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1987 Cannes Film Festival - Prize of the Ecumenical Jury WinnerRepentanceTengiz AbuladzeThe day after the funeral of Varlam Aravidze, the mayor of a small Georgian town, his corpse turns up in his son's garden and is secretly reburied. But the corpse keeps returning, and the ...Amazon

1988 Cannes Film Festival - Prize of the Ecumenical Jury WinnerA World ApartChris MengesA White enclave in Johannesburg, South Africa, in the 1960s. Molly Roth, 13 years old, is the daughter of leftist parents, and she must piece together what's happening around her when her ...Amazon

1989 Cannes Film Festival - Prize of the Ecumenical Jury WinnerJesus of MontrealDenys ArcandA group of actors put on an unorthodox, but acclaimed Passion Play which incites the opposition of the Catholic Church while the actors' lives themselves begin to mirror the Passion itself.Amazon

1990 Cannes Film Festival - Prize of the Ecumenical Jury WinnerEverybody's FineGiuseppe TornatoreMatteo Scuro is a retired Sicilian bureaucrat (responsible mainly for the writing of birth certificates) and a father of five children, all of whom live on the mainland and hold responsible...Amazon

1991 Cannes Film Festival - Prize of the Ecumenical Jury WinnerThe Double Life of VéroniqueKrzysztof KieslowskiTwo parallel stories about two identical women; one living in Poland, the other in France. They don't know each other, but their lives are nevertheless profoundly connected.Amazon

1992 Cannes Film Festival - Prize of the Ecumenical Jury WinnerThe Stolen ChildrenGianni AmelioAntonio, a policeman (carabiniere), has an order to take two children (Rosetta and her brother Luciano) from Milan to Sicily to an orphanage. Their mother has been arrested for forcing ...Amazon

1993 Cannes Film Festival - Prize of the Ecumenical Jury WinnerLibera meAlain CavalierAmazon

1994 Cannes Film Festival - Prize of the Ecumenical Jury WinnerBurnt by the SunNikita MikhalkovIn the Soviet Union in 1936, shadow of Stalin's repressions lie on a famous revolution hero. An accusations of being him a foreign spy are nonsense, and all known that, but a slow process of his life's downfall is already running.AmazonTo LiveYimou ZhangAfter Fugui and Jiazhen lose their personal fortunes, they raise a family and survive difficult cultural changes during 1940s to 1970s China.Amazon

1995 Cannes Film Festival - Prize of the Ecumenical Jury WinnerLand and FreedomKen LoachDavid is an unemployed communist that comes to Spain in 1937 during the civil war to enroll the republicans and defend the democracy against the fascists. He makes friends between the soldiers.Amazon

1996 Cannes Film Festival - Prize of the Ecumenical Jury WinnerSecrets & LiesMike LeighA successful black woman discovers that her birth mother is an underprivileged white woman, but the woman denies it. As emotions run high, everyone's secrets are exposed.Amazon