1958 Cannes Film Festival
The 11th Cannes Film Festival was held from 2 to 18 May 1958. The Palme d'Or went to the Letyat zhuravli by Mikhail Kalatozov.Jury
The following people were appointed as the Jury of the 1958 competition:
Feature films
- Marcel Achard Jury President
- Tomiko Asabuki
- Bernard Buffet
- Jean De Baroncelli
- Helmut Käutner
- Dudley Leslie
- Madeleine Robinson
- Ladislao Vajda
- Charles Vidor
- Sergei Yutkevich
- Cesare Zavattini
Short films
- Norman McLaren
- Jean Mitry
- Krishna Riboud
- Edmond Séchan
- Jerzy Toeplitz
Feature film competition
The following feature films competed for the Palme d'Or:
The following film was selected to be screened out of competition:
The following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or:
- A.B.C. by John Fernhout
- Auf den Spuren des Lebens by Fritz Heydenreich
- Dubrovacki pasteli by Marijan Vajda
- Egy masodperc tortenete by Ágoston Kollányi
- Gloria dei Medici by Antonio Petrucci
- Goya, una vida apasionada by José María Ochoa
- Grafica cloveku by France Kosmac
- Horyû-Ji by Susumu Hani
- La Joconde: Histoire d'une obsession by Henri Gruel
- La Seine a rencontré Paris by Joris Ivens
- Les mystères d'une goutte d'eau by Ann H. Matzner Dr.
- Log Drive by Raymond Garceau
- Mandu by Neil Gokhale
- Nagrodzone uczucia by Walerian Borowczyk & Jan Lenica
- Nez nam narostla kridla by Jiří Brdečka
- Ô saisons ô châteaux by Agnès Varda
- Perameren hylkeenpyytajat by Ulf Backstrom
- Sapte Arte by Ion Popescu-Gopo
- Sintra by João Mendes
- The Story of a Roof by Jamie Uys
- Trees And Jamaica Daddy by Lew Keller
- Voici le pays d'Israel by Jean Lehérissey
- Y gorakh salianskykh by Leonid Belokurov, Y. Przyjemski
- Zimniy prazdnik by Mikhail Slutsky
Awards
Official awards
The following films and people received the 1958 awards:
Short films
- Short Film Palme d'Or:
- * by Henri Gruel and Jean Suyeux
- *La Seine a rencontré Paris by Joris Ivens
- Special Prize: Auf den Spuren des Lebens by Fritz Heydenreich & Nez nam narostla kridla by Jiri Brnecka
Independent awards
FIPRESCI Prize
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