Awards & Honours
Cannes Film Festival
▪ Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi’s revenge thriller It Was Just an Accident won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival handing the festival’s top prize to a director who had been banned from leaving Iran for more than 15 years.
▪ The Grand Prix, or second prize, was awarded to Joachim Trier’s Norwegian family
drama Sentimental Value, his lauded follow-up to The Worst Person in the World.
▪ Kleber Mendonça Filho’s Brazilian political thriller The Secret Agent won two big awards: best director for Mr. Fihlo and best actor for Wagner Moura. Best actress went to Nadia Melliti for The Little Sister.
