Bringing together a turbulent world thanks to the cinema, the 78th Cannes Film Festival has died largely without a hitch – despite a day of films honoring Ukraine at the start, two Iranian filmmakers persecuted in competition and provocative films of Israel and Gaza in various sections. In other words, unless you count the huge power failure that hit the whole region on the last day of the festival, disrupting projections and causing general confusion among the festive.
Fortunately, the festival had current rescue generators, ensuring that the show continues at the Palais, where the president of the jury Juliet Binoche and eight other cinematographic artists took the stage to present their awards during the closing ceremony.
The Grand Prix – essentially the finalist of The Palme – went to the family drama of the director of Nowegian, “Sentimental Value”, on the attempt of a filmmaker difficult to reconcile his distant relationship with his daughter of actor in the casting in his most personal film.
The star of “Little Sister”, Nadia Melliti, won the prize for best actress. The actor’s best honors went to Wagner Moura for “the secret agent”, in which he plays a father who disguises his identity to try to escape the assassination during the military dictatorship of Brazil. Kleber Mendonça Filho won the best director for the same film.
In town to support his film “Heads or Tails?” (in which he plays Buffalo Bill), John C. Reilly surprised the public by singing “Life in pink” – with excuses, in English. “In one way or another, something unexpected always happens when I am in Cannes,” said Reilly, presenting the best scenario price to Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne for “young mothers”.
The jury prize was divided between the Spanish director Olivier Laxe for “Sirat” and “Sound of Falling” of the Héliclie German Mascha Schilinski, undoubtedly the two most original voices in this year’s competition.
The jury also gave a special prize to the Chinese director Bi Gan for “Resurrection”.
Alice Rohrwacher presented the camera trophy for the first feature film to the director of “the president of the president” Hasan Hadi, who accepted the first prize never given to an Iraqi film in Cannes.
In addition to Binoche, the predominantly female jury of this year included Italian actress Alba Rohrwacher, Indian filmmaker Payal Kapadia, the French-Moroccan writer Leïla Slimani, the American stars Halle Berry and Jeremy Strong, the South Korean Hong Sangsoo, the Mexican director Carlos Reygadas and the filmmaker Congolese Dieudo Dieudo.
Complete price list below.
COMPETITION
Palme d’Or: Tba
Grand Prix: Tba
Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho, “the secret agent”
Actor: Wagner Moura, “the secret agent”
Actress: Nadia Melliti, “little sister”
Jury price – tie: “Sirat”, Olivier Laxe and “Sound of Falling”, Mascha Schilinski
Special price (Special price): “Resurrection”, bi gan
Scenario: Tba
Other prices
Camera d’Or: “The president’s cake”, Hasan Hadi
Gold Camera Special mention: “The shadow of my fther”, Akinola Davies Jr.
Palme d’Or short film: “I’m glad you’re dead now”, Tawfeek Barhom
Special mention of short film: “Ali”, Adnan Al Rajeev
Golden Eye documentary price: “Imago”, denial Oumar Pitsaev
Golden Eye Special Jury Price: “The man of six billion dollars”, Eugene Jarecki
Queer palm: “Little sister”, Hafsia Heerzi
Palme Dog: Panda, “love that remains”
Fipresci Prize (competition): “The secret agent”, Kleber Mendonça Filho
Price Fipresci (a certain respect): “Urchin”, Harris Dickinson
Fipresci price (parallel sections): “The Odyssey of Dandelion”, Momoko Seto
A certain respect
A certain number of respect: Award: “The mysterious gaze of flamingo”, Diego Céspedes
Jury prices: “A poet”, Simón Mesa Soto
Best price of the director: Tarzan and Arab Nasser, “Once upon a time in Gaza”
Awards performance: Cléo Diara, “I only rest in the storm”; Frank Dillane, “Urchin”
Best scenario: Harry Lighton, “Pillion”
Special mention: “Norah”, Tawfik Alzaidi
Directors’ fifteen
Europa cinemas label: “Wild Foxes”, Valéry Carnoy
Prize of the Society of Dramatic Authors and Composers: “Wild Foxes”, Valéry Carnoy
Public choice price: “The president’s cake”, Hasan Hadi
Criticism Week
Grand Prix: “A useful ghost”, Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke
French contact price: “Imago”, denial Oumar Pitsaev
Price of the Gan Foundation for Distribution: The pact, “left girl”
Louis Roederer Foundation Rising Star Award: Théodore Pellerin, “Nino”
Prix Leitz Cine Discovery (short film): “The IMA”, Randa Maroufi
Prize of the Society of Dramatic Authors and Composers: Guillermo Galoe and Victor Alonso-Berbel, “Sleepless Cityless”
Canal + short film: Award: “Erogenesis”, Xandra Popescu
Immersive competition
“Dust”, Michel Van der Aa
