Cannes International Film Festival 1993

The 46th Cannes International Film Festival in 1993 took place from May 13th to May 24th 1993.

competition

The following films were shown in the competition of this year's festival:

Movie title	Director	Country of production	Actor (selection)
Body snatchers	Abel Ferrara	United States	Gabrielle Anwar , Terry Kinney , Billy Wirth
Broken Highway	Laurie McInnes	Australia
Djuba-Djuba	Alexander Chwan	Russia	Oleg Menshikov
The escort	Ricky Tognazzi	Italy	Claudio Amendola , Enrico Lo Verso
Falling down	Joel Schumacher	USA , France	Michael Douglas , Robert Duvall , Barbara Hershey
Fiorile	Paolo and Vittorio Taviani	Italy , France , Germany	Claudio Bigagli , Galatea Ranzi , Constanze Engelbrecht
A friendship	Elaine Proctor	South Africa , Great Britain , France	Kerry Fox
The master of puppetry (Ximen renshen)	Hou Hsiao-Hsien	Taiwan
far away, so Close!	Wim Wenders	Germany	Otto Sander , Bruno Ganz , Nastassja Kinski
The childhood of the Sun King	Roger Planchon	France	Carmen Maura
King of the Marbles	Steven Soderbergh	United States	Jesse Bradford , Jeroen Krabbé , Lisa Eichhorn
Farewell my concubine 1	Chen Kaige	PR China , Hong Kong	Leslie Cheung , Gong Li
Libera ma	Alain Cavalier	France
Magnificat	Pupi Avati	Italy
The man on the quay	Raoul Peck	France , Canada
Mazeppa	Bartabas	France
My favorite season	André Téchiné	France	Catherine Deneuve , Daniel Auteuil
Naked	Mike Leigh	Great Britain	David Thewlis , Lesley Sharp , Katrin Cartlidge
The piano 1	Jane Campion	Australia , New Zealand , France	Holly Hunter , Harvey Keitel , Sam Neill
Raining Stones	Ken Loach	Great Britain
A weird bird	Stephan Elliott	Australia	Phil Collins , Hugo Weaving
And the heirs creep forever	Robert Young	Great Britain	Eric Idle , Rick Moranis , Barbara Hershey
A lot of noise about nothing	Kenneth Branagh	UK , USA	Kenneth Branagh , Emma Thompson , Keanu Reeves

¹ Golden palm

International jury

This year the French director Louis Malle was the jury president. He presided over a jury with the following members: Claudia Cardinale , Inna Tschurikowa , Judy Davis , Abbas Kiarostami , Emir Kusturica , William Lubtchansky , Tom Luddy , Gary Oldman and Augusto M. Seabra .

Award winners

• Golden Palm : Farewell, my concubine and the piano
• Grand Jury Prize: Far away, so close!
• Special Jury Awards: The Master of Puppetry and Raining Stones
• Best Actor: David Thewlis in Nude
• Best Actress: Holly Hunter in The Piano
• Best Director: Mike Leigh for Nude
• Technology award: Mazeppa for camera and sound
• Golden camera: the scent of green papaya

Further prices

• FIPRESCI Prize : Farewell, my concubine
• Ecumenical Jury Prize : Libera me

Web links

• Festival archive competition
• Festival archive award winners