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- DirectorJules DassinStarsMelina MercouriEllen BurstynAndréas VoutsinasMelina Mercouri plays an actress who is attempting a comeback with a staging of Greek tragedy "Medea".In Competition
- DirectorNagisa ÔshimaStarsTatsuya FujiKazuko YoshiyukiTakahiro TamuraA married woman and her lover murder her husband and dump his body into a well. After a while, his ghost comes to haunt them while the local gossip grows stronger.In Competition
- DirectorPaul MazurskyStarsJill ClayburghAlan BatesMichael MurphyA wealthy woman from Manhattan's Upper East Side struggles to deal with her new identity and her sexuality after her husband of 16 years leaves her for a younger woman.In Competition
- DirectorRajko GrlicStarsRade SerbedzijaAleksandar BercekBozidar BobanIn 1960, Vitomir Bezjak graduated from the Music Academy in Zagreb as an honor student. Now, he is looking for a job, lives like a bohemian and works on his musical pieces. In spite of the fact that he is the recipient of much praise, no one wants to hire him. His girlfriend leaves him and, disappointed, he accepts a job as a piano teacher. He soon falls in love with a rich widow, whose son he teaches. The boy's grandfather throws a big wedding party for the new couple, introducing Vitomir to many influential people. The young man's life changes radically: he becomes famous, attending political meetings and big receptions. Everyone expects a masterpiece from him, but he is no longer the talented young composer he used to be. Finally, after he finishes his magnum opus, one of the orchestra members accuses him of plagiarism.In Competition
- DirectorMarco FerreriStarsGérard DepardieuMarcello MastroianniJames CocoA man walking on the beach near New York City finds the corpse of King Kong. He also finds Kong's orphaned son, and takes it to a friend who lives in the city, and they decide to raise it.In Competition
- DirectorHal AshbyStarsJane FondaJon VoightBruce DernIn 1968 California, a woman whose husband is a Marine officer fighting in Vietnam falls in love with a former high school classmate who suffered a paralyzing combat injury in the war.In Competition
- DirectorRainer Werner FassbinderStarsDirk BogardeAndréa FerréolKlaus LöwitschIn early-1930s Berlin, an elegant Russian émigré and eccentric chocolatier convinces himself that he has seen his doppelgänger, and hatches a murderous plan to trade his existence for an entirely new one. Will he get over the deep despair?In Competition
- DirectorPeter HandkeStarsEdith CleverMarkus MühleisenBruno GanzAfter returning from a business trip in Finland, Bruno (Bruno Ganz) find that his wife Marianne (Edith Clever) wants her husband to leave her alone with their son. A struggle with loneliness and adapting to the new situation ensues.In Competition
- DirectorNanni MorettiStarsNanni MorettiLuisa RossiLina SastriAn ironic peek into the life of a group of Italian university students in the 1970s.In Competition
- DirectorKároly MakkStarsMargit MakayIrén PsotaCarla RomanelliThe theme of the delightful Hungarian fantasy film "A Very Moral Night," made in 1977 and now playing at the Public Theater, could well be innocence, even if the action does take place in a bordello. It is a good bordello, so sweet and wholesome that it seems a place of pure beauty and Eden-like charm.In Competition
- DirectorMiguel LittinStarsNelson VillagraKaty JuradoSalvador SánchezIt tells the story of a dictatorship. Its protagonist is the sum and essence of several of the rulers who have exercised absolute power in Latin American countries.In Competition
- DirectorErmanno OlmiStarsLuigi OrnaghiFrancesca MoriggiOmar BrignoliPeasant life in a feudal farm in rural Italy at the end of the 19th century.In Competition
- DirectorCarlos SauraStarsGeraldine ChaplinJosé Luis GómezXabier ElorriagaDeeply impressed by the testimony of an anonymous woman at the Russell Tribunal about the torture she suffered, Luis, the theater director, decides to mount a play that will be the adaptation of that testimony.In Competition
- DirectorRicardo FrancoStarsFernando Fernán GómezÁngela MolinaRicardo FrancoMateo, a young man who has just suffered a love affair, finds work as a gardener in a nursing home. There he establish a good relationship with an old man called El Maestro (The Master), an absolutely crazy and brilliant intern with whom he will undertake fantastic projects.In Competition
- DirectorAlan ParkerStarsBrad DavisIrene MiracleBo HopkinsBilly Hayes, an American college student, is caught smuggling drugs out of Turkey and thrown into prison.In Competition
- DirectorEmil LoteanuStarsGalina BelyaevaOleg YankovskiyKirill LavrovA romantic drama in which a beautiful but poor young woman has to choose between three suitors: an old widower, a decadent nobleman and a handsome but poor young man.In Competition
- DirectorAriane MnouchkineStarsPhilippe CaubèreMarie-Françoise AudollentFrédéric LadonneWho was Moliere? He is known everywhere as one of the world's greatest playwrights. But who was he? Born Jean-Baptiste Poquelin in 1622, the son of a prosperous tapestry maker. His mother died when he was a boy. Growing up in the teeming streets of 17th century Paris, Jean Baptiste received a good Jesuit education and was fascinated by the street fairs and traveling carnivals that flourished in spite of the religious repression and hypocrisy of those cruel times. As a young man he joined the theatrical Bejart family to establish the Illustre-Theatre, which soon went bankrupt. The troupe reformed, found patronage, and went on the road for thirteen years, performing all over France. Poquelin developed his stagecraft adapting Commedia dell Arte plots to please brutalized peasants and cynical townspeople. He also married Madeline Bejart, the widowed daughter of the troupe's founder. Later he entered into a love affair with Mme Bejart's daughter, to the dismay of all. The troupe eventually returned to Paris and, on October 24, 1658, greatly impressed the 20-year old King Louis XIV, later to be called the Sun King. Moliere's life became bound up with the magnificent court at Versailles, and with its intrigues. He wrote, staged and acted in the plays now famous all over the world. He fought with his enemies and his friends, enjoyed success followed by failure, organized court festivities and defended himself against increasingly fanatic religious authorities. Above all, his theater was taken from life as his life was theatrical.In Competition
- DirectorLouis MalleStarsBrooke ShieldsKeith CarradineSusan SarandonA preteen girl lives as a prostitute in New Orleans in 1917.In Competition
- DirectorKrzysztof ZanussiStarsJan NowickiMaja KomorowskaZofia KucównaA strange arrogant tourist arrives at the Morskie Oko mountain shelter. Next morning, in spite of danger, he climbs alone and the search for him begins.In Competition
- DirectorFred SchepisiStarsTommy LewisFreddy ReynoldsAngela Punch McGregorAfter suffering racist abuse throughout his life - which intensifies following his marriage to a white woman - a half-Aboriginal farmhand finds himself driven to murder.In Competition
- DirectorJerzy SkolimowskiStarsAlan BatesSusannah YorkJohn HurtA traveller by the name of Crossley forces himself upon a musician and his wife in a lonely part of Devon, and uses the aboriginal magic he has learned to displace his host.In Competition
- DirectorClaude ChabrolStarsIsabelle HuppertStéphane AudranJean CarmetIn an interwar France struggling with profound social and political change, 18-year-old Violette Noziere rebels against the constraints of her claustrophobic, working-class (and possibly incestuous) family, with troubling consequences.In Competition
- DirectorKarel ReiszStarsNick NolteTuesday WeldMichael MoriartyA Vietnam veteran gets conned into helping an old Marine friend smuggle drugs into the country but ends up having to go on the run with his friend's wife when the deal goes sour.In Competition
- DirectorRauni MollbergStarsOlavi AhonenLauri ArajuuriOssi AronenRhapsodic story from a small Finnish town in the 1920s. The wounds of the civil war in 1918 are not yet fully healed. The current ban legislation on alcohol triggers a diligently moon-shining.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorAhmed El MaanouniStarsBen BrahimAbdelwahad dreams of a life of wealth and wants breaks with tradition. His mother Hlima, a woman with extraordinary energy, is afraid that he will leave the village. After the death of his father he is the head of the family. Neither the family council nor the countless obstacles that stand in his way can prevent the young farmer from pursuing his plans for the future. Alyam, Alyam is a film about shattered dreams and the circumstances leading up to that point; about the shaking of the traditional social structure; about the strength born of desperation and the unrelenting dissipation of lost generations.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorGeraldo SarnoStarsRubens de FalcoSura BerditchevskyNildo ParenteIn the beginning of the 20th Century, in the Northeast of Brazil, one of the first Brazilian industrialists is persecuted because he refuses to sell his business to a British company.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorAndrzej WajdaStarsKrystyna JandaJerzy RadziwilowiczTadeusz LomnickiA young Polish filmmaker sets out to find out what happened to Mateusz Birkut, a bricklayer who became a propaganda hero in the 1950s but later fell out of favor and disappeared.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorVojtech JasnýStarsAttila HörbigerTrude MarlenJoachim RohrerUn Certain Regard
- DirectorMemè PerliniStarsAntonello AgliotiBettina BestGiuliana CalandraUn Certain Regard
- DirectorHans-Jürgen SyberbergStarsHeinz SchubertPeter KernHellmut LangeDirector Hans-Jurgen Syberberg examines the rise and fall of the Third Reich in this brooding seven-hour masterpiece, which incorporates puppetry, rear-screen projection, and a Wagnerian score into a singular epic vision. Syberberg, who grew up under Nazi tyranny, ruminates on good and evil and the rest of humanity's complicity in the horrors of the holocaust.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorBarbet SchroederStarsKokoPenny PattersonSaul KitchenerA documentary that follows Dr. Penny Patterson's current scientific study of Koko, a gorilla who communicates through American Sign Language.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorMichel DevilleStarsFrançois MarthouretClaude MarcaultPhilippe RouleauAn unnamed French intelligence service spies on and analyzes a French diplomat code name '51' to identify a method to control him.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorHenrik MalyanStarsSos SargsyanSofik SarkisyanFrunzik MkrtchyanThis story of a strong-willed man, Nahapet, who lost his family during the Armenian Genocide in 1915, is an eternal story of resurrection.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorVentura PonsStarsOcañaCamiloGuillermoPortrait of Ocaña, a multi-artist who exploded the prevailing conventions in Barcelona during the last years of Franco's dictatorship.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorEleanor Bingham MillerLeslie ShatzStarsBarry BinghamDennis CampbellDavid DukeDepicts the Klan's involvement in the murders of two black and white freedom fighters in Alabama along with the rise of David Duke, the Grand Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan 1974-80.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorMichel MitraniStarsHumbert BalsanAïna WalléYves AfonsoAt the start of the Last World War, on the Maginot Line, a troop of French soldiers awaited the German invasion.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorBilly WilderStarsWilliam HoldenMarthe KellerHildegard KnefDown-on-his-luck Hollywood producer Barry 'Dutch' Detweiler attempts to lure Fedora, a famous but reclusive film actress, out of retirement only to discover the horrible truth behind her success.Out of Competition
- DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsRobbie RobertsonMuddy WatersNeil YoungA film account and presentation of the final concert of The Band.Out of Competition
- DirectorRobert M. YoungStarsDomingo AmbrizTrinidad SilvaLinda GillenAfter the birth of his first child, Roberto, a young Mexican man slips across the border into the United States. Seeking work to support his family back home, he finds that working hard is not enough.International Critics' Week
- DirectorHans NoeverStarsFranciszek PieczkaPetra Maria GrühnJody BuchmanA jealous husband introduces his wife to his male friend in order to test her faithfulness. He then pretends to go on a business trip but instead rents an apartment opposite theirs and observes her intently.International Critics' Week
- DirectorJillali FerhatiStarsJillali FerhatiBachir SkirejInternational Critics' Week
- DirectorErland JosephsonSven NykvistIngrid ThulinStarsIngrid ThulinErland JosephsonBjörn GustafsonA woman ends a relationship, looking for a new purpose in life by "rescuing" her childhood friend and bachelor from his loneliness. They both set out on a journey discovering that being two is not the solution to their respective solitudes. The myth of redemptive love stops hence as a right a myth.International Critics' Week
- DirectorSrdjan KaranovicStarsLjuba TadicAleksandar BercekOlga SpiridonovicA famous actor leaves the theater without reason to live at his friend's tugboat. The people from his surroundings find out more about his move and come to the riverbank, trying to live freely themselves. The question is who found what.International Critics' Week
- DirectorCarlo Di CarloStarsAdalberto Maria MerliPaolo BonacelliOlga KarlatosInternational Critics' Week
- DirectorPierre ZuccaStarsDenise Morin-SinclairePierre KlossowskiMartin LoebRoberte, 40, resistant during the war, Calvinist and anticlerical, is deputy to the chamber and inspector of Censorship. She married Octave, an old Catholic aesthete, professor of canon law, whom she saves from impeachment for collaboration during the war. He submits his wife to a perverse custom: the laws of hospitality or prostitution of the wife by the husband.International Critics' Week
- DirectorDerek JarmanStarsAdam AntRichard O'BrienIan CharlesonQueen Elizabeth I travels 400 years into the future to witness the appalling revelation of a dystopian London overrun by corruption and a vicious gang of punk guerrilla girls led by the new Monarch of Punk.International Critics' Week
- DirectorEduardo GeadaStarsIo AppolloniLia GamaHenrique VianaDirectors' Fortnight
- DirectorJorge FeliuStarsMireia RosSilvia AguilarMontserrat MóstolesBased on the story Alice in Wonderland, Alicia has fallen asleep on a summer afternoon on the bank of a river. When she thinks she awakens, she meets an erotic black bunny in the shape of a woman who catches her attention.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorBigas LunaStarsÀngel JovéMaría MartínIsabel PisanoA disturbed middle-aged man is obsessed by a dancer and prostitute and abducts her, with tragic consequences.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorCarlos DieguesStarsJofre SoaresMíriam PiresCristina Aché70-year-old widower living in a poor Rio de Janeiro suburb falls in love again when he finds a woman of approximately the same age.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorReinhard HauffStarsMichael SchweigerMario AdorfVadim GlownaPepe is 15. His life in social misery changes completely when he is chosen as the main character of a film production. Shot on location where he lives with his primitive, brutal and authoritarian father, a pig farmer.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorClaudia WeillStarsMelanie MayronEli WallachAdam CohenA photographer and her girlfriend are roommates. She is stuck with small-change shooting jobs and dreams of success. When her roommate decides to get married and leave, she feels hurt and has to learn how to deal with living alone.Directors' Fortnight
- StarsAlain CunyGabriele FerzettiBruno Di GeronimoDirectors' Fortnight
- DirectorWerner SchroeterStarsLiana TroucheAntonio OrlandoRenata ZamengoIn a miserable neighbourhood of Napoli, two brothers make totally different choices for their lives. The boy joins the Communist Party, while his sister follows the way of the church.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorLino BrockaStarsHilda KoronelMona LisaRez CortezThe life of a young girl living with her mother in the slums of Manila becomes unbearable when her mother's young boyfriend moves in with them.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorJean-Claude GuiguetStarsHélène SurgèreEmmanuel LemoineHervé DuhamelCamille, a young, provincial, proletarian man works for Hélène Courtray, who is still beautiful and seductive. She's a sophisticated, cultivated and well-to-do woman who has engaged him to care for her reclusive son who has spent the past few years voluntarily locked up in his room. An encounter between two persons and two worlds where the relationship of the young man to this closed, strange and unknown universe rapidly turns tragedy.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorCiro DuránStarsCarlos MuñozDocumentary of 1977 that talks about the life of the gamines in the city of Bogotá. The gamines are children who have fled their homes in remote areas of the city or living in neighbouring districts of it and trying to survive. The film is based on three segments showing the gamines mostly displaced in the violence and their families, to live on handouts of persons, of the theft of windshield, car radios, recycling cardboard and stealing several streets but above all of the pure Centre of Bogotá to the gamines grouped in "galladas" sleep on platforms, bus stops and in the now defunct "Calle del Cartucho".Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorFernando E. SolanasStarsJulio TroxlerTito AmeijeirasJuan Carlos GenéPeronist view of its history between the fall in 1955 and the electoral triumph of 1973 using a metaphor of the poem Martin Fierro.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorGiovanna GagliardoStarsCarla GravinaAnna Maria GherardiMarino MaséDirectors' Fortnight
- DirectorMrinal SenStarsKrishna A.R.Pradeep KumarG. Narayana RaoThe father of a son living on the fringes of a village believes that working is a fools game, for the lord takes what little the workers make. When a young woman enters their home tensions begin to rise and their idle life is threatened.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorBob DylanStarsBob DylanSara DylanJoan BaezBob Dylan on tour with the Rolling Thunder Revue in 1975; concert footage, documentary interviews and bizarre improvised character scenes.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorYaky YoshaStarsMiriam Bernstein-CohenGedalia BesserLevana FinkelsteinAmi Sus'etz, an Israeli artist, abandons his wife and daughter in New York, and comes back to his home land after years of absence. Sus'etz wishes to decipher his constant feeling of failure as a human being, as a family man, as an artist. His best friends were killed in war, his paintings were burned not without intent. He has no past and no future. Back home Sus'etz reunites with his dying father, with his mother, who unsuccessfully tries to understand her son, and with a childhood friend, Ansberg, now a philosopher/homeless. Ansberg has adopted unusual methods in order to bring love back to Tel Aviv and expects "conscientious" Sus'etz to assist him in that. Sus'etz cannot be a "conscientious", or anything else for that matter, not before he resolves his own personal fate: who is he, why was he born, why does he live. Ami Sus'etz decides to make a movie, about himself, his parents, his hometown Tel Aviv, and about all that constitutes the puzzle we call human life. His movie fails in resolving the pattern but ironically becomes a commercial blockbuster. At the end of the day, the movie gets burned, just like the paintings, not without intent.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorBruce BeresfordStarsSusannah FowleDorothy BradleyPatricia KennedyOscar-nominated director Bruce Beresford (Driving Miss Daisy, Tender Mercies) crafts a tender coming-of-age tale that introduces one of Australian literature's most beloved characters to the screen, Laura Tweedle Rambotham (Susannah Fowle).Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorKaren ArthurStarsLee GrantCarol KaneWill GeerEllen, a successful astronomer, cares for her mentally-ill sister, Cissy, who keeps a variety of primates in the home they inherited from their anthropologist father. When Ellen begins a romance, Cissy's jealousy proves deadly.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorMark RappaportStarsRandy DansonMarilyn JonesKevin WadeSpins the tale of a woman, her sister, and the man who completes the triangle. Told through such fertile sources as grand opera, classical painting, and Victorian melodrama.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorAlain FleischerStarsCatherine JourdanKlaus KinskiPierre ClémentiEva is a singer at Noah's Ark nightclub, where the guests wear animal masks. She is approached by a stranger who claims to know her and to remember her singing Mozart.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorRaúl RuizStarsJean RougeulChantal PaleyJean RaynaudTwo narrators, one seen and one unseen, discuss possible connections between a series of paintings. The on-screen narrator walks through three-dimensional reproductions of each painting, featuring real people, sometimes moving, in an effort to explain the series' significance.Perspectives du Cinéma Français