Cannes International Film Festival 1999

Émilie Dequenne , leading actress in the 1999 winning film Rosetta

The 52nd Cannes International Film Festival 1999 took place from May 12 to May 23, 1999.

competition

The following films were shown in the competition of the festival in 1999:

Movie title	Director	Country of production	Actor (selection)
8 1/2 women	Peter Greenaway	UK , Netherlands , Luxembourg , Germany	John Standing , Matthew Delamere , Vivian Wu
Everything about my mother	Pedro Almodovar	Spain , France	Cecilia Roth , Marisa Paredes , Penélope Cruz
La Balia - The wet nurse	Marco Bellocchio	Italy	Fabrizio Bentivoglio , Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
The letter	Manoel de Oliveira	Spain , France , Portugal	Chiara Mastroianni
Felicia, my angel	Atom Egoyan	Canada , UK	Bob Hoskins , Arsinée Khanjian , Elaine Cassidy
Ghessé hayé kish	Episode film	Iran
Ghost Dog - The way of the samurai	Jim Jarmusch	France , Germany , USA , Japan	Forest Whitaker , John Tormey , Cliff Gorman
L'Humanité	Bruno Dumont	France	Emmanuel Schotté , Séverine Caneele
Kadosh	Amos Gitai	Israel , France	Yaël Abecassis , Meital Barda
The emperor and his assassin	Chen Kaige	France , Japan , China	Gong Li
Kikujiro's summer	Takeshi Kitano	Japan	Takeshi Kitano
When the fog clears - Limbo	John Sayles	United States	Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio , David Strathairn
Moloch	Alexander Sokurov	Russia , Germany , Japan , Italy , France
Nos vies heureuses	Jacques Maillot	France
The colonel has no one to write to him	Arturo Ripstein	Mexico , France , Spain	Fernando Luján , Marisa Paredes , Salma Hayek
Pierre - Or the fight with the Sphinx	Leos Carax	France , Switzerland , Germany , Japan	Guillaume Depardieu , Catherine Deneuve
Rosetta *	Jean-Pierre Dardenne Luc Dardenne	France , Belgium	Emilie Dequenne
The swaying ship	Tim Robbins	United States	John Cusack , Rubén Blades , Angus Macfadyen
The straight story	David Lynch	France , Great Britain , USA	Richard Farnsworth , Sissy Spacek
Tin seung yan gaan	Nelson Yu Lik-wai	Hong Kong	Tony Leung
The time found again	Raul Ruiz	France , Italy , Portugal	Catherine Deneuve , Emmanuelle Béart , Vincent Perez
Wonderland	Michael Winterbottom	Great Britain	Ian Hart , Shirley Henderson , Molly Parker

* = Golden palm

International jury

This year director David Cronenberg was the jury president. He presided over a jury with the following members: Dominique Blanc , Doris Dörrie , Barbara Hendricks , Holly Hunter , Yasmina Reza , Jeff Goldblum , George Miller , Maurizio Nichetti and André Téchiné .

Award winners

Golden palm : Rosetta
Grand Jury Prize: L'Humanité
Jury Prize: The Letter
Best Actor: Emmanuel Schotté in L'Humanité
Best Actress: Séverine Caneele in L'Humanité and Émilie Dequenne in Rosetta
Best director: Pedro Almodóvar for Everything about my mother
Best script: Alexander Sokurow for Moloch
Technology prize: Juhua Tu for the set of The Emperor and his assassin

Further prices

Ecumenical Jury Prize : Everything about my mother

Un Certain Regard

In the Un Certain Regard section , the following films were presented this year:

Away With Words by Christopher Doyle , Beresina or The Last Days of Switzerland by Daniel Schmid , Until the Next Station by Jean-Claude Guiguet , Judy Berlin by Eric Mendelsohn , Winslow Boy by David Mamet . The British film Beautiful People by Jasmin Dizdar was awarded the Un Certain Regard Prize .