71th Festival de Cannes Award Winners

Watching red carpet, soon the top prizes of Cannes 2018.



Saturday May 19th Morning Update:  Un Certain Regard winners,  Queer Palm winners and more ...

Today AFP gives us the most interesting news as this year will be the first time in 71 years of the festival where those Cannes main awards that used to receive diplomas will receive a mini-palmes d'or!

Will update post with more awards as soon as they announce them around noon.  Tonight is the awards ceremony and post will become final when the ceremony and the festival are over.  Sigh.





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Friday May 18th Morning Update: more awards including winners from La Quinzaine and Cinéfondation.
Friday May 18th Afternoon Update: Palm Dog award winners.  Queer Palm award ceremony is tonight; tomorrow FIPRESCI and Ecumenical Jury awards ceremony.

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5/17/18
As there are some awards already announced and one parallel section over, will start the winners post today.  Post will be in progress until the Official Awards Ceremony next Saturday.

Main Competition

Palme d'Or: 万引き家族 Manbiki Kazoku (Shoplifters), Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japan

Grand Prix: BlacKkKlansman, Spike Lee, USA
Jury Award: كفرناحوم Capharnaüm (Capernaum), Nadine Labaki, Lebanon and France

Palme d'Or Special: JLe Livre d'image (The Image Book), Jean-Luc Godard,  France

Best Director: Pawel Pawlikowski for Zimna wojna (Cold War), Poland, France and UK

Best Screenplay: (tie)
Alice Rohrwacher for Lazzaro Felice (My Bitter Land), Alice Rohrwacher, Italy, Switzerland, France and Germany
Nader Saelvar for Three Faces, Jafar Panahi, Iran

Best Actress: Samal Yeslyamova in Айка Ayka (My Little One), Sergey Dvortsevoy, Russia, Germany and Poland
Best Actor: Marcello Fonte in Dogman, Matteo Garrone, Italy and France

Camera d'Or: Girl, Lukas Dhont, Belgium and Netherlands

Short Films
Palme d'Or: All These Creatures, Charles William, Australia, 13'
Special Mention: On The Border, Wei Shujun, China, 15'

Un Certain Regard
Un Certain Regard Award: Gräns (Border), Ali Abbasi, Sweden and Denmark
Jury Special Prize: Chuva e cantoria na aldeia dos mortos (The Death and the Others), João Salaviza and Renée Nader Messor, Portugal and Brazil
Best Director: Sergey Loznitsa for Donbass, Germany, France, Ukraine, Netherlands and Romania
Best Screenplay: Meryem Benm'Barek for Sofia, Meryem Benm'Barek, France and Qatar
Best Performance: Victor Polster in Girl, Lukas Dhont, Belgium and Netherlands

Quinzaine des Réalisateurs (Directors' Fortnight)
Feature Films
SACD Award: En liberté! (The Trouble with You), Pierre Salvadori, France 
Arte Cinema Prize: Climax, Gaspar Noé, France, Belgium and USA
Label Europa Cinemas Prize: Troppa Grazia (Lucia's Grace), Gianni Zanasi, Italy, Greece and Spain
Short Films
Illy Prize: Skip Day, Ivete Lucas and Patrick Bresnan, USA and UK

Carrose d'Or: Martin Scorsese

Semaine de la Critique (Critics' Week)
Feature Films
Grand Prix: Diamantino, Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt, Portugal, France and Brazil
Rising Star Award: Félix Maritaud in Sauvage, Camille Vidal-Naquet, France
SACD Award: writers Benedikt Erlingsson and Ólafur Egill Egilsson for Kona fer í stríð (Woman at War), Benedikt Erlingsson, Iceland, France and Ukraine
GAN Foundation Support for Distribution Award: Sir, Rohena Gera, India and France
*Grand Rail d'Or:  Kona fer í stríð (Woman at War), Benedikt Erlingsson, Iceland, France and Ukraine
Short Films
Canal+ Award: Un Jour de Mariage (A Wedding Day), Elias Belkeddar, Algeria and France, 15'
Cine Discovery Prize: Ektoras Malo: I teleftea mera tis chronias (Hector Malo - The Last Day of the Year), Jaqueline Lentzoou, Greece, 23'
*Rail d'Or: Pauline asservie, Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet, France
*Audience awards.

Cinéfondation
First Prize: El verano del león eléctrico (The Summer of the Electric Lion), Diego Céspedes, Universidad de Chile - ICEI, Chile, 22'
Second Prize: (tie)
Dong Wu Xiong Meng (The Storms in Our Blood), Di Shen, Shanghai Theater Academy, China, 31'
Kalendar (Calendar), Igor Poplauhin, Moscow School of New Cinema, Russia, 28'
Third Prize: Inanimate, Lucia Bulgheroni, NFTS, UK, 8'

L'Atelier
Prix Arte International: The Color of the Skull, Sibs Shongwe-La Mer, South Africa

Collateral Awards

FIPRESCI
Main Competition: 버닝 Beoning (Burning), Chang-dong Lee, South Korea
Un Certain Regard: Girl, Lukas Dhont, Belgium and Netherlands
Semaine de la Critique: Egy Nap (One Day),  Zsófia Szilágyi, Hungary

Ecumenical Jury Award: كفرناحوم Capharnaüm (Capernaum), Nadine Labaki, Lebanon and France
Special Mention: BlacKkKlansman, Spike Lee, USA

L'Œil d'or Documentary Award: Samouni Road, Stefano Savona,  France and Italy (Quinzaine)
Special Mentions:
The Eyes of Orson Welles, Mark Cousins, UK
Libre, Michel Toesca, France

Queer Palm
Feature Film: Girl, Lukas Dhont, Belgium and Netherlands
Short Film: O Órfão (The Orphan), Carolina Markowicz, Brazil

Prix François Chalais: يوم الدين Yomeddine, A.B. Shawky, Egypt, USA and Austria
Prix Vulcain de l'artiste technicien:

Cannes Soundtrack Awards
Best Composer: Roma Zver, Grman Osipov and the groupe group for original soundtrack in Ле́то Leto (The Summer), Kirill Serebrennikov, Russia
Disque d'or d'honneur: John Travolta for making the world dance

Prix de la Meilleure Création Sonore: Gräns (Border), Ali Abbasi, Sweden and Denmark

16th Prix UniFrance Short Films
Grand Prix: Les Indes galantes, Clément Cogitore, France, 5'
Special Jury Prize: Grain de poussière, Léopold Kraus, France, 19'
Jury Prize Special Mention: Master of the Classe, Carine May and Hakim Zouhani, France, 26'
Prix Grand Action: Master of the Classe, Carine May and Hakim Zouhani, France, 26'
Prix des Diffuseurs: Artem Silendi, de Frank Ychou, France, 7'

Prix France Culture
Prix France Culture Cinéma Consécration: Claire Denis
Prix France Culture Cinéma des étudiants: Bertrand Mandico for Les garçons sauvages
Prix International Students Award: Stéphane de Freitas and Ladj Ly for A voix haute (documentary)

6th Pierre Angénieux
ExcelLens in Cinematography: Edward Lachman, USA
Highlight Work: Cecile Zhang, China

Palm Dog Awards
Palm Dog: Entire cast of Dogman by Matteo Garrone
Grand Prix du Jury: Diamantino by Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt featuring a cast of CGI dogs
Dogmanitarian Award: Vanessa Davies and her pet pug for inspiring Patrick

Women in Motion Award: Patty Jenkins
Women in Motion Young Talents Award: Carla Simón

Chopard Trophy for up-and-coming talent
Elizabeth Debicki
Joe Alwyn

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57th Semaine de la Critique Award Winners

Yesterday, the Cannes parallel section had their award ceremony with top award going to a Franco-Brazilian-Portuguese comedy drama.

Check winners below in GREEN and at official press release here.

Most interesting is the availability of 500 FREE tickets to watch the 2018 short films selection via Festival Scope.   Starting today, May 17th and until May 27th IF you hurry, will be able to watch the shorts; but act fast as there are only 500 tickets and yes, they're sold out quite quickly.  Festival Scope site is here.

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4/19/18
A few days back organizers released the video with Charles Tesson, Semaine de la Critique Artistic Director and Charlotte Lipinska, journalist and film critic announcing the selection for the 2018 edition of the Critics' Week and there is no surprise when we find that -as always- selection is eclectic (and strange) but having high-profile actors in the selection, is quite unusual and yes, surprising.

Paul Dano's directing debut film has Jake Gyllenhaal and Carey Mulligan as leads and is La Semaine opening film even when film premiered at 2018 Sundance; obviously section opening this year will generate lot's of buzz and press coverage due to the "celebrity" element.

Before going in depth into the selection let's review what has been happening in this Cannes parallel section.

The Poster

For this year's poster for La Semaine de la Critique, we are greeted by the rebellious stare of young French actress Noée Abita, who made her debut in Léa Mysius' Ava.

Her defiant innocence, captured by photographer Aurélie Lamachère, in collaboration with the agency les bons faiseurs, encapsulates the spirit of this new generation of filmmakers celebrated by this Cannes Festival section dedicated to the discovery of emerging talent.

Next Step 4th Session

Created in collaboration with the TorinoFilmLab and supported by the CNC and the Moulin d’Andé-CÉCI, Next Step is a program, consisting of a 5-day workshop held in France in December.

The aim of this project is to support the short film directors discovered by La Semaine de la Critique as they branch out into feature films. During the workshop, the filmmakers have the opportunity to discuss their projects with international experts and tutors, in order for them to receive advice on their scripts, to understand the reality of the industry and define an appropriate development strategy. Furthermore, a half-day workshop is dedicated to film music to encourage the participating directors to both better understand the work that goes into music composition for films and start thinking about the music for their feature film projects.

This year the directors of the Next Step 4th Session are Manon Coubia, Laura Ferrés, Moin Hussain, Sam Kuhn, Magali Magistry, Carlo Francisco Manatad, Sofía Quirós Ubeda, Matthew Rankin and Aleksandra Terpińska.

For the third year, Next Step will provide a session dedicated to film soundtracks organized in collaboration with the SACEM. The aim is to encourage participants to both better understand the work that goes into music composition for films and start thinking about the music for their feature film projects. six promising French composers have been selected through a national call to take part to this session.

These composers alongside the filmmakers taking part in Next Step will attend a masterclass given by composer Amine Bouhafa who composed the music of Timbuktu by Abderrahmane Sissako (Cannes Film Festival 2014) and recently Beauty and the Dogs by Kaouther Ben Hania (Un Certain Regard 2017).

The six composers will then introduce themselves and talk about their work as musicians and composers to the nine filmmakers who take-part in Next Step. 

The Selection

This year organizers received 1,500 short films and 1.100 feature films.  As always features selection are 7 plus 4 more in Special Screenings for a total of 11 films where 7 are first and 4 second films.  The seven (7) first feature films will compete for the Camera d'Or award.

The short film selection comprises 10 films that will be supported by offering them the opportunity to be part of the Next Step program, a training and support workshop towards their first feature film.

Feature films competition clearly shows an improvement in representing women filmmakers as out of the seven (7) films four (4) are by female filmmakers.  Great. Not surprising when considering the 11 feature films in the selection percentage goes down as all four special screenings are by male filmmakers, sigh.

Female filmmakers are in BLUE.

Feature Films Competition

(*) Chris The Swiss, Anja Kofmel, Switzerland, Croatia, Germany and Finland (documentary)
(*) Diamantino, Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt, Portugal, France and Brazil *WINNER of Grand Prix
(*) Egy Nap (One Day), Zsófia Szilágyi, Hungary
Fuga (Fugue), Agnieszka Smoczyńska, Poland Czech Republic and Sweden
Kona fer í stríð (Woman at War), Benedikt Erlingsson, Iceland, France and Ukraine *WINNER of SACD Award to writers Benedikt Erlingsson and Ólafur Egill Egilsson
(*) Sauvage, Camille Vidal-Naquet, France  *WINNER of Rising Star Award to Félix Maritaud
(*) Sir, Rohena Gera, India and France *WINNER of Gan Foundation Award for Distribution

Special Screenings
Opening Film: (*) Wildlife, Paul Dano, USA
Closing Filme:  Guy, Alex Lutz, France
Nos Batailles (Our Struggles), Guillaume Senez, France and Belgium
(*) Shéhérazade, Jean-Bernard Marlin, France

(*) Competing for the Camera d'Or

Short Films in Competition
Amor, Avenidas Novas, Duarte Coimbra, Portugal, 20'
Ektoras Malo: I teleftea mera tis chronias (Hector Malo - The Last Day of the Year), Jaqueline Lentzoou, Greece, 23' *WINNER of Discovery Prize
Mo-bun-shi-min (Exemplary Citizen), Kim Cheol-Hwi, South Korea, 12'
Pauline Asservie (Pauline Enslaved), Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet, France, 24'
La Persistente, Camille Lugan, France, 22'
Rapaz (Raptor), Felipe Gálvez, Chile, 13'
Schächer, Flurin Giger, Switzerland, 29'
Tiikeri (The Tiger), Mikko Myllylahti, Finland, 10'
Un Jour de Mariage (A Wedding Day), Elias Belkeddar, Algeria and France, 15' *WINNER of Canal+ Award
Ya normalniy (Normal), Michael Borodin, Russia, 20'

Special Screenings
La Chute (The Fall), Boris Labbé, France, 14'
The Third Kind, Yorgos Zois, Greece and Croatia, 32'
Ultra Pulpe, Bertrand Mandico, France, 37'

The Jury
President: Joachim Trier, director, writer and producer, Norway
Chloë Sevigny, actress, writer, producer and director, USA
Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, actor, Argentina
Eva Sangiorgi, director of the Viennale, Austria
Augustin Trapenard, journalist, France

Invitation - Morelia International Film Festival
Selection of 4 short films selected to the 15th edition of the Morelia International Film Festival
Aguas Tranquilas Aguas Profundas (In Deep Water), Miguel Labastida Gonzalez, Mexico 19'
Lo que no se dice bajo el sol (Under the Sun), Eduardo Esquivel, Mexico, 15'
Tierra de Brujas, Mar de Sirenas (Land of Witches, Sea of Mermaids), Delia Luna Couturier, Mexico, 10'
Vuelve a Mi (Back to Me), Daniela Najera Betancourt, Mexico, 20'

To check info about films at the official site go here.

The Video (in French)

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