1969 Cannes Film Festival
The 22nd Cannes Film Festival was held from 8 to 23 May 1969. At this festival a new non-competitive section called "Directors' Fortnight" is added, in response to the cancellation of the 1968 festival.
The Grand Prix du Festival International du Film went to the If.... by Lindsay Anderson. The festival opened with Sweet Charity, directed by Bob Fosse.
Jury
The following people were appointed as the Jury of the 1969 film competition:Feature films
- Luchino Visconti
- Chinghiz Aitmatov
- Marie Bell
- Jaroslav Boček
- Veljko Bulajić
- Stanley Donen
- Jerzy Glucksman
- Robert Kanters
- Sam Spiegel
- Charles Duvanel
- Mihnea Gheorghiu
- Claude Soulé
Official selection
In competition - Feature film
The following feature films competed for the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film:- Ådalen 31 by Bo Widerberg
- All My Compatriots by Vojtěch Jasný
- The Appointment by Sidney Lumet
- Calcutta by Louis Malle
- Dillinger Is Dead by Marco Ferreri
- Don't Let the Angels Fall by George Kaczender
- Antonio das Mortes by Glauber Rocha
- Easy Rider by Dennis Hopper
- End of a Priest' ' by Evald Schorm
- Flashback by Raffaele Andreassi
- The Great Love by Pierre Étaix
- Hunting Flies by Andrzej Wajda
- Hymn to a Tired Man by Masaki Kobayashi
- If.... by Lindsay Anderson
- Isadora by Karel Reisz
- It Rains in My Village by Aleksandar Petrović
- Machine Gun McCain by Giuliano Montaldo
- Man on Horseback by Volker Schlöndorff
- The Man Who Thought Life by Jens Ravn
- Matzor by Gilberto Tofano
- Metti una sera a cena by Giuseppe Patroni Griffi
- My Night at Maud's by Éric Rohmer
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Ronald Neame
- Slaves by Herbert Biberman
- Spain Again by Jaime Camino
- Z'' by Costa Gavras
Films out of competition
- Andrei Rublev by Andrei Tarkovsky
- Arthur Rubinstein - The Love of Life by François Reichenbach
- The Deserter and the Nomads by Juraj Jakubisko
- Frozen Flashes by János Veiczi
- Sweet Charity by Bob Fosse
- That Cold Day in the Park by Robert Altman
Short film competition
- Le Ballet des Jacungos by Jean Manzon
- Cîntecele Renasterii by Mirel Ilieşiu
- Goldframe by Raoul Servais
- L'Homme aux chats by Henri Glaeser
- Moc osudu by Jiří Brdečka
- Niebieska kula by Mirosław Kijowicz
- La Pince à ongles by Jean-Claude Carrière
- Red Arrows by John Edwards
- Short Seven by Jonne Severijn
- Su sambene non est aba by Luigi Gonzo & Manfredo Manfredi
- Toccata by Herman van der Horst
- El Triunfo de la muerte by José María Gutiérrez
- Das Verräterische Herz by Paul Anczykowski
- World of Man by Albert Fischer & Michael Collyer
Parallel sections
International Critics' Week
The following feature films were screened for the 8th International Critics' Week :- Cabascabo by Oumarou Ganda
- Charles mort ou vif by Alain Tanner
- La Dame de Constantinople by Judit Elek
- The Hour of the Furnaces by Fernando Solanas
- King, Murray by David Hoffman
- More by Barbet Schroeder
- My Girlfriend’s Wedding by Jim McBride
- Pagine chiuse by Gianni da Campo
- La Rosière de Pessac by Jean Eustache
- La Voie by Mohamed Slimane Riad
- In the Year of the Pig by Emile de Antonio
- Hunting Scenes from Bavaria by Peter Fleischmann
- Paris n’existe pas by Robert Benayoun
Directors' Fortnight
- Acéphale by Patrick Deval
- Adam 2 by Jan Lenica
- Ballade pour un chien by René Allio, Gérard Vergez
- Barravento by Glauber Rocha
- Between Salt and Sweet Water by Michel Brault
- Brandy in the Wilderness by Stanton Kaye
- O Bravo Guerreiro by Gustavo Dahl
- Brazil Year 2000 by Walter Lima Jr
- Calcutta by Louis Malle
- Capitu by Paulo Cezar Saraceni
- Capricci by Carmelo Bene
- Christopher's Movie Matinée by Mort Ransen
- Le Cinématographe by Michel Baulez
- De mère en fille by Anne-Claire Poirier
- Death by Hanging by Nagisa Oshima
- Diary of a Shinjuku Thief by Nagisa Oshima
- Drôle de jeu by Pierre Kast
- Duett för kannibaler by Susan Sontag
- Eine Ehe by Hans Rolf Strobel, Heinrich Tichawsky
- The Ernie Game by Don Owen
- L'été by Marcel Hanoun
- Face To Face by Júlio Bressane
- La primera carga al machete by Manuel Octavio Gomez
- Five Girls Around the Neck by Evald Schorm
- Fuoco! by Gian Vittorio Baldi
- A Gentle Woman by Robert Bresson
- Les Gommes by Francis Deroisy
- Head by Bob Rafelson
- Het compromis by Philo Bregstein
- The Illiac Passion by Gregory Markopoulos
- Image, Flesh and Voice by Ed Emshwiller
- Invasión by Hugo Santiago
- Jardim de guerra by Neville dAlmeida
- Le Joujou Chéri by Gabriel Axel
- Kid Sentiment by Jacques Godbout
- Le lit de la Vierge by Philippe Garrel
- Lucía by Humberto Solas
- Mai 68, la belle ouvrage by Jean-Luc Magneron
- Marie by Marta Meszaros
- Marketa Lazarová by František Vláčil
- Money, Money by José Varela
- The Most Beautiful Age by Jaroslav Papoušek
- Mumbo-Jumbo by Jean-Luc Magneron
- Nocturne 29 by Pere Portabella
- Nous n’irons plus au bois by Georges Dumoulin
- Our Lady of the Turks by Carmelo Bene
- Partner by Bernardo Bertolucci
- Paul by Diourka Medveczky
- Paulina Is Leaving by André Téchiné
- La Poupée Rouge by Francis Leroi
- The Rape of a Sweet Young Girl by Gilles Carle
- Rhodesia Countdown by Michael Raeburn
- Scratch Harry by Alex Matter
- Sirocco by Miklos Jancso
- The Smugglers by Luc Moullet
- Soliloquy by Stephen Dwoskin
- Straight to the Heart by Jean Pierre Lefebvre
- Terry Withmore For an Example by Bill Brodie
- Three by James Salter
- A Time of Roses by Risto Jarva
- The Trip by Roger Corman
- Tu imagines Robinson by Jean-Daniel Pollet
- Vie provisoire by Mauricio Gomez Leite
- Les vieilles lunes by David Fahri
- Vive la mort by Francis Reusser
- Le Voyage by Fernando Cony Campos
- Wheel of Ashes by Peter Goldman
- Yvon, Yvonne by Claude Champion
- 5/7/35 by Jean Mazeas
- Adrien s’éloigne by Claude Guillemot
- Arrabal by Jacques Poitrenaud
- Athènes, ville sourire by Lambros Liaropoulos
- Black Movie by Adrian
- Chinese Chekers by Stephen Dwoskin
- Einer Mädchenhaut by Klaus Schönherr
- Erin Ereinté by Jean-Paul Aubert
- Flash-Parc by Frank Cassenti
- Fuses by Carolee Schneemann
- Galaxie by Gregory Markopoulos
- Gedanken beim Befühlen by Klaus Schönherr
- Hemingway by Fausto Canel
- Jeanne et la moto by Diourka Medveczky
- Journal de séjour a Marseille by C. Lindenmeyer, Gérard Levy-Clerc
- La page dévoilée by Jim Hodgetts et Mike Marshall
- La poursuite impitoyable by J.J. Schakmundes, R. Guillon
- Le mariage de Clovis by Daniel Duval
- Le Sursitaire by Serge Huet
- Les Stabiles by Christian Lara
- Libi by Otto Muehl
- Marie et le Curé by Diourka Medveczky
- Miss Paris et le Majordome by Georges Dumoulin
- Monsieur Jean-Claude Vaucherin by Pascal Aubier
- N.O.T.H.I.N.G. by Paul Sharits
- Naissant by Stephen Dwoskin
- On the Every Day of the Eyes of Death by Robert Beavers
- Paris des Négritudes by Jean Schmidt
- Permanence by Busioc Ionesco
- Que s’est-il passé en Mai? by Jean-Pierre Savignac
- Rohfilm by G. Hein
- S. Macht am Sonntag-Nachmittag keinen Film by Dieter Meier
- Scenes from Under Childhood by Stan Brakhage
- Souvenir de la nuit du 4 by Patrice Gauthier, Henry Lange
- Speak by John Latham
- The Mysteries by Gregory Markopoulos
- Twice A Man by Gregory Markopoulos
- Untebrochene Flugverbindungen by Dieter Meier
- Versucht mit Synth. Ton by Kurt Kren
- Winged Dialogue by Robert Beavers
Awards
Official awards
The following films and people received the 1969 Official selection awards:- Grand Prix du Festival International du Film: If.... by Lindsay Anderson
- Grand Prix Spécial du Jury: Ådalen 31 by Bo Widerberg
- Best Director:
- *Glauber Rocha for Antonio das Mortes
- *Vojtěch Jasný for All My Compatriots
- Best Actress: Vanessa Redgrave for Isadora
- Best Actor: Jean-Louis Trintignant for Z
- Jury Prize: Z by Costa Gavras
- Best First Work: Easy Rider by Dennis Hopper
- Grand Prix International du Festival: Cîntecele Renasterii by Mirel Ilieşiu
- Prix spécial du Jury: La Pince à ongles by Jean-Claude Carrière
Independent awards
- FIPRESCI Prize: Andrei Rublev by Andrei Tarkovsky
- Technical Grand Prize - Special Mention: All My Compatriots' by Vojtěch Jasný
- Short film - Special Mention: Cîntecele Renasterii by Mirel Ilieşiu & Toccata'' by Herman van der Horst
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