1962 Cannes Film Festival

The 15th Cannes Film Festival was held from 7 to 23 May 1962. The Palme d'Or went to the O Pagador de Promessas by Anselmo Duarte. The festival opened with Les Amants de Teruel, directed by Raymond Rouleau.

During the Cannes Film Festival of 1961, Robert Favre le Bret, Artistic Director of the Cannes Film Festival, with the agreement of the French Union of Film Critics, had decided to establish the International Critics' Week during the next Festival. In 1962, this parallel section of the Festival took place for the first time. Its goal was to showcase first and second works by directors from all over the world, not succumbing to commercial tendencies.

Jury
The following people were appointed as the Jury of the 1962 competition:

Feature films Short films
 * Tetsurō Furukaki (author) (Japan) - Jury President
 * Henry Deutschmeister (France) - Jury Vice President
 * Sophie Desmarets (France)
 * Jean Dutourd (France)
 * Mel Ferrer (USA)
 * Romain Gary (France)
 * Jerzy Kawalerowicz (Poland)
 * Ernst Krüger (West Germany)
 * Yuli Raizman (Soviet Union)
 * Mario Soldati (Italy)
 * François Truffaut (France)
 * Charles Ford (author and film historian) (France) - Jury President
 * Charles Duvanel (Switzerland)
 * Derek Prouse (UK)
 * Georges Rouquier (France)
 * Andréas Winding (France)

In competition - Feature film
The following feature films competed for the Palme d'Or:


 * Adorable Julia (Julia, Du bist zauberhaft) by Alfred Weidenmann
 * Advise and Consent by Otto Preminger
 * All Fall Down by John Frankenheimer
 * Âmes et rythmes by Abdelaziz Ramdani
 * And Love Has Vanished (Dvoje) by Aleksandar Petrović
 * A Bomb Was Stolen (S-a furat o bombă) by Ion Popescu-Gopo
 * The Bread of Those Early Years (Das Brot der frühen Jahre) by Herbert Vesely
 * Captive Flock (Pleneno yato) by Ducho Mundrov
 * Children of the Sun (Les Enfants du soleil) by Jacques Séverac
 * Cléo from 5 to 7 (Cléo de 5 à 7) by Agnès Varda
 * Devi by Satyajit Ray
 * Divorce, Italian Style (Divorzio all'italiana) by Pietro Germi
 * L'Eclisse by Michelangelo Antonioni
 * Elektra (Ilektra) by Michael Cacoyannis
 * The Exterminating Angel (El ángel exterminador) by Luis Buñuel
 * The Female: Seventy Times Seven (Setenta veces siete) by Leopoldo Torre Nilsson
 * Foundry Town (Kyupora no aru machi) by Kirio Urayama
 * Harry and the Butler (Harry og kammertjeneren) by Bent Christensen
 * The Impossible Goodbye (Dom bez okien) by Stanislaw Jedryka
 * In the Steps of Buddha by Pragnasoma Hettiarachi
 * The Innocents by Jack Clayton
 * Joseph the Dreamer (Ba'al Hahalomot) by Alina Gross and Yoram Gross
 * Konga Yo by Yves Allégret
 * Liberté I by Yves Ciampi
 * Long Day's Journey Into Night by Sidney Lumet
 * The Lovers of Teruel (Les Amants de Teruel) by Raymond Rouleau
 * The Magnificent Concubine (Yang Kwei Fei) by Li Han Hsiang
 * Man in Outer Space (Muž z prvního století) by Oldřich Lipský
 * Mondo Cane by Gualtiero Jacopetti, Paolo Cavara and Franco Prosperi
 * O Pagador de Promessas by Anselmo Duarte
 * Plácido by Luis García Berlanga
 * The Small Stranger (Al Gharib al Saghir) by Georges Nasser
 * A Taste of Honey by Tony Richardson
 * The Trial of Joan of Arc (Procès de Jeanne d'Arc) by Robert Bresson
 * When the Trees Were Tall (Kogda derevya byli bolshimi) by Lev Kulidzhanov

Films out of competition
The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:
 * Boccaccio '70 by Cesare Zavattini, Luchino Visconti, Mario Monicelli and Federico Fellini
 * Le Crime ne paie pas by Gérard Oury

Short film competition
The following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or:


 * Akheytzi by Lada Boyadjieva
 * Anarkali, My Beautiful by Jean-Claude See
 * Big City Blues by Charles Huguenot Van Der Linden
 * Bolshie nepriyatnosti by Vladimir Brumberg & Zinaida Brumberg
 * Certosa di pavia by Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti
 * Clovek pod vodou by Jiří Brdečka
 * Couro de gato by Joaquim Pedro de Andrade
 * Danza Espanola by Juan Gyenes
 * Faces by Edward McConnell
 * Image Of The Sea by Richard Alan Gray
 * An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (La Rivière du Hibou) by Robert Enrico
 * Le Hampi by Claude Jutra, Roger Morilliere, Jean Rouch
 * Les Dieux du feu by Henri Storck
 * Les quatre saisons by Niklaus Gessner
 * Ljubav I Film by Ivo Vrbanic
 * Oczekiwanie by Witold Giersz & Ludwik Perski
 * Pan by Herman van der Horst
 * Rodolphe Bresdin by Nelly Kaplan
 * Roma momenti in Jazz by Enzo Battaglia
 * Saguenay by Chris Chapman
 * Szenvedely by Jozsef Nepp
 * Tagebuch eines Reporters by Manfred Durniok
 * Teeth Is Money by Jean Delire & Eddy Ryssack
 * The Australian Landscape Painters by Richard Mason
 * The Sound of Speed by Bruce Kessler
 * Voronet by Ion Bostan
 * Zambesi by Raymond Hancock

International Critics' Week
The following feature films were selected to be screened for the 1st International Critics' Week (1e Semaine de la Critique):


 * Adieu Philippine by Jacques Rozier (France)
 * Alias Big Shot (Alias Gardelito) by Lautaro Murúa (Argentina)
 * Bad Boys (Furyō shōnen) by Susumu Hani (Japan)
 * The Living Camera: Mooney vs. Fowle by Claude Fournier, Richard Leacock, James Lipscomb, Abbot Mills, D. A. Pennebaker, William Ray (United States)
 * Les Inconnus de la terre by Mario Ruspoli (France)
 * I nuovi angeli by Ugo Gregoretti (Italy)
 * Les Oliviers de la justice by James Blue (France)
 * Strangers in the City by Rick Carrier (United States)
 * All Souls' Day (Zaduszki) by Tadeusz Konwicki (Poland)
 * Tres veces Ana by David José Kohon (Argentina)

Official awards
The following films and people received the 1962 Official selection awards: Short films
 * Palme d'Or: O Pagador de Promessas by Anselmo Duarte
 * Jury Special Prize:
 * L'Eclisse by Michelangelo Antonioni
 * The Trial of Joan of Arc (Procès de Jeanne d'Arc) by Robert Bresson
 * Best Actress:
 * Katharine Hepburn for Long Day's Journey Into Night
 * Rita Tushingham for A Taste of Honey
 * Best Actor:
 * Dean Stockwell, Jason Robards and Ralph Richardson for Long Day's Journey Into Night
 * Murray Melvin for A Taste of Honey
 * Best Cinematic Transposition: Elektra (Ilektra) by Michael Cacoyannis
 * Best Comedy: Divorce, Italian Style (Divorzio all'italiana) by Pietro Germi
 * Short Film Palme d'Or: An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (La Rivière du Hibou) by Robert Enrico
 * Prix spécial du Jury: Oczekiwanie by Witold Giersz & Ludwik Perski
 * Short film Technical Prize:
 * Les Dieux du feu by Henri Storck
 * Oczekiwanie by Witold Giersz & Ludwik Perski
 * Pan by Herman van der Horst

Independent awards
FIPRESCI Commission Supérieure Technique OCIC Award
 * FIPRESCI Prize: The Exterminating Angel (El ángel exterminador) by Luis Buñuel
 * Technical Grand Prize:
 * The Lovers of Teruel (Les Amants de Teruel) by Raymond Rouleau
 * Elektra (Ilektra) by Michael Cacoyannis
 * The Magnificent Concubine (Yang Kwei Fei) by Li Han Hsiang
 * The Trial of Joan of Arc (Procès de Jeanne d'Arc) by Robert Bresson

Media

 * British Pathé: Cannes Film Festival 1962 footage
 * British Pathé: Cannes Film Festival 1962 Awards
 * INA: Opening of the 1962 festival (commentary in French)
 * INA: Atmosphere at the 1962 Cannes Festival (commentary in French)
 * INA: List of winners of the 1962 Cannes Festival (commentary in French)