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The 79th Festival de Cannes winners’ list

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The Jury of the 79th Festival de Cannes, chaired by South Korean director, screenwriter and producer Park Chan-wook, surrounded by American actress and producer Demi Moore, Irish-Ethiopian actress and producer Ruth Negga, Belgian director and screenwriter Laura Wandel, Chinese director and screenwriter Chloé Zhao, Chilean director and screenwriter Diego Céspedes, Ivorian-American actor Isaach De Bankolé, Scottish screenwriter Paul Laverty, and Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgård, presented its winners’ list among the 22 films presented in Competition this year.

Feature Films

 

Palme d’or

FJORD 
Cristian MUNGIU

Grand Prix

MINOTAUR 
Andreï ZVIAGUINTSEV

Joint Best Directors

LA BOLA NEGRA  
Javier CALVO & Javier AMBROSSI

FATHERLAND  
Pawel PAWLIKOWSKI

Best Screenplay

A MAN OF HIS TIME 
Emmanuel MARRE

Jury Prize

DAS GETRÄUMTE ABENTEUER (THE DREAMED ADVENTURE) 
Valeska GRISEBACH

Best Performance by Actresses

Virginie EFIRA, Tao OKAMOTO
in ALL OF A SUDDEN directed by HAMAGUCHI Ryusuke

Best Performance by Actors

Emmanuel MACCHIA, Valentin CAMPAGNE
in COWARD directed by Lukas DHONT

Short Films

 

Palme d’or

PARA LOS CONTRINCANTES (FOR THE OPPONENTS) 
Federico LUIS

Un Certain Regard

 

Un Certain Regard Prize

EVERYTIME 
Sandra WOLLNER

Jury Prize

ELEPHANTS IN THE FOG
Abinash BIKRAM SHAH
1st film

Special Jury Prize

IRON BOY
Louis CLICHY

Best Performance by Actresses

Marina DE TAVIRA, Daniela MARÍN NAVARRO, Mariangel VILLEGAS
for SIEMPRE SOY TU ANIMAL MATERNO directed by Valentina MAUREL

Best Performance by an Actor

Bradley FIOMONA DEMBEASSET
for CONGO BOY directed by Rafiki FARIALA

Caméra d’or

 

BEN’IMANA
Marie-Clémentine DUSABEJAMBO
Un Certain Regard

La Cinef

 

First Prize

LASER-GATO (Laser-Cat)
directed by Lucas Acher
NYU, USA

Second Prize

SILENT VOICES
directed by Nadine Misong Jin
Columbia University, USA

Joint Third Prize

ALDRIG NOK (Never Enough)
directed by Julius Lagoutte Larsen
La Fémis, France

GROWING STONES, FLYING PAPERS
directed by Roozbeh Gezerseh & Soraya Shamsi
Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf, Germany

 

 

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