# 1979 Cannes Film Festival

The 32nd Cannes Film Festival took place from 10 to 24 May 1979. French writer Françoise Sagan served as jury president for the main competition.
The Palme d'Or, the festival's top prize, was jointly awarded to Apocalypse Now by Francis Ford Coppola (screened as a work in progress), and The Tin Drum by Volker Schlöndorff.
Sagan, raised a controversy as she complained about Robert Favre Le Bret, director of the festival, pressure on the jury for the choice of Coppola's film, while she had chosen Schlöndorff's film.
The festival opened with Hair by Miloš Forman, and closed with Us Two by Claude Lelouch.

## Jury
### Main Competition

* Françoise Sagan, French writer - Jury President
* Sergio Amidei, Italian writer
* Rodolphe-Maurice Arlaud, Swiss
* Luis García Berlanga, Spanish filmmaker
* Maurice Bessy, French
* Paul Claudon, French producer
* Jules Dassin, American filmmaker
* Zsolt Kézdi-Kovács, Hungarian filmmaker
* Robert Rozhdestvensky, Soviet author
* Susannah York, British actress

## Official selection
### In Competition

The following feature films competed for the Palme d'Or:
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| Apocalypse Now | Apocalypse Now | Francis Ford Coppola | United States |
| The Brontë Sisters | Les Sœurs Brontë | André Téchiné | France |
| The China Syndrome | The China Syndrome | James Bridges | United States |
| Days of Heaven | Days of Heaven | Terrence Malick | United States |
| Dear Father | Caro papà | Dino Risi | Italy |
| The Europeans | The Europeans | James Ivory | United Kingdom |
| Hungarian Rhapsody | Magyar rapszódia | Miklós Jancsó | Hungary |
| The Hussy | La drôlesse | Jacques Doillon | France |
| My Brilliant Career | My Brilliant Career | Gillian Armstrong | Australia |
| Next of Kin | Arven | Anja Breien | Norway |
| Norma Rae | Norma Rae | Martin Ritt | United States |
| Occupation in 26 Pictures | Okupacija u 26 slika | Lordan Zafranović | Yugoslavia |
| Série noire | Série noire | Alain Corneau | France |
| Siberiade | Сибириада | Andrei Konchalovsky | Soviet Union |
| The Survivors | Los sobrevivientes | Tomás Gutiérrez Alea | Cuba |
| The Tin Drum | Die Blechtrommel | Volker Schlöndorff | West Germany, France, Yugoslavia, Poland |
| Traffic Jam | L'ingorgo - Una storia impossibile | Luigi Comencini | Italy |
| Victoria | Victoria | Bo Widerberg | Sweden, West Germany |
| Without Anesthesia | Bez znieczulenia | Andrzej Wajda | Poland |
| Woman Between Wolf and Dog | Een vrouw tussen hond en wolf | André Delvaux | Belgium, France |
| Woyzeck | Woyzeck | Werner Herzog | West Germany |

### Un Certain Regard

The following films were selected for the Un Certain Regard section:
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| Come and Work | Fad'jal | Safi Faye | Senegal |
| Companys, procés a Catalunya | Companys, proceso a Cataluña | Josep Maria Forn | Spain |
| Encore un Hiver (short) | Encore un Hiver (short) | Françoise Sagan | France |
| From the Clouds to the Resistance | Dalla nube alla resistenza | Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet | Italy |
| Moments | רגעים | Michal Bat-Adam | Israel, France |
| A Nice Neighbor | A kedves szomszéd | Zsolt Kézdi-Kovács | Hungary |
| Les petites fugues | Les petites fugues | Yves Yersin | Switzerland |
| Printemps en Février | Printemps en Février | Shei Tieli | China |
| A Scream from Silence | Mourir à tue-tête | Anne Claire Poirier | Canada |
| Spirit of the Wind | Spirit of the Wind | Ralph Liddle | United States |
| The Third Generation | Die dritte Generation | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | West Germany |
| Ward Six | Paviljon VI | Lucian Pintilie | Yugoslavia |

### Out of Competition

The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| Christ Stopped at Eboli | Cristo si è fermato a Eboli | Francesco Rosi | Italy, France |
| Hair (opening film) | Hair (opening film) | Miloš Forman | United States, West Germany |
| Manhattan | Manhattan | Woody Allen | United States |
| Le Musee du Louvre | Le Musee du Louvre | Toshio Uruta | Japan |
| Orchestra Rehearsal | Prova d'orchestra | Federico Fellini | Italy, West Germany |
| Us Two (closing film) | À nous deux | Claude Lelouch | France, Canada |
| Wise Blood | Wise Blood | John Huston | United States, West Germany |

### Short Films Competition

The following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or:
* Barbe bleue by Olivier Gillon
* Bum by Břetislav Pojar
* La Dame de Monte Carlo by Dominique Delouche
* La Festa dels bojos by Lluis Racionero Grau
* Harpya by Raoul Servais
* Helping Hand by John P. Taylor, Zlatko Pavlinovic
* Le Mur by Jan January Janczak
* Petite histoire un peu triste by Didier Pourcel
* Põld by Rein Raamat
* The Waltzing Policemen by Kerry Feltham
* Zwei Frauen in der Oper by Christian Veit-Attendorff

## Parallel sections
### International Critics' Week

The following feature films were screened for the 18th International Critics' Week (18e Semaine de la Critique):
* Entends le coq [bg] by Stefan Dimitrov [bg] (Bulgaria)
* Fremd bin ich eingezogen by Titus Leber (Austria)
* Jun by Hiroto Yokoyama (Japan)
* Northern Lights by John Hanson, Rob Nilsson (United States)
* La Rabi by Eugeni Anglada (Spain)
* Les Servantes du bon dieu by Diane Létourneau (Canada)
* The Tall Shadows of the Wind (Sayehaye bolande bad) by Bahman Farmanara (Iran)

### Directors' Fortnight

The following films were screened for the 1979 Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalizateurs):
* Angi Vera by Pal Gabor
* Bastien, Bastienne by Michel Andrieu
* Black Jack by Ken Loach
* Caniche by Bigas Luna
* Chrissomaloussa by Tony Lycouressis
* Cronica de um Industrial by Luis Rosemberg
* Julio Begins in July (Julio Comienza en Julio) by Silvio Caiozzi
* The Management Forgives a Moment of Madness (La empresa perdona un momento de locura) by Mauricio Walerstein
* La Mémoire Courte by Eduardo de Gregorio
* Nighthawks by Ron Peck
* Old Boyfriends by Joan Tewkesbury
* Five Evenings (Пять вечеров, Piats Vetcherov) by Nikita Mikhalkov
* Rockers by Theodoros Bafaloukos
* Those Wonderful Movie Cranks (Báječní muži s klikou) by Jiri Menzel
* Tiro by Jacob Bijl
* To Be Sixteen (Avoir 16 ans) by Jean Pierre Lefebvre
* Zmory (Nightmares) by Wojciech Marczewski
    Short films
* Combattimento by Anna Kendall
* Idila by Aleksandar Ilić
* Panoplie by Philippe Gaucherand
* Romance by Yves Thomas
* Vereda Tropical by Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

## Official Awards
### Main Competition

The following films and people received the 1979 Official selection awards:
* Palme d'Or:
** Apocalypse Now by Francis Ford Coppola
** The Tin Drum by Volker Schlöndorff
* Grand Prix: Siberiade by Andrei Konchalovsky
* Best Director: Terrence Malick for Days of Heaven
* Best Actress: Sally Field for Norma Rae
* Best Actor: Jack Lemmon for The China Syndrome
* Best Supporting Actress: Eva Mattes for Woyzeck
* Best Supporting Actor: Stefano Madia for Dear Father
* Honorary Award: Hommage à Miklós Jancsó

### Caméra d'Or

* Northern Lights by John Hanson and Rob Nilsson

### Short Film Palme d'Or

* Harpya by Raoul Servais
* Jury Prize - animation: Bum by Břetislav Pojar
* Jury Prize - fiction: La Festa dels bojos by Lluis Racionero Grau

## Independent Awards
### FIPRESCI Prizes

* Apocalypse Now by Francis Ford Coppola (In competition)
* Black Jack by Ken Loach (Directors' Fortnight)
* Angi Vera by Pál Gábor (Directors' Fortnight)

### Commission Supérieure Technique

* Technical Grand Prize: Norma Rae by Martin Ritt

### Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

* Without Anesthesia by Andrzej Wajda
** Special Mention: Arven by Anja Breien

### Young Cinema Award

* Prix du jeune cinéma: The Hussy by Jacques Doillon