# 1962 Cannes Film Festival

The 15th Cannes Film Festival took place from 7 to 23 May 1962. Japanese writer and diplomat Tetsurō Furukaki served as jury president for the main competition.
The Palme d'Or went to the O Pagador de Promessas (Keeper of Promises) by Anselmo Duarte.
During the Cannes Film Festival of 1961, Robert Favre le Bret, Artistic Director of the Cannes Film Festival, with the agreement of the French Union of Film Critics, had decided to establish the International Critics' Week during the next Festival. In 1962, this parallel section of the Festival took place for the first time. Its goal was to showcase first and second works by directors from all over the world, not succumbing to commercial tendencies.
The festival opened with The Lovers of Teruel by Raymond Rouleau.

## Juries
### Main Competition

* Tetsurō Furukaki, Japanese writer and diplomat - Jury President
* Henry Deutschmeister, French - Jury Vice President
* Sophie Desmarets, French actress
* Jean Dutourd, French writer
* Mel Ferrer, American actor, filmmaker and producer
* Romain Gary, French writer and diplomat
* Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Polish filmmaker
* Ernst Krüger, West-German
* Yuli Raizman, Soviet filmmaker
* Mario Soldati, Italian writer
* François Truffaut, French filmmaker

### Short Films Competition

* Charles Ford, French author and film historian - Jury President
* Charles Duvanel, Swiss
* Derek Prouse, British
* Georges Rouquier, French actor
* Andréas Winding, French cinematographer

## Official selection
### In Competition

The following feature films competed for the Palme d'Or:
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| Adorable Julia | Julia, Du bist zauberhaft | Alfred Weidenmann | Austria |
| Advise & Consent | Advise & Consent | Otto Preminger | United States |
| All Fall Down | All Fall Down | John Frankenheimer | United States |
| Âmes et rythmes | Âmes et rythmes | Abdelaziz Ramdani | Morocco |
| And Love Has Vanished | Dvoje | Aleksandar Petrović | Yugoslavia |
| A Bomb Was Stolen | S-a furat o bombă | Ion Popescu-Gopo | Romania |
| The Bread of Those Early Years | Das Brot der frühen Jahre | Herbert Vesely | West Germany |
| Captive Flock | Пленено ято | Ducho Mundrov | Bulgaria |
| Children of the Sun | Les Enfants du soleil | Jacques Séverac | Morocco |
| Cléo from 5 to 7 | Cléo de 5 à 7 | Agnès Varda | France, Italy |
| Devi | Devi | Satyajit Ray | India |
| Divorce Italian Style | Divorzio all'italiana | Pietro Germi | Italy |
| L'Eclisse | L'Eclisse | Michelangelo Antonioni | Italy, France |
| Elektra | Ηλέκτρα | Michael Cacoyannis | Greece |
| The Exterminating Angel | El ángel exterminador | Luis Buñuel | Mexico |
| The Female: Seventy Times Seven | Setenta veces siete | Leopoldo Torre Nilsson | Argentina |
| Foundry Town | キューポラのある街 | Kirio Urayama | Japan |
| Harry and the Butler | Harry og kammertjeneren | Bent Christensen | Denmark |
| The Impossible Goodbye | Dom bez okien | Stanisław Jędryka | Poland |
| In the Steps of Buddha | In the Steps of Buddha | Pragnasoma Hettiarachi | Sri Lanka |
| The Innocents | The Innocents | Jack Clayton | United Kingdom, United States |
| Joseph the Dreamer | בעל החלומות | Alina Gross and Yoram Gross | Israel |
| Keeper of Promises | O Pagador de Promessas | Anselmo Duarte | Brazil |
| Konga Yo | Konga Yo | Yves Allégret | France |
| Liberté I | Liberté I | Yves Ciampi | France, Senegal |
| Long Day's Journey Into Night | Long Day's Journey Into Night | Sidney Lumet | United States |
| The Lovers of Teruel | Les Amants de Teruel | Raymond Rouleau | France |
| The Magnificent Concubine | 楊貴妃 | Li Han-hsiang | Hong Kong |
| The Man from the First Century | Muž z prvního století | Oldřich Lipský | Czechoslovakia |
| Mondo Cane | Mondo Cane | Gualtiero Jacopetti, Paolo Cavara and Franco Prosperi | Italy |
| Plácido | Plácido | Luis García Berlanga | Spain |
| The Small Stranger | الغريب الصغير | Georges Nasser | Lebanon |
| A Taste of Honey | A Taste of Honey | Tony Richardson | United Kingdom |
| The Trial of Joan of Arc | Procès de Jeanne d'Arc | Robert Bresson | France |
| When the Trees Were Tall | Когда деревья были большими | Lev Kulidzhanov | Soviet Union |

### Out of Competition

The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| Boccaccio '70 | Boccaccio '70 | Cesare Zavattini, Luchino Visconti, Mario Monicelli and Federico Fellini | Italy, France |
| Le Crime ne paie pas | Le Crime ne paie pas | Gérard Oury | France, Italy |

### Short film competition

The following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or:
* Akheytzi by Lada Boyadjieva
* Anarkali, My Beautiful by Jean-Claude See
* Big City Blues by Charles Huguenot Van Der Linden
* Bolshie nepriyatnosti by Vladimir Brumberg & Zinaida Brumberg
* Certosa di pavia by Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti
* Clovek pod vodou by Jiří Brdečka
* Couro de gato by Joaquim Pedro de Andrade
* Danza Espanola by Juan Gyenes
* Faces by Edward McConnell
* Image Of The Sea by Richard Alan Gray
* An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (La Rivière du Hibou) by Robert Enrico
* Le Hampi by Claude Jutra, Roger Morilliere, Jean Rouch
* Les Dieux du feu by Henri Storck
* Les quatre saisons by Niklaus Gessner
* Ljubav I Film by Ivo Vrbanic
* Oczekiwanie by Witold Giersz & Ludwik Perski
* Pan by Herman van der Horst
* Rodolphe Bresdin by Nelly Kaplan
* Roma momenti in Jazz by Enzo Battaglia
* Saguenay by Chris Chapman
* Szenvedely by Jozsef Nepp
* Tagebuch eines Reporters by Manfred Durniok
* Teeth Is Money by Jean Delire & Eddy Ryssack
* The Australian Landscape Painters by Richard Mason
* The Sound of Speed by Bruce Kessler
* Voronet by Ion Bostan
* Zambesi by Raymond Hancock

## Parallel section
### International Critics' Week

The following feature films were selected to be screened for the 1st International Critics' Week (1e Semaine de la Critique):
* Adieu Philippine by Jacques Rozier (France)
* Alias Big Shot (Alias Gardelito) by Lautaro Murúa (Argentina)
* Bad Boys (Furyō shōnen) by Susumu Hani (Japan)
* The Living Camera: Mooney vs. Fowle by Claude Fournier, Richard Leacock, James Lipscomb, Abbot Mills, D. A. Pennebaker, William Ray (United States)
* Les Inconnus de la terre by Mario Ruspoli (France)
* I nuovi angeli by Ugo Gregoretti (Italy)
* Les Oliviers de la justice by James Blue (France)
* Strangers in the City by Rick Carrier (United States)
* All Souls' Day (Zaduszki) by Tadeusz Konwicki (Poland)
* Tres veces Ana by David José Kohon (Argentina)

## Official Awards
### Main Competition

* Palme d'Or: O Pagador de Promessas by Anselmo Duarte
* Jury Special Prize:
** L'Eclisse by Michelangelo Antonioni
** The Trial of Joan of Arc by Robert Bresson
* Best Actress:
** Katharine Hepburn for Long Day's Journey Into Night
** Rita Tushingham for A Taste of Honey
* Best Actor:
** Dean Stockwell, Jason Robards and Ralph Richardson for Long Day's Journey Into Night
** Murray Melvin for A Taste of Honey
* Best Cinematic Transposition: Elektra by Michael Cacoyannis
* Best Comedy: Divorce, Italian Style by Pietro Germi

### Short Films Competition

* Short Film Palme d'Or: An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Robert Enrico
* Prix spécial du Jury: Oczekiwanie by Witold Giersz & Ludwik Perski
* Short film Technical Prize:
** Les Dieux du feu by Henri Storck
** Oczekiwanie by Witold Giersz & Ludwik Perski
** Pan by Herman van der Horst

## Independent awards
### FIPRESCI Prize

* The Exterminating Angel by Luis Buñuel

### Commission Supérieure Technique

* Technical Grand Prize:
** The Lovers of Teruel by Raymond Rouleau
** Elektra by Michael Cacoyannis
** The Magnificent Concubine by Li Han Hsiang

### OCIC Award

* The Trial of Joan of Arc by Robert Bresson