Cannes Film Festival 2025 winner: full list

The 78th Film Festival in Cannes brought a turbulent world through the cinema and mainly drove, although he organized a day with films at the beginning and provocative films from Israel and Gaza in various sections. This means that they count the massive electricity consumption that hit the entire region on the last day of the festival, which disturbs demonstrations and causes general confusion among the festival visitors.

Fortunately, the festival for Backup generators ran and ensured that the show in the Palais would continue, where the president of the jury, Juliette Binoche, and eight other film artists to send their awards at the final ceremony. The year after an American film (“Anora”) won the Palme d’Or, the country was excluded from the awards – although the US dealer Neon had once again blocked rights for the main prize of the evening.

The Palme d’Or went to the Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi because of “it is just a accident”, a film that was made after the government had lifted the filmmaking of the dissident director. The drama is full of the same aid of anger and absurd humor and follows five characters who believe to identify the prosecutor who has tortured them in prison.

The project was informed of discussions that Panahi had held with others during his own detention. Since Panahi’s first arrest in 2010, the director has continued to make films, even if he is expressly banned (as in 2011, when Panahi settled on a flash drive to Cannes “This is no film”). The palm is an important justification for its persistence.

The Grand Prix-in reason, the second-placed person for the Palme-Ging to the Norwegian director Joachim Trier’s family drama “Sentimental Value” about the attempt by a difficult filmmaker to reconcile his alienated relationship with his daughter of actors by bringing her into his most personal film. Trier accepted the award and described art – and especially the international cinema – as an “alternative language of the association”.

“Little Sister” star Nadia Melliti won the prize for the best actress. The best actor tuition went to Wagner Moura for “The Secret Agent”, in which he plays a father who wears out his identity to educate himself during the Brazilian military dictatorship. Kleber Mendonça Filho won the best director for the same film.

In the city to support his film “Heads or Tails”? (In which he plays Buffalo Bill) John C. Reilly surprised the audience by sang “La vie en rose” with excuses in English. “Somehow something unexpected always happens when I am in Cannes,” said Reilly and presented Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardne the best script price for “young mothers”.

The Jury Prize was divided between the Spanish director Olivier Laxe for “Sirat” and “Sound of Falling” by the German Helmer Mascha Schilinski, which is probably the two most original voices in this year’s competition.

The jury also gave the Chinese director Bi Gan a special prize for “resurrection”.

Alice Rohrwacher presented the camera d’Or trophy for the first feature “The President’s Cake”, Hasan Hadi, who has accepted the first award that was ever given to an Iraqi film in Cannes.

In addition to Binoche, this year’s legal jury belonged to the majority, the Italian actress Alba Rohrwacher, the Indian filmmaker Payal Kapadia, French-Moroccan writer Leïla Slimani, the American stars Halle Berry and the South Korean author Hong Sangso, the Mexican director Carlos Reygadas and Congolese film.

Full list of prices below.

COMPETITION

Palme d’Or: “It was just an accident,” Jafar Panahi

Grand Prix: “Sentimental value”, Joachim Trier

Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho, “The Secret Agent”

Actor: Wagner Moura, “The Secret Agent”

Actress: Nadia Melliti, “Little Sister”

Jury Price – Tie: “Sirat”, Olivier Laxe and “Sound of Falling”, Mascha Schilinski

Special award ((Prix ​​Spécial): “Resurrection”, Bi Gan

Script: TBA

Other prices

Camera d’Or: “The President’s cake”, Hasan Hadi

Camera d’o or special mention: “The shadow of my FTHER”, Akinola Davies Jr.

Short film Palme d’Or: “I am glad that you are dead now”

Short film special mention: “Ali”, Adnan al Rajeev

Golden Eye Documentary Prize: “Imago”, Déni Oummar Pitsaev

Golden Eye Special Jury Prize: “The six billion dollar man”, Eugene Jarecki

Queer Palm: “Little Sister”, Hafsia Heerzi

Palm dog: Panda, “Love, she stays”

Fipresci Award (competition): “The Secret Agent”, Kleber Mendonça Filho

Fipresci Award (uncertain consideration): “Undin”, Harris Dickinson

Fipresci Award (parallel sections): “Dandelions Odyssey”, Momoko Seto

And certain consideration

Un certain respect award: “The mysterious view of the Flamingo”

Jury Price: “A poet”, Simón Mesa Soto

Best director prize: Tarzan and Arabs Nasser, “It was once in Gaza”

Performance Awards: Cléo Diara, “I only rest in the storm”; Frank Dillane, “Ururchin”

Best script: Harry Lighton, “Socius”

Special mention: “Norah”, Tawfik Alzaidi

Fourteen days of directors

Europe Cinemas Label: “Wild Foxes”, Valéry Carnoy

Society of Dramatic Authors and Composer Prize: “Wild Foxes”, Valéry Carnoy

Award of the audience selection: “The President’s cake”, Hasan Hadi

Week the critic

Main prize: “A useful spirit”, Ratchaapoom Bonbunchoke

French touch price: “Imago”, Déni Oummar Pitsaev

Gan Foundation Award for Sales: Le Pacte, “left -handed girl”

The Louis Roederer Foundation Rising Star Award: Théodore Pellerin, “Nino”

Leitz Cine Discovery Prize (short film): “L’ina”, Randa Maroufi

Society of Dramatic Authors and Composer Prize: Guillermo Galoe and Victor Alonso-Berbel, “Sleepless City”

Channel+ Short Film Prize: “Erogenese”, Xandra Popescu

Ein diver competition

“From dust”, Michel van of the AA