The 41st International Cannes Film Festival in 1988 took place from May 11th to May 23rd, 1988.
competition
The following films were shown in the competition of this year's festival:
Movie title
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Director
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Country of production
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Actor (selection)
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Arashi ga oka
|
Yoshishige Yoshida
|
Japan
|
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Bird
|
Clint Eastwood
|
United States
|
Forest Whitaker , Diane Venora
|
Chocolat - Forbidden Longing
|
Claire Denis
|
France , Germany , Cameroon
|
Isaach De Bankolé
|
El Dorado - greed for gold
|
Carlos Saura
|
Spain , France , Italy
|
Lambert Wilson
|
L'enfance de l'art
|
Francis Girod
|
France
|
|
Fear and love
|
Margarethe von Trotta
|
France , Italy , Germany
|
Fanny Ardant , Greta Scacchi , Valeria Golino
|
Hai zi wang
|
Chen Kaige
|
China
|
|
Hanussen
|
István Szabó
|
Hungary , Germany , Austria
|
Klaus Maria Brandauer , Erland Josephson , Walter Schmidinger
|
The cannibals
|
Manoel de Oliveira
|
Portugal , France , Germany , Italy , Switzerland
|
|
A short film about killing
|
Krzysztof Kieślowski
|
Poland
|
Mirosław Baka , Zbigniew Zapasiewicz
|
The last outlaw
|
Gary Sinise
|
United States
|
Brian Dennehy , Richard Gere
|
El Lute II
|
Vicente Aranda
|
Spain
|
|
The navigator
|
Vincent Ward
|
Australia , New Zealand
|
|
L'oeuvre au noir
|
André Delvaux
|
France , Belgium
|
Gian Maria Volontè , Sami Frey , Anna Karina
|
The passenger - Welcome to Germany
|
Thomas Brasch
|
Great Britain , Switzerland , Germany
|
Tony Curtis , Katharina Thalbach , Matthias Habich
|
Pelle the Conqueror *
|
Bille August
|
Denmark , Sweden
|
Max von Sydow
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Scream in the dark
|
Paul Schrader
|
UK , USA
|
Natasha Richardson , William Forsythe , Ving Rhames
|
South - Sur
|
Pino Solanas
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Argentina , France
|
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The forgotten island
|
James Dearden
|
UK , Italy
|
Ben Kingsley , Charles Dance , Helen Mirren
|
Conspiracy of women
|
Peter Greenaway
|
Great Britain , Netherlands
|
Joan Plowright , Joely Richardson , Bernard Hill
|
Two worlds
|
Chris Menges
|
UK , Zimbabwe
|
Jodhi May , Jeroen Krabbé , Barbara Hershey
|
* = Golden palm
International jury
This year the Italian director Ettore Scola was the jury president. Together with the following members of the jury, he decided on the winners: Claude Berri , William Goldman , Nastassja Kinski , George Miller , Robby Müller , David Robinson , Jelena Safonowa and Philippe Sarde .
Award winners
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Golden palm : Pelle, the conqueror
- Grand Jury Prize: Two Worlds
- Special Jury Prize: A short film about killing
- Best Actor: Forest Whitaker in Bird
- Best Actress: Barbara Hershey, Jodhi May and Linda Mvusi in Two Worlds
- Best Director: Pino Solanas for Sur
- Best individual artistic achievement: Peter Greenaway for Conspiracy of Women
- Technology award: Bird for the quality of the music recordings
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