The Cannes film festival ended on Saturday with the awarding of its top prize, the Palme d'Or.
Julia Ducournau, the 37-year-old French director of 'Titane', a freaky and provocative body-horror drama has become the first female director in 28 years to win the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’or.
Leos Carax won the Best Director award for the pop-opera musical 'Annette'. The Best Actress prize was bagged by Renate Reinsve, whose performance in Nordic filmmaker Joachim Trier’s 'The Worst Persona in the World' had critics gushing over her.
Caleb Landry Jones took home the Best Actor prize for his lead performance in Australian director Justin Kurzel’s 'Nitram'.
Payal Kapadia’s 'A Night of Knowing Nothing' won the Oeil d’or (Golden Eye) award for best documentary. The Mumbai-based filmmaker’s first feature bagged the prestigious prize in a formidable field made up of 28 documentaries presented across various sections of the festival.