French Justin Trier beat him golden palm 76th Cannes Film Festival for Anatomy of a Fall and became the third female director to receive the award in the institution’s history. The 44-year-old director has succeeded Jane Campion (The Piano Lesson, 1993) and Julia DuCourneau (Titan, 2021), confirming the slow progress towards equality in a historically male-dominated film industry.

British director and screenwriter Jonathan Glazer received the Grand Prix for the film “Zone of Interest”. The Grand Prix is ​​awarded to the second best film of the festival.

The film features the family life of the commandant of the Nazi death camp Auschwitz to recall the “banality of evil”.

Turkala won the Best Actress award for her performance in Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Dry Herbs. Merve Dizdar. “I would like to dedicate this award to all the women who are struggling to overcome the hardships of this world and keep their hopes up,” said the actress, who plays a woman who falls in love with a teacher in a remote province. Türkiye.

Japanese Koji Yakuso, one of his country’s most famous actors, won the Best Actor award for his role in Wim Wenders’ Perfect Days at the 76th Cannes Film Festival. “I want to give special thanks to Wim Wenders and the co-writer (…). You have created a wonderful image,” he said excitedly on stage, accepting his award.

In the film directed by Paris, Texas (Phoenix d’Or, 1984), Koji Yakuso plays Hirayama, a public toilet worker in Tokyo, a silent and lonely person who slowly opens up to others.

Source: APE/MEB