78th Cannes Film Festival 2025: The Awards

FEATURE FILMS COMPETITION

PALME D’OR for Best Film to:
It Was Just an Accident
by Jahar Panahi  (Iran)

GRAND PRIX to:
Joachim Trier for the film
Sentimental Value (Denmark)

JURY PRIZE EX AEQUO to:
Olivier Laxe for
Sirat (Spain)

Mascha Schilinski for
Sound of Falling  (Germany)

BEST DIRECTOR to:
Kleber Mendoca Filho
for the film The Secret Agent  (Brazil)

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR to:
Walter Moura
for the film  The Secret Agent  (Brazil)

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS to:
Nadia Melliti
For the film Le Petite Derniere

BEST SCREENPLAY to:
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
for Young Mothers  (Belgium)

SPECIAL AWARD
Bi Gan
for the film Resurrection  (China)

SHORT FILMS COMPETITION

PALME D’OR
I’m Glad You’re Dead Now
by  Tawfeek Barhom

SPECIAL MENTION to:
Ali
by Adnan Al Rajeev

UN CERTAIN REGARD

UN CERTAIN REGARD PRIZE to:
The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo
Diego Céspedes

JURY PRIZE to:
A Poet by Simón Mesa Soto

BEST DIRECTOR  to:
Tarzan and Arab Nasser
For the film Once Upon a Time in Gaza

BEST ACTRESS
Cléo Diara
for the film I Only Rest in the Storm

BEST ACTOR
Frank Dillane
for the film Urchin

BEST SCREENPLAY
Harry Lighton
for the film Pillion

Special Mention:
Norah
by Tawfik Alzaidi

CAMERA D’OR PRIZE
The President’s Cake
by Hasan Hadi

SPECIAL MENTION
My Father’s Shadow
by Akinola Davies Jr.

CRITICS’ WEEK

Grand Prize:
A Useful Ghost
by Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke