Camera d’Or Year 10 (1987): Nana Djordjadze’s Soviet-Georgian Comedy, “Robinsonada or My English Grandfather”

The story concerns an aged Georgian woman recalling her love affair, years earlier, with English telegraph worker.

Camera d’Or Year 11 (1988): Mira Nair’s “Salaam Bombay!” (Oscar Nominee)

Nair’s feature debut, Salaam Bombay! which won the 1988 Cannes Camera d’Or, is a powerful expose of homeless children.

Camera d’Or Year 9 (1986): Claire Devers’s “Noir et Blanc” (“Black and White”)

Devers’ screenplay is loosely based on Tennessee Williams’s story, “Le Masseur noir”

Project Hail Mary: Sci-Fi Epic Without Any Single Greenscreen Shot

It tells the story of an astronaut (Gosling) on high-stakes mission to save Earth from an interstellar disaster who encounters an alien trying to save his world from the same fate.

Camera d’Or Year 7 (1984): Jim Jarmusch’s “Stranger Than Paradise”

The cool feature established Jarmusch as the most hip indie director of the 1980s, a position that Tarantino would occupy a decade later.