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 was added, in response to the cancellation of the 1968 festival.[4]

1969 Cannes Film Festival
Official poster of the 22nd Cannes Film Festival[1]
Opening filmSweet Charity
LocationCannes, France
Founded1946
AwardsPalme d'Or (If....)[2]
No. of films26 (In Competition)[3]
6 (Out of Competition)
14 (Short Film)
Festival date8 May 1969 (1969-05-08) – 23 May 1969 (1969-05-23)
Websitefestival-cannes.com/en

The Grand Prix du Festival International du Film went to If.... by Lindsay Anderson.[2] The festival opened with Sweet Charity, directed by Bob Fosse.[5]

Jury

The following people were appointed as the Jury of the 1969 film competition:[6]

Feature films

Short films

  • Charles Duvanel (Switzerland)
  • Mihnea Gheorghiu (Romania)
  • Claude Soulé (France) (CST official)

Official selection

In competition - Feature film

The following feature films competed for the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film:[3]

Films out of competition

The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:[3]

Short film competition

The following short films competed for the Grand Prix International du Festival:[3]

  • 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 (8e Semaine de la Critique):[7]

Directors' Fortnight

The following films were screened for the 1969 Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalizateurs):[8]

Short films
  • 5/7/35 by Jean Mazeas (France)
  • Adrien s’éloigne by Claude Guillemot (France)
  • Arrabal by Jacques Poitrenaud (France)
  • Athènes, ville sourire by Lambros Liaropoulos (Greece)
  • Black Movie by Adrian (filmmaker) (France)
  • Chinese Chekers by Stephen Dwoskin (United Kingdom)
  • Einer Mädchenhaut by Klaus Schönherr (France)
  • Erin Ereinté by Jean-Paul Aubert (France)
  • Flash-Parc by Frank Cassenti (France)
  • Fuses by Carolee Schneemann (United States)
  • Galaxie by Gregory Markopoulos (France)
  • Gedanken beim Befühlen by Klaus Schönherr (France)
  • Hemingway by Fausto Canel (Cuba)
  • Jeanne et la moto by Diourka Medveczky (France)
  • Journal de séjour a Marseille by C. Lindenmeyer, Gérard Levy-Clerc (France)
  • La page dévoilée by Jim Hodgetts et Mike Marshall (France)
  • La poursuite impitoyable by J.J. Schakmundes, R. Guillon (France)
  • Le mariage de Clovis by Daniel Duval (France)
  • Le Sursitaire by Serge Huet (France)
  • Les Stabiles by Christian Lara (France)
  • Libi by Otto Muehl (France)
  • Marie et le Curé by Diourka Medveczky (France)
  • Miss Paris et le Majordome by Georges Dumoulin (France)
  • Monsieur Jean-Claude Vaucherin by Pascal Aubier (France)
  • N.O.T.H.I.N.G. by Paul Sharits (France)
  • Naissant by Stephen Dwoskin (United Kingdom)
  • On the Every Day of the Eyes of Death by Robert Beavers (France)
  • Paris des Négritudes by Jean Schmidt (France)
  • Permanence by Busioc Ionesco (Romania)
  • Que s’est-il passé en Mai? by Jean-Pierre Savignac (France)
  • Rohfilm by G. Hein (France)
  • S. Macht am Sonntag-Nachmittag keinen Film by Dieter Meier (France)
  • Scenes from Under Childhood by Stan Brakhage (France)
  • Souvenir de la nuit du 4 by Patrice Gauthier, Henry Lange (France)
  • Speak by John Latham (United Kingdom)
  • The Mysteries by Gregory Markopoulos (France)
  • Twice A Man by Gregory Markopoulos (France)
  • Untebrochene Flugverbindungen by Dieter Meier (France)
  • Versucht mit Synth. Ton by Kurt Kren (France)
  • Winged Dialogue by Robert Beavers (France)

Awards
Luchino Visconti, Jury President

Official awards

The following films and people received the 1969 Official selection awards:[2]

Short films

Independent awards

FIPRESCI[9][2]

Commission Supérieure Technique[2]

References
  1. "1969 The Festival Poster". festival-cannes.com. Archived from the original on 25 December 2013.
  2. "22ème Festival International du Film - Cannes". cinema-francais.fr (in French). Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 4 June 2017.
  3. "Official Selection 1969: All the Selection". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 26 December 2013.
  4. "1969 - Année polémique (Year of controversy)". cannes-fest.com (in French). Retrieved 25 May 2017.
  5. Holston, Kim R. (13 December 2012). 1969 Cannes Film Festival sweet charity opening film. McFarland. ISBN 9780786492619. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
  6. "Juries 1969: Long film". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
  7. "8e Selecion de la Semaine de la Critique - 1969". archives.semainedelacritique.com. Retrieved 20 June 2017.
  8. "Quinzaine 1969". quinzaine-realisateurs.com. Archived from the original on 1 July 2017. Retrieved 2 July 2017.
  9. "FIPRESCI Awards 1969". fipresci.org. Retrieved 2 July 2017.

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