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Cannes Movie Pageant: Jafar Panahi wins Palme d’Or for It Was Simply an Accident, Sentimental Worth will get Grand Prix
Might 24, 2025 11:27 PM IST
The jury, headed by Juliette Binoche, awarded two awards to The Secret Agent: Greatest Actor for Wagner Moura and Greatest Director for Kleber Mendonça Filho.
The Cannes Movie Pageant handed over the official awards through the closing ceremony of the 78th version on the final day. The president of the principle jury Juliette Binoche introduced that the highest prize of the pageant went to It Was Simply an Accident, directed by acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi. (Additionally learn: Alia Bhatt stuns in a sultry saree for the closing ceremony of Cannes Movie Pageant)
Jafar Panahi clinches Palme d’Or
Jafar Panahi returned to Cannes after a 14-year journey ban by the Iranian authorities with this new function movie. He had first come to Cannes in 1995 with The White Balloon, which received the Digicam d’Or. Within the subsequent few years, he premiered Crimson Gold which received the Jury Award in 2003, That is Not a Movie in 2011, and three Faces in 2018 which received Greatest Screenplay.
Panahi additionally joined the elite listing of filmmakers to have received the highest prize in three of the distinguished movie festivals on this planet: Venice, Cannes and Berlin. He now joins the membership of Henri-Georges Clouzot, Robert Altman and Michelangelo Antinioni, with the Palme win. Panahi received the Golden Lion on the Venice Movie Pageant for The Circle (2000) and the Silver Bear on the Berlin Movie Pageant for Offside (2006).
Different winners
Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Worth, which wowed Cannes and obtained a whooping 19-minute standing ovation, took residence the second massive award of the night- the Grand Prix. The performing awards went to Nadia Melliti for The Little Sister and Wagner Moura for The Secret Agent. Brazilian filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho received finest director for the movie.
In the meantime, Cannes veterans Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne received Greatest Screenplay for Younger Moms. The Jury Prize was a tie, and went to Olivier Laxe for Sirat and Mascha Schilinski’s The Sound of Falling. A particular jury prize was given to Bi Gan for Resurrection.
This yr Indian filmmaker Payal Kapadia was a part of the principle competitors jury. Her 2024 movie All We Think about As Gentle took residence the Grand Prix final yr.
