The 11th Cannes Film Festival was held from 2 to 18 May 1958. The went to the The Cranes are Flying by Mikhail Kalatozov.
Jury
The following people were appointed as the Jury of the 1958 competition:
Feature films
Marcel Achard (France) Jury President
Tomiko Asabuki (Japan) Bernard Buffet (France) Jean De Baroncelli (France) (critic) Helmut Käutner (West Germany) Dudley Leslie (UK) Madeleine Robinson (France) Ladislao Vajda (Hungary) Charles Vidor (USA) Sergei Yutkevich (Soviet Union) Cesare Zavattini (Italy) Short films Norman McLaren (Canada) Jean Mitry (France) Krishna Riboud (India) Edmond Séchan (France) Jerzy Toeplitz (Poland)
Feature film competition
The following feature films competed for the :
Brink of Life (Nära livet) by Ingmar Bergman
The Brothers Karamazov by Richard Brooks
La Caleta olvidada by Bruno Gebel
Ciulinii Bărăganului by Louis Daquin
The Cranes are Flying () by Mikhail Kalatozov
Desire Under the Elms by Delbert Mann
The Flute and the Arrow (En Djungelsaga) by Arne Sucksdorff
Girl and the River (L'eau vive) by François Villiers
Goha by Jacques Baratier
Iron Flower (Vasvirág) by János Herskó
Journey Beyond Three Seas (Pardesi) by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas and Vasili Pronin
The Long, Hot Summer by Martin Ritt
A Man of Straw (L'uomo di paglia) by Pietro Germi
A Matter of Dignity (To teleftaio psema) by Michael Cacoyannis
Mon Oncle by Jacques Tati
Nine Lives (Ni liv) by Arne Skouen
Orders to Kill by Anthony Asquith
Parash Pathar by Satyajit Ray
Rosaura at 10 O'Clock (Rosaura a las 10) by Mario Soffici
Sissi – Fateful Years of an Empress (Sissi – Schicksalsjahre einer Kaiserin) by Ernst Marischka Snow Country (Yukiguni) by Shirō Toyoda The Spessart Inn (Das Wirtshaus im Spessart) by Kurt Hoffmann Suburban Romance (Zizkovská romance) by Zbyněk Brynych Vengeance (La Venganza) by Juan Antonio Bardem Visages de bronze by Bernard Taisant Young Husbands (Giovani mariti) by Mauro Bolognini
Out of competition
The following film was selected to be screened out of competition: Gigi by Vincente Minnelli
Short film 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
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: : The Cranes are Flying () by Mikhail Kalatozov Best Director: Ingmar Bergman for Brink of Life (Nära livet) Best Screenplay: Massimo Franciosa, Pasquale Festa Campanile and Pier Paolo Pasolini for Young Husbands (Giovani mariti) Best Actress: Bibi Andersson, Eva Dahlbeck, Barbro Hiort af Ornäs and Ingrid Thulin for Brink of Life (Nära livet) Best Actor: Paul Newman for The Long, Hot Summer Special Mention:Tatiana Samoylova for Letyat zhuravli Jury Prize: Goha by Jacques Baratier Visages de bronze by Bernard Taisant Jury Special Prize: Mon Oncle by Jacques Tati Short films Short Film Palme d'Or: La Joconde: Histoire d'une obsession 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
Vengeance (La Venganza) by Juan Antonio Bardem
References
Media
British Pathé: Cannes Film Festival 1958 footage
British Pathé: Originals Cannes Film Festival 1958
British Pathé: Originals Cannes Film Festival 1958
INA: Opening of the 1958 festival (commentary in French) INA: Celebrities at the 1958 Cannes festival (commentary in French) INA: Closure of the 1958 festival (commentary in French)