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- DirectorAntónio de MacedoStarsGuida MariaSinde FilipeJoão MotaA couple of traditional fishermen are linked by a secret vote of chastity. One day, they take in a wounded gypsy man, out of their Christian piety. As time goes by, a relationship, and love emerges between the healthy young woman and the gypsy. The reaction of the local society, and the explosion of repressed sentiments will come to a swirling vortex of violence - abduction, shootings, and forced sex.In Competition
- DirectorCarlos SauraStarsGeraldine ChaplinFernando Fernán GómezJosé María PradaA British governess comes to an isolated house to take care of the children of a convoluted family.In Competition
- DirectorAndré DelvauxStarsJean-Luc BideauDanièle DelormeAdriana BogdanThe aging romancier Mathieu Grégoire falls in love with a female stranger who doesn't even understand his language. Their uncommon relationship upsets his family.In Competition
- DirectorLuigi ZampaStarsEnrico Maria SalernoGabriele FerzettiSenta BergerPortraits of a pushy surgeon and a nurse with many secrets, in a big city hospital.In Competition
- DirectorJames William GuercioStarsRobert BlakeBilly Green BushMitchell RyanAmbitious but diminutive motorcycle cop John Wintergreen patrols the Arizona highways, yearning for promotion to Homicide Detective, while investigating a murder tied to hippies.In Competition
- DirectorLina WertmüllerStarsGiancarlo GianniniMariangela MelatoLina PolitoWhen a friend is murdered by the Facists, a melancholy farmer takes up residence in a Roman brothel as he and an anarchist prostitute plot to assassinate Mussolini.In Competition
- DirectorDavid GreeneStarsVictor GarberLynne ThigpenKatie HanleyAn adaption of the musical, in a modern-day song-and-dance recreation of the Gospel of St. Matthew.In Competition
- DirectorArthur BarronStarsRobby BensonGlynnis O'ConnorLen BariShy cellist boy meets upperclassman ballet-student girl at school. They experience first-time love, then happenstance pulls them apartIn Competition
- DirectorClaude GorettaStarsJean-Luc BideauJean ChampionCorinne CodereyAfter the death of his mother, middle-aged insurance employee inherits her small cottage surrounded by a garden. Selling the cottage which is situated on unexploited ground near the center of a big city makes him a rich man and he buys a big house in the countryside. He takes some time off and decides to throw a big garden party at the house and invite all his colleagues from the office. Aided by alcohol, the guests gradually lose all their inhibitions and reveal personality traits and frustrations that they normally keep hidden.In Competition
- DirectorMarco FerreriStarsMarcello MastroianniMichel PiccoliPhilippe NoiretA group of men go to a villa in the French countryside where they resolve to eat themselves to death.In Competition
- DirectorJean EustacheStarsBernadette LafontJean-Pierre LéaudFrançoise LebrunThe chauvinist Alexandre balances relationships with several women in the post-1968 intellectual scene of Paris.In Competition
- DirectorGilles CarleStarsCarole LaureWillie LamotheDaniel PilonA young girl that came to Montréal to find her dad is exploited by a bar owner.In Competition
- DirectorAntoni RibasStarsAsunción BalaguerJordi BofillMiquel BordoyA blind couple's marriage is tested when the wife is drawn to a blind writer.In Competition
- DirectorRené LalouxStarsBarry BostwickJennifer DrakeEric BauginOn a faraway planet where blue giants rule, oppressed humanoids rebel against their machine-like leaders.In Competition
- DirectorJacques BrelStarsJacques BrelDanièle EvenouGabriel JabbourJacques, a 40-year-old citizen of Brussels, meets the fakir, Abracadabra who, before dying, gives him a special power.In Competition
- DirectorLindsay AndersonStarsMalcolm McDowellRalph RichardsonRachel RobertsAn ambitious coffee salesman has a series of improbable and ironic adventures that seem designed to challenge his naive idealism.In Competition
- DirectorFerenc KardosStarsMihály KovácsNóra KovácsCan TogayHigh school students improvise a reenactment of Hungary's 1848 revolution through the lens of Sandor Petöfi's poetry.In Competition
- DirectorWojciech HasStarsJan NowickiTadeusz KondratIrena OrskaJózef visits his dying father at a remote mental institution, where time itself doesn't seem to exist, and the line between dreams and memories becomes indistinguishable.In Competition
- DirectorJerry SchatzbergStarsGene HackmanAl PacinoDorothy TristanAn ex-con drifter with a penchant for brawling is amused by a homeless ex-sailor, so they partner up as they head east together.In Competition
- DirectorPaul NewmanStarsJoanne WoodwardNell PottsRoberta WallachA middle-aged misfit struggles to raise her daughters, one popular and the other a promising science student.In Competition
- DirectorAlan BridgesStarsRobert ShawSarah MilesPeter EganA young British woman suffering from depression over the loss of her husband develops an unusual relationship with her chauffeur.In Competition
- DirectorCarmelo BeneStarsCarmelo BeneLuciana CanteSergio Di GiulioA meditation on Art through the elements of the most famous tragedy.In Competition
- DirectorIlya AverbakhStarsMikhail GluzskiyMargarita TerekhovaMarina NeyolovaA professor of science dedicated to his work, but alienated from his personal life, struggles to reconcile with his estranged daughter.In Competition
- DirectorMario MonicelliStarsUgo TognazziClaude DauphinDuilio Del PreteItaly 1973. Giuseppe Tritoni (Ugo Tognazzi) is an ultra-right-wing congressman that doesn't agree anymore with his fascist party policy. He contacts many Italian Army officers and built a net of relationship in order to organize a Coup d'Etat (Golpe). Something goes wrong and the Interior Minister (Home Secretary) Mr. Li Masi (Lino Pugliesi) got the all information about the attempted Golpe. So the Minister organizes a counter-Golpe. *** SPOILER *** Tritoni desperately, to save his project, kidnaps the Italian Republic President (Claude Dauphin) that immediately dies for heartache. Now Minister Mr. Li Masi is free to lay down the law to the rest of the country, realizing basically the actual Golpe. Tritoni surrenders and will spend rest of his time trying to sell his ideas about managing Golpe in Africa.In Competition
- DirectorJoseph LoseyStarsJane FondaEdward FoxTrevor HowardNora Helmer, years earlier, committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband, Torvald. Now she is being blackmailed and lives in fear of her husband finding out and the shame such a revelation would bring to his career. But when the truth comes out, Nora is shocked to learn where she really stands in her husband's esteem.Out of Competition
- DirectorAlexander GrasshoffStarsOrson WellesJohn BrayVerlin CobbDescribes the constant, bewildering barrage of new technologies and all the resulting societal changes those technologies bring about.Out of Competition
- DirectorJohn FrankenheimerStarsAlan BatesDominique SandaMichel AuclairHarry is a married writer who has an affair with a woman whose husband knows that she is unfaithful. As a result of his work, Harry has trouble distinguishing between fantasy and reality leaving us to wonder whether the affair is real or just a figment of Harry's imagination.Out of Competition
- DirectorFrançois TruffautStarsJacqueline BissetJean-Pierre LéaudFrançois TruffautA committed film director struggles to complete his movie while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.Out of Competition
- DirectorSidney J. FurieStarsDiana RossBilly Dee WilliamsRichard PryorThe story of the troubled life and career of the legendary Jazz singer, Billie Holiday.Out of Competition
- DirectorGérard GuérinStarsOlivier BousquetNada StrancarAnne-Marie CoffinetYoung country-boy Gaston leaves his parents' farm to look for work in paris. The people he encounters there, and the problems he meets in his job, lead him to realise how much young workers in insecure jobs are exploited; while life in the capital makes him more aware of his roots in the country.Out of Competition
- DirectorMichel FanoDenise TualStarsMichel BeroffSylvio GualdaYvonne LoriodOut of Competition
- DirectorPhilippe MoraStarsEva BraunGaleazzo CianoAlbert EinsteinThe Nazification of Germany from 1933 to 1945 told through a compilation of Nazi footage, newsreels, propaganda films and Eva Braun's home movies.Out of Competition
- DirectorAlejandro JodorowskyStarsAlejandro JodorowskyHoracio SalinasZamira SaundersIn a corrupt, greed-fueled world, a powerful alchemist leads a messianic character and seven materialistic figures to the Holy Mountain, where they hope to achieve enlightenment.Out of Competition
- DirectorMilos FormanKon IchikawaClaude LelouchStarsVasiliy AlekseevNikolay AvilovValery BorzovEight film artists from different countries are given carte blanche to make a collection of short documentaries on the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics, offering unexpected, original and often humorous perspectives.Out of Competition
- DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsHarriet AnderssonLiv UllmannKari SylwanWhen a woman dying of cancer in early twentieth-century Sweden is visited by her two sisters, long-repressed feelings between the siblings rise to the surface.Out of Competition
- DirectorMel StuartStarsThe DramaticsThe Staple SingersKim WestonDocumentary covering a Stax Records-sponsored all-day concert at the 1972 Watts Summer Festival with performances by Stax Records artists such as Isaac Hayes, Rufus Thomas, The Staples Singers, and more.Out of Competition
- DirectorNicholas RayStarsRichard BockTom FarrellDanny FisherThe most complete, newly restored version of Nicholas Ray's experimental masterpiece embodies the director's practice of film-making as a "communal way of life." Ray plays himself in the film, serving as mentor, friend, and artistic inspiration to his students.Out of Competition
- DirectorMohamed BouamariStarsMustapha El AnkaYoucef HadjamAhmed HamoudiInternational Critics' Week
- DirectorYôichi TakabayashiStarsYûtarô BanAkira NittaA Buddhist priest rescues a homeless girl and brings her into his temple's household. Soon she becomes an essential part of the place. One night she is raped by a man who then becomes her lover. The priest becomes erotically obsessed.International Critics' Week
- DirectorBill GunnStarsDuane JonesMarlene ClarkBill GunnAfter being stabbed with an ancient, germ-infested knife, a doctor's assistant finds himself with an insatiable desire for blood.International Critics' Week
- DirectorBénie DeswarteYann Le MassonStarsChris MarkerInternational Critics' Week
- DirectorAldo FranciaStarsMarcelo RomoTennyson FerradaLeonardo PerucciA priest is so concerned about the harsh conditions of living of Chilean lower classes that he gradually becomes a political activist and 'worker-priest'.International Critics' Week
- DirectorAnna KarinaStarsAnna KarinaMichel LancelotMonique MorelliThe turbulent love affair between a fuddy duddy history teacher and a free spirited hippie girl leads to drug abuse and domestic violence.International Critics' Week
- DirectorAnsano GiannarelliStarsMario GarribaFranco AgostiniBruno AlessandroInternational Critics' Week
- DirectorDan PitaMircea VeroiuStarsLeopoldina BalanutaEliza PetrachescuNina DonigaTwo bleak stories about absent love. In the first, a widow is working hard in a desperate attempt to save her dying daughter. The second tells the story of two wandering singers who kidnap a bride from her wedding.International Critics' Week
- DirectorWerner HerzogStarsKlaus KinskiRuy GuerraHelena RojoIn the 16th century, the ruthless and insane Don Lope de Aguirre leads a Spanish expedition in search of El Dorado.
- DirectorYoussef ChahineStarsSalah QabilAli El SherifMahmoud Al MelejiSet shortly before and during the Six-Day War in June of 1967, The Sparrow follows a young police officer stationed in a small village in Upper Egypt whose inhabitants suffer from the harassment of a corrupt businessman.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorJean MarboeufStarsBulle OgierClaude BrasseurJean RochefortPierre used to be a top-level football player but he quit. Now he is both a prestidigitator and a stool pigeon, benefiting from the protection of the chief inspector. In his dreams he is haunted by the horrors he saw (he took part in ?) during the Algerian War. Pierre lives with Marie, a young singer who performs at the same cabaret as him. Lately Marie has decided to start a career in the showbiz and Pierre is worried. Nothing alarming happens though, until a diabolical inspector, jealous of his superior, decides to manipulate Pierre. He also puts pressure on Poussin, Marie's pianist, and on Joseph, the night club's master of ceremony. What he wants is to compromise his superior and take his place. Will Pierre escape this ruthless trap?Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorReinhard HauffStarsKlaus LöwitschMargarethe von TrottaDieter LaserDirectors' Fortnight
- DirectorSrdjan KaranovicStarsDusan HudjecMirjana TintarGoran BukilicDirector of this movie gave an advertisement in many Yugoslav papers calling everybody who wants to act in movie regardless of age, look or profession to reply. From 7000 arrived letters, about 30 heroes were picked up for the movie and its story was made based on what they wished to play.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorAlfredo JoskowiczStarsHéctor BonillaSergio JiménezOfelia MedinaTwo young people leave city life for the simplicity of life in the province. Unfortunately, the beach they are going to live next to is being polluted by a local factory.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorHenrik StangerupStarsLotte TarpErik WedersøeJens ØsterholmA young psychiatrist falls in love with a female patient who was admitted to the state hospital after killing her unsympathetic man during a quarrel. The psychiatrist, who has been finding his work frustrating and futile, takes off with the woman. After a brief idyll of happiness, he realizes that her mental illness is more serious than he first thought.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorPál ZolnayStarsIstván IglódiFerenc SeböMárk ZalaA photographer and a retoucher are wandering in small villages. They go from house to house offering their services. They try to record the truth, the true faces of these people.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorDanièle HuilletJean-Marie StraubStarsGottfried BoldJohann UnterpertingerHenri LudwiggA shot from a car coursing through Rome in 1972 opens this interpretation of Brecht's unfinished experimental novel The Business Affairs of Mr. Julius Caesar. In a second part set in contemporary Rome, a young researcher discusses the economic and political manipulation that drove Caesar to power.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorXavier KollerStarsMarcus MislinFred TannerAnestis VlahosDirectors' Fortnight
- DirectorTheodoros AngelopoulosStarsVangelis KazanKostas PavlouThanos GrammenosWhen a trade unionist is murdered in broad daylight, the suspects rounded up include Sofianos, who doggedly maintains his innocence. When a minister visits his cell, he tricks his warders and takes the man hostage, threatening to kill him.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorYoshishige YoshidaStarsRentarô MikuniYasuo MiyakeAkiko KuranoA freestyle biopic of Ikki Kita, the ultranationalist intellectual whose ideas inspired the failed military coup in 1936.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorGianni AmelioStarsGiulio BrogiBedy MorattiDaniel SherrillDirectors' Fortnight
- DirectorMarco LetoStarsAdalberto Maria MerliAdolfo CeliMilena VukoticRossini (Adalberto Maria Merli), history teacher and son of another professor, for his liberal ideas refuses to sign the oath of allegiance to the the fascist regime that Mussolini imposed on the professors university. After a period of imprisonment he is so assigned to confinement on an island. Here the young intellectual finds himself in contact with the composite humanity that populated the places of confinement: militiamen, agents, common and political coercion, villagers. The figure of the director of the colony, the commissioner Rizzuto, stands out among all, who was a pupil of his father, and for whom he continues to have feelings of esteem and devotion.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorGianfranco MingozziStarsGiulio BrogiMimsy FarmerWilliam BergerA filmmaker of committed films, together with his lover, plans to commit suicide within a few days.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorRobert LapoujadeStarsFrançoise BrionFrançois PerrotHenri SerreResearch about Joan of Arc, in the Contemporary France.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorHelvio SotoStarsMarcelo RomoPatricia GuzmánRafael BenaventeDirectors' Fortnight
- DirectorDaryl DukeStarsRip TornAhna CapriElayne HeilveilMaury Dann (Rip Torn, in one of his most memorable performances) is a not-so-nice country-Western singer. He ruthlessly manipulates everyone around him to suit his selfish needs...he even gets his limo driver to take the blame for the death of a fan whom he stabbed.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorNelson Pereira dos SantosStarsFrédéric de PasqualeSylvie FennecRegina RosenburgoAfter a catastrophe that modified the world's natural state and destroyed civilized society, a couple begins a new life in a shelter. Their relationship is disturbed by the arrival of a woman.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorDenys ArcandStarsJean LajeunesseLuce GuilbeaultJ. Léo GagnonThe unexpected return of his ex-wife and the assembly of a group of protesters both threaten to wreck a corrupt contractor's inauguration party for his new superhighway.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorJames B. HarrisStarsZalman KingCarol WhiteTisa FarrowA woman who's been asleep for years is part of a carnival that sells her kisses for a buck. A lonely jazz musician buys her. Once awake, the two of them and his two girlfriends hook up. But sometimes, dreams are better than reality.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorHenryk KlubaStarsFranciszek PieczkaRyszard FilipskiStanislaw GronkowskiAfter the war, the community of mountaineers is eager to start their own sawmill. When the communist authorities come to take over the sawmill, a rebellion starts.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorArnaldo JaborStarsPaulo PortoDarlene GlóriaElza GomesRich, spoiled youngman encounters a prostitute, and gets confused about the nature of his feelings for her; he can't decide between attraction, and repulsion.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorDjibril Diop MambétyStarsMagaye NiangMyriam NiangChristoph ColombMory, a cowherd, and Anta, a university student, try to make money in order to go to Paris and leave their boring past behind.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorMichael AptedStarsGlenda JacksonOliver ReedBrian DeaconDuring World War II, a deserting soldier dresses as a woman to escape detection, hiding at a farm run by a POW's wife, but is soon hit-on by a lusty sergeant.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorClaude WeiszStarsGermaine MonteroClaude RichardHélène DarcheA Season in the Life of Emmanuel, a newborn who witnesses the drastic changes a French family experiences in a brief period of time.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorWilliam FruetStarsDonald PleasenceCarol KaneDoris PetrieA father will do anything to protect his family's reputation when his unmarried teenage daughter becomes pregnant because she was raped by her brother's friend.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorJacob BijlStarsBurt HendersonJessamin StärckeA husband can't accept that his wife would like to live something else than her life as a wife.Directors' Fortnight
- DirectorHenri GlaeserStarsAlexandre StereDominique RollinArmand AbplanalpJewish fighters and their non violent religious neighbors, deal with the Nazis in Poland. The Jewish fighters finally connect with the Polish underground, hopeful about joining them and receiving arms, but the Poles refuse to arm them.Perspectives du Cinéma Français
- DirectorJacques RozierStarsCaroline CartierDanièle CroisyFrançoise GuéganA patient observation on the adventures a group of three young girls spending their three-week summer vacation at a small village, a quotidian that includes cooking, excursions, playing cards and going out with guys, enjoying the simple pleasures life has to offer.Perspectives du Cinéma Français
- DirectorAlain PérissonStarsNathalie DrivetPascal BressyLuce GuilbeaultPerspectives du Cinéma Français
- DirectorMichèle RosierStarsAnne WiazemskyAlain LiboltDenis GunsbourgThis interrogation of famed 19th century French writer, proto feminist George Sand, includes discussion with the new early 1970s feminist movement and a critique of the limitations of her progressivism (she opposed the 1871 Paris Commune).Perspectives du Cinéma Français
- DirectorLiliane de KermadecTwo boys meet a girl, and the three of them go wandering together; they stop in a house and there the past mixes with the present.Perspectives du Cinéma Français
- DirectorAlain MagrouStarsDanièle AjoretPhilippe AvronRené ClermontPerspectives du Cinéma Français
- DirectorCosta NatsisAdam PiankoStarsRufusRomain BouteilleDidier KaminkaPerspectives du Cinéma Français
- DirectorFrancis WarinStarsHenri SerreMichèle BompartMarianne EggerickxAlbin is a mercenary soldier. He's paid to kill, but he only agrees to jobs where he's killing those who need to be killed. Anyway, he trusts his buddies, and they trust him: in this case with a big haul of money they found in a jungle shoot-out. When he returns to France one of the first things he does, quite by chance, is to go see the act of Le Grande Magic Circus. The circus keeps coming into his life as he tries to live a "regular" life.Perspectives du Cinéma Français
- DirectorStanislav StanojevicStarsDelphine SeyrigSami FreyMarie-France PisierOn a Mediterranean cruise, a young man hired as a tour guide is intrigued by the beauty of a female interpreter hiding behind her sunglasses. He makes advances to her by venturing into a series of strange stories.Perspectives du Cinéma Français
- DirectorFrank CassentiStarsJacques HigelinLászló SzabóAnouk FerjacPerspectives du Cinéma Français
- DirectorSarah MaldororStarsElisa AndradeDomingos de OliveiraJean M'VondoA man is wrongfully arrested and tortured to death after he is suspected of being part of a revolutionary group.Perspectives du Cinéma Français
- DirectorYvan LagrangeStarsClaire WauthionYvan LagrangeThe ancient legend of Tristan and Isolde to the accompaniment of an operatic musical score.Perspectives du Cinéma Français
- DirectorCharles MattonStarsRichard BohringerIsabelle MercantonAndrée FleurA young man, called The Italian of the Roses, is on the roof edge of an eight-story building ready to jump into the void. Downstairs, his family and gradually a whole crowd of indifferent people are waiting for the young man's to jump.Perspectives du Cinéma Français
- DirectorGuy CavagnacStarsRoger Van HoolCatherine RouvelFrancisco RabalWhen he gets separated from his unit, Laforêt (Roger Van Hool) becomes a de facto deserter during 1939 fighting in the French provinces. Most of the story concerns his love affair with a local farmgirl, as he competes for her affection with a refugee from Spain. When he presses her to make a decision between them, the choice doesn't go in his favor. Soon after this he joins up with the Resistance movement.Perspectives du Cinéma Français
- DirectorPaul VecchialiStarsJacques PerrinJulien GuiomarEva SimonetUnhappy women are being murdered by Emile, a psychotic young man suffering from the delusion that his acts are mercy killings.Perspectives du Cinéma Français
- DirectorLászló SzabóStarsBernadette LafontJean-Pierre KalfonYves AfonsoA one-eyed hit man finds himself as part of an elaborate conspiracy.Perspectives du Cinéma Français
- DirectorPascal AubierStarsAlain CunyBernadette LafontLászló SzabóA film about the two most important things: the revolution and love.Perspectives du Cinéma Français
- DirectorJean-Luc MagneronIt was from Dahomey (now Benin, Africa) that the cult of the deads was exported - through the slave trade - to Brazil, and Haiti. The film narrates the modern story of this ethnographical, religious culture. A team of initiates could film troubling images documenting initiation ceremonies and the sacred lethargy that can take as much as seven, or even eleven days, and in which the body started decomposing itself. Then, the resuscitation happens...Perspectives du Cinéma Français