Cannes 2025: Palme d'Or, won by Iranian director Jafar Panahi, for “a simple accident”. The full palm of the festival
Iranian director Jafar Panahi won on Saturday, Palme d'Or with “a simple accident”, at the 78th edition of the Cannes Film Festival, informs News.ro. The prize was presented by Cate Blanchett. An amazing film in which a trivial accident becomes an extraordinary story.
“The most important thing at this time is our country and the freedom of our country. We should not be told what clothes to wear, what not to say, what to do,” said the filmmaker at the end of a long speech.
Examining the temptation of former detainees to take revenge on their torturers, the director offers a moral story and a frontal attack on the Islamic Republic. The launch of the film in theaters is scheduled for September 10. This dissident director has been in house arrest for 15 years in Iran, where he has been closed twice and forbade him to film.
The Grand Prize of the Cannes 2025 film festival was awarded to the movie “Sentimental Value” of the Norwegian director Joachim Trier. After “Julie (EN 12 Chapitres)”, the director meets his renate actress for a study on love and pain, professional success, suicide and missed paternity.
Award for best actress received by a beginner
French actress Nadia Melliti won the award for best actress in Cannes. Daniel Auteuil awarded the prize for the role of “La Petite Dernière” by Hafsia Herzi. Melliti is a beginner in the world of cinema. The free adaptation of the first autobiographical novel of the Fatimea Daas, the film is a discreet account of sexual and emotional emancipation of a gay young Muslim that lives in the suburbs.
The prize for the best director was given to the movie “L'Agent Secret” by Kleber Mendonça Filho. “The cinema was the one who formed the character of this film,” said the filmmaker on stage.
This is the second prize given to the film at the ceremony. His main actor, Wagner Moura won the award for his best actor for his role as a human being in this thriller that takes place in the 1970s, in full military dictatorship.
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The jury prize was awarded Ex-aequo for two films: “Sit” by Oliver Laxi and “Sound of Falling” by Mascha Schilinski. In the cinemas on September 3, “Sirat” is one of the most surprising films in Cannes, a nervous and sensory experience with Sergi Lopez, who is immersed in a hallucinating and apocalyptic rave party looking for his missing daughter. Stretching over a century, “Sound of Falling” braides the destinies of four women in a farm in eastern Germany, where traumas, unspoken words and male oppression have been transmitted over time.
The Dardenne brothers wins the prize for script
The prize for the best scenario has returned to the movie “Jeunes Mères” by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. The twice -award -winning directors in Cannes won this award in 2008 for “Le Silence de Lorna”. The film is currently in cinemas.
Brazilian actor Wagner Moura won the prize for best actor in Cannes on Saturday, for his role in the “secret agent” of his compatriot Kleber Mendonça Filho. The 48 -year -old actor is one of the most popular faces in Brazilian cinema due to his international collaborations, especially the Netflix “Narcos” series in which he interpreted the drug dealer Pablo Escobar.
The movie “Resurrection” of the Chinese director Bi Gan received a special prize from the jury. Juliette Binoche, his president, greeted “a magnificent film”. “La Petite Derniere”, the third feature and the first in the Cannes competition of the French actress and director Hafsia Herzi, won Queer Palm on Friday, an alternative award for “Best LGBTQ+”.
This discreet account of the sexual and sentimental emancipation of a gay young Muslim that lives in the suburbs is a free adaptation of the first autobiographical novel of the Daas Fatimei, published in 2020. Portedly portrayed by Nadia Melliti, a 23 -year -old non -professional actress, whose androgynous figure radiates throughout the movie.
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Created in 2010 by the critic Franck Finance-Madureira, who presides over the competition, Queer Palm rewards a movie or short film that addresses LGBT+ or feminist themes, or that discusses gender rules. The jury, which had a choice between 16 features from all sections, was presided over this year by the French filmmaker and director Christophe Honoré.
“The President's Cake” wins Caméra d'Or
Caméra d'Or, who honors a first movie, was given to the movie “The President's Cake” by Hasan Hadi. The story of a little girl who receives the task of making a cake to celebrate President Saddam Hussein. It is for the first time that an Iraqi film receives a prize in Cannes.
A special mention was given to the book “My Father's Shadow” by Akinola Davies Jr. The semi-autobiographic story of a father trying to guide his two young sons through Lagos, while announcing political disorders.
Palme d'Or for short film was given to the movie “I'm Glad You're Dead Now” by Tawfeek Barhom. The story of two brothers returning to the island of their childhood, where buried secrets and strong tensions force them to face a dark past.
Robert De Niro, the legendary 81 -year -old American actor, received an honorary palm from his “protected” Leonardo DiCaprio in the opening of the festival. Denzel Washington received the same supreme distinction Monday, parallel to the projection of Spike Lee's new film.
Palmaresul Cannes 2025
Palme d'Or – “a simple accident” by Jafar Panahi
Grand Prix was given to the movie “Sentimental Value” by Joachim Trier
The jury prize was awarded ex-aequo for: “Sirat” by Oliver Laxi and “Sound of Falling” by Mascha Schilinski
The female interpretation prize returned to the French actress Nadia Melliti for the role of “La Petite Dernière”
The prize for the director was given to Kleber Mendonça Filho for the movie “L'Amian Secret”
The male interpretation prize returned to the Brazilian actor Wagner Moura
The award for the scenario was given to the film “Jeunes Mères” by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
Caméra d'Or – “The President's Cake” by Hasan Hadi
Special mention Caméra d'Or – “My Father's Shadow” by Akinola Davies Jr.
Palme d'Or for short film – “i'm glad you 'dead Now” by Tawfeek Barhom
Queer Palm – “La Petite Dernière”
