70th Festival de Cannes- The Square directed by Ruben OSTLUND won the prestigious Palm d'or .

The Jury presided by Pedro Almodóvar, has announced the  prize-winners of the 70th edition of the festival during the Awards Ceremony. Monica Bellucci welcomed the prize-givers and winners onto the stage of the Grand Théâtre Lumière. The President of the Jury and the French actress Juliette Binoche, had the honour of awarding the Palme d’or to the best of the nineteen films in Competition.                                         PALME D'OR THE SQUARE by Ruben ÖSTLUND*

70th Anniversary Award Nicole KIDMAN GRAND PRIX 120 BATTEMENTS PAR MINUTE (BPM – Beats Per Minute) by Robin CAMPILLO BEST DIRECTOR   Sofia COPPOLA for THE BEGUILED BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR Joaquin PHOENIX in YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE by Lynne RAMSAY BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS Diane KRUGER in AUS DEM NICHTS (In The Fade) by Fatih AKIN JURY PRIZE NELYUBOV (Loveless) by Andrey ZVYAGINTSEV BEST SCREENPLAY EX-ÆQUO Yorgos LANTHIMOS and Efthimis FILIPPOU for THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER Lynne RAMSAY for YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE

SHORT FILMS

PALME D'OR XIAO CHENG ER YUE (A Gentle Night) by QIU Yang MENTION DISTINCTION BY THE JURY KATTO (The Ceiling) by Teppo AIRAKSINEN

CAMÉRA D'OR

JEUNE FEMME (Montparnasse Bienvenüe) by Léonor SERRAILLE presented at UN CERTAIN REGARD

The CST Jury decided to award the VULCAIN PRIZE FOR ARTIST-TECHNICIAN to: Josefin ASBERG for her remarkable artistic contribution to match the inventiveness of the film THE SQUARE. THE SQUARE by Ruben ÖSTLUND, Palme d’or, was screened at the end of the Awards Ceremony to close this 70th edition of the Festival.This film  was added to the selection of the 70th Festival de Cannes ,Competition. (Courtesy: News Letter,Festival de Cannes)

70th Festival de Cannes -Un Certain Regard Prize announced

A MAN OF INTEGRITY  DIRECTED BY MOHAMMAD RASOULOF Won the UN CERTAIN REGARD” PRIZE Under the presidency of Uma Thurman (actress - United States), the Jury was comprised of Mohamed Diab (director - Egypt), Reda Kateb (actor - France), Joachim Lafosse (director - Belgium) and Karel Och (artistic director of the Karlovy Vary Film Festival – Czech Republic). Un Certain Regard 2017 presented in competition 18 films hailing from 22 different countries. 6 of the works were first films. The Opening film was Barbara  by Mathieu Amalric.  “We feel enormous gratitude to have had the honor of serving on the Jury for this historic 70th anniversary of the Festival de Cannes. We are proud to present an esthetically diverse and beautiful awards list for Un Certain Regard.“ - The Jury  PRIZE FOR BEST ACTRESS JASMINE TRINCA for FORTUNATA by Sergio Castellitto  PRIZE FOR THE BEST POETIC NARRATIVE BARBARA de Mathieu Amalric  PRIZE FOR BEST DIRECTION   Taylor Sheridan for WIND RIVER  JURY PRIZE LAS HIJAS DE ABRIL (APRIL’S DAUGHTER) by Michel Franco

70th Festival de Cannes: The Critics(FIPRESCI ) Awards

The FIPRESCI Jury awarded three prizes: two in the Official Selection – one for the Competition and one for "Un Certain Regard" –, and a third one for either "The Critics Week" or the "Directors' Fortnight". Under the presidency of Alissa Simon, USA the FIPRESCI jury including Thomas Aïdan, France; Rodrigo Fonseca, Brazil; Barbara Lorey de Lacharriere, France; Pierre Pageau, Canada; Eva Peydró, Spain; Silvana Silvestri, Italy; Mode Steinkjer, Norway; Vidyashankar Jois, India. Coordination: Pamela Biénzobas, France/Chile decided the prizes as follows:

Prize in the Official Selection / Competition:
"120 Beats Per Minute" (BPM – Beats Per Minute / 120 battements par minute)
by Robin Campillo (France, 2017, 140 min),

 "A film about love. A film about life. Life stronger than death. A film as a glimpse of hope."

 

Prize in the Official Selection / Un Certain Regard:
"Closeness" (Tesnota) by Kantemir Balagov (Russia, 2017, 118 min),
"A striking new voice provides an intimate portrait of a closed community. Complete cinema."Prize to a first or second film in the parallel sections,  

Directors' Fortnight or La Semaine de la Critique:
"The Nothing Factory" (A fábrica de nada) by Pedro Pinho (Portugal, 2017, 177 min), presented in the "Directors' Fortnight",
"An evocative activist film that blows the boundaries between reality, fiction, theater an sociological discourse leading to an unsettling and provocative cinematic experience."

70th Festival de Cannes 2017-20th Cinéfondation Selection

The Winners of the 20th Cinefoundation Selection. 

The Cinéfondation and Short Films Jury headed by Cristian Mungiu and including Clotilde Hesme, Athina Rachel Tsangari, Barry Jenkins and Eric Khoo, has awarded the 2017 Cinéfondation Prizes during a ceremony held in the Buñuel Theatre, followed by the screening of the winning films.
The Cinéfondation Selection consisted of 16 student films, chosen out of 2 600 entries coming from 626 film schools around the world.

First Prize

PAUL EST LÀ (Paul Is Here)
directed by Valentina MAUREL
INSAS, Belgium
 

Second Prize

HEYVAN (AniMal)
directed by Bahram & Bahman ARK
Iranian National School of Cinema, Iran

Third Prize

DEUX ÉGARÉS SONT MORTS (Two Youths Died)
directed by Tommaso USBERTI
La Fémis, France

          
Awards

The Cinéfondation allocates a €15,000 grant for the First Prize, €11,250 for the Second and €7,500 for the Third.
The winner of the First Prize is also guaranteed the presentation of his/her first feature film at the Festival de Cannes.

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The awarded films will be screened at the Cinéma du Panthéon on May 30^th at 7 p.m.

All the films of the Cinéfondation selection will be screened at the Cinémathèque française on May 31^st and June 1^st.