Cannes Film Festival 2023, all the winners

«Long live the cinema!»: the 76th Cannes Film Festival ends with the joyful cry – strictly in Italian – of the godmother Chiara Mastroianni.

The awards ceremony highlighted the commitment to gender equality and not just because Justine Triet won the Palme d’Or with Anatomies of a chute. On stage she said: “This is the most intimate film I’ve ever written, I didn’t think I would receive any awards, but I would have moved on quickly. Instead I dedicate it to young directors and to those who can’t make a film. Let’s make room for them!” The French film is a thriller centered on the mysterious disappearance of a head of the family in a remote place in the mountains.

Justine Triet received the most coveted award from the hands of Jane Fonda who commented: “My first time in Cannes was in 1963. At the time there were no female directors and nobody thought it was wrong. Today there are seven in competition: it is historic but one day it will be normal».

The zone of interesta critically acclaimed movie set during the Holocaust, earned the Best Picture title: Director Jonathan Glazer loosely adapted Martin Amis’ novel of the same name. He recounts the horror of the concentration camp without ever showing it because the perspective is that of a German family living next to Auschwitz. The smoke, the train, the screams, the yelping of the dogs: every detail seems distant and faded, but the viewer experiences it on the skin like a well-aimed slap. Quentin Tarantino presented him with the award with his usual panache next to his idol Roger Corman saying: «I don’t understand the meaning of the definition“ guilty pleasure ”. For me, pleasure is pleasure.” The reference is to genre films that he loves to watch and make, as he recounted during the masterclass with the audience who, in order to find a seat in the theatre, queued for 9 hours sitting on the asphalt in front of the cinema.

Among the presenters, in addition to the Hollywood glamor of Orlando Bloom, the protagonist of Holy Spider, winner of the best actress of the last edition, the Iranian Zahra Amir Ebrahimi: «Men love awards, sometimes for the wrong reasons but not tonight». To triumph as her heir is the Turkish interpreter Merve Dizdar for the film Kuru Otlar Ustune – which deals with the theme of sexual harassment – by Nuri Bilge Ceylan who echoed the words of her colleague: «My character fights for her life and I know very well what it means to be a woman in certain countries. I dedicate the prize to all the women who fight to exist in this world».

Many Asian projects have been appreciated and awarded in this 76th edition of the Cannes Film Festival. For Italyinstead, represented by three directors (Marco Bellocchio, Nanni Moretti and Alice Rohrwacher), no acknowledgmenteven if the films were very popular in theaters.

All the winners of the main awards at the 76th Cannes Film Festival:

Golden Palm: Anatomies of a chute by Justine Triet

Golden Room: The Tree of Golden Butterflies by Vietnamese director Thien An Pham

Best Actress: Merve Dizdar (Kuru Otlar Ustune) by Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Best Screenplay: Sakamoto Yuji (Monsters by Kore-Eda Hirokazu)

Best Actor: Japanese Koji Yakusho (perfect days by Wim Wenders)

Jury Prize: Kuolleet Lehdet (The dead leaves) by Aki Kaurismaki

Best Director: Tran Anh Hung (The passion of Dodin Bouffant)

Grand Prix: The Zone of Interest by Jonathan Glazer

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