# 1964 Cannes Film Festival

The 17th Cannes Film Festival took place from 29 April to 14 May 1964. Austrian filmmaker Fritz Lang served as jury president for the main competition.
On this edition, the Palme d’Or was renamed "Grand Prix du Festival International du Film", a name that remained in use until 1974, after which it was renamed Palme d'Or again. The Grand Prix went to The Umbrellas of Cherbourg by Jacques Demy.
The festival opened with Greed in the Sun by Henri Verneuil.

## Juries
### Main Competition

* Fritz Lang, Austrian filmmaker - Jury President
* Charles Boyer, French-American actor - Vice President
* Joaquín Calvo-Sotelo, Spanish
* René Clément, French filmmaker
* Jean-Jacques Gautier, French writer and journalist
* Alexandre Karaganov, Soviet film critic
* Lorens Marmstedt, Swedish producer
* Geneviève Page, French actress
* Raoul Ploquin, French producer and writer
* Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., American writer
* Véra Volmane, French journalist

### Short Films Competition

* Jean-Jacques Languepin, French - Vice President
* Jiří Brdečka, Czechoslovakian filmmaker
* Robert Ménégoz, French
* Hubert Seggelke, West-German
* Alex Seiler, Swiss

## Official selection
### In Competition

The following feature films competed for the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film:
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| Alone Across the Pacific | 太平洋ひとりぼっち | Kon Ichikawa | Japan |
| The Ape Woman | La donna scimmia | Marco Ferreri | Italy, France |
| Barren Lives | Vidas secas | Nelson Pereira dos Santos | Brazil |
| Black God, White Devil | Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol | Glauber Rocha | Brazil |
| The Cry | Křik | Jaromil Jireš | Czechoslovakia |
| Dead Woman from Beverly Hills | Die Tote von Beverly Hills | Michael Pfleghar | West Germany |
| Drama of the Lark | Pacsirta | László Ranódy | Hungary |
| The Girl in Mourning | La niña de luto | Manuel Summers | Spain |
| Greed in the Sun | Cent mille dollars au soleil | Henri Verneuil | France, Italy |
| Last Night | الليلة الأخيرة | Kamal El Sheikh | Egypt |
| Me First | Primero yo | Fernando Ayala | Argentina |
| Mujhe Jeene Do | Mujhe Jeene Do | Moni Bhattacharjee | India |
| One Potato, Two Potato | One Potato, Two Potato | Larry Peerce | United States |
| Passenger | Pasażerka | Andrzej Munk | Poland |
| The Pumpkin Eater | The Pumpkin Eater | Jack Clayton | United Kingdom |
| Raven's End | Kvarteret Korpen | Bo Widerberg | Sweden |
| The Red Lanterns | Τα κόκκινα φανάρια | Vasilis Georgiadis | Greece |
| Seduced and Abandoned | Sedotta e abbandonata | Pietro Germi | Italy, France |
| The Soft Skin | La Peau Douce | François Truffaut | France, Portugal |
| The Umbrellas of Cherbourg | Les Parapluies de Cherbourg | Jacques Demy | France, West Germany |
| Walking the Streets of Moscow | Я шагаю по Москве | Georgiy Daneliya | Soviet Union |
| The White Caravan | თეთრი ქარავანი | Eldar Shengelaia and Tamaz Meliava | Soviet Union |
| Woman in the Dunes | 砂の女 | Hiroshi Teshigahara | Japan |
| The World of Henry Orient | The World of Henry Orient | George Roy Hill | United States |
| The Visit | The Visit | Bernhard Wicki | United States, France, West Germany, Italy |

### Out of Competition

The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| The Fall of the Roman Empire | The Fall of the Roman Empire | Anthony Mann | United States |
| Skoplje '63 | Skoplje '63 | Veljko Bulajić | Yugoslavia |
| White Voices | Le voci bianche | Pasquale Festa Campanile and Massimo Franciosa | Italy |

### Short Films Competition

The following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or:
* 1,2,3... by Gyula Macskássy, Gyorgy Varnai
* Age Of The Buffalo by Austin Campbell
* Clair obscur by George Sluizer
* Dawn Of The Capricorne by Ahmad Faroughy-Kadjar
* Flora nese smrt by Jiri Papousek
* Help ! My Snowman's Burning Down by Carson Davidson
* Himalayan Lakes by Dr. Gopal Datt
* Kedd by Mark Novak
* La douceur du village by François Reichenbach
* La fuite en Egypte by Waley Eddin Sameh
* Lacrimae rerum by Nicolas Nicolaides
* Lamb by Paulin Soumanou Vieyra
* Las murallas de Cartagena by Francisco Norden
* Le prix de la victoire (Défi) by Nobuko Shibuya
* Li mali mestieri by Gianfranco Mingozzi
* Marines Flamandes by Lucien Deroisy
* Max Ernst Entdeckungsfahrten ins Unbewusste by Carl Lamb & Peter Schamoni
* Medju oblacima by Dragan Mitrovic
* Memoria Trandafirului by Sergiu Nicolaescu
* Sillages by Serge Roullet
* The Peaches by Michael Gill
* The Raisin Salesman by William Melendez

## Parallel section
### International Critics' Week

The following feature films were screened for the 3rd International Critics' Week (3e Semaine de la Critique):
* Before the Revolution (Prima della rivoluzione) by Bernardo Bertolucci (Italy)
* Ganga Zumba by Carlos Diégues (Brazil)
* Goldstein by Philip Kaufman, Benjamin Manaster (United States)
* La Herencia by Ricardo Alventosa (Argentina)
* Joseph Kilian by Pavel Juracek, Jan Schmidt (Czechoslovakia)
* The Parallel Street [ca] (Die Parallelstrasse) by Ferdinand Khittl [de] (West Germany)
* Something Different (O necem jinem) by Vera Chytilová (Czechoslovakia)
* Point of Order by Emile de Antonio (United States)
* La nuit du bossu by Farokh Ghafari (Iran)
* La vie à l’envers by Alain Jessua (France)

## Official Awards
### Main Competition

* Grand Prix du Festival International du Film: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg by Jacques Demy
* Prix spécial du Jury: The Woman in the Dunes by Hiroshi Teshigahara
* Best Actress:
** Anne Bancroft for The Pumpkin Eater
** Barbara Barrie for One Potato, Two Potato
* Best Actor:
** Antal Páger for Drama of the Lark
** Saro Urzì for Seduced and Abandoned
* Special Mention: Andrzej Munk for Passenger and his entire work

### Short Films Competition

* Grand Prix du Jury:
** Le prix de la victoire by Nobuko Shibuya
** La douceur du village by François Reichenbach
* Prix spécial du Jury:
** Help! My Snowman's Burning Down by Carson Davidson
** Sillages by Serge Roullet
* Short Film Technical Prize: Dawn Of The Capricorne by Ahmad Faroughy-Kadjar

## Independent Awards
### FIPRESCI Prize

* Passenger by Andrzej Munk

### Commission Supérieure Technique

* Technical Grand Prize:
** The Umbrellas of Cherbourg by Jacques Demy
** Dead Woman from Beverly Hills by Michael Pfleghar

### OCIC Award

* The Umbrellas of Cherbourg by Jacques Demy
* Vidas secas by Nelson Pereira dos Santos

### Kodak Short Film Award

* Lacrimae rerum by Nicolas Nicolaides