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Zsa Zsa Floyd, George Floyd's eldest sister, sheds a tear during a memorial service in Pearland, Texas, marking the fifth anniversary of his death on Sunday, May 25. Floyd's death sparked massive protests across the nation over police brutality. The four former police officers involved in his death were later convicted on both state and federal crimes. Callaghan O'Hare/Reuters A woman says goodbye to her 17-year-old grandson, Roman Martyniuk, during a funeral in Korostyshiv, Ukraine, on Wednesday, May 28. Martyniuk and his younger siblings Tamara and Stanislav were among those killed in Russian aerial attacks over the personnel work at the scene where a driver plowed a car into a parade in Liverpool, England, on Monday, May 26. Dozens were injured in the incident, which came as fans crammed the streets to celebrate the Liverpool Football Club's latest Premier League title. A 53-year-old man, believed to be the driver, was arrested and charged. Danny Lawson/Actress Nadia Melliti, left, receives the Best Actress award from actor Daniel Auteuil during the closing ceremony of the Cannes Film Festival in France on Saturday, May 24. Melliti won for her part in the film "La Petite dernière" ("The Little Sister'). Antonin Thuillier/AFP/Getty Images Ximena Arias-Cristobal returns home to her family on Thursday, May 22, after spending two weeks in a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center in Stewart County, Georgia. The 19-year-old college student was wrongfully pulled over for a traffic violation, and charges against her were dropped. But she was detained by ICE after it was found that she was an undocumented immigrant. She was released on bond, but she still faces possible deportation, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Miguel Martinez/Atlanta Journal-Constitution/AP Palestinians in Rafah, Gaza, carry boxes and bags containing food and humanitarian aid packages delivered by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a US-backed organization approved by Israel, on Thursday, May 29. Aid distribution efforts in Gaza devolved into chaos during the first days of a controversial new mechanism backed by the United States and Israel. According to the Palestinian health ministry, 11 people have been killed and dozens injured as crowds of desperate people arrived at distribution sites in southern Gaza since they opened earlier this week. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation said on Thursday that no one was killed or injured during the distribution of aid. Mariam Dagga/AP Tennis legend Rafael Nadal waves to the crowd as he is honored at the French Open in Paris on Sunday, May 25. The Spaniard, who won a record 14 French Open titles, retired from tennis last year. Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP/Getty Images Rosie Weaver leans against the headstone of her husband, US Army Spc. Michael Weaver, after a Memorial Day ceremony in Holly Township, Michigan, on Sunday, May 25. Ayrton Breckenridge/The Flint Journal/AP People compete in the Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake competition near Brockworth, England, on Monday, May 26. It's been described as the world's most dangerous race, and it's certainly one of the most ridiculous — a 200-yard dash after a wheel of Double Gloucester cheese. Isabel Infantes/Reuters A team of rangers from the Upemba National Park travel along the Lufira River in Kasenga, Democratic Republic of Congo, on Thursday, May 22. Upemba is one of Africa's oldest national parks and home to many vulnerable species. HughUS President Donald Trump arrives at the Morristown Municipal Airport in Morristown, New Jersey, on Friday, May 23. The next day, he gave the commencement speech at the US Military Academy in West Point, New York. Nathan Howard/Reuters A huge chunk of a glacier in the Alps broke off on Wednesday, May 28, burying part of the mountain village of Blatten, Switzerland. The village was evacuated earlier this month, authorities said. Alexandre Agrusti/AFP/Getty Images This wide-field composite image shows a newly discovered cosmic object called ASKAP J1832-0911 in X-ray, radio and infrared light. Astronomers say the astonishing celestial object, about 15,000 light-years from Earth, is emitting bright flashes of radio waves and X-rays that last for two minutes and repeat every 44 minutes. NASA/CXC/SAO/N. Wolk/Handout/Reuters Volunteer divers from the environmental group Aegean Rebreath gather waste from the bottom of the seabed at the port of Votsi, on the Greek island of Alonissos, on Saturday, May 24. Stelios Misinas/Reuters Liverpool star Mohamed Salah has the lid of the Premier League trophy put on his head as he and his teammates celebrate their title in Liverpool, England, on Sunday, May Birger wipes away tears during a vigil for Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky in Overland Park, Kansas, on Thursday, May 22. Milgrim and Lischinsky, two Israeli Embassy staff members, were fatally shot last week after leaving an event at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, DC. Charlie Riedel/AP A man holds a Polish flag during a march in Warsaw, Poland, showing support for presidential candidate Rafal Trzaskowski on Sunday, May 25. Trzaskowski and Karol Nawrocki will face off in a second round of the election on June 1. Volha Shukaila/SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty Images
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
Gulf Today
25-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Gulf Today
Cannes best actress Melliti is football player spotted in street
Nadia Melliti, who won best actress at the Cannes Festival on Saturday for her first-ever role in a film, is a French student and amateur football player who was spotted in the street. Melliti beat Hollywood stars Jennifer Lawrence and Elle Fanning to the award, with many critics also lauding Japanese child revelation Yui Suzuki in "Renoir." Before walking the red carpet for the premiere of Hafsia Herzi's "The Little Sister," she was preparing for exams. In the coming-of-age tale, she plays 17-year-old Fatima, a Muslim girl in Paris struggling with her identity and religion as she explores her homosexuality. "I've never done any theatre or cinema," she told AFP. Nadia Melliti (R) poses with French director and screenwriter Hafsia Herzi during a photocall with her trophy during the closing ceremony. AFP But she said she immediately empathised with the character when she read the script, based on a partly autobiographical novel of the same name by French writer Fatima Daas. "I identified hugely with Fatima, her surroundings and origins. My mother hails from an immigrant background," she said. "My roots are Algerian. I also have sisters." Melliti said she specifically related to the film's theme of "emancipation" in the film. Nadia Melliti speaks on stage after she was awarded with the Best Actress Prize for her part in the film "La Petite derniere" ("The Little Sister," alternatively called "The Last One"). AFP "When I was younger I wanted to play football. I still do today," said the actor. "I wanted to take up the sport, one people say is masculine and in which men are overrepresented." "And when I took that home, there was this emancipation — even if for Fatima it was different, more linked to her intellect and sexuality," she added. 'I hope you are very proud' Melliti said she couldn't believe her luck when she was spotted by a casting agent in the street near a large shopping mall in central Paris. "I was walking in the street and (she) called out to me," she said. At first "I thought she was a tourist and I wondered if my English would be up to scratch." Melliti was visibly moved as she received the prize in Cannes. "I have such a feeling gushing through me right now. I can't describe it but it's really incredible," she said as the director — an award-winning actor herself for films like "The Secret of the Grain" — sobbed in the audience. "Thank you Mum. I know you're watching and I hope you are very proud and happy," Melliti said. Agence France-Presse
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.
