Iranian dissident Jafar Panahi wins Golden Palm in Cannes affected by current sabotage

Sabotage at the power grid – there was whispering over the long arm of Moscow and about anarchists – temporarily stopped the film rooms of Cannes this morning. But the Golden Palm Gala just continued according to schedule: the colossal Palais des Festivals houses three robust emergency aggregates. Big Winner was the Iranian on Saturday evening It was just an accident from Jafar Panahi.

The Dissident Panahiwho has had a film and speaking ban since 2011, brought his film secretly with an iPhone that same year This is not a movieon a USB stick hidden in a cake, to Cannes. In 2015 he won the Golden Bear in Berlin with another guerrilla film, Taxi Tehranwho was included in a car with Panahi himself as a taxi driver.

Jafar Panahi, who was locked up for another one and a half years in 2022, was unexpectedly weakened by internal opposition and defeats in the Middle East to Cannes with a film in which women do not wear hijab or headscarves and the villain is a hypocritical fanatist who martens and rags theocracy. Nobody was surprised that Panahi was in the prizes: it is a powerful signal to the Iranian people, which is very proud of his global film success. But Maestro Panahi simply delivers an excellent, way and often also mild humorous moral story.

The Noor Joachim Trier directed the press and public favorite Sentimental Valuethose rather one standing ovation got from fifteen minutes. He was allowed to go home with the Grand Prix, the second prize, a film about an old director (Stellan Skarsgard) who hopes to reconcile himself with his stern daughter Nora, a theater actress through a new film. She is interpreted by Renate Reinsve, who won the prize for Best Actress with Joachim Triers Millennial-Tragikomedie in 2021 in Cannes in Cannes in 2021 The sausage person in the world.

Oscark candidates

They are two top films from the strikingly strong 78th edition of Cannes, which seems to count less well -to -do oscark candidates than last year, then, then Anora, the substance and Emilia Pérez Steamed to Oscarglorie. Although you cannot exclude that for the Brazilian The Secret Agent (O Agente Secreto) Van Kleber Mendoça Filho, who was the only one won two prizes: best direction and best actor.

Wagner Moura plays scientist Marcelo who in 1977 in the aftermath of Brazil’s military dictatorship to the northern city of Recife flight with two assassin on his heels. His story is die much later when a student finds an old cassette tape.

Just like a recent Oscar winner I’m Still here The film shows a forgetful Brazil what the reality of dictatorship is. The apolitical Marcelo is getting in the way of a Mafiosis businessman and the right of the strongest counts in this whimsical, compelling thriller full of magical realism – for example, a human bone and unique life fished out of a shark stomach will lead on Recife’s Tippelzone.

Cannes old workhorses, the Dardenne brothers-in addition to two golden palms, these Maestros won almost every conceivable prize in Cannes in the 21st century-received the prize for Best Scenario with the second time with Jeune Mèresa four -part about teenage mothers in a shelter. Initially a kind of catalog of teenage – drugs, bad guys, mother issues – the brothers gradually get it done: the girls really come to life and know how to touch you deeply.

The jury prize – the third prize – went to the mystical, shocking Sirâtwhere a ragged group of Ravers in a techno-pelgrimage deeply pulls into the Moroccan desert when the Third World War seems broken out. Trials wait: Sirât Contains one of the most shocking scenes in recent film history. The Spanish director Oliver Laxe shared the prize with the German Mascha Schilinski for her spooky, visually unique Sound of Fallingin which the lives of four generations of women in a German farmhouse become entangled in a very morbid way.

Best actress became debutant Nadia Meliti, who in La Petite Dernière A beautiful role plays as a young, self -willed française of Algerian descent Fatima whose lesbian orientation sands with Islam. While she gradually frees herself – through a depressive great love she rolls into the lesbian circuit – the patriarchal tires are going to pinch. A great, somewhat predictable from the cupboard film. There was a special mention for the inscrutable Chinese scifi epic Resurrection from Bi Gan.

Naturally, this year, also masterful films were outside the prices: the offer in Cannes in almost embarrassing empire. Such as autobiographical RomeríaThe heavy -duty Ukräïense fate drama Two Prosecutorsthe elegant, lucid Nouvelle Vague About film legend Jean-Luc Godard or the Gay Film The History of Soundfilmed in the chic tradition of Merchant-Iivory. To be silent from those dozens of strong films from Cannes Other prestigious competitions: arthouse thriller Reed country From Dutch talent Sven Bresser, for example, who, despite the positive film press, did not win prizes in the Semain de la Critique program. But participating in Cannes is already a lot: many films will play in Dutch film theaters in the coming year. The film season 2025-2026 has started.

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