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Jurors: Spike Lee (president), Mati Diop, Mylène Farmer, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Mélanie Laurent, Kleber Mendonça Filho, Tahar Rahim, Song Kang-ho
 

 
Palme d'Or:Titane, France, dir. Julia Ducournau
Grand Jury Prize:Compartment No. 6, Finland, dir. Juho Kuosmanen
A Hero, Iran, dir. Asghar Farhadi
Jury Prize: Ahed's Knee, Israeli, dir. Nadav Lapid,
Memoria, Thailand, dir. Apichatpong Weereasethakul
Best Director:Annette, Leos Carax
Best Actress:The Worst Person in the World, Renate Reinsve
Best Actor:Nitram, Caleb Landry Jones
Best Screenplay:Drive My Car, Ryūsuke Hamaguchi & Takamasa Oe
FIPRESCI/International
    Critics Prize:
Drive My Car, Ryūsuke Hamaguchi & Takamasa Oe
Prize of the Ecumenical Jury:Drive My Car, Ryūsuke Hamaguchi & Takamasa Oe
Caméra d'Or (first feature):Murina, Croatia/Slovenia, dir. Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović



Competition Films I Have Seen:
Ranked in order of preference
 
My Palme d'Or

Drive My Car (Japan, dir. Ryūsuke Hamaguchi) -

Memoria (Colombia/France, dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul) -

Compartment No. 6 (Finland, dir. Juho Kuosmanen) -

Titane (France, dir. Julia Ducournau) -

Annette (France/Germany/Belgium, dir. Leos Carax) -

Nitram (Australia, dir. Justin Kurzel) -

Ahed's Knee (Israel, dir. Nadav Lapid) -

The French Dispatch (USA, dir. Wes Anderson) -

Lingui: The Sacred Bonds (Chad, dir. Mahamat-Saleh Haroun) -

Benedetta (France/Netherlands, dir. Paul Verhoeven) -

Paris, 13th District (France, dir. Jacques Audiard) -

A Hero (Iran, dir. Asghar Farhadi) -

The Worst Person in the World (Norway, dir. Joachim Trier) -

Red Rocket (USA, dir. Sean Baker) -

Bergman Island (France, dir. Mia Hansen-Løve) -



Sidebar Selections I Have Seen:
Ranked in order of preference
 
Prayers for the Stolen (Un Certain Regard, Mexico, dir. Tatiana Huezo) -

Great Freedom (Un Certain Regard, Austria, dir. Sebastian Meise) -

Babi Yar. Context (Special Screenings, Ukraine, dir. Sergei Loznitsa) -

Neptune Frost (Directors' Fortnight, USA/Rwanda, dir. Saul Williams & Anisia Uzeyman) -

Murina (Directors' Fortnight, Croatia/Slovenia, dir. Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovió) -

A Chiara (Directors' Fortnight, Italy, dir. Jonas Carpignano) -

The Velvet Underground (Out of Competition, USA, dir. Todd Haynes) -

Hit the Road (Directors' Fortnight, Iran, dir. Panah Panahi) -

Monrovia, Indiana (USA, dir. Frederick Wiseman)

The Tsugua Diaries (Directors' Fortnight, Portugal, dir. Miguel Gomes & Maureen Fazendeiro) -

After Yang (Un Certain Regard, USA, dir. Kogonada) -

Playground (Un Certain Regard, Belgium, dir. Laura Wandel) -

The Gravedigger's Wife (Critics' Week, France/Somalia, dir. Khadar Ayderus Ahmed) -

The Souvenir, Part II (Directors' Fortnight, UK, dir. Joanna Hogg) -

Oscar Micheaux: The Superhero of Black Filmmaking (Out of Competition, Italy/USA, dir. Francesco Zippel) -

Stillwater (Out of Competition, USA, dir. Tom McCarthy) -



Films in the Main Competition:
Ranked in order of interest; more on this year's lineup here (opens in a new window)
 
Petrov's Flu (Russia, dir. Kirill Serebrennikov)

Casablanca Beats (Morocco, dir. Nabil Ayouch)

Everything Went Fine (France, dir. François Ozon)

The Divide (Fracture) (France, dir. Catherine Corsini)

France (France, dir. Bruno Dumont)

The Story of My Wife (Hungary/France, dir. Ildikó Enyédi)

Flag Day (USA, dir. Sean Penn)

The Restless (Belgium, dir. Joachim Lafosse) -

Three Floors (Italy, dir. Nanni Moretti)



Sidebar Films I'm Curious to See:
Listed alphabetically; click names of sidebars for more titles (in a new window)
 
Un Certain Regard: Blue Bayou (USA, dir. Justin Chon)

House Arrest (Russia, dir. Aleksey German, Jr.)

Lamb (Iceland, dir. Valdimar Jóhannsson)

Let It Be Morning (Israel, dir. Eran Kolirin)

Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle (France, dir. Arthur Harari)

Unclenching the Fists (Russia, dir. Kira Kovalenko)

Directors' Fortnight: Ali & Ava (UK, dir. Clio Barnard)

Between Two Worlds (France, dir. Emmanuel Carrère)

Clara Sola (Sweden/Costa Rica, dir. Nathalie Álvarez Mesén)

Întregalde (Romania, dir. Radu Muntean)

A Night of Knowing Nothing (India/France, dir. Payal Kapadia)

The Tale of King Crab (Italy, dir. Alessio Rigo de Righi & Matteo Zoppis)

Critics' Week: Libertad (Spain, dir. Clara Roquet)

Zero Fucks Given (France, dir. Julie Lecoustre & Emmanuel Marre)

Out of Competition: Aline (France, dir. Valérie Lemercier)

Belle (Japan, dir. Mamoru Hosoda)

Cow (UK, dir. Andrea Arnold)

David Byrne's American Utopia (USA, dir. Spike Lee)

Deception (France, dir. Arnaud Desplechin)

Evolution (Japan, dir. Kornél Mundruczó)

Hold Me Tight (France, dir. Mathieu Amalric)

In Front of Your Face (South Korea, dir. Hong Sang-soo)

Jane by Charlotte (France, dir. Charlotte Gainsbourg)

JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass (USA, dir. Oliver Stone)

Mariner of the Mountains (Brazil, dir. Karim Aïnouz)

Mothering Sunday (UK, dir. Eva Husson)

The Storms of Jeremy Thomas (UK, dir. Mark Cousins)

Val (USA, dir. Ting Poo & Leo Scott)

Vortex (France, dir. Gaspar Noé)


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