The film ‘Anatomy of a fall’, by the French Justine Triet, won this Saturday the Palme d’Or at the 76th edition of the Cannes Film Festival and turned its director into the third woman to win the highest award of the cinematographic appointment of the French Riviera.

All the team of this film -which deals with the case of a man who dies when he falls out of the window in his house in the mountains, at a time when only his wife, his blind son and his dog were there- took the stage to collect the awardwhich announced the American actress Jane Fonda.

Before Triet, the only women to have won the Palme d’Or had been Jane Campion for ‘The Piano’, in 1993and Julia Ducournau, for ‘Titane’ in 2021, who in this edition was part of the jury, chaired by the Swede Ruben Östlund and also integrated, among others, by the Argentine filmmaker Damián Szifron.

Another big favourite. ‘The area of ​​interest’by British Jonathan Glazer won the Grand Prix. In addition, the award for Best Director went to the French-Vietnamese director Tran Anh Hung for ‘La Passion de Dodin Bouffant’, starring Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magimel.

In script, the award was kept the Japanese Yuji Sakamoto for ‘Monster’, a film directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda that deals with childhood and homosexuality. In the interpretation section, the winners were the Turkish Merve Dizdar, from the film ‘Dry Grasses’ (Nuri Bilge Ceylan), and the Japanese Koji Yakusho for his role in ‘Perfect Days’, by Wim Wenders.

The list of feature films was completed ‘Fallen Leaves’, of the Finn Aki Kaurismäki, who won the Jury Prize. Regarding the short films, the winning work of the Palme d’Or was ’27’, by the Hungarian Flóra Anna Budawhile the Icelandic ‘Fár’, by Gunnur Martinsdóttir Schlüter, received a special mention.

With this, the proposals coming from Spain (‘Though it’s night‘), Colombia (‘La perra’) and Argentina (‘Nada de todo esto’) they ran out of prize. The same thing happened to the Brazilian Karim Aïnouz, who with ‘Firebrand’ was the only Latin American competing for the Palme d’Or in this 76th edition.

At the closing ceremony, the Golden Camera was also awarded to the best debut feature presented at Cannes (including its parallel sections), which went to the Vietnamese Thien An Pham for ‘Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell’, presented within the Filmmakers’ Fortnight and which counts Fasten Films from Barcelona among its co-producers.