The start of the prize season. Closed Cannes Film Festival / Day

On Saturday, May 24, the 78th Cannes Film Festival finished, whose influence on world films is thorough. What does the festival laureates list show? What trends do it mark? What will the cans will be by the end of the year and perhaps at the beginning of 2026, when the cinema will end, to which the US Film Academy will be added Oscar Ceremony? Is there a prize for the outstanding of the Cannes Festival and future events in the prize season? And is it really now, when writing about the main event of European cinema,  » Oscars? It has to be said that in the early stages of this Cannes Festival, the international press was very passionate about the power of global influence of Cannes.

The impact of the Cannes Festival is no new one, but so far only once has won the film, which has also received the main Oscar – it is the film of American director Delbert Manna Marty/Marty (1955). However, the 2024 Cannes Festival and many controversial director Sean Baker Anoras triumph first in cans, then too Oscar During the presentation ceremony, again and re -emphasized the important role of the Cannes Festival in the formation of cinema process and the prize -winning trends. The films made in Cannes 2024 won a total of 31 Oscar nomination, two of them are also our Tire nominations. Such a strong and direct impact of the Cannes Festival on the nominations for the US Film Academy was first observed, and it was also explained by the fact that the ranks of the US Film Academy voters have added to international forces – professionals living in Europe who have the Cannes Festival « goalkeeper » and the global cinema.

Will this year’s cans winners in one bunch will move towards Oscar nominations? It is too early to answer this question. However, the offer of the winners of 2025 Cannes is more nuanced, also more sophisticated, which links Cannes –Oscars Makes flexible.

Toughness and craftsmanship

Cannes Film Festival Golden palm branch This time has come to Iranian director’s dissident Jafar Panahi in the hands of the movie It was just an accident/And simple accident/It was just an Accident. Reviewers of different countries have already expressed their attitude towards the decisions of the Cannes Jury led by French actress Jillet binos. They have not caused particular frustration, but on the contrary, the jury is terminated as a balanced (political correct) approach to the evaluation of twenty -two competitions. Žafara Panahi, however, is dominated by the view that the Iranian classic, who has been in opposition to the ruling regime for years and creates his films as independent works, and has been arrested for a long time, has long deserved a significant award for his political posture, the firmness of the spirit and the mastery of the director. However, others think that the work awarded in Jaffar Panahi Cannes is not the peak of the craftsman’s work.

It was just an accident The message of several victims of the regime with the person they consider to be one of the servants of the system – the person who has participated in their torture. I haven’t seen the movie, so my opinion will be missed. I can only mention the fact that Iran’s film traditions are strong and Iranian films that come to international festivals are politically tensioned, professionally powerful and humane stories. This is also the case in Cannes awarded, later Oscar The film nominated in the best international film – Iranian director Mohammad Rasulofa Seed of the Holy Fig/The Seed of the Sacred Fig – What was performed in Latvian cinemas this year. The smallness of this criminal drama – a few hundred – draws sad conclusions about the potential of Iranian cinema in the local market.

Now Jafar Panahi with his own Golden palm branch Has stood alongside another Iranian classic director Abas Kiarostami, where he once worked as an assistant and whose only Iranian directors had managed to receive Golden palm branch. Jafar Panahi has supplemented his solid international awards collection with both Berlin Golden bearboth in Venice Golden lionboth of LOCARNO Gold.

Sentiment value

The audience for a more viewer will definitely be destined to reach the Norwegian director Jakima Trier’s film Sentimental value/Affexons/Sentimental Value. This work, shown in the last days of the festival, became a press sweetheart, a family drama about the film director and his family relationships was a remote resemblance to the popular topics of the Scandinavian classic Ingmar Bergman, but Bergman’s existential depressiveism in the film has been replaced by Yaakim Trur. This Norwegian artist has become a full member of the Cannes Club. His previous movie The worst man in the world/Verden Verste Menneske/The Worst Person in the World (2021) provided the Cannes Festival Award for actress Renate Reinsve and started her international career.

The second most important prize of the Cannes Film Festival – Grand Prix – Presented by Norwegian director Jakim Trier for the film Sentimental value. Photo – Zumapress/Scanpix

Drama Sentimental value Renāte Reinsve plays with Ella Fening and Stellan Skargord, who is in an Odioica, a family -abandoned director. The film received Grand Prix There is a testament to both the innovation of Jakim Trier and the fact that Norwegian cinema is ranking an increasingly prominent place in the international circulation. Perhaps this is the film from the Cannes winners with a thorough potential for further progress in the US Awards.

The jury of the Cannes Festival was awarded to the two most peculiar films of the competition program – Sirch/Mate and Fall/In die sonne schauen/Sound of Falling. In a French -born Spanish director Oliver Laks, Sirat is a narrative -filled, techno -music -rooted film that tells the story of a missing girl in the Moroccan desert. Meanwhile, German director Masha Shilinsk’s drama mentioned in the article published last week Fall There is a virtuoso trip across the dimensions of time and life and death, the story of one German family life at different stages of the 20th century.

Zhafar Panahi, Jakima Trier, Oliver Laks and Masha Shilinsk, just like another winner of Cannes – Brazilian movie Secret agent/O agente secreto/The Secret Agent -, have been purchased for distribution in the Baltic States. They will be on view in Latvia in the second half of the year. Brazil’s 70s in political reality -rooted thriller Secret agent Brought prize to director Kleber Mendons Fill and the leading role for Familing Wagner Mour.

However, several Cannes Awards are indicative of rationally calculated decisions, such as efforts to emphasize the theme of a particular film or to praise the classics of classics. It was evaluated by the Director Brothers Darden’s Drama with another Cannes Award The new mothers/Jeunes mères/The Young Mothers’ Home – This time, the Belgian social realists, who traditionally draw material for their films, received a prize for the best scenario. This Darden has already been a prize of the Seventh Cannes Festival – there are two among them Golden palm branches For the movies Rosette/Rosetta (1999) and Child/L’enfant/The Child (2005).

The best actress award was awarded by debutant Algerian -born French actress Nadja Melliti, who directed by Hafsias Herzi in the film Little sister/LA PETITE DERNIES/The Little Sister Play a young woman coming from a traditional Algerian family in Paris and begins to be aware of her homosexuality. Correct work that is accented is probably not so much an actress’s performance as a movie because of the topics.

Next round

Among the winners have not entered, in my opinion, an outstanding job – the movie New wave/Nouvelle Vague/New wave. This is the confession of American director Richard Linkleiter in love with the French film culture and the new wave of rebellious genius Jean -Like. The black -and -white, elegant, witty film of the 60 -year -old films about the reception of a Godar masterpiece to the last breath may seem like a self -reflexive, turbulent of the modern world. However, I hope we will hear this great movie in the upcoming prize season: it had enough lovers in Cannes, including those who will vote in the next prize season (Golden Globe, Oscar, European Film Academy Awards). Richard Linkleiter’s film has been funded by France and is a European film.

From other « undeservedly ignored » the press also mentions Ukrainian director Sergei Loznica’s film Two prosecutorswhat was the leader in the edition for a long time Screen International in a critics survey. However, the jury’s opinion turned out to be different – the Kafian History Drama, whose activities were held in 1937 and filmed in Latvia, did not win the prizes.

Second Cannes Festival Contest Program Gaze/And Certain Regard In addition to the prizes, there were films made by famous debuters – two American actresses: Kristen’s flight attendants Chronology/The Chronology of the Water and Scarletta Johansones The great Eleonora/Eleanor the Great. This competition was won by Chilean director debutant Diego Sespedesza Flamingo’s mysterious gaze/La Misteriosa Mirada del Flamenco/The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo – Imagine story of a deadly disease.

Conclusions? This Cannes Festival may not be able to repeat the record and next year to show off the fact that the premiere films have received dozens Oscar nomination. One of the reasons is that there are no American works among the awarded films. This is also not an end in itself, as the films that have been accented by a jury led by Jillet Binos represent a diverse cinema language. The support of the Cannes Awards and the publicity they create in Iranian, Spanish, German, Brazilian, Chileans and other films is extremely important because it provides these works on the way in the world and opens a wider audience.