Official poster of the 77th Cannes Film Festival

Featuring a still image from the movie Rhapsody in August by Akira Kurosawa.

The 77th Cannes Film Festival from a French perspective

The Cannes Film Festival, established in 1946, held yearly in Cannes (France) showcases new films of various genres from all around the globe. This event takes place each May at the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès and is accessible mainly by invitation.

This international film festival allows France and its film industry to shine around the world. Every year, many French personalities are present and play an important role.

This year

French actress Camille Cottin hosted the opening and closing ceremonies.

2 of the 9 personalities on the jury for Feature Films category were French actors: Omar Sy, Eva Green. Other French personalities and industry professionals were members of the jury in the others categories.

The film L’Amour ouf (Beating Hearts), a musical rom-com that whisks Adèle Exarchopoulos and François Civil away on a heady, twenty-year romantic odyssey was in competition. The film had been eagerly anticipated, particularly due to its budget exceeding 35 million dollars, its lengthy three-hour duration, and the fact that it marked Gilles Lellouche's second directorial endeavor. Unfortunately, it failed to secure any awards.

The French film director Jacques Audiard won the Jury Award and Best performance by an actress Award for his movie Emilia Pérez.

The French film director Coralie Fargeat won the Best Screenplay Award for her movie The Substance starring American actors such as Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley and Dennis Quaid.

Payal Kapadia has scripted history by becoming the first Indian filmmaker to win the Grand Prix Award for her co-production film All We Imagine as Light, an Indian, Dutch, Luxembourgish, Italian and French film.

Other minority co-productions have been awarded: Best Director Award for Grand Tour by Miguel Comes, three prizes especially Jury Special Prize and Fipresci Award from the International Federation of Film Critics for Les Graines du figuier sauvage (The Seed of the Sacred Fig) by Mohammad Rasoulof.

Among the co-produced Short Films, L'Homme qui ne se taisait pas (The man who could not remain silent) by Nebojša Slijepčević has received the Palme d'or Award. Other films were awarded in the other sections, notably L'Histoire de Souleymane: two prizes in the Un Certain Regard section, and the two films sharing the Oeil d'or (the documentary prize): Les Filles du Nil and Ernest Cole, photographe, both French co-productions.

Congratulations to them! This roster of awards exemplifies the vibrancy of French cinema with all these different films ready to hit screens worldwide.

Winners of the 77th Cannes Film Festival

                                              @Joaquim Tournebize/ FDC

Feature Films

Palme d’or

^{ANORA
Sean BAKER}

Grand Prix

^{ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT
Payal KAPADIA}

Jury Prize

^{EMILIA PÉREZ
Jacques AUDIARD}

Best Director

^{Miguel GOMES
for GRAND TOUR}

Special Award

^{MOHAMMAD RASOULOF
for THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG}

Best performance by an actor

^{Jesse PLEMONS
in KINDS OF KINDNESS directed by Yorgos LANTHIMOS}

Best performance by an actress

^{Adriana PAZ
Zoe SALDAÑA
Karla Sofía GASCÓN
Selena GOMEZ
in EMILIA PÉREZ directed by Jacques AUDIARD}

Best Screenplay

^{Coralie FARGEAT
for THE SUBSTANCE}

Short Films

Palme d’or

^{THE MAN WHO COULD NOT REMAIN SILENT
Nebojša SLIJEPČEVIĆ}

Special Mention

^{BAD FOR A MOMENT
Daniel SOARES}

Un Certain Regard

Un Certain Regard Prize

^{BLACK DOG
Guan Hu}

Jury Prize

^{L’HISTOIRE DE SOULEYMANE
Boris Lojkine}

Best Director ex-aequo

^{ROBERTO MINERVINI
The Damned
RUNGANO NYONI
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl}

Best Actress

^{ANASUYA SENGUPTA
The Shameless}

Best Actor

^{ABOU SANGARÉ
L’Histoire de Souleymane}

Youth Award

^{HOLY COW
Louise Courvoisier
1st film}

Special mention 

^{NORAH
Tawfik Alzaidi
1st film}

La Cinef

First Prize

^{SUNFLOWERS WERE THE FIRST ONES TO KNOW…
Chidananda S Naik
FTII, Pune, India}

Joint Second Prize

^{OUT THE WINDOW THROUGH THE WALL
Asya Segalovich
Columbia University, United StatesTHE CHAOS SHE LEFT BEHIND
Nikos Kolioukos
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece}

Third Prize

^{BUNNYHOOD
Mansi Maheshwari
NFTS, United Kingdom}

Caméra d’or

Caméra d’or Prize

^{ARMAND
HALFDAN ULLMANN TØNDEL
Un Certain Regard}

Special Mention

^{MONGREL
WEI LIANG CHIANG & YOU QIAO YIN
Quinzaine des Cinéastes}