Golden palm for Jafar Panahi | EUROtoday

Cannes’s jury has awarded her costs brave cinema, which units clear messages in confused political occasions: the competition is the Iranian director Jafar Panahi, who acquired the Golden Palm for his movie “It was just an accident”. Panahi, to whom the Iranian authorities had banned the departure from 2010, had managed to get to the competition for the primary time in 15 years.

It was solely launched from jail two years in the past after he had stepped right into a starvation strike. In Cannes he informed journalists about his detention: “My cell was not four square meters in size. I was only let me go twice a day and my eyes were connected to me.” He was continually interrogated, typically as much as eight hours a day.

All of those experiences flowed into his new movie. In “IT WHAT ACCIDENT”, a automobile mechanic believes that he acknowledges the person who tortured him in jail in a household man whose station wagon has remained. Without additional ado, he kidnaps him and takes the prisoner to different former prisoners. On the grotesque highway journey, a bride and groom, a photographer and her warmth -headed ex -boyfriend will be discovered within the van along with her suspected tormentor a short while later. Panahi is by political and ethical questions: Can you forgive somebody whose deeds are nonetheless getting ready nightmares? Or must you take revenge with the identical strategies the tormentor used? Do you go into injustice from the regulation? Panahi’s reply to that is differentiated with out refraining from figuring out them; The Golden Palm acknowledges this filmmaker, who nonetheless secretly directed even beneath the federal government’s work ban, for this perspective, in addition to for its persistence.

The Norwegian Joachim Trier was honored for “Sentimental Value” with the good value of the jury, who was in competitors with a slight tone to mix extreme subjects (growing old, loss of life, loss of life, Norway’s crime). He knew how you can hit it in 2021 when his movie “The worst person in the world” was in competitors. Although that movie was already thought-about the top of the director’s Oslo trilogy, “Sentimental Value” will also be added as an epilogue of numerous connections. The plot concentrates in massive elements on an previous picket home in Norway’s capital and appears on the lives of various generations of a household that lived in its room.

An identical story, however in a very totally different means, the function movie “Look in the sun” by Mascha Schilinski tells. The Berliner spans an arc over a century in her drama and interweaves the fates of 4 ladies and younger ladies in an distinctive means. The story of the narrative is a 4 -sided courtyard and its surrounding space close to the Elbe within the Altmark. Schilinski lets her movie bounce between the time ranges and thus establishes connections between their protagonists who’re all attempting to free themselves from the expertise of violence and sexual harassment. For this, the German filmmaker acquired the “Prize of the Jury”, with which Spanish director Oliver Laxe was additionally awarded for his drama “Sirât”.

The Brazilian Wagner Moura acquired the prize as the most effective actor for his roles in Kleber Mendonça Filhos “The Secret Agent”. The movie acquired two awards, which is uncommon for Cannes; Filho was additionally in a position to settle for the value for the most effective director. In the thriller, who performs in 1977 whereas Brazil’s navy dictatorship, Wagner Moura provides a left -wing scientist to which a patent -like entrepreneur has uncovered a bounty. Filho interwoves the historic act with a second time wherein college students attempt to analyze the occasions from the seventies-here too Moura (who gave the drug boss Pablo Escobar within the Netflix collection “Narcos” and performed a warfare photographer in Alex Garland’s “Civil War”), as a very totally different individual, and thus impressively confirmed the span of his performing in a movie Can.

As the most effective actress, the jury honored the younger French girl Nadia Melliti. Director Hafsia Herzi had solid the main actress for her movie “The Youngest Daughter” throughout a Pride Parade in Paris. Melliti performs Fatima, a 17-year-old with Algerian roots, who we watch when discovering her id. Fatima is lesbian, begins tentative to information, finds a good friend, however has conscience due to her sexual orientation as a result of she was introduced up Muslim. Fatima has to endure many contradictions, it’s onerous and on the identical time fragile, shy and demanding when she has discovered one thing that she desires – Melliti finds all this a pure entry that it types right into a convincing function.

The most vital awards:

– Goldene Palme: „It Was Just an Accident“ von Jafar Panahi

– Great value of the jury: “Sentimental Value” by Joachim Trier

– Price of the jury: “Look in the sun” by Mascha Schilinski and “Sirât” by Oliver Laxe

– Beste Regie: Kleber Mendonça Filho Für „The Secret Agent“

– Special value of the jury: “Resurrection” by BI GAN

– Best actress: Nadia Melliti for “La Petite Dernière”

– Bester Schauspieler: Wagner Moura Für „The Secret Agent“ Von Kleber Mendonça Filho

– Bestes Drehbuch: Jean-Pierre und Luc Dardenne für „Young moms“