Awards night at the 74th Cannes Film Festival was special with so many of the top prizes going to women. Women constituted the majority of the feature film competition jury- five out of nine - for the first time in the festival's history.

Feature Films

PALME D'OR

TITANE

Julia DUCOURNAU

HONORARY PALME D'OR

JODIE FOSTER

CAMÉRA D'OR

DIRECTORS' FORTNIGHT

MURINA

Antoneta ALAMAT KUSIJANOVIC

Un Certain Regard

(six of the nine prizes awarded to women)

The five-member Un Certain Regard Jury had three women.

UN CERTAIN REGARD PRIZE

RAZZHIMAYA KULAKI

(UNCLENCHING THE FISTS)

Kira KOVALENKO

ENSEMBLE PRIZE

BONNE MÈRE

(GOOD MOTHER)

Hafsia HERZI

COURAGE PRIZE

LA CIVIL

Teodora Ana MIHAI

SPECIAL MENTION - UN CERTAIN REGARD

NOCHE DE FUEGO

(PRAYERS FOR THE STOLEN )

Tatiana HUEZO

Two other festival juries - one for the Camera d'or award, the other for Cinéfondation and Short Films - were also headed by women.

3RD PRIZE CINÉFONDATION (EX-AEQUO)

PRIN ORAS CIRCULA SCURTE POVESTI DE DRAGOSTE

(LOVE STORIES ON THE MOVE)

Carina-Gabriela DASOVEANU

PALME D'OR FOR SHORT FILMS

ALL THE CROWS IN THE WORLD (Hong Kong)

Tang Yi  New York University student.

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