At this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Anasuya Dasgupta became the first Indian actor to win the Un Certain Regard prize for best actress award at the festival. Chidananda S. Naik’s Sunflowers Were the First to Know won the first prize of La Cinef for the best short. Director Maisam Ali’s In Retreat was the first Indian film to be screened at ACID Cannes sidebar programme since its inception in 1993. After being selected as the first Indian film in the competition section in 30 years, All We Imagine As Light made history when it won the Grand Prix Award. Cinematographer Santosh Sivan also received the prestigious Pierre Angénieux tribute at the Festival.
MAIN COMPETITION
Palme d’Or: Anora by Sean Baker
Grand Prix: All We Imagine as Light by Payal Kapadia
Director: Miguel Gomes for Grand Tour
Actor: Jesse Plemons for Kinds of Kindness
Actresses: Selena Gomez, Zoe Saldaña, Karla Sofía Gascón and Adriana Paz for Emilia Pérez
Jury Prize: Emilia Pérez
Special Award (Prix Spécial): Mohammad Rasoulof for The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Screenplay: Coralie Fargeat for The Substance
UN CERTAIN REGARD
Un Certain Regard Award: Black Dog by Guan Hu
Jury Prize: The Story of Souleymane by Boris Lojkine
Best Director Prize: The Damned by Roberto Minervini; On Becoming a Guinea Fowl by Rungano Nyoni
Performance Awards: Anasuya Sengupta in The Shameless; Abou Sangare in The Story of Souleymane
Youth Prize: Holy Cow! (Vingt Dieux), Louise Courvoisier
Special Mention: Norah, Tawfik Alzaidi
DIRECTORS’ FORTNIGHT
Europa Cinemas Label: The Other Way Around, Jonás Trueba
Society of Dramatic Authors and Composers Prize: This Life of Mine, Sophie Fillières
Audience Choice Award: Universal Language, Matthew Rankin
OTHER PRIZES
Camera d’Or: Armand by Halfdan Ullman Tondel
Camera d’Or Special Mention: Mongrel by Chiang Wei Liang and You Qiao Yin
Short Film Palme d’Or: The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent by Nebojša Slijepčević
Short Film Special Mention: Bad for a Moment by Daniel Soares
Golden Eye Documentary Prize: Ernest Cole: Lost and Found and The Brink of Dreams
Queer Palm: Three Kilometers to the End of the World