These are the winners of the main competition of the 2022 Cannes Film Festival

The 75th Cannes Film Festival 2022 has concluded and the time has come to find out which film and filmmakers took home the prestigious Palme d’Or 2022.

The main competition jury consisted of Vincent Lindon (Chairperson), Noomi Rapace, Jasmine Trinca, Asghar Farhadi, Rebecca Hall, Deepika Padukone, Ladj Ly, Jeff Nichols and Joachim Trier.

The festival in its 75th edition celebrated the traditional red carpet this Saturday with a difficult choice on the table, without a clear favorite for the Palme d’Or after almost two weeks of very diverse cinema. In the end, it was Triangle of Sadness by Ruben Östlund was the film that won the prestigious Palme d’Or 2022.

Directors, actors and producers of films that could receive an award paraded with tense smiles, along with jurors and gala guests, including the Spanish Javier Bardem, or the Mexican Alfonso Cuarón.

Most of the 21 films in contention for the highest award addressed social or family dramas, denounce injustices or exhibit contradictions, in a world in crisis or that is resistant to change.

This is the list of winners of the main competition

Palme d’Or

• Triangle of Sadness by Ruben Östlund today won the Palme d’Or, the most important prize of the 75th edition of the Cannes Film Festival. It is the second Palme d’Or for the Swedish director who won it for the first time in 2017 with The Square. This scathing filmmaker won thanks to a satirical comedy that chronicles the adventures of a couple of models and influencers who embark on a yacht for rich people, but the trip soon turns into a disaster when its Marxist captain (Woody Harrelson) sinks the boat. , leaving everyone stranded on a desert island.

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Grand Prix (tie)

• Stars at Noon by Claire Denis and Close by Lucas Dhont. The French Claire Denis set a romance tinged with mystery in Nicaragua in Stars at Noon. While Close is a drama about two teenagers whose friendship ends abruptly, aroused much applause almost at the closing of the contest, because of its delicate way of approaching an incipient homosexuality.

Jury Prize (tie)

• Le otto montagneby Félix van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch, and EO, by Pole Jerzy Skolimowski, have won the Jury Prize ‘ex aequo’. Based on the book by Italian writer Paolo Cognetti, Le otto montagne tells the story of the only two children in a small town in the mountains of Italy; one comes on vacation with his family, the other lives there. The great friendship that forms between the two boys will be cut short by the different paths that each one takes. Addressing issues as important as the father and son relationship, friendship and the life decisions we make. Y, EO narrates the misadventures of a donkey who is left to his fate when a group of environmental activists manages to ban keeping animals in circuses. The donkey in question, which seems to have a loving relationship with Kasandra, the girl with whom he practices his circus act, begins to circulate through the country, from hand to hand, from owner and casual manager to another, always going through cruel situations, uncomfortable, unpleasant and violent.

best direction

• the south korean Park Chan-wookwith Decision to Leave, today won the award for best direction. The filmmaker stages a complex romance between a police officer and a murder suspect.

Best actress

• Tsar Amir Ebrahimi by Holy Spider. The actress, who had to leave her country in 2008 because of a sex scandal, won the award for best female performance for her role as a journalist in Ali Abbasi’s film. The film tells the story of a serial killer who killed 16 women in the holy city of Mashhad, in Iran, between 2000 and 2001, and a journalist determined to unmask him, at the risk of her life. Exiled in Europe for decades, Abbasi was unable to film this film in his home country, and after trying in Turkey, he ended up in Jordan, with Iranian actors who have put their careers at risk to participate in the project. Tsar Amir Ebrahimi had to leave his country after an intimate video was leaked. He currently lives in Paris.

best Actor

• South Korean actor Song Kang-ho received this Saturday for his role in broker, by Japan’s Hirokazu Kore-eda, the award for male performance. Song plays the role of a man involved in baby trafficking. Fetish actor of his compatriot Bong Joon-Ho, he became known in 2019 for his portrayal in the movie Parasitewhich won the Palme d’Or in 2019.

Best screenplay

• boy from heaven from the Danish of Egyptian origin Tarik Saleh. The film chose to question Islam through a thriller in contemporary Egypt.

best short

The Water Murmurs (Hai bian sheng qi yi zuo xuan ya) by Chinese filmmaker Jianying Chen.

Received a special mention from the jury Lory, of the Nepalese Abinash Bikram Shah. The competition in this category had a Latin American contender: Night light, by Kim Torres, born in the United States, from a Cuban-Costa Rican family, raised in Costa Rica and currently living in Mexico. That film, a co-production of Costa Rica and Mexico lasting 14 minutes, was one of the nine that were eligible for the maximum award and that passed the filter among 3,507 films from more than 140 countries received.

Best Short (Special Mention)

• lori of Abinash Bikram Shah. Story of a mother sings lullabies to her 12-year-old daughter to calm her down. But when the lullabies end and the daughter comes to her senses, reality turns out to be much bleaker and life changing.

Camera d’Or (Best First Feature)

• warpony by Gina Gammell and Riley Keough. The film follows two protagonists. One is Bill, a serious 23-year-old who survives by doing odd jobs and gets a job with a white rancher who profits and plunders the reservation in various ways. The other is Matho, a 12-year-old boy with a father who deals drugs. A series of loosely interconnected episodes are both comic (a potentially lucrative poodle has a co-star role) and tragic.

75th Anniversary Award

• Tori and Lokita by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. Belgium today. A young man and a teenager from Africa confront their invincible friendship with the cruel conditions that their exile imposes on them.