![]() Official poster of the 36th Cannes Film Festival, adapted from an original drawing byAkira Kurosawa.[1] | |
Opening film | The King of Comedy |
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Closing film | WarGames |
Location | Cannes,France |
Founded | 1946 |
Awards | Palme d'Or: The Ballad of Narayama[2] |
No. of films | 22 (In Competition)[3] |
Festival date | 7 May 1983 (1983-05-07) – 19 May 1983 (1983-05-19) |
Website | festival-cannes |
Cannes Film Festival | |
The36thCannes Film Festival took place from 7 to 19 May 1983. American authorWilliam Styron served as jury president for the main competition.
Japanese filmmakerShōhei Imamura won thePalme d'Or, the festival's top prize, for the drama filmThe Ballad of Narayama.[4][5]
In 1983, the festival's new main building, thePalais des Festivals et des Congrès, was inaugurated.[6] Initially many described it as "a hideous concrete blockhouse", nicknaming itThe Bunker.[7]
The festival opened withThe King of Comedy byMartin Scorsese,[8][9] and closed withWarGames byJohn Badham.[10][11]
The following feature films competed for thePalme d'Or:[3]
The following films were selected for theUn Certain Regard section:[3]
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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Bella Donna | Peter Keglevic | West Germany | |
Caballo salvaje | Joaquín Cortés | Venezuela | |
Can She Bake a Cherry Pie? | Henry Jaglom | United States | |
The Eighties | Les Années 80 | Chantal Akerman | Belgium, France |
The Haircut | Tamar Simon Hoffs | United States | |
The Herdsman | 牧马人 | Xie Jin | China |
Humanonon | Michel François | France | |
La matiouette ou l'arrière-pays | André Téchiné | ||
Nešto između | Srđan Karanović | Yugoslavia | |
News Items | Faits divers | Raymond Depardon | France |
The Pool Hustlers | Io, Chiara e lo scuro | Maurizio Ponzi | Italy |
Poverty Certificate | Le certificat d'indigence | Moussa Bathily | Senegal |
The Shimmering Beast | La bête lumineuse | Pierre Perrault | Canada |
Twenty Years of African Cinema | Caméra d'Afrique | Férid Boughedir | Tunisia |
Ulysse | Agnès Varda | France | |
Zappa | Bille August | Denmark |
The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:[3]
English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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Angelo My Love | Robert Duvall | United States | |
Boat People | 投奔怒海 | Ann Hui | Hong Kong, China |
Équateur | Serge Gainsbourg | France, West Germany, Gabon | |
Holtpont | Ferenc Rofusz | Hungary | |
The Hunger | Tony Scott | United Kingdom, United States | |
The Man in the Silk Hat | L'homme au chapeau de soie | Maud Linder | France |
Modori River | もどり川 | Tatsumi Kumashiro | Japan |
Streamers | Robert Altman | United States | |
Utu | Geoff Murphy | New Zealand | |
Walking, Walking | Cammina, cammina | Ermanno Olmi | Italy |
WarGames(closing film) | John Badham | United States | |
The Wicked Lady | Michael Winner | United Kingdom, United States |
The following short films competed for theShort Film Palme d'Or:[3]
The following feature films were screened for the 22ndInternational Critics' Week (22e Semaine de la Critique):[13]
The following films were screened for the 1983Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalizateurs):[14]