The 78th Festival de Cannes winners’ list!

Winners of the Cannes Film Festival, Photos are courtesy of the Cannes film Festival

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.

Credits: Courtesy of Cannes Film Festival.

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