# 1999 Cannes Film Festival

The 52nd Cannes Film Festival took place from 12 to 23 May 1999. Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg served as jury president for the main competition. Kristin Scott Thomas was the host for the opening and closing ceremonies.
Belgian filmmakers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne won the Palme d'Or, the festival's top prize, for the drama film Rosetta.
The festival opened with The Barber of Siberia by Nikita Mikhalkov, and closed with An Ideal Husband by Oliver Parker.

## Juries
### Main competition

* David Cronenberg, Canadian filmmaker - Jury President
* Dominique Blanc, French actress
* Doris Dörrie, German filmmaker and producer
* Jeff Goldblum, American actor
* Barbara Hendricks, Swedish singer
* Holly Hunter, American actress
* George Miller, Australian filmmaker
* Maurizio Nichetti, Italian filmmaker and acotr
* Yasmina Reza, French actor and writer
* André Téchiné, French filmmaker

### Un Certain Regard

* Lambert Wilson, French actor - Jury President
* Irène Bignardi, critic
* Annie Coppermann, critic
* Thierry Gandillot, critic
* Jonathan Romney, critic
* Laurent Tirard, French filmmaker

### Cinéfondation and Short Films Competition

* Thomas Vinterberg, Danish fillmmaker - Jury President
* Cédric Klapisch, French filmmaker
* Virginie Ledoyen, French actress
* Walter Salles, Brazilian filmmaker
* Greta Scacchi, Italian-Austrian actress

### Camera d'Or

* Michel Piccoli, French actor - Jury President
* Jean-Pierre Beauviala
* Cherifa Chabane, critic
* Caroline Champetier, French cinematographer:
* Paola Malanga, critic
* José Maria Riba, critic
* Marie Vermillard, director
* Peter Von Bagh, Finnish film historian and director

## Official Selection
### In Competition

The following feature films competed for the Palme d'Or:
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| 8½ Women | 8½ Women | Peter Greenaway | United Kingdom, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Germany |
| All About My Mother | Todo sobre mi madre | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain, France |
| Cradle Will Rock | Cradle Will Rock | Tim Robbins | United States |
| The Emperor and the Assassin | 荊軻刺秦王 | Chen Kaige | China |
| Felicia's Journey | Felicia's Journey | Atom Egoyan | United Kingdom, Canada |
| Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai | Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai | Jim Jarmusch | United States, France, Germany, Japan |
| Humanité | L'humanité | Bruno Dumont | France |
| Kadosh | קדוש | Amos Gitai | France, Israel |
| Kikujiro | 菊次郎の夏 | Takeshi Kitano | Japan |
| The Letter | La lettre / A Carta | Manoel de Oliveira | France, Portugal |
| Limbo | Limbo | John Sayles | United States |
| Love Will Tear Us Apart | 天上人間 | Nelson Yu Lik-wai | Hong Kong |
| Moloch | Молох | Alexander Sokurov | Russia |
| The Nanny | La balia | Marco Bellocchio | Italy |
| No One Writes to the Colonel | El coronel no tiene quien le escriba | Arturo Ripstein | Mexico, Spain, France |
| Our Happy Lives | Nos vies heureuses | Jacques Maillot | France |
| Pola X | Pola X | Leos Carax | France, Switzerland, Germany, Japan |
| Rosetta | Rosetta | Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne | Belgium, France |
| The Straight Story | The Straight Story | David Lynch | United States, United Kingdom, France |
| Tales of Kish | قصه‌های کیش | Abolfazl Jalili, Mohsen Makhmalbaf and Nasser Taghvai | Iran |
| Time Regained | Le temps retrouvé, d'après l'oeuvre de Marcel Proust | Raúl Ruiz | France, Italy, Portugal |
| Wonderland | Wonderland | Michael Winterbottom | United Kingdom |

### Un Certain Regard

The following films were selected for the competition of Un Certain Regard:
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| Away with Words | 三條人 | Christopher Doyle | Hong Kong, Japan |
| Beautiful People | Beautiful People | Jasmin Dizdar | United Kingdom |
| Beresina, or the Last Days of Switzerland | Beresina oder Die letzten Tage der Schweiz | Daniel Schmid | Switzerland, Germany, Austria |
| Genesis | La genèse | Cheick Oumar Sissoko | Mali, France |
| Harem Suare | Harem Suare | Ferzan Özpetek | Turkey, Italy, France |
| If I Give You my Humbleness, Don't Take Away my Pride | If I Give You my Humbleness, Don't Take Away my Pride | Karin Westerlund | Denmark, Sweden |
| Judy Berlin | Judy Berlin | Eric Mendelsohn | United States |
| Kaizokuban Bootleg Film | 海賊版 | Masahiro Kobayashi | Japan |
| March of Happiness | 天馬茶房 | Lin Cheng-sheng | Taiwan |
| Nadia and the Hippos | Nadia et les hippopotames | Dominique Cabrera | France |
| New Dawn | Peau neuve | Émilie Deleuze | France |
| Olympic Garage | Garage Olimpo | Marco Bechis | Argentina, France, Italy |
| The Other | الآخر | Youssef Chahine | Egypt, France |
| The Passengers | Les passagers | Jean-Claude Guiguet | France |
| The Personals | 徵婚啓事 | Chen Kuo-fu | Taiwan |
| Ratcatcher | Ratcatcher | Lynne Ramsay | United Kingdom, France |
| The Shade | The Shade | Raphaël Nadjari | United States |
| Sicilia! | Sicilia! | Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet | Italy, France, Germany |
| So Close to Paradise | 扁担·姑娘 | Wang Xiaoshuai | China |
| The Spousals of God | As Bodas de Deus | João César Monteiro | Portugal |
| Throne of Death | Marana Simhasanam | Murali Nair | India |
| Vanaprastham | Vanaprastham: La Dernière Danse | Shaji N. Karun | France, India |
| The Winslow Boy | The Winslow Boy | David Mamet | 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 Barber of Siberia (opening film) | Сибирский цирюльник | Nikita Mikhalkov | Russia, France, Italy, Czech Republic, United States |
| Dogma | Dogma | Kevin Smith | United States |
| EDtv | EDtv | Ron Howard | United States |
| Entrapment | Entrapment | Jon Amiel | United States, United Kingdom, Germany |
| Farewell, Home Sweet Home | Adieu, plancher des vaches! | Otar Iosseliani | France |
| An Ideal Husband (closing film) | An Ideal Husband (closing film) | Oliver Parker | United Kingdom |
| The Limey | The Limey | Steven Soderbergh | United States |
| My Best Fiend | Mein liebster Feind | Werner Herzog | Germany |

### Cinéfondation

The following films were selected for the competition of Cinéfondation:
* Baballoon (Babalon) by Michal Zabka
* Cambi e Scambi by Donata Pizzato
* The Clock by Noah Laracy
* Dimanche by Fabrice Aragno
* The Execution by Lee In-Kyun
* Fish 073 (Ryba 073) by Vaclav Svankmajer
* Germania by Kris Krikellis
* Im Hukim (With Rules) by Dover Kosashvili
* Inter-View by Jessica Hausner
* Ked Nie, Tak Nie by Vladimir Kral
* Layover by Shen Ko-Shang
* Der Linkshander by Iouri Kouzine
* Little Big Dog by Bo Hagen Clausen
* Milk by Mairi Cameron
* La Puce by Emmanuelle Bercot
* Runt by Jesse Lawrence
* Second Hand by Emily Young
* Waxandwane by Axel Koenzen
* Wojtek by David Turner
* Yumeji Ningyo (Doll of Dreams) by Yamazaki Tatsuji

### Short Films Competition

The following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or:
* Billy's Balloon by Don Hertzfeldt
* The Cookie Thief by Hugo Currie, Toby Leslie
* Devil Doll by Jarl Olsen
* An Eternity by Daehyun Kim
* Food for Thought by John Paton, Matthew Ross
* Husk by Jerry Handler
* Le Pique-Nique by Il-Gon Song
* Rien Dire by Vincent Pérez (France)
* Roulette by Roberto Santiago
* Simultaneity by Seong Sook Kim
* Stop by Rodolphe Marconi
* When the Day Breaks by Amanda Forbis, Wendy Tilby

## Parallel sections
### International Critics' Week

The following films were screened for the 38th International Critics' Week (38e Semaine de la Critique):
Feature film competition
* 7/25 (Nana-ni-go) by Wataru Hayakawa (Japan)
* Flores de otro mundo by Icíar Bollaín (Spain)
* Hold Back the Night by Phil Davis (United Kingdom)
* On Board (Gemide) by Serdar Akar (Turkey)
* Siam Sunset by John Polson (Australia)
* Strange Fits of Passion by Elise McCredie (Australia)
* The White Suit (Belo odelo) by Lazar Ristovski (FR Yugoslavia)
Short film competition
* The Circle (Dayereh) by Mohammad Shirvani (Iran)
* Dérapages by Pascal Adant (Belgium)
* Fuzzy Logic by Tom Krueger (United States)
* The Good Son by Sean McGuire (United Kingdom)
* La Leçon du jour by Irène Sohm (France)
* More by Mark Osborne (United States)
* Shoes Off! by Mark Sawers (Canada)

### Directors' Fortnight

The following films were screened for the 1999 Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalizateurs):
* A mort la mort ! by Romain Goupil
* Agnes Browne by Anjelica Huston
* The Blair Witch Project by Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez
* Le Bleu des villes by Stéphane Brizé
* Charisma by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
* Un château en Espagne by Delphine Gleize
* Les Convoyeurs attendent by Benoît Mariage
* The Cup (Phörpa) by Khyentse Norbu
* Darkness and Light (Hei An Zhi Guang) by Chang Tso-Chi
* East Is East by Damien O'Donnell
* El entusiasmo by Ricardo Larraín
* Fever by Alex Winter
* The Five Senses by Jeremy Podeswa
* Haut les cœurs! by Sólveig Anspach
* Kiemas by Valdas Navasaitis
* The Last September by Deborah Warner
* M/Other by Nobuhiro Suwa
* Qui plume la lune ? by Christine Carrière
* Scenery by Zhao Jisong
* Sud by Chantal Akerman
* Summer of Sam by Spike Lee
* The Virgin Suicides by Sofia Coppola
* The War Zone by Tim Roth
* Voyages by Emmanuel Finkiel
* Paths in the Night by Andreas Kleinert
    Short films
* Le Franc by Djibril Diop Mambety (45 min.)
* Marée haute by Caroline Champetier (17 min.)
* Un petit air de fête by Eric Guirado (35 min.)
* La Petite Vendeuse de Soleil (or The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun) by Djibril Diop Mambety (45 min.)
* Le Premier pas by Florence Vignon (23 min.)
* La Tentation de l'innocence by Fabienne Godet (43 min.)
* O Trouble by Sylvia Calle (10 min.)

## Official Awards
### In Competition

* Palme d'Or: Rosetta by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
* Grand Prix: Humanité by Bruno Dumont
* Best Director: Pedro Almodóvar for All About My Mother
* Best Screenplay: Moloch by Yuri Arabov
* Best Actress:
** Séverine Caneele for Humanité
** Émilie Dequenne for Rosetta
* Best Actor: Emmanuel Schotté for Humanité
* Jury Prize: The Letter by Manoel de Oliveira

### Un Certain Regard

* Beautiful People by Jasmin Dizdar

### Cinéfondation

* First Prize: Second Hand by Emily Young
* Second Prize:
** Im Hukim by Dover Koshashvili
** La puce by Emmanuelle Bercot
* Third Prize: Little Big Dog by Bo Hagen Clausen
** Special Mention: Inter-View by Jessica Hausner

### Caméra d'Or

* Marana Simhasanam by Murali Nair

### Short Film Palme d'Or

* When the Day Breaks by Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis
* Jury Prize:
** Stop by Rodolphe Marconi
** Le Pique-Nique by Il-Gon Song

## Independent Awards
### FIPRESCI Prizes

* New Dawn by Émilie Deleuze
* M/Other by Nobuhiro Suwa (Directors' Fortnight)

### Commission Supérieure Technique

* Technical Grand Prize: Juhua Tu (production design) in The Emperor and the Assassin

### Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

* All About My Mother by Pedro Almodóvar
** Special Mention: Rosetta by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne

### Award of the Youth

* Foreign Film: The Blair Witch Project by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez
* French Film: Voyages by Emmanuel Finkiel

### International Critics' Week

* Mercedes-Benz Award: Flowers from Another World by Icíar Bollaín
* Canal+ Award: Shoes Off! by Mark Sawers
* Grand Golden Rail: Siam Sunset by John Polson
* Little Golden Rail: Derapages by Pascal Adant

### Directors' Fortnight

* Kodak Short Film Award: Un petit air de fête by Eric Guirado
* Kodak Short Film Award – Special Mention: Ô trouble by Sylvia Calle
* C.I.C.A.E. Award: Qui plume la lune? by Christine Carrière
* Gras Savoye Award: Un château en Espagne by Delphine Gleize

### François Chalais Award

* The Other by Youssef Chahine