21-05-2018

FNE at Cannes 2018: Cannes Prize Winners

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    CANNES: The 71st  Cannes Film Festival held from 9 to 20 May awarded its top prize the Palme d’Or to the Japanese film Shoplifters directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda. Poland scored twice in the main competition prize lineup with Cold War, a Polish/UK/French coproduction that won the Best Director prize for Pawel Pawlikowski, and as a coproducer of Ayka directed by Sergey Dvortsevoy, which won a prize for Samal Yeslyamova as Best Actress.

    Paweł PawlikowskiRomania was a coproducer of the Sergei Loznitsa’s Donbass (Germany, France, Ukraine, Romania, Netherlands, UK), which won the Best Director prize in the Certain Regard.

    The FIPRESCI International Critics awarded its top prize for best film in the main competition to Burning (South Korea) directed by Lee Chang-Dong.

    The FNE FIPRESCI Critics ratings for the main Competition, Certain Regard, Directors’ Fortnight and Critics Week can be seen HERE.

    Main Competition

    Feature Films

    Palme d'Or
    Shoplifters (Japan)
    Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda

    Special Palme d'Or
    The Image Book (Switzerland, France)
    Directed by Jean-Luc Godard

    Grand Prix (USA)
    BlacKkKlansman
    Directed by Spike Lee

    Best Director
    Pawel Pawlikowski for Cold War (Poland, UK, France)
    Produced by Apocalypso Pictures, Opus Film, MK Productions
    Supported by Polish Film Institute
    Sales: MK2 Films, Protagonist Pictures

    Best Actress
    Samal Yeslyamova for Ayka (Russia, Poland, Germany, Kazakhstan, China)
    Directed by Russian Sergey Dvortsevoy
    Coproduced by Otter Films in Poland
    Supported in the Polish Film Institute

    Best Actor
    Marcello Fonte for Dogman (Italy, France)
    Directed by Matteo Garrone

    Best Screenplay (ex-aequo)
    Alice Rohrwacher for Happy as Lazzaro (Italy, Switzerland, France, Germany)
    Directed by Alice Rohrwacher
    and
    Jafar Panahi for Three Faces (Iran)
    Directed by Jafar Panahi

    Jury Prize
    Capharnaüm (Lebanon, France)
    Directed by Nadine Labaki

    Caméra d'Or
    Girl (Belgium, Netherlands)
    Directed by Lukas Dhont

    Palme d'Or for Best Short Film
    All These Creatures (Australia)
    Directed by Charles Williams

    Special Mention
    On the Border (China)
    Directed by Wei Shujun

    Camera D’Or
    Girl (Belgium, Netherlands)
    Directed by Lukas Dhont

    Vulcain Prize for Artist-Technician
    Shin Joom-Hee for Burning (South Korea)
    Directed by Lee Chang-Dong

    Golden Eye (Best Documentary)
    Samouni Road (Italy)
    Directed by Stafano Savona

    Special Mention
    The Eyes of Orson Welles (UK)
    Directed by Mark Cousins
    And
    To the Four Winds (France)
    Directed by Michel Toesca

    Certain Regard

    Best Film
    Border (Sweden, Denmark)
    Directed by Ali Abbasi

    Best Screenplay
    Meryem Benm’Barek for Sofia (France, Belgium, Qatar)
    Directed by Meryem Benm'barek

    Jury Prize for Best Performance
    Victor Polster for Girl (Belgium, Netherlands)
    Directed by Lukas Dhont

    Best Director
    Sergei Loznitsa for Donbass (Germany, France, Ukraine, Romania, Netherlands, UK)
    Produced by Ma.ja.de. Fiction in coproduction with Ukraine’s Arthouse Traffic, France’s JBA Production, Dutch Graniet Film, Dutch Wild at Art, Romania’s Digital Cube, associate producer Atoms & Void
    Supported by Eurimages and the CNC’s World Cinema Support
    Sales: Pyramide International

    Special Jury Prize
    The Dead and the Others (Brazil, Portugal)
    Directed by João Salaviza, Renée Nader Messora

    Cinefondation

    First Prize
    The Summer of the Electric Lion / El verano del león electric (Chile)
    Directed by Diego Céspedes

    Second Prize (ex-aequo)
    Kalendar (Russia)
    Directed by Igor Poplauhin
    And
    The Storms In Our Blood / Dong wu xiong meng (China)
    Directed by Shen Di

    Third Prize
    Inanimate (UK)
    Directed by Lucia Bulgheroni

    Directors Fortnight

    Europa Cinemas Label
    Lucia’s Grace (Italy)
    Directed by Gianni Zanasi

    SACD Award
    The Trouble With You (France)
    Directed by Pierre Salvadori

    Art Cinema Award
    Climax (France, Belgium)
    Directed by Gaspar Noé

    Short Film Award
    Skip Day (USA)
    Directed by Ivete Lucas, Patrick Bresnan

    Critics Week

    Nespresso Grand Prize
    Diamantino (Portugal, France, Brazil)
    Directed by Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt

    Leica Cine Discovery Prize for Short Film
    Hector Malot: The Last Day of the Year (Greece)
    Directed by Jacqueline Lentzou

    Louis Roederer Foundation Rising Star Award
    Félix Maritaud for Sauvage (France)
    Directed by Camille Vidal-Naquet

    Gan Foundation Award for Distribution
    Sir (India, France)
    Directed by Rohena Gera

    SACD Award
    Woman at War (Iceland, France, Ukraine)
    Directed by Benedikt Erlingsson, Ólafur Egill Egilsson

    Canal+ Award for Short Film
    A Wedding Day (Algeria, France)
    Directed by Elias Belkeddar

    FIPRESCI Awards

    FIPRESCI Prize in the Competition
    Burning (South Korea)
    Directed by Lee Chang-Dong

    FIPRESCI Prize in Un Certain Regard
    Girl (Belgium, Netherlands)
    Directed by Lukas Dhont

    FIPRESCI Prize in the parallel sections
    One Day (Hungary)
    Directed by Zsófia Szilágyi

    Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
    Capharnaüm (Lebanon, France)
    Directed by Nadine Labaki

    Special Mention
    BlacKkKlansman (USA)
    Directed by Spike Lee