friendship | Christina Andreef | Australia |
| Foreboding | Şi va fi... | Valeriu Jereghi | Russia, Romania |
| François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits | François Truffaut: Portraits volés | Serge Toubiana and Michel Pascal | France |
| The Great Pumpkin | Il grande cocomero | Francesca Archibugi | Italy |
| Latcho Drom | Latcho Drom | Tony Gatlif | France |
| Moving | お引越し | Shinji Sōmai | Japan |
| The Music of Chance | The Music of Chance | Philip Haas | United States |
| October | Oktyabr | Abderrahmane Sissako | France, Mauritania |
| Remote Control | Sódóma Reykjavík | Óskar Jónasson | Iceland |
| The Scent of Green Papaya | Mùi đu đủ xanh | Tran Anh Hung | France, Vietnam |
| Sonatine | ソナチネ | Takeshi Kitano | Japan |
| Stroke | Stroke | Mark Sawers | Canada |
| The Young Girls Turn 25 | Les demoiselles ont eu 25 ans | Agnès Varda | France |
| Wendemi, The Good Lord's Child | Wendemi, l'enfant du bon Dieu | Saint Pierre Yaméogo | Burkina Faso, France |
| The Wrong Man | The Wrong Man | Jim McBride | United States |

### Out of Competition

The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| The Baby of Mâcon | The Baby of Mâcon | Peter Greenaway | United Kingdom, France, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands |
| Cliffhanger | Cliffhanger | Renny Harlin | United States |
| Mad Dog and Glory | Mad Dog and Glory | John McNaughton | United States |
| Madadayo | まあだだよ | Akira Kurosawa | Japan |
| Toxic Affair (closing film) | Toxic Affair (closing film) | Philomène Esposito | France |

### Short film competition

The following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or:
* Ævintýri á okkar tímum by Inga Lísa Middleton
* Coffee and Cigarettes III by Jim Jarmusch
* De 4 jaargetijden by Maarten Koopman
* Le goût du fer by Rémi Bernard
* Lenny Minute 1: Lenny Meets the Giant Blue Sheila Doll by Glenn Standring
* Mama Said by Michael Costanza
* Me voy a escapar by Juan Carlos de Llaca
* Robokip by Rudolf Mestdagh
* The Singing Trophy by Grant Lahood
* Der Sortierer by Stephan Puchner

## Parallel sections
### International Critics' Week

The following films were screened for the 32nd International Critics' Week (32e Semaine de la Critique):
Feature film competition
* Cronos by Guillermo del Toro (Mexico)
* Faut-il aimer Mathilde? by Edwin Baily (France)
* Requiem for a Handsome Bastard (Requiem pour un beau sans cœur) by Robert Morin (Canada)
* Combination Platter by Tony Chan (United States)
* Don't Call Me Frankie by Thomas A. Fucci (United States)
* Abissinia by Francesco Martinotti (Italy)
* Les histoires d’amour finissent mal… en général by Anne Fontaine (France)
Short film competition
* The Debt by Bruno de Almeida (United States)
* Take My Breath Away by Andrew Shea (United States)
* Passage à l’acte by Martin Arnold (Austria)
* Sotto le unghie by Stefano Sollima (Italy)
* Falstaff on the Moon by Robinson Savary (France)
* Springing Lenin by Andrei Nekrasov (United Kingdom)
* Schwarzfahrer by Pepe Danquart (Germany)

### Directors' Fortnight

The following films were screened for the 1993 Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalizateurs):
* Vaterland by Yevgeniy Lungin
* Sundays on Leave (È pericoloso sporgersi) by Nae Caranfil
* Fausto by Rémy Duchemin
* Grand bonheur by Hervé Le Roux
* Child Murders (Gyekgyilkossagok) by Ildikó Szabó
* I Love a Man in Uniform by David Wellington
* Je m'appelle Victor by Guy Jacques
* La Ardilla Roja by Julio Medem
* La Place d’un autre by René Féret
* The Blue Kite (Lan Fengzeng) by Tian Zhuangzhuang
* Le Mari de Léon by Jean-Pierre Mocky
* Lolo by Francisco Athié
* Menace II Society by Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes
* Mi Vida Loca by Allison Anders
* Me Ivan, You Abraham (Moi Ivan, Toi Abraham) by Yolande Zauberman
* Padma Nadir Majhi by Goutam Ghose
* Pilkkuja ja pikkuhousuja (Lyrics and Lace) by Matti Ijäs
* Ruby in Paradise by Victor Nuñez
* Shadows in a Conflict (Sombras en una batalla) by Mario Camus
* The Snapper by Stephen Frears
* Abraham's Valley (Vale Abraão) by Manoel De Oliveira
    Short films
* Comment font les gens by Pascale Bailly
* L'Exposé by Ismaël Ferroukhi
* José Jeannette by Bruno Nicolini
* Le Regard de l’autre by Bruno Rolland
* Qui est-ce qui a éteint la lumière? by Xavier Auradon
* Reste by Marie Vermillard
* Rives by Erick Zonca
* La Vis by Didier Flamand

## Official Awards
### In Competition

* Palme d'Or:
** Farewell My Concubine by Chen Kaige
** The Piano by Jane Campion
* Grand Prize of the Jury: Faraway, So Close! by Wim Wenders
* Best Director: Mike Leigh for Naked
* Best Actress: Holly Hunter for The Piano
* Best Actor: David Thewlis for Naked
* Jury Prize:
** Raining Stones by Ken Loach
** The Puppetmaster by Hou Hsiao-hsien

### Caméra d'Or

* The Scent of Green Papaya by Tran Anh Hung
** Special Mention: Friends by Elaine Proctor

### Short Film Palme d'Or

* Coffee and Cigarettes by Jim Jarmusch

## Independent Awards
### FIPRESCI Prizes

* Farewell My Concubine by Chen Kaige (In competition)
* Child Murders by Ildikó Szabó (Directors' Fortnight)

### Commission Supérieure Technique

* Technical Grand Prize: Jean Gargonne and Vincent Arnardi (for technical achievements in images and sound) for Mazeppa
** Special Mention: Grant Lahood (for technical achievements in images and sound) for The Singing Trophy

### Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

* Libera me by Alain Cavalier
** Special Mention: The Great Pumpkin by Francesca Archibugi

### Award of the Youth

* Foreign Film: The Red Squirrel by Julio Médem
* French Film:
** Me Ivan, You Abraham by Yolande Zauberman
** The Scent of Green Papaya by Tran Anh Hung

### International Critics' Week

* Mercedes-Benz Award: Cronos by Guillermo del Toro
* Canal+ Award: The Debt by Bruno de Almeida
* Kodak Short Film Award: L'Exposé by Ismaël Ferroukhi