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NDTV
25-05-2025
- Entertainment
- NDTV
Cannes: It Was Just An Accident Bags Palme D'Or. Check Out Full List Of Winners
Cannes: Iranian director Jafar Panahi accepted the Palme d'Or for "It Was Just an Accident," a film directly inspired by his time in prison at the 78th Cannes Film Festival. Panahi's film is filled with equal parts absurdist humour and rage, following five characters who believe they have identified the prosecutor who tortured them during their own detention, but because they were all blindfolded in jail, no one is confident that their captor is the same man. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Festival de Cannes (@festivaldecannes) The awards ceremony unfolded more or less as planned on a turbulent last day for the otherwise calm event, which was hit with a power blackout mid-morning -- a massive regional outage that disrupted screenings and caused general confusion among attendees. Fortunately, the festival had backup generators running, ensuring that the show would go on at the Palais, where jury president Juliette Binoche and eight other film artists took the stage to present their awards, reported Variety. Neon also co-produced the Grand Prix winner, Norwegian director Joachim Trier's layered family drama "Sentimental Value," about a difficult filmmaker attempting to reconcile with his estranged daughter by casting her in his most personal film to date -- an offer she can't help but interpret as the man's most egotistical gesture yet. Accepting the award, Trier thanked Cannes for fostering a place "where we can identify with each other in contemplation, in empathy," adding, "I don't think art is just something you do for purpose or understanding. We don't know why we do it. It's something I watch my small children do. They sing and dance before they can speak. But it's another language, it could be a language of unification." "Little Sister" star Nadia Melliti won the best actress prize. Best actor honours went to Wagner Moura for "The Secret Agent," in which he plays a father who disguises his identity in an attempt to evade assassination during Brazil's military dictatorship. Kleber Mendonca Filho won best director for the same film, as per the outlet. Alice Rohrwacher presented the Camera d'Or trophy for first feature to "The President's Cake" director Hasan Hadi, who accepted the first award ever presented to an Iraqi film in Cannes, reported Variety. In addition to Binoche, this year's majority-female jury included Italian actress Alba Rohrwacher, Indian filmmaker Payal Kapadia, French-Moroccan writer Leila Slimani, American stars Halle Berry and Jeremy Strong, South Korean auteur Hong Sangsoo, Mexican director Carlos Reygadas and Congolese filmmaker Dieudo Hamadi. Full list of prizes below. COMPETITION Palme d'Or: "It Was Just an Accident," Jafar Panahi Grand Prix: "Sentimental Value," Joachim Trier Director: Kleber Mendonca Filho, "The Secret Agent" Actor: Wagner Moura, "The Secret Agent" Actress: Nadia Melliti, "Little Sister" Jury Prize -- TIE: "Sirat," Olivier Laxe AND "Sound of Falling," Mascha Schilinski Special Award (Prix Special): "Resurrection," Bi Gan Screenplay: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, "Young Mothers" OTHER PRIZES Camera d'Or: "The President's Cake," Hasan Hadi Camera d'Or Special Mention: "My Fther's Shadow," Akinola Davies Jr. Short Film Palme d'Or: "I'm Glad You're Dead Now," Tawfeek Barhom Short Film Special Mention: "Ali," Adnan Al Rajeev Golden Eye Documentary Prize: "Imago," Deni Oumar Pitsaev Golden Eye Special Jury Prize: "The Six Billion Dollar Man," Eugene Jarecki Queer Palm: "Little Sister," Hafsia Heerzi Palme Dog: Panda, "The Love That Remains" FIPRESCI Award (Competition): "The Secret Agent," Kleber Mendonca Filho FIPRESCI Award (Un Certain Regard): "Urchin," Harris Dickinson FIPRESCI Award (Parallel Sections): "Dandelion's Odyssey," Momoko Seto UN CERTAIN REGARD Un Certain Regard Award: "The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo," Diego Cespedes Jury Prize: "A Poet," Simon Mesa Soto Best Director Prize: Tarzan and Arab Nasser, "Once Upon a Time in Gaza" Performance Awards: Cleo Diara, "I Only Rest in the Storm"; Frank Dillane, "Urchin" Best Screenplay: Harry Lighton, "Pillion" Special Mention: "Norah," Tawfik Alzaidi DIRECTORS' FORTNIGHT Europa Cinemas Label: "Wild Foxes," Valery Carnoy Society of Dramatic Authors and Composers Prize: "Wild Foxes," Valery Carnoy Audience Choice Award: "The President's Cake," Hasan Hadi
The Age
25-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Age
Arson, dissidents and jabs at Trump: The biggest moments from the 78th Cannes Film Festival
Overall, it was a good festival for young women. The Dardenne brothers' Young Mothers, about a group of girls in a Belgian shelter for single mothers, won best script. The Little Sister star Nadia Melliti won best actress for her portrayal of a teenage girl in a traditional Moroccan family living in France who realises she is attracted to women. And the superb German film Sound of Falling by Mascha Schilinski, about four women living in different eras on a remote farm, shared the jury prize with Sirat, by French director Oliver Laxe, which kicks off at a rave in the Moroccan desert, where the drugged-up dancers have little idea that war is on the doorstep. And so much more that was worth seeing, even if it didn't win anything. Keep eyes peeled for Julie Ducournau's Alpha, her follow-up to Titane and just as confrontingly weird; Romería, Carla Simon's semi-autobiographical search for the story of her parents, who died of AIDS in '80s Spain; and the glorious Nouvelle Vague, Richard Linklater's French-language imagining of the making of Jean-Luc Godard's pivotal film Breathless. Watching young French actor Guillaume Marbeck as Godard, permanently behind sunglasses and smoking like a tramp steamer, was one of Cannes' greatest pleasures. Trading places Three debut films by big-name actors screened in various sections of the festival: enough to constitute a trend. Scarlett Johansson's Eleanor the Great, starring 95-year-old June Squibb as an American-born Jew who passes herself off as a Holocaust survivor to make new friends, was not a hit: critics found itsentimental, offensively cloth-eared about the significance of survivor status or, in the worst reviews, both. Kristen Stewart's The Chronology of Water, a young woman's tortured story of survival, was emotionally raw but formally complex – all rapid cuts, odd angles and muddled timescales – in a way that puts it out of the running for multiplex play. The most warmly received was Urchin by Harris Dickinson – the beefcake boy from Triangle of Sadness – whose film featured a bravura performance by Frank Dillane as a London street-dweller. Definitely watch out for that one. Political realities Robert De Niro set the tone for this year's festival on opening night, where he used his acceptance speech for an honorary Palme d'Or to have a dig at the ' philistine president ' of the United States where people 'are fighting like hell for the democracy we once took for granted'. President Donald Trump's mooted 100 per cent tariffs on films 'made in foreign lands' didn't seem to dampen the market, which exists to sell films internationally and enable co-production deals. But it drew scorn from director Wes Anderson in a press conference for his typically whimsical film The Phoenician Scheme. 'The tariff is fascinating because of the 100 per cent. I feel this means Trump is saying he's going to take all the money,' he mused acidly. He also wondered whether a movie could be held up in customs. 'I feel it doesn't ship that way.' Cannes continued to declare its support for Ukraine, including an entire day of documentaries about its continuing resistance to the Russian invasion, while more than 900 actors and filmmakers signed an open letter condemning the continuing Israeli onslaught on Gaza, declaring themselves 'ashamed' of their industry's 'passivity' in the face of the siege. On the opening night, Jury president Juliette Binoche paid tribute to photojournalist Fatima Hassouna, who was killed in an Israeli air strike the day after learning that a documentary about her work, Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk, had been chosen to screen in Cannes. Hassouna's portrait hung in the press room for the festival's duration. But perhaps the most vivid political presence was Julian Assange, who posed for the cameras wearing a white T-shirt inscribed 'Stop Israel' and bearing the names of 4986 Palestinian children killed in Gaza. He was in Cannes to support Eugene Jarecki's documentary about his work, The Six Billion Dollar Man. Cannes craziness Loading Before the power failure, the biggest disaster on the Croisette came right at the beginning, when tumultuous winds blew down one of the Riviera beach's famous palm trees, injuring a passing Japanese producer. The natural world isn't usually much of a felt presence in Cannes, but there was a more cheerful story about one of the biggest luxury hotels, the Majestic, employing a falconer and team of hawks to chase away seagulls that dive-bomb celebrity plates and have been known to make off with entire lobsters. Shark attack Australia didn't have a film in competition, but Sean Byrne's bloody genre romp Dangerous Animals had a triumphant showing in the parallel program of the Directors' Fortnight before its release in Australia next month. Women screamed as Jai Courtney, playing an ocker villain obsessed with shark behaviour, dangled his kidnapped shark bait over the side of his tour boat.
Sydney Morning Herald
25-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Sydney Morning Herald
Arson, dissidents and jabs at Trump: The biggest moments from the 78th Cannes Film Festival
Overall, it was a good festival for young women. The Dardenne brothers' Young Mothers, about a group of girls in a Belgian shelter for single mothers, won best script. The Little Sister star Nadia Melliti won best actress for her portrayal of a teenage girl in a traditional Moroccan family living in France who realises she is attracted to women. And the superb German film Sound of Falling by Mascha Schilinski, about four women living in different eras on a remote farm, shared the jury prize with Sirat, by French director Oliver Laxe, which kicks off at a rave in the Moroccan desert, where the drugged-up dancers have little idea that war is on the doorstep. And so much more that was worth seeing, even if it didn't win anything. Keep eyes peeled for Julie Ducournau's Alpha, her follow-up to Titane and just as confrontingly weird; Romería, Carla Simon's semi-autobiographical search for the story of her parents, who died of AIDS in '80s Spain; and the glorious Nouvelle Vague, Richard Linklater's French-language imagining of the making of Jean-Luc Godard's pivotal film Breathless. Watching young French actor Guillaume Marbeck as Godard, permanently behind sunglasses and smoking like a tramp steamer, was one of Cannes' greatest pleasures. Trading places Three debut films by big-name actors screened in various sections of the festival: enough to constitute a trend. Scarlett Johansson's Eleanor the Great, starring 95-year-old June Squibb as an American-born Jew who passes herself off as a Holocaust survivor to make new friends, was not a hit: critics found itsentimental, offensively cloth-eared about the significance of survivor status or, in the worst reviews, both. Kristen Stewart's The Chronology of Water, a young woman's tortured story of survival, was emotionally raw but formally complex – all rapid cuts, odd angles and muddled timescales – in a way that puts it out of the running for multiplex play. The most warmly received was Urchin by Harris Dickinson – the beefcake boy from Triangle of Sadness – whose film featured a bravura performance by Frank Dillane as a London street-dweller. Definitely watch out for that one. Political realities Robert De Niro set the tone for this year's festival on opening night, where he used his acceptance speech for an honorary Palme d'Or to have a dig at the ' philistine president ' of the United States where people 'are fighting like hell for the democracy we once took for granted'. President Donald Trump's mooted 100 per cent tariffs on films 'made in foreign lands' didn't seem to dampen the market, which exists to sell films internationally and enable co-production deals. But it drew scorn from director Wes Anderson in a press conference for his typically whimsical film The Phoenician Scheme. 'The tariff is fascinating because of the 100 per cent. I feel this means Trump is saying he's going to take all the money,' he mused acidly. He also wondered whether a movie could be held up in customs. 'I feel it doesn't ship that way.' Cannes continued to declare its support for Ukraine, including an entire day of documentaries about its continuing resistance to the Russian invasion, while more than 900 actors and filmmakers signed an open letter condemning the continuing Israeli onslaught on Gaza, declaring themselves 'ashamed' of their industry's 'passivity' in the face of the siege. On the opening night, Jury president Juliette Binoche paid tribute to photojournalist Fatima Hassouna, who was killed in an Israeli air strike the day after learning that a documentary about her work, Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk, had been chosen to screen in Cannes. Hassouna's portrait hung in the press room for the festival's duration. But perhaps the most vivid political presence was Julian Assange, who posed for the cameras wearing a white T-shirt inscribed 'Stop Israel' and bearing the names of 4986 Palestinian children killed in Gaza. He was in Cannes to support Eugene Jarecki's documentary about his work, The Six Billion Dollar Man. Cannes craziness Loading Before the power failure, the biggest disaster on the Croisette came right at the beginning, when tumultuous winds blew down one of the Riviera beach's famous palm trees, injuring a passing Japanese producer. The natural world isn't usually much of a felt presence in Cannes, but there was a more cheerful story about one of the biggest luxury hotels, the Majestic, employing a falconer and team of hawks to chase away seagulls that dive-bomb celebrity plates and have been known to make off with entire lobsters. Shark attack Australia didn't have a film in competition, but Sean Byrne's bloody genre romp Dangerous Animals had a triumphant showing in the parallel program of the Directors' Fortnight before its release in Australia next month. Women screamed as Jai Courtney, playing an ocker villain obsessed with shark behaviour, dangled his kidnapped shark bait over the side of his tour boat.
Mint
24-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Mint
Cannes: Palme DOr goes to Jafar Panahis It Was Just An Accident, Joachim Triers Sentimental Value wins Grand Prix award; check out full list of winners
Cannes [France], May 25 (ANI): Iranian director Jafar Panahi accepted the Palme d'Or for "It Was Just an Accident," a film directly inspired by his time in prison at the 78th Cannes Film Festival. Panahi's film is filled with equal parts absurdist humour and rage, following five characters who believe they have identified the prosecutor who tortured them during their own detention, but because they were all blindfolded in jail, no one is confident their captor is the same man, reported Variety. The awards ceremony unfolded more or less as planned on a turbulent last day for the otherwise calm event, which was hit with a power blackout mid-morning -- a massive regional outage that disrupted screenings and caused general confusion among attendees. Fortunately, the festival had backup generators running, ensuring that the show would go on at the Palais, where jury president Juliette Binoche and eight other film artists took the stage to present their awards, reported Variety. Neon also co-produced the Grand Prix winner, Norwegian director Joachim Trier's layered family drama "Sentimental Value," about a difficult filmmaker attempting to reconcile with his estranged daughter by casting her in his most personal film to date -- an offer she can't help but interpret as the man's most egotistical gesture yet. Accepting the award, Trier thanked Cannes for fostering a place "where we can identify with each other in contemplation, in empathy," adding, "I don't think art is just something you do for purpose or understanding. We don't know why we do it. It's something I watch my small children do. They sing and dance before they can speak. But it's another language, it could be a language of unification." "Little Sister" star Nadia Melliti won the best actress prize. Best actor honours went to Wagner Moura for "The Secret Agent," in which he plays a father who disguises his identity in an attempt to evade assassination during Brazil's military dictatorship. Kleber Mendonca Filho won best director for the same film, as per the outlet. Alice Rohrwacher presented the Camera d'Or trophy for first feature to "The President's Cake" director Hasan Hadi, who accepted the first award ever presented to an Iraqi film in Cannes, reported Variety. In addition to Binoche, this year's majority-female jury included Italian actress Alba Rohrwacher, Indian filmmaker Payal Kapadia, French-Moroccan writer Leila Slimani, American stars Halle Berry and Jeremy Strong, South Korean auteur Hong Sangsoo, Mexican director Carlos Reygadas and Congolese filmmaker Dieudo Hamadi. Full list of prizes below. COMPETITIONPalme d'Or: "It Was Just an Accident," Jafar Panahi Grand Prix: "Sentimental Value," Joachim Trier Director: Kleber Mendonca Filho, "The Secret Agent" Actor: Wagner Moura, "The Secret Agent" Actress: Nadia Melliti, "Little Sister" Jury Prize -- TIE: "Sirat," Olivier Laxe AND "Sound of Falling," Mascha Schilinski Special Award (Prix Special): "Resurrection," Bi Gan Screenplay: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, "Young Mothers" OTHER PRIZESCamera d'Or: "The President's Cake," Hasan Hadi Camera d'Or Special Mention: "My Fther's Shadow," Akinola Davies Jr. Short Film Palme d'Or: "I'm Glad You're Dead Now," Tawfeek Barhom Short Film Special Mention: "Ali," Adnan Al Rajeev Golden Eye Documentary Prize: "Imago," Deni Oumar Pitsaev Golden Eye Special Jury Prize: "The Six Billion Dollar Man," Eugene Jarecki Queer Palm: "Little Sister," Hafsia Heerzi Palme Dog: Panda, "The Love That Remains" FIPRESCI Award (Competition): "The Secret Agent," Kleber Mendonca Filho FIPRESCI Award (Un Certain Regard): "Urchin," Harris Dickinson FIPRESCI Award (Parallel Sections): "Dandelion's Odyssey," Momoko Seto UN CERTAIN REGARDUn Certain Regard Award: "The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo," Diego Cespedes Jury Prize: "A Poet," Simon Mesa Soto Best Director Prize: Tarzan and Arab Nasser, "Once Upon a Time in Gaza" Performance Awards: Cleo Diara, "I Only Rest in the Storm"; Frank Dillane, "Urchin" Best Screenplay: Harry Lighton, "Pillion" Special Mention: "Norah," Tawfik Alzaidi DIRECTORS' FORTNIGHTEuropa Cinemas Label: "Wild Foxes," Valery Carnoy Society of Dramatic Authors and Composers Prize: "Wild Foxes," Valery Carnoy Audience Choice Award: "The President's Cake," Hasan Hadi CRITICS' WEEKGrand Prize: "A Useful Ghost," Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke French Touch Prize: "Imago," Deni Oumar Pitsaev GAN Foundation Award for Distribution: Le Pacte, "Left-Handed Girl" Louis Roederer Foundation Rising Star Award: Theodore Pellerin, "Nino" Leitz Cine Discovery Prize (short film): "L'mina," Randa Maroufi Society of Dramatic Authors and Composers Prize: Guillermo Galoe and Victor Alonso-Berbel, "Sleepless City" Canal Short Film Award: "Erogenesis," Xandra Popescu (ANI)
