The prizes for this year’s Un Certain Regard winners were dished out in this afternoon in Cannes. This year, the jury was presided over by Benicio del Toro.
“We feel that out of 2000 films considered by the Festival, the 18 we saw in Un Certain Regard – from Argentina to China – were all in their own way winners,” the jury said in an official statement. “Over the past 10 days, we were extremely impressed by the high quality of the work presented, but in the end, we were the most moved by the following 5 films.”
Those five films are:
Un Certain Regard Prize: “Border,” directed by Ali Abbasi
Prize for Best Screenplay: “Sofia,” by Meryem Benm’barek
Prize for Best Performance: Victor Polster for “Girl,” directed by Lukas Dhont
Prize for Best Director: Sergei Loznitsa for “Donbass”
Jury Special Prize: “The Dead and the Others,” directed by Joao Salaviza and Renee Nader Messora
The winners of the main competition will be awwarded in a big ceremony on Saturday 19th May. We’ll bring you the winners in full as they come in.
