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May 24, 2025
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The 78th Festival de Cannes announced the winners' list

The Jury of the 78th Festival de Cannes, chaired by French actress Juliette Binoche, surrounded by American actress and filmmaker Halle Berry, Indian director and screenwriter Payal Kapadia, Italian actress Alba Rohrwacher, French-Moroccan writer Leïla Slimani, Congolese director, documentarist and producer Dieudo Hamadi, Korean director and screenwriter Hong Sangsoo, Mexican director, screenwriter and producer Carlos Reygadas and American actor Jeremy Strong, presented its winners' list among the 22 films presented in Competition this year.

Feature Films

 

Palme d'or

UN SIMPLE ACCIDENT

Jafar Panahi

Grand Prix

AFFEKSJONSVERDI (SENTIMENTAL VALUE)

Joachim Trier

Joint Jury Prize

SIRÂT 

Oliver Laxe

SOUND OF FALLING

Mascha Schilinski

Best Director

KLEBER MENDONÇA FILHO

for O AGENTE SECRETO (THE SECRET AGENT)

Best Screenplay

JEAN-PIERRE DARDENNE & LUC DARDENNE 

for JEUNES MÈRES

Best Performance by an Actress

NADIA MELLITI

in LA PETITE DERNIÈRE directed by HAFSIA HERZI

Best Performance by an Actor

WAGNER MOURA

in O AGENTE SECRETO (THE SECRET AGENT) directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho

Special Award

RESURRECTION

Bi Gan

Short Films

 

Palme d'or

I’M GLAD YOU’RE DEAD NOW

Tawfeek Barhom

Special Mention

ALI

Adnan Al Rajeev

Un Certain Regard

 

Un Certain Regard Prize

LA MISTERIOSA MIRADA DEL FLAMENCO (THE MYSTERIOUS GAZE OF THE FLAMINGO)

Diego Céspedes

Jury Prize

UN POETA (A POET) 

Simón Mesa Soto

Best Director Prize

ARAB & TARZAN NASSER

for ONCE UPON A TIME IN GAZA

Best Screenplay

HARRY LIGHTON

for PILLION

Best Performance by an Actress

CLEO DIÁRA

in O RISO E A FACA (I ONLY REST IN THE STORM) directed by Pedro Pinho

Best Performance by an Actor

FRANK DILLANE

in URCHIN directed by Harris Dickinson

Caméra d'or

 

THE PRESIDENT’S CAKE

Hassan Hadi

Directors’ Fortnight

Special Mention

MY FATHER’S SHADOW 

Akinola Davies Jr

Un Certain Regard

La Cinef

 

First Prize

FIRST SUMMER 

directed by Heo Gayoung

KAFA, South Korea

Second Prize

12 MOMENTS BEFORE THE FLAG-RAISING CEREMONY

directed by Qu Zhizheng

Beijing Film Academy, China

Joint Third Prize

GINGER BOY

directed by Miki Tanaka

ENBU Seminar, Japan

WINTER IN MARCH

directed by Natalia Mirzoyan

Estonian Academy of Arts, Estonia

The Higher Technical Commission for Sound and Images 

 

The 2025 jury of the CST Award for Best Young Female Technician is proud to present this year’s prize to Éponine Momenceau, director of photography for the film Connemara, directed by Alex Lutz, for the delicacy and subtlety of the cinematographic work that supports the film’s narrative and direction.

The 2025 jury of the CST Artist-Technician Award honors Ruben Impens, Director of Photography, and Stéphane Thiébaut, Sound Mixer, for the power of their creativity in both image and sound on the film Alpha, directed by Julia Ducournau.

 

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