Films from central Europe also scored wins with Romanian director Cristian Mungiu's critically much admired Beyond the Hills winning the main prize for Best Sreenplay and Best Actress Aaards for Cristina Flutur and Cosmina Stratan.
Elsewhere Bulgarian director Ilian Metev competing in the Critics' Week won the France 4 Visionary Award for his documentary film Sofia's Last Ambulance. FIPRESCI awarded its prize for the best film in the main competition to Sergei Loznitsa's In the Fog, produced as a coproduction with Rija Films (www.rijafilms.lv of Latvia).
Sofia's Last Ambulance was produced by Nukleus Film (www.nukleus-film.hr), Sia (www.sia.bg) and Sutor Kolonko (Germany) and supported by Bulgarian National Film Center (www.nfc.bg) and HAVC (www.havc.hr). Beyond the Hills was produced by Mobra Film (www.mobrafilms.ro) Coproduction France, Belgium and supported by the
Romanian CNC (www.cncinema.ro)
Prize Winners 65th Cannes International Film Festival
Main Competition
Feature Films
Palme d'Or AMOUR
(Love) by Michael
HANEKE
Grand Prix REALITY
by Matteo
GARRONE
Award for Best Director Carlos
REYGADAS for POST
TENEBRAS LUX
Jury Prize THE
ANGELS' SHARE by Ken LOACH
Award for Best Actor Mads
MIKKELSEN in JAGTEN
(The Hunt) by Thomas
VINTERBERG
Award for Best Actress Cristina FLUTUR and Cosmina STRATAN in DUPÃ DEALURI (Beyond The Hills) by Cristian MUNGIU
Award for Best Screenplay Cristian
MUNGIU for pour DUPÃ
DEALURI (Beyond The Hills)
SHORT FILMS
Palme d'Or SESSIZ-BE
DENG (Silent) by L.
Rezan YESILBAS
CAMERA D'OR
BEASTS
OF THE SOUTHERN WILD by Benh
ZEITLIN presented in Un Certain Regard Selection
Un Certain Regard
DESPUÉS
DE LUCIA by Michel FRANCO
SPECIAL JURY PRIZE LE
GRAND SOIR by Benoît DELÉPINE and Gustave KERVERN
UN CERTAIN REGARD AWARD FOR BEST ACTRESS
Suzanne CLÉMENT for her performance in LAURENCE
ANYWAYS directed by Xavier DOLAN
UN CERTAIN REGARD AWARD FOR BEST ACTRESS
Emilie DEQUENNE for her performance in À
PERDRE LA RAISON directed by Joachim LAFOSSE
SPECIAL DISTINCTION OF THE JURY
DJECA
by Aida BEGIC
(Children of Sarajevo)
Cinefondation
First Prize: DOROGA
NA (The Road to) directed by Taisia
Igumentseva VGIK, Russia
Second Prize: ABIGAIL
directed by Matthew
James Reilly NYU, USA
Third Prize: LOS
ANFITRIONES (The Hosts) directed by Miguel
Angel Moulet EICTV, Cuba
Directors' Fortnight
Art Cinema Award: No directed by Pablo
Larrain
Europa Cinemas: El taaib (The Repentant) Merzak Allouache
Prix SACD 2012: Camille redouble (Camille Rewinds) Noemie Lvovsky
Premier Prix Illy for Short Filmmaking: The Curse by Fyzal Boulifa
Special mention: Os vivos tambem choram (The Living Also Cry) by Basil da Cunha
Critics' Week
Nespresso Grand Prize: Aqui y Alla (Spain) dir. Antonio Mendez Esparza
France 4 Visionary Award: Sofia's Last Ambulance (Bulgaria) dir. Ilian Metev
Society of Authors, Directors and Composers
Award: God's Neighbors (Israel)
dir. Meni Yaesh
Distribution Support Honor: The Wild Ones (Argentina) dir. Alejandro Fadel
FIPRESCI Critics Prix
Main Competition: Sergei Loznitsa's In the Fog
Un Certain Regard: Ben Zeitlin's Beasts of
the Southern Wild
Directors' Fortnight Rachad Djidani's Hold Back
Eucumenical Jury
Thomas Vinterberg's The Hunt