More than ten prizes are awarded to films in addition to the official competition of the Cannes Film Festival. Find the winners of the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs, the Palm Dog, the Un Certain Regard category and many others…
In Cannes, it’s not just the Palme d’Or! The Festival is also an opportunity to distribute numerous prizes in categories parallel to the official competition. We take stock of these various awards.
This category of the Official Selection has its own jury and rewards films “an auteur and discovery cinema”. Among the 20 films selected, seven are first films. The worst by Lise Akoka and Romane Guéret won the Un Certain Regard award. This film sets out to meet four teenagers in the suburbs of Boulogne-sur-mer in the North of France. It will be released in cinemas next November.
Pakistani movie Joyland by Saim Sadiq received the Jury Prize. It is the first Pakistani film selected at the Cannes Film Festival.
Romanian director Alexandru Belc received the Best Director award for his film Metronome. It is his first film.
The Best performance was awarded to two actors ex-aequo: Vicky Krieps in the film Corsage and Adam Bessa in Case.
Standing ovation for Adam Bessa
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This is Mediterranean Fever by Maha Haj which was awarded for Best Screenplay. The jury also awarded the mention “Jury’s favourite” to the film. Rodeo by Lola Quivorón.
The 61st Critics’ Week, directed by film critic Ava Cahen, rewards first and second feature films. The Grand Prize was awarded to The pack by Andrés Ramírez Pulido, a Franco-Colombian film about the friendship between boys placed in an experimental incarceration center for minors located in the heart of the Amazon rainforest.
The “French Touch” jury prize was awarded to Charlotte Wells for her film after sun, which recounts holiday memories between a father and his daughter. This 34-year-old Scottish filmmaker already has three short films to her credit. after sun is his first feature film.
For the Revelation of Critics’ Week, the jury chose Zelda Samson who appears in the film dalva by Emmanuelle Nicot. The young actress was just 12 years old when the film was shot. She interprets the role of Dalva, a child under the influence of her father who will meet an educator and a teenager who will give her a glimpse of the possibility of another life.
Finally, it’s the short film Ice Merchants by the Portuguese João Gonzalez who walked away with the Leitz Cine Discovery Prize for short films.
Three films were rewarded by the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs. A nice morning by Mia Hansen-Løve received the Europa Cinemas Label. The SACD prize was awarded to The mountain by Thomas Salvador. Finally, the Carrosse d’Or was awarded to Kelly Reichardt, the director of Showing Up. This award honors a director since 2002.”This prize is awarded at the opening of the Directors’ Fortnight and pays tribute to a filmmaker who has marked the history of cinema, through his audacity, his high standards and his intransigence in directing. the website of the Society of Film Directors.
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The American had already come to Cannes in 2008 to present Wendy and Lucy, in which the actress Michelle Williams already appeared, on the poster of Showing Up.
The Queer Palm, which is awarded to a film for its treatment of LGBT+ issues, returned to Joylandfrom Pakistani Saim Sadiq. Selected – and awarded – in the Un Certain Regard category of the Official Selection, this film tells the story of a young man who joins an erotic dance theater and falls in love with a transgender person. This love story will affect the young man’s entire family.
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This event organized on Friday May 27 aims to reward the best canine performance in a film presented at the Cannes Film Festival. Created in 2001 by Toby Rose, a British journalist, the Palm Dog has already been attributed to Uggie, the dog in the film The Artist or even Brandy, the Amstaff of the film Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood of Quentin Tarantino, who came to pick up the dog collar in person!
For its 22nd edition, the Palm Dog returned to Britney, the large poodle seen in War Pony, Riley Keough’s movie. The dogs of the movies Marcel !in official competition, and Godlandpresented at the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs, received the Jury Prize ex-aequo.
The Cannes Cinéma association organizes the Cannes Ecrans Junior prize every year. This year, a 4th grade class from André Capron college was chosen as the junior high school students’ jury and a Second class from the Jules Ferry high school for the high school students’ jury. The two prizes, that of middle school students and that of high school students, were awarded to the same film: My Father’s Secrets by Vera Belmont.
A special mention was awarded by the college students to the film Wild Men by Thomas Daneskov. This Danish comedy will be released in cinemas in July. The high school students decided to give a special mention to Kokon of Leonie Krippendorff.
Since 2015, a documentary from the official selection of the Cannes Film Festival receives a prize, awarded by a special jury, that of the Golden Eye. This year, it’s the documentary All that breathes by Shaunak Sen, a film about two Indian brothers who try to save Delhi’s pollution from birds and people. The film Mariupolis 2 received the Special Jury Prize. This film, which shows the daily life of Ukrainian civilians, was directed by Mantas Kvedaravicius, who was killed by the Russian army at the beginning of April.
The association named after the French journalist François Chalais, who died in 1996, has been awarding a prize to a film in the competition every year for 26 years. After A hero d’Asghar Farhadi en 2021, 120 beats per minute by Robin Campillo in 2017 or even Native by Rachid Bouchareb in 2006, it is Boy From Heaven by Tarik Saleh who won the award, Friday May 27.
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This brand new award is “intended to enhance a film and its team having implemented the most ambitious eco-production approach possible”, noted the Ecoprod website. This reward was assigned to the film The Court of Miracles, directed by Carine May and Hakim Zouhani. This film recounts the construction of an ecological school in the suburbs of Paris.
The film under the figsdirected by Erige Sehiri, received the Ecoprod jury prize.
Since 1998, The Cinef each year selects around twenty short and medium-length films presented by film schools. This year, the 16 films in competition were seen by the jury chaired by Egyptian director Yousry Nasrallah and made up of actors Monia Chokri and Félix Moati, journalist Jean-Claude Raspiengeas and screenwriter and director Laura Wandel.
The first prize goes to The Conspiracy Barber, directed by Italian Valerio Ferrara. The film Di Er (Somewhere) by Chinese director Li Jiahe received second prize. Two films received the third prize ex-aequo: Glorious Revolution of the British Masha Novikova et Humans are stupid when they stack by Laurène Fernandez, from CinéFabrique, a Lyon film school.
The luxury jewelry brand that makes the Palme d’Or awards a prize to two revelations, an actor and an actress. Actress Julia Roberts came to Cannes to present the award to actress Sheila Atmi and actor Jack Lowden.
“I think what’s wonderful about this prize is that it helps to celebrate and encourage emerging talent”said Sheila Atim during her acceptance speech.
Sheila Atim notably starred in Docteur Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, released on May 4th. Jack Lowden, meanwhile, had starred in Dunkirk by Christopher Nolan in 2017.
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