NThe illegal shiver of the Blackout, which left the Croisette, on the dark, The Cannes 2025 Festival has its winner: The golden palm to the best movie went to To Simple accident of Iranian director Jafar Panahi. The choice of the jury perfectly seized the political afflatus of an author who, with cinema, struggle for freedom. Nothing to do for the beautiful Out Of Mario Martone, The only Italian work in competition.
Cannes Film Festival 2025: A Jafar Panahi La Palma d’Or for a Simple accident
At the Cannes Film Festival edition 78, the beautiful Cate Blanchett delivered the golden palm to Jafar Panahi for To Simple accident. The Iranian director, already under arrest for political reasons, was able to accompany his film on the Croisette. An author much loved by the French Festival and beyond. A deserved victory that is not surprising also for the strong symbolic and political connotation.
«Allow me to thank my family and all the team that accompanied me so far. Let me say that it is necessary to fight for freedom, It is time to ask all the Iranians who are in the world to put the differences aside. The most important thing is the freedom of our country ».
«Nobody can impose what to do and what to say. The same thing concerns both cinema and life “
The story of To Simple accident It is truly paradigmatic. A father of the family, driving his car, kills a dog by mistake. This insignificant fact will change his life. The man brings the car to the first mechanical workshop he finds. Even before seeing him in the face, at the sole noise of his prostheses, he believes he recognizes a ruthless inspector of the regime in the owner.
What, when he was in prison, for months and months he tortured him mercilessly. An intense drama in which the echo of Death and the girl by Roman Polanski.
Jafar Panahi wins the golden palm at the Cannes 2025 festival (Getty Images)
In Nadia Melliti the prize for female interpretation
The French actor Daniel Auteuil delivered The prize for the best female interpretation is a super excited Nadia Melliti. The actress is the protagonist of The Petite Dernière of the director Franco – Algerian Hafsia Herzi.
In this brave and very current film, Melliti is Fatima, the younger daughter of a family of Algerian immigrants of Muslim religion. Raised in a risk neighborhood, with tenacity and ambition he decides to leave his suburban school to enroll in a high school that could give her a better future. When he discovers he tried attraction for girls, he enters a deep religious conflict. The film also received the Queer Palmrecognition assigned to the film with LGBTQIA+values.
Cannes, France – May 24: Hafsia Herzi and Nadia Melliti, winner of the Award for best actress for “The Little Sister”, pose with the Best Actress Prize during the photocall of the winners of the Palma d’Or at the 78th Cannes Film Festival, at the Palais des Festivals, on May 24, 2025 in Cannes, France. (Photo by Andreas Rentz/Getty Images)
Disappointment for Jennifer Lawrence, favored for the victory grace toThe excruciating role of mother literally devastated by postpartum depression. His performance is ready to win a figurine at the next night of the 2026 Oscars. Double disappointment for Valeria Golino and Matilda De Angelis: Italy cheered for them.
To Wagner Moura the prize for male interpretation
The Spanish actress Rossy de Palma, Muse by Pedro Almodovar, announced The prize for male interpretation: Wagner Moura (Narcos) protagonist of The Secret Agent. Because of his absence at the ceremony, the same director of the film, Kleber Mendonça Filho, was on stage and thanking the jury. The Brazilian filmmaker, visibly moved and surprised, thanked the jury and recalled the importance of political commitment also in the film story.
The Brazilian director Kleber Mendonca Filho poses with his partner, the French film producer Emilie Leschlaux, during a photocall after winning the prize for the best director for the film “O Agent Secreto” (the secret agent) and the prize for best actor for the Brazilian actor Wagner Moura during the closing ceremony of the 78th edition of the Cannes Festival, in Cannes, in the southern France, in the southern France. May 2025
The Secret Agent chooses a precise political moment both to tell fragments of past history and to describe the difficult present. In 1977, during the Gorillas military dictatorship, for the Carnival holidays, the engineer Marcelo (Wagner Moura) set off to go to visit his son in Recife. Soon, he discovers that someone has been following him for some time. What should be a moment of family tranquility, turns into a Political drama that speaks of repression and terrible political secrets.
Who won the Cannes 2025 festival? All the winners
In addition to the golden palm to the best film in competition, the jury led by Juliette Binochemade up of professionals from the world of cinema such as the Indian director Payal Kapadia, the actress Alba Rohrwacher, the director Hong Sangsoo, the actor Jeremy Strong assigned the special Grand Prix to Sentimental Value of the Norwegian Joachim Trier. Four years after The worst person in the world, Trier directs Stellan Skarsgard, Renate Reinveve and the beautiful and algid Elle Fanning in a delicate and intense story of fathers and daughters.
For the sisters Nora and Agnes Borg, belonging to a dynasty of famous theater actors, It is a difficult moment. The mother has just died and at the funeral, After years of absence, Father Gustav (Skarsgard), a well -known director. The man proposes to shoot a film in the house of the ex -wifeasking Nora (Reinveve) to be his protagonist. The daughter rejects and, in place, arrives Rachel (Fanning) young American star. Trier fishing in full hands with the gloomy intimism of Ibsen, and the analytical depth of Ingmar Bergman.
The local director Alice Rohrwacher assigned The Camèra d’Or for the first work at the Iraqi film by Hasan Hadi, The President’s Cake. Actor John C. Reilly (Boogie Nights) loved by Paul Thomas Anderson, he gave The prize for the best screenplay to the Dardenne brothers for The maison maternalle. The two authors of the French committed cinema thanked all 5 actresses protagonists of their delicate and poignant all female history.
The Dardenne brothers awarded for the best script AA Cannes 2025
The prizes already awarded
During the ceremony, the director David Lynch was remembered with great affection, recently disappeared. For the a Certain Regard section, theThe best film award went to The mysterious Mirada del Flamenco by Diego Céspedes. The jury award a A poet by Simón Mesa Soto. Best direction to Arab & Tarzan Nasser for Once Upon a Time in Gaza. Pillion, Work before Harry Lighton, he won the screenplay award.
Cleo Diàra is the best actress for Or rice and beach by Pedro Pinho. The prize to the best actor goes to Frank Dillane for Urchin, directed by Harris Dickinson. Robert De Niro was rewarded with the golden palm to his career. Moved and very combative, he used the stage for a vibrant political speech, attacking the controversial work of American President Donald Trump without filters. To Denzel Washington the golden palm of honor.
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