After almost two weeks, the 2025 Cannes Film Festival concluded on Saturday, May 24, at the Grand Theatre Lumiere, with a ceremony to award the best of its 22 films. The winners of 78th edition of the Cannes Film Festival were selected by a jury presided over by French actor Juliette Binoche. The jury members included Payal Kapadia, Halle Berry, Jeremy Strong, Alba Rohrwacher, Hong Sansoo, Dieudo Hamadi, Leila Slimani, and Carlos Reygados.
The Palme d바카라Or, the fest바카라s top honour, went to Iranian director Jafar Panahi for his revenge thriller It Was Just an Accident. The award was presented to him by Cate Blanchett. Binoche was also present onstage who cheered for him along with the crowd.
During his acceptance speech, Panahi said, 바카라Let us join forces,바카라 and added, 바카라No one should dare tell us what kind of clothes we should wear, what we should do or what we should not do. The cinema is a society. Nobody is entitled to tell what we should or refrain from doing.바카라
The Grand Prix 바카라 the festival바카라s second-highest award 바카라went to Norwegian director Joachim Trier's Sentimental Value, while Sirat and Sound of Falling (tie) took home the Jury Prize.
The best director prize went to Kleber Mendonça Filho for The Secret Agent, Best actor award went to Wagner Moura, for The Secret Agent, and best actress trophy was taken by Nadia Melliti for The Little Sister.
The Camera d바카라Or prize for Best First Film went to The President바카라s Cake, by Hasan Hadi.
Have a look at the full list of winners of Cannes 2025 main competition
Palme d바카라Or: It Was Just an Accident, Jafar Panahi
Grand Prix: Sentimental Value, Joachim Trier
Jury Prize: Sirat, Oliver Laxe, and Sound of Falling, Mascha Salinski (Tie)
Best Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho, The Secret Agent
Best Actor: Wagner Moura, The Secret Agent
Best Actress: Nadia Melliti, The Little Sister
Best Screenplay: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Young Mothers
Special Prize: Resurrection, Bi Gan
Other awards
Camera d바카라Or (Best First Film): The President바카라s Cake, Hasan Hadi
Special mention: My Father바카라s Shadow, Akinola Davies Jr
Short Film Palme d바카라Or: I바카라m Glad You바카라re Dead Now, Tawfeek Barhom
Short Film Special Mention: Ali, Adnan Al Rajeev
The prizes for the Un Certain Regard, the Directors바카라 Fortnight audience award, and Critics바카라 Week awards were announced earlier this week.
Unlike last year, only one Indian film, Homebound by Neeraj Ghaywan, competed in the Un Certain Regard category of Cannes 2025. It did not win any prize at the film festival though it received lots of praises from the Cannes audience. Ghaywan's previous film, Masaan, which competed in the same category at Cannes 2015, bagged two awards at the festival.
A Doll Made Up of Clay, which was Indian entry in the festival, also failed to win an award in the event바카라s La Cinef competition for film schools.
Un Certain Regard
Top Prize: The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo, Diego CĂ©spedes
Jury Prize: A Poet, Simon Mesa Soto
Best Director: Tarzan and Arab Nasser, Once Upon a Time in Gaza
Performance Awards: Cleo Diara, I Only Rest in the Storm; Frank Dillane, Urchin
Best Screenplay: Harry Lighton, Pillion
Special Mention: Norah, Tawfik Alzaidi
Critics바카라 Week
Grand Prize: A Useful Ghost, Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke
French Touch Prize: Imago, Deni Oumar Pitsaev
GAN Foundation Award for Distribution: Left-Handed Girl, Le Pacte Louis Roederer
Foundation Rising Star: Theodore Pellerin, Nino
Leitz Cine Discovery Prize (Short): L'mina, Randa Maroufi
SACD Prize (Short): Sleepless City, Guillermo Galoe & Victor Alonso-Berbel
Canal+ Short Film Award: Erogenesis, Xandra Popescu
Directors바카라 Fortnight
Audience Award: The President바카라s Cake, Hasan Hadi
Europa Cinemas Label Award for Best European Film: Wild Foxes, Valéry Carnoy
SACD Prize for Best French Film: Wild Foxes, Valéry Carnoy
Carrosse d바카라Or: Todd Haynes
L바카라Ćil d바카라or
Imago, DĂ©ni Oumar Pitsaev
Special Jury Prize: The Six Billion Dollar Man, Eugene Jarecki
Queer Palm
The Little Sister, Hafsia Herzi
Best Short Film: Bleat!, Ananth Subramaniam
Cannes Soundtrack Award: Kangding Ray for Sirat
Cinéfondation
First Prize: First Summer, Heo Gayoung (KAFA, South Korea)
Second Prize: 12 Moments Before the Flag-Raising Ceremony, Qu Zhizheng (Beijing Film Academy, China)
Third Prize: Ginger Boy (Separated) by Miki Tanaka (ENBU Seminar, Japan) and Winter in March by Natalia Mirzoyan (Estonian Academy of Arts, Estonia) (Tie)
Immersive Competition
From Dust by Michel van der Aa
FIPRESCI Prizes
In Competition: The Secret Agent, Kleber Mendonça Filho
Un Certain Regard: Urchin, Harris Dickinson
Parallel Section (first features): Dandelion바카라s Odyssey, Momoko Sato
Prix François Chalais: Two Prosecutors, Sergei Loznitsa
Prix de la Citoyenneté
Citizenship Prize: It Was Just an Accident, Jafar Panahi
Prix des Cinémas Art et Essai
AFCAE Art House Cinema Award: The Secret Agent, Kleber Mendonça Filho
Special Mention: SirĂąt, Oliver Laxe
Palm Dog
Panda for The Love That Remains
Grand Jury Prize: Pipa and Lupita for SirĂąt
Mutt Moment: Hippo for Pillion
