The Iranian director Jafar Panahi, the owner of the Golden Palm Award, was – Cyprus Newspaper
Iranian director Jafar Panahi won the Golden Palm Award at the 78th Cannes Film Festival in France with the film “Un Simple Accidident”.
This year, the jury chaired by the French player Juliette Binoche’un 78th Cannes Film Festival awards.
Iranian director Panahi won the film “Un Simple Accident” this year’s Golden Palm Award.
The film, which was selected among the 22 works competing at the festival this year, will be released in France on 10 September.
Brazilian Kleber Mendonça Filho was the owner of the Best Director Award, with the film “L’Agent Secret”.
The Jury Prize received the Spanish director Olivier Laxe for Sirat Sirat ”and German director Mascha Schilinski for his film“ Sound of Falling ”.
At the festival, the Jury Special Award went to the Chinese director Bi Gan with the film “Resurrection”.
At the festival, Norwegian director Joachim Trier was awarded the Grand Prize for his film Valeur Valeur Sentimentale, and the best script award was given to Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne, who wrote the screenplay for the film “Jeunes Meres”.
The Brazilian Wagner Moura, who starred in the film “L’Agent Secret”, was awarded the Best Actor Award and the French Nadia Melli, who played in La La Petite Derniere ”, was awarded the Best Actress Award.
The Golden Camera Award was given to the Palestinian director Tawfeek Barhom, owner of the film “I’m Glad You’re Dead Now, the Iraqi director Hasan Hadi Hadi, the Iraqi director of the film“ The Presidident’s Cake ,, was given to the Palestinian director.
Palestinian director Barhom stated that France is a magnificent place for artists while receiving the award and said, “Let’s try not to think about the dead when we go to the Gaza Strip 20 years later.” he said.
In his speech when he received the award, director Laxe, a Palestinian taxi driver he met during his visit to East Jerusalem, said to him in the Holy Quran. He said he said the verse. LAXE, « Long live differences, long live cultures and live the Cannes Festival. » He used the expression
The last festival day in the shade of power outage
78. On the closing day of the Cannes Film Festival, there was a power outage in Cannes and its surrounding cities.
While remaining in the region without electricity in approximately 160 thousand households, the film “Sirat ında was interrupted at the festival.
The last day of the festival in the shadow of the power outage of the award ceremony, there was no problem with this.
« The horror in Gaza in Cannes should not be silenced »
One day before the festival began, hundreds of people from the cinema world supported the declaration titled “(Film Festival), which was published in the French Liberation newspaper on May 12th, should not be silenced in Gaza in Cannes.
French actress Juliette Binoche, Jury President, commemorated Palestinian Fatma Hasune, who killed the Israeli army in Gaza on 16 April at the opening ceremony of the festival, and said, “The day before his death, the film was elected to Cannes the day before. Fatma should be with us tonight.” He used his statements.
At the festival, the documentary titled “Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk ((take your soul into the palm of your palm), starring Hasune, was held on May 15th.
Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, joined the festival on May 20 for the screening of the documentary titled Six The Six Billion Dollar Man ”(6 billion dollars of man), which was prepared for him with a T -shirt with the name of 4,986 children in Gaza.