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2 weeks ago | screendaily.com | Orlando Parfitt

Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just An Accident has won the Palme d’Or at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, which wrapped tonight (May 24) at the Grand Theatre Lumiere. It is the Iranian director’s first film since his release from prison and follows a man, his heavily pregnant wife and their young daughter, as they get in a minor car accident and the chain of events that is then set in motion.

2 weeks ago | screendaily.com | Orlando Parfitt

Source: FDC/Cannes Film Festival The closing ceremony of the 2025 Cannes Film Festival takes place today (May 24) at 18:40 CEST (17.40 BST) at the Grand Theatre Lumiere. The ceremony will take place on schedule after a massive power cut earlier on in the day in the region. It will broadcast live on France 2, as well as online in various cinemas across France and via Brut. It will be followed by a screening of the Palme d’Or winning film.

2 weeks ago | screendaily.com | Orlando Parfitt

Source: Andrejs Strokins - SBS Productions / Mk2 Sergei Loznitsa’s Two Prosecutors and Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just An Accident finished joint top of Screen’s final 2025 Cannes jury grid with an average score of 3.1. The final two titles on the grid, the Dardenne brothers’ Young Mothers, and Kelly Reichardt’s The Mastermind, both landed with 2.7. See the final grid below: Young Mothers sees the Dardenne brothers return to Competition with the story of five teenagers, all housed in a shelter for...

2 weeks ago | screendaily.com | Orlando Parfitt

Source: Cannes International Film Festival Diego Céspedes’ The Mysterious Gaze Of The Flamingo has won the top prize in the Un Certain Regard section of this year’s Cannes Film Festival (May 13-24). The Chilean drama centres around an unknown illness said to be transmitted through a man’s loving gaze. Chile’s Quijote Films and France’s Les Valseurs produce, with Charades handling sales. The jury prize went to Simon Mesa Soto’s A Poet.

2 weeks ago | screendaily.com | Ben Dalton |Louise Tutt |Rebecca Leffler |Orlando Parfitt

Source: Billy Ward / Cannes Film Festival / Laurent Vu / Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (li From tariffs to trees, there was plenty to talk about at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Screen gathers together the major discussion points from this year’s event, which concludes tomorrow (May 24) with the Palme d’Or prize-giving ceremony. One company has dominated the Cannes Competition deals so far.