1979 Cannes Film Festival


The 32nd Cannes Film Festival took place from 10 to 24 May 1979. French writer Françoise Sagan served as jury president for the main competition.
The Palme d'Or, the festival's top prize, was jointly awarded to Apocalypse Now by Francis Ford Coppola, and The Tin Drum by Volker Schlöndorff.
Sagan, raised a controversy as she complained about Robert Favre Le Bret, director of the festival, pressure on the jury for the choice of Coppola's film, while she had chosen Schlöndorff's film.
The festival opened with Hair by Miloš Forman, and closed with Us Two by Claude Lelouch.

Jury

Main Competition

  • Françoise Sagan, French writer - Jury President
  • Sergio Amidei, Italian writer
  • Rodolphe-Maurice Arlaud, Swiss
  • Luis García Berlanga, Spanish filmmaker
  • Maurice Bessy, French
  • Paul Claudon, French producer
  • Jules Dassin, American filmmaker
  • Zsolt Kézdi-Kovács, Hungarian filmmaker
  • Robert Rozhdestvensky, Soviet author
  • Susannah York, British actress

    Official selection

In Competition

The following feature films competed for the Palme d'Or:

''Un Certain Regard''

The following films were selected for the Un Certain Regard section:

Out of Competition

The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:

Short Films Competition

The following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or:
  • Barbe bleue by Olivier Gillon
  • Bum by Břetislav Pojar
  • La Dame de Monte Carlo by Dominique Delouche
  • La Festa dels bojos by Lluis Racionero Grau
  • Harpya by Raoul Servais
  • Helping Hand by John P. Taylor, Zlatko Pavlinovic
  • Le Mur by Jan January Janczak
  • Petite histoire un peu triste by Didier Pourcel
  • Põld by Rein Raamat
  • The Waltzing Policemen by Kerry Feltham
  • Zwei Frauen in der Oper by Christian Veit-Attendorff

    Parallel sections

International Critics' Week

The following feature films were screened for the 18th International Critics' Week :
The following films were screened for the 1979 Directors' Fortnight :

Main Competition

The following films and people received the 1979 Official selection awards:

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