The 38th International Cannes Film Festival  1985 took place from May 8th to May 20th 1985.
competition
The following films were shown in the competition of this year's festival:
| 
Movie title
 | 
Director
 | 
Country of production
 | 
Actor (selection)
 | 
| 
Goodbye Bonaparte
 | 
Youssef Chahine
 | 
Egypt , France
 | 
Michel Piccoli , Patrice Chéreau
 | 
| 
Birdy
 | 
Alan Parker
 | 
United States
 | 
Matthew Modine , Nicolas Cage
 | 
| 
Bliss
 | 
Ray Lawrence
 | 
Australia
 | 
Barry Otto
 | 
| 
Coca-Cola Kid
 | 
Dušan Makavejev
 | 
Australia
 | 
Eric Roberts , Greta Scacchi
 | 
| 
Derborence
 | 
Francis Reusser
 | 
Switzerland , France
 | 
Isabel Otero
 | 
| 
Detectives
 | 
Jean-Luc Godard
 | 
France , Switzerland
 | 
Jean-Pierre Léaud , Nathalie Baye , Claude Brasseur
 | 
| 
Chicken in vinegar
 | 
Claude Chabrol
 | 
France
 | 
Jean Poiret , Stéphane Audran , Michel Bouquet
 | 
| 
Insignificance - The darn night
 | 
Nicolas Roeg
 | 
Great Britain
 | 
Theresa Russell , Tony Curtis
 | 
| 
Kiss the spider woman
 | 
Hector Babenco
 | 
Brazil , USA
 | 
William Hurt , Raúl Juliá , Sônia Braga
 | 
| 
Farewell, ark
 | 
Shūji Terayama †
 | 
Japan
 | 
 | 
| 
One love in Montreal
 | 
Ted Kotcheff
 | 
Canada
 | 
James Woods , Gabrielle Lazure , Alan Arkin
 | 
| 
The mask
 | 
Peter Bogdanovich
 | 
United States
 | 
Cher , Sam Elliott , Eric Stoltz
 | 
| 
Mishima - A Life in Four Chapters
 | 
Paul Schrader
 | 
United States
 | 
Ken Ogata
 | 
| 
Colonel Redl
 | 
István Szabó
 | 
Hungary , Austria , Germany
 | 
Klaus Maria Brandauer , Hans Christian Blech , Armin Mueller-Stahl
 | 
| 
The official story
 | 
Luis Puenzo
 | 
Argentina
 | 
Norma Aleandro
 | 
| 
Pale Rider - The nameless rider
 | 
Clint Eastwood
 | 
United States
 | 
Clint Eastwood , Michael Moriarty , Chris Penn
 | 
| 
Dad is on a business trip *
 | 
Emir Kusturica
 | 
Yugoslavia
 | 
Miki Manojlović , Mirjana Karanović
 | 
| 
Date
 | 
André Téchiné
 | 
France
 | 
Lambert Wilson , Juliette Binoche , Jean-Louis Trintignant
 | 
| 
Scemo di guerra
 | 
Dino Risi
 | 
Italy , France
 | 
Coluche , Beppe Grillo , Bernard Blier
 | 
| 
The two lives of Mattia Pascal
 | 
Mario Monicelli
 | 
Italy , France , Germany , Spain , Great Britain
 | 
Marcello Mastroianni , Senta Berger , Laura Morante
 | 
* = Golden palm
International jury
That year, Miloš Forman was the jury president. He headed the following jury: Néstor Almendros , Jorge Amado , Mauro Bolognini , Claude Imbert , Sarah Miles , Michel Pérez , Moses Rothman , Francis Veber and Edwin Zbonek .
Award winners
  
Emir Kusturica, director v. Dad is on a business trip
 
  
- 
Golden Palm : Dad is on a business trip
 
- Grand Jury Prize: Birdy
 
- Special prize of the jury: Colonel Redl
 
- Best Actor: William Hurt in The Spider Woman's Kiss
 
- Best Actress: Norma Aleandro in The Official Story and Cher in The Mask
 
- Best director: André Téchiné for Rendez-vous
 
- Best artistic achievement: Mishima - A Life in Four Chapters - John Bailey (camera), Eiko Ishioka (scene and costume design), Philip Glass (music).
 
- Technology award: Insignificance - The darn night
 
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