1999 Cannes Film Festival
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- DirectorJean-Pierre DardenneLuc DardenneStarsÉmilie DequenneFabrizio RongioneAnne YernauxYoung and impulsive Rosetta lives with her alcoholic mother and, moved by despair, she will do anything to maintain a job.Palme d'Or
Best Actress
Ecumenical Jury – Special Mention - DirectorBruno DumontStarsEmmanuel SchottéSéverine CaneelePhilippe TullierWhen an 11-year-old girl is brutally raped and murdered in a quiet French village, a police detective who has forgotten how to feel emotions--because of the death of his own family in some kind of accident--investigates the crime, which turns out to ask more questionsGrand Prize of the Jury
Best Actress
Best Actor - DirectorPedro AlmodóvarStarsCecilia RothMarisa ParedesCandela PeñaA comedy-drama about a bereaved mother, an overwrought actress, her jealous lover, and a pregnant nun.Best Director
Prize of the Ecumenical Jury - DirectorPaul CoxStarsDavid WenhamKate CeberanoJan DecleirThe true story of the nineteenth century priest who volunteered to go to the island of Molokai, to console and care for the lepers.Best Screenplay
- DirectorManoel de OliveiraStarsChiara MastroianniPedro AbrunhosaAntoine ChappeyA well-bred, lovely, spiritual, sad young woman marries an attentive physician who loves her. She feels affection but no love. Soon after, without design, she falls in love with Pedro Abrunhosa, a poet and performance artist. He also loves her. She keeps her distance from him, confessing her love to a friend who is a nun and, later, to her husband. Hunger for her love and jealousy consume him; she attends him as he wastes away. With his death, she can marry and express her passion, but what she does and how she explains herself, particularly to her cloistered friend, is at the heart of the film. Glimpses of convent life and of Abrunhosa on stage give contrast and mute comment.Jury Prize
- DirectorJasmin DizdarStarsThomas GoodridgeFaruk PrutiTony PetersIn London, during October 1993, England is playing Holland in the preliminaries of the World Cup. The Bosnian War is at its height, and refugees from the ex-Yugoslavia are arriving. Football rivals, and political adversaries from the Balkans all precipitate conflict and amusing situations. Meanwhile, the lives of four English families are affected in different ways by encounter with the refugees; one of the families improbably becomes involved with a Balkan refugee through the England vs. Holland match.Un Certain Regard Award
- DirectorMurali NairStarsVishwas NjavakkalLakshmi RamanSuhas ThayatA satire on political corruption and class injustices in Indian village culture.Caméra d'Or
- DirectorEmilie DeleuzeStarsSamuel Le BihanMarcial Di Fonzo BoCatherine VinatierAlain tests video games. He's married, his wife Pascale loves him, and they have a spirited young daughter. But he's unhappy and wants a change, to what he's not sure. He quits. A job counselor suggests a training program operating bulldozers. They have casual sex; Pascale is unhappy with Alain's unfaithfulness. Alain enrolls in the training program: it's 18 weeks long and some distance from Paris, so he is home only on weekends. (He's a natural at operating bulldozers.) As his relationship with Pascale deteriorates, Alain befriends Manu, a young trainee who loves all things about bulldozers but is hopelessly inept at operating them. This friendship takes hold of Alain.FIPRESCI Prize
- DirectorKaige ChenStarsGong LiFengyi ZhangZhou SunIn pre-unified China, the King of Qin sends his concubine to a rival kingdom to produce an assassin for a political plot, but as the king's cruelty mounts she finds her loyalty faltering.Technical Grand Prize
- DirectorDaniel MyrickEduardo SánchezStarsHeather DonahueMichael C. WilliamsJoshua LeonardThree film students vanish after traveling into a Maryland forest to film a documentary on the local Blair Witch legend, leaving only their footage behind.Award of the Youth
- DirectorEmmanuel FinkielStarsShulamit AdarLiliane RovèreEsther GorintinDuring a tour of a group of Israeli Jews of Polish origin, the bus in which Riwka is located breaks down between Warsaw and Auschwitz.Award of the Youth
- DirectorIcíar BollaínStarsJosé SanchoLuis TosarLissete MejíaIn the small town of Santa Eulalia, singles organize a party attended by a coach of women marriages. Damián, Alfonso and Carmelo will seek to establish a relationship with Patricia, a Dominican girl, Marirrosi, a nurse from Bilbao and Milady, a young Cuban.Mercedes-Benz Award
- DirectorJohn PolsonStarsLinus RoacheDanielle CormackIan BlissA British man with a peculiar curse goes on a low-rent bus tour in Australia.Grand Golden Rail
- DirectorScott ZiehlStarsTodd FieldJason LondonRoxana ZalThis shocking and unnerving drama chronicles the lives of two emergency medical technicians (EMTs) whose thrill in life saving is surpassed only by their destructive and all-too-frequent thirst for another kind of rush, heroin.Little Golden Rail
- DirectorChristine CarrièreStarsJean-Pierre DarroussinGarance ClavelElsa DourdetThe loss of their mother leads Suzanne and Marie to take care of their father when he thinks he is responsible for them. Despite difficult times, and after some surprising events, the family will be reunited again.C.I.C.A.E. Award