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- DirectorBob FosseStarsRoy ScheiderJessica LangeAnn ReinkingDirector/choreographer Bob Fosse tells his own life story as he details the sordid career of Joe Gideon, a womanizing, drug-using dancer.In Competition
- DirectorHal AshbyStarsPeter SellersShirley MacLaineMelvyn DouglasAfter the death of his employer forces him out of the only home he's ever known, a simpleminded, sheltered gardener becomes an unlikely trusted advisor to a powerful tycoon and an insider in Washington politics.In Competition
- DirectorBruce BeresfordStarsEdward WoodwardJack ThompsonJohn WatersThree Australian lieutenants are court martialed for executing prisoners as a way of deflecting attention from war crimes committed by their superior officers.In Competition
- DirectorCarlos DieguesStarsJosé WilkerBetty FariaFábio Jr.The Caravana Rolidei rolls into town with the Gypsy Lord at the mike: he does magic tricks, the erotic Salomé dances, and the mute Swallow performs feats of strength. A young accordion player is completely enamored of Salomé, and he begs to come along. The Gypsy Lord shrugs, and the accordionist and his pregnant wife, Dasdô, join the troupe. Television is their enemy as they go from the coast deep into the Amazon. Salomé lets the accordion player sleep with her once, with Dasdô's knowledge. He's moon-struck. Then, after Dasdô's baby is born and financial disaster hits the troupe, and the accordionist must choose between seeing his wife a prostitute and leaving the caravan.In Competition
- DirectorKrzysztof ZanussiStarsTadeusz BradeckiZofia MrozowskaMalgorzata ZajaczkowskaA young man is facing death of his mother. A petty corruption at his job leads to him being framed and robbed of his only desire to climb mountains in Himalayas, as his father did and where he died.In Competition
- DirectorMrinal SenStarsSatya BannerjeeGita SenMamata ShankarThe daughter of an economically middle-class family fails to return home one night.In Competition
- DirectorGilles CarleStarsCarole LaureLewis FureySerge ReggianiIn this oddball mix of music and drama, an actress (Carole Laure) in a traveling musical revue is involved with the show's director until she meets and falls for an aging ecological activist. He too is drawn to her, and together they try to stop a factory from being built over an old-growth forest.In Competition
- DirectorLino BrockaStarsPhillip SalvadorAmy AustriaJohnny DelgadoHe has battled with the screen's heavies, starred opposite its most desirable beauties, lived through the full range of human emotions. Now he is ready for the big time. Phillip Salvador takes the big role in "Jaguar."In Competition
- DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsTatsuya NakadaiTsutomu YamazakiKen'ichi HagiwaraA petty thief with an utter resemblance to a samurai warlord is hired as the lord's double. When the warlord later dies the thief is forced to take up arms in his place.In Competition
- DirectorBernhard SinkelStarsHelmut GriemMartin BenrathÁngela MolinaIn the late 1970s the German secret service fights against RAF terrorism and searches for constitutional enemies in the public service. A liberal teacher named Brasch "Helmut Griem" takes on V-man Körner "Martin Benrath" and loses his job.In Competition
- DirectorJaime ChávarriStarsJosé Luis GómezAmparo MuñozPatricia AdrianiJuan, a journalist, has always with him a tape recorder in which he records the interviews he does without judging them, an assessment that he leaves to his boss and friend, Paco. While he falls in love with Carmen, daughter of Luis, whom he tries to interview in prison, he interviews Clara, the beautiful wife of Paco.In Competition
- DirectorEttore ScolaStarsVittorio GassmanUgo TognazziJean-Louis TrintignantDuring a dinner in a Roman terrace, the lives and experiences of multiple characters intertwine.In Competition
- DirectorMaurice PialatStarsIsabelle HuppertGérard DepardieuGuy MarchandA bored wife leaves her husband for an unemployed, petty criminal.In Competition
- DirectorAlain ResnaisStarsGérard DepardieuNicole GarciaRoger PierreThe intersecting stories of three people who face difficult choices in life-changing situations are used to illustrate the theories espoused by Henri Laborit about human behavior and the relationship between the self and society.In Competition
- DirectorMárta MészárosStarsIsabelle HuppertLili MonoriJan Nowicki1936. Sylvia a rich but sterile woman, marries Akos but needs an heir to inherit her father's money. She bribes Irene a Jewish girl to have a child by her husband.In Competition
- DirectorDennis HopperStarsLinda ManzDennis HopperSharon FarrellA young girl whose father is an ex-convict and whose mother is a junkie finds it difficult to conform and tries to find comfort in a quirky combination of Elvis and the punk scene.In Competition
- DirectorGoran PaskaljevicStarsLjuba TadicDanilo 'Bata' StojkovicDusica ZegaracDr. Ilic works in the hospital for compulsory treatment of alcoholics. By conducting his own "special treatment" through physical exercises, apple eating, the healing effects of listening to Wagner's music and psychodrama, a group of six patients have been taken to visit the brewery where there is a problem of alcoholism in the workplace. The events that followed reveal that the doctor used his own way of treatment in order to express his own essentially despotic and hypocritical personality.In Competition
- DirectorMarco BellocchioStarsMichel PiccoliAnouk AiméeMichele PlacidoMauro, a judge, is worried about his older sister Marta, who took care of him since he was a boy, and is now affected by psychic problems and suicide fantasies. She seems to recover from her depression when Mauro acquaints her with Giovanni, a brilliant actor at the edge of legality. Mauro become unconsciously jealous of this relationship, and try to get Giovanni arrested...In Competition
- DirectorJean-Luc GodardStarsIsabelle HuppertJacques DutroncNathalie BayeAn examination of sexual relationships, in which three protagonists interact in different combinations.In Competition
- DirectorSamuel FullerStarsLee MarvinMark HamillRobert CarradineA hardened sergeant and the four core members of his infantry unit try to survive World War II as they move from battle to battle throughout Europe.In Competition
- DirectorWalter HillStarsDavid CarradineStacy KeachDennis QuaidThe origins, exploits and the ultimate fate of the Jesse James gang is told in a sympathetic portrayal of the bank robbers made up of brothers who begin their legendary bank raids because of revenge.In Competition
- DirectorPichaStarsRichard DarboisGeorges AminelRoger CarelAdult animated comedy with rock music soundtrack portraying a far-fetched explanation of the Dawn of Man.In Competition
- DirectorBertrand TavernierStarsNathalie BayeGérard LanvinFlore FitzgeraldLaurence, French teacher at a Lyon secondary school, simply can't take any more. Her doctor prescribes a week off. Whilst her partner Pierre has no idea how to help her, she decides to get away and take stock of her life, both personal and professional.In Competition
- DirectorJaromil JiresStarsMilos KopeckýMarie BrozováMartin RuzekOldrich Lukásek (Milos Kopecký), a respected Prague solicitor, lets him shifted for health reasons to the small town at the foot-hills. In the local advocate advice bureau impatiently awaits him his secretary Zuzana (Zlata Adamovská) and work at the penal and offense cases, sometimes odd and humorous, sometimes tragic. Experienced Lukásek soon starts orientating not only in judicial cases but also at the situation of the small town, in which, as elsewhere, exist dishonesty, flyness and pressure of the powerful by influence or money.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorZoltán HuszárikStarsItschak FintziIstván HollAndrea DrahotaTivadar Csontváry Kosztka the one-ideaed Hungarian painter was thought to be crazy by his peers, but he eventually became a significant artist.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorVlatko GilicStarsVladislava MilosavljevicBoris KomnenicLjiljana KrsticJelena spends her summer holiday tending a flock of sheep. A plane from a nearby aerodrome attracts her attention and she and the pilot engage in spontaneous games.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorStefan AustAlexander KlugeVolker SchlöndorffStarsWolf BiermannKarl CarstensEdmund StoiberIn 1980 Franz Josef Strauss competed against Helmut Schmidt for the Office of the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorNiklaus SchillingStarsTilo PrücknerKornelia BojeDorothea MoritzA brother and sister inhering their father's newspaper on the border between East and West Germany. Sales are going down and the brother decides to get creative with the headlines.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorLars Lennart ForsbergStarsThommy BerggrenAgneta EckemyrBörje AhlstedtA divorced Swedish photographer is offered a secret photo shoot. He is hired to photograph an old dead man's apartment. Dead for several months. He becomes very engaged by the man's fate and refuses to leave the pictures for publication.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorRaphaële BilletdouxStarsKlaus KinskiPénélope PalmerMichel RobinElisabeth, a 11 year old girl, visits Marcel, a mute gardener every morning with whom she shares a very particular friendship. During three years, their bond grows stronger, as Marcel seems to be the only person she can connect to.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorMarco Tullio GiordanaStarsFlavio BucciMicaela PignatelliAgnès NobecourtSvitol has been hiding out in South America. Then one day he gives up on his life in exile and decides to head back home. Everything has changed.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorAnnie TresgotMichel CimentStarsBilly WilderMichel CimentJack LemmonFrench film critic Michel Ciment interviews Billy Wilder about his life and film-making.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorHenry JaglomStarsMichael EmilZack NormanPatrice TownsendTwo small-time thieves (Michael Emil and Zack Norman) come together as a bizarre comic duo in a quest to make their childhood dreams come true. In a limousine stuffed with cash stolen from the mob, they take off for Miami, where they plan to fly to a safe haven in Costa Rica. On the road they pick up a singer/chauffeur (Richard Romanus) plus two unlikely women they meet in a Holiday Inn (Patrice Townsend and Irene Forrest). Then the fun begins. A zany, hilarious, screwball road comedy about sex, money and vitamins, with an exceptional cast who deliver comic performances of manic perfection.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorBahram BeyzaieStarsSusan TaslimiManuchehr FaridReza BabakTara, the young beautiful widow, returns with her two little kids from country to her village. In her way home, she finds out that her grandfather has passed away. She distributes grandpa's belongings among her neighbours. But there remains an old sword that no one accepts. One day on the road, she meets an old-time warrior. He claims that his clan have sent him to present time to take the old sword back. Tara finally submits the sword to him, but he comes back saying that he has fallen in love with her.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorKen LoachStarsPhil AskhamRita MayAndrew GrubbA simple tale of a year in the life of a Gamekeeper. From the troubles involved in rearing the pheasants and dealing with predators (poachers and foxes). The gamekeeper shows us all the good things about living so close to nature. The end of his year comes with the organised shoot.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorKrzysztof ZanussiStarsMathieu CarrièreMaja KomorowskaHorst FrankUn Certain Regard
- DirectorBrian GibsonStarsPhil DanielsHazel O'ConnorJon FinchA rock singer is determined to rise to the top of the profession, letting nothing stand in the way of that goal.Out of Competition
- DirectorFederico FelliniStarsMarcello MastroianniAnna PrucnalBernice StegersA businessman finds himself trapped at a hotel and threatened by women en masse.Out of Competition
- DirectorGérald CalderonStarsAndré LanganeyMichael LonsdaleOut of Competition
- DirectorNicholas RayWim WendersStarsGerry BammanRonee BlakleyPierre CottrellWim Wenders abandons the shoot of one of his own films in order to help his friend and fellow director Nicholas Ray create his swan song before he dies.Out of Competition
- DirectorShuchen WangJingda XuDing Xian YanStarsKe BiBanjô GingaDaisuke GôriTells the fable from Chinese mythology about the young warrior Nezha who takes on a group of evil dragons.Out of Competition
- DirectorDino RisiStarsRenato PozzettoEdwige FenechAldo MaccioneAntonio Barozzi, an aspiring actor, goes to Rome to seek both fame and fortune.Out of Competition
- DirectorAndrei TarkovskyStarsAlisa FreyndlikhAleksandr KaydanovskiyAnatoliy SolonitsynA guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to find a room that grants wishes.Out of Competition
- DirectorBrando GiordaniEmilio RavelStarsTotòIsa BarzizzaGaleazzo BentiOut of Competition
- DirectorJean-Marie PérierStarsJean-Louis AubertLouis BertignacFélix BussyOut of Competition
- DirectorJean-Pierre DenisStarsBernard SautereauSerge DominiquePierre DienadeIn the Périgord, at the beginning of the century, Adrien, illegitimate child, is adopted by his grandmother. When the First World War ended, he becomes a railway man, and takes part in the strikes of 1920.International Critics' Week
- DirectorAgnieszka HollandStarsHalina LabonarskaTadeusz HukIwona BiernackaThe film is set in a small town near Warsaw, to which a young and coming director comes to produce a classic play (Wyspianski "Wyzwolenie") with a modern vein. Everyone in the production gets his usual stereotypical role, but the aging idol of the ensemble senses opportunity to give the performance of his life. For young director everything is already set. The leading man, however, is not giving up and is trying to restore the role according to his view. His wife listens to his fears, complaints and frustrations, while resigning herself to a fading career in a puppet theatre.International Critics' Week
- DirectorUlrike OttingerStarsTabea BlumenscheinLutzeMagdalena MontezumaA woman presented as a "trinkerin" is having a special tour in Berlin. She bought herself a single-way ticket and will drink everywhere she can.International Critics' Week
- DirectorIra WohlStarsIra WohlPhilip WohlZero MostelIn this documentary, the director follows the day-to-day activities of his mentally ill, middle-aged cousin Philly, over a three-year period.International Critics' Week
- DirectorMitsuo YanagimachiStarsYûji HonmaKeizô KanieHideko OkiyamaYanagimachi's first feature film is about a young man who makes a map of a neighborhood in which he delivers newspapers. He keeps a dossier on each family, recording their habits and rating how much he dislikes them.International Critics' Week
- DirectorSalvatore PiscicelliStarsIda Di BenedettoMarcella MichelangeliTommaso BiancoA love story between two women in the Naples outskirts, a universe so far away from the glare of modernity, turbid, rural, completely naked in its ugliness and sorrow, where "people are talking".International Critics' Week
- DirectorFranco RossoStarsDavid N. HaynesTrevor LairdVictor Romero EvansThe movie centres around Brindsley Forde's character Blue. He fronts a reggae sound system based in South West London (Brixton). The film captures the trials and tribulations of young black youths in troubled London in the early eighties.International Critics' Week
- DirectorKarl FrancisAdapted from the short story "The Mouse and the Woman" by Dylan Thomas, it is a story set in the secluded valleys of Wales during the 1914-18 war. The story of a man who is as handy with his fists as with his poetic fantasy. His masculinity fascinates Gilda, the wife of the owner of the mine.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorAbdellatif Ben AmmarStarsYasmine KhlatRaouf Ben AmorDalila RamesTunis in 1980, A family leaves the old city, the Medina of Tunis to settle down in one of the new populated cities on the outskirts of the capital.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorRobert KaylorStarsGary BuseyJodie FosterRobbie RobertsonTired of her dull job as a waitress, Donna decides to join two carnival hustlers and see what life in their field is like.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorAlexander KlugeStarsHannelore HogerDieter MainkaAlfred EdelA history teacher and a patriot goes out into the winter landscape carrying a shovel. She comes across a dead soldier killed at the battle of Leningrad.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorRobert van AckerenStarsElisabeth TrissenaarMatthias HabichHeinrich GiskesAn abstract look at the changes in a woman's inner self. Married to a down-and-out writer, she is forced into a liaison with a book thief.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorTizuka YamasakiStarsKyoko TsukamotoAntônio FagundesJiro KawarazakiBased on fact, this is the story of the struggles of Japanese immigrants who traveled to and settled in Brazil looking for a better life.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorVictor NunezStarsDana PreuDavid PeckJ. Smith-CameronGal Young 'Un centers on a spinster woman who lives alone in the woods of north Florida until she is swept off her feet by an opportunistic bootlegger. He marries her for her place and her daddy's money and her cooking and cleaning, which she freely shares. Inevitably, he shows his true colors in a variety of ways. One day he brings home a very young woman with clear intentions of keeping her as a mistress (a gal young 'un) in the older woman's house. Business takes him elsewhere and the two woman are left alone in the woods together to come to terms with their shared exploitedness.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorAli ÖzgentürkStarsTürkan SorayTalat BulutHarun YesilyurtHazal is married off to her late husband's brother in his early teens. As she develops a motherly affection for the child groom, she falls in love with mason Emin.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorMicheline LanctôtStarsJocelyn BérubéAndrée PelletierJanette BertrandLe film, qui sera primé à San Sebastian, raconte l'histoire d'un homme dont la naïveté et la galanterie d'un autre âge sont à l'origine de nombreux déboires sentimentaux, tout particulièrement lorsqu'il s'amourache d'une belle bourgeoise dont il est l'homme à tout faire.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorLauro AntónioStarsEunice MuñozVergílio FerreiraCanto e CastroEstefãnia is an old, rich, strict catholic woman, and when she sets her eyes on a couple of servants who have no means to bring up properly their youngest son, António, she decides to move her influences in order to make a priest out of him. The parents accept it, the local priest and even the Seminar's rector accept it, and António accepts it - if not for piety, for obeyance to his parents. Once time goes by, and António is out of rural misery and into the prison-like system of a seminar, doubts and anguishes mount within him.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorSolveig HoogesteijnStarsVíctor CuicaDiego SilvaAsdrúbal MeléndezDirectors' Fortnight
- DirectorJ.A. SalgotStarsVictoria AbrilJulito de la CruzJaume SorribasClara, an attractive unmarried woman, and her autistic child who transforms and absorbs her life, provide an extreme dissection of the mother-child bond in an uneasily honest way.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorGiuseppe BertolucciStarsMariangela MelatoBruno GanzRenato SalvatoriOppressed by her husband, her lover, and her obsessive mother, a bourgeois from Milan is reunited at the Central Station of that city with a childhood companion. Throughout 24 hours there, she will experience her particular descent into hell.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorMarja KokErik van ZuylenStarsHelmert WoudenbergFrank GroothofHans Man in 't VeldAn unsuspecting flower farmer visits the hospital to discuss some test results, only to find himself admitted without explanation for an indefinite period of further examination and observation.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorSohrab Shahid SalessStarsHeinz LievenDorothea MoritzIngrid DomannHerbert is a civil engineer who has quit his job, changed his behavior and become very indifferent and apathetic against people and to most things. His wife convinces him to go to a clinic, but will it change him?Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorAndrzej KondratiukStarsIga CembrzynskaFranciszek DzierzanowskiTadeusz FijewskiAlthough neither his wife nor his friends can understand him, a Varsovian architect leaves the hustle bustle of Warsaw to find peace and make new friends while living in a small village.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorTony GarnettStarsEleanor ForsytheKate CrutchleyKim LockettA Birmingham prostitute leaves friends and family behind to seek her fortune in London. Back home, a sympathetic social worker and a solicitor form a support group to campaign for a change in the law.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorChristopher PetitStarsDavid BeamesLisa KreuzerSandy RatcliffIn 1970s Britain, a man drives from London to Bristol to investigate his brother's death, and the purpose of his trip is offset by his encounters with a series of odd people.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorMichael VerhoevenStarsNora BarnerHartmut BeckerPola KinskiDirectors' Fortnight
- DirectorJamil DehlaviStarsSalmaan PeerzadaKika MarkhamDurriya KaziA dramatic depiction of the life of Hussain, with allegorical references to the history of the Prophet Muhammad and his descendants. It is prophesied that Young Hussain will one day lead the impoverished masses to a better life. It is his brother, Hasan, however who gains in prominence and when the government is overthrown in a military coup, he tries to adapt. Hussain in the meanwhile gets married and leads a small band of rebels in an attempt to fight the military dictatorship.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorMarcus ReichertStarsDennis LipscombDebbie HarrySam McMurrayA man is so obsessed with finding the person responsible for stealing his milk bottles that he ignores his beautiful young wife, who has other ideas on her mind.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorJános RózsaStarsJúlia NyakóJulianna BaloghAndrea BlizikDirectors' Fortnight
- DirectorJoël FargesStarsAurore ClémentJean SorelBruno CremerPerspectives du Cinéma Français
- DirectorEdouard NiermansStarsBruno CremerJean BouiseJean-Pol DuboisIn a Jesuit secondary school , the headmaster imposes an iron discipline on the unfortunate students.Enter Father Godard who believes in Christian love .Perspectives du Cinéma Français
- DirectorClaude VajdaStarsYves ArcanelFrançois ChaumetteYves PeneauPerspectives du Cinéma Français
- DirectorJacques BralStarsChristine BoissonAndré DussollierGérard LanvinJazz musician Leo and his writer friend Bony get acquainted with a woman taxi driver called Cora.Perspectives du Cinéma Français
- DirectorRenaud VictorStarsJean-Pierre BarusMonic ParelleThierry LucianiPerspectives du Cinéma Français
- DirectorBernard QueysanneStarsLudmila MikaëlMaría CasaresJohn PricePerspectives du Cinéma Français
- DirectorPhilippe ViardStarsCaroline CellierRichard BerryFrançois PerrotPerspectives du Cinéma Français
- DirectorFernando E. SolanasStarsMonique SaladinPerspectives du Cinéma Français
- DirectorMichel VuillermetStarsPatrick ChesnaisMaurice RonaiFrançois PerrotPerspectives du Cinéma Français
- DirectorAntoine PersetStarsEmile BalditLouis BalditJoseph SicardPerspectives du Cinéma Français
- DirectorDominique ArnaudStarsRichmond TerorohauepaPerspectives du Cinéma Français
- DirectorJérôme LaperrousazStarsIrvin 'Carrot' JarrettWilliam 'Willie' StewartStephen 'Cat' CoorePerspectives du Cinéma Français
- DirectorGabriel AuerStarsAgnès ChâteauDidier SauvegrainEmilio Sánchez-OrtizPerspectives du Cinéma Français