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: The Jury and the 2017 winners Image Credit : Alberto Pizzoli : AFP

Cannes Film Festival 2017 ends with just as much grandeur as the last 70 years. The thousands of films, masterclasses, and fashion on the red carpet represents the best in film and arts.

The juries enjoyed film after film. The jury members include:

: Ruben Östlund, Palme d'or - The Square Image Credit : Loic Venance : AFP

Feature Films Jury

Pedro ALM OD ÓVAR – President
(Director, Screenwriter, Producer – Spain)
Maren ADE (Director, Screenwriter, Producer - Germany)
Jessica CHASTAIN (Actress, Producer - United States)
FAN Bingbing (Actress, Producer - China)
Agnès JAOUI (Actress, Screenwriter, Director, Singer – France)
PARK Chan-wook (Director, Screenwriter, Producer - South Korea)
Will SMITH (Actor, Producer, Musician – United States
Paolo SORRENTINO (Director, Screenwriter - Italy)
Gabriel YARED (Composer – France)

: The Jury and the winners of Un Certain Regard 2017© Christophe Bouillon - FDC Cannes Film Festival

Un Certain Regard

Uma Thurman
Mohamed Diab
Reda Kateb
Joachim Lafosse
Karel Och

: The winners of the 2017 Cinéfondation © Mathilde Petit - FDC Cannes Film Festival

Cinéfondation

Cristian Mungiu
Clotilde Hesme
Athina Rachel Tsangari
Barry Jenkins
Eric Khoo

The closing ceremonies ended the festival with honoring the top films with a presentation. Nicole Kidman in regards to her honor, states (video from Nashville Tennessee) "I feel blessed to be able to work in this profession. The 70th celebration was incredible; it was the celebration of cinema and stories." This season Cannes Film Festival continued draw positive attention to the top world class film festival. Looking forward to 70 more years at Cannes.

See the photos from Cannes Film Festival here.

Feature Films

PALME D'OR
THE SQUARE by Ruben ÖSTLUND

70th Anniversary Award
Nicole KIDMAN

GRAND PRIX
120 BATTEMENTS PAR MINUTE (BPM – Beats Per Minute)
by Robin CAMPILLO

BEST DIRECTOR
Sofia COPPOLA for THE BEGUILED

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR
Joaquin PHOENIX in YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE by Lynne RAMSAY

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS
Diane KRUGER in AUS DEM NICHTS (In The Fade) by Fatih AKIN

JURY PRIZE
NELYUBOV (Loveless) by Andrey ZVYAGINTSEV

BEST SCREENPLAY EX-ÆQUO
Yorgos LANTHIMOS and Efthimis FILIPPOU
for THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER
Lynne RAMSAY
for YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE

SHORT FILMS

PALME D'OR
XIAO CHENG ER YUE (A Gentle Night) by QIU Yang

MENTION DISTINCTION BY THE JURY
KATTO (The Ceiling) by Teppo AIRAKSINEN
CAMÉRA D'OR

“UN CERTAIN REGARD” PRIZE
LERD (UN HOMME INTÈGRE – A MAN OF INTEGRITY)
by Mohammad Rasoulof

PRIZE FOR BEST ACTRESS
JASMINE TRINCA for FORTUNATA by Sergio Castellitto

PRIZE FOR THE BEST POETIC NARRATIVE
BARBARA de Mathieu Amalric

PRIZE FOR BEST DIRECTION
Taylor Sheridan for WIND RIVER

JURY PRIZE
LAS HIJAS DE ABRIL (APRIL’S DAUGHTER) by Michel Franco

JEUNE FEMME (Montparnasse Bienvenüe) by Léonor SERRAILLE
presented at UN CERTAIN REGARD
The CST Jury awarded the VULCAIN PRIZE FOR ARTIST-TECHNICIAN to: Josefin ASBERG

The Cinéfondation and Short Films

First Prize
PAUL EST LÀ (Paul Is Here )
directed by Valentina MAUREL
INSAS, Belgium

Second Prize
HEYVAN (AniMal )
directed by Bahram & Bahman ARK
Iranian National School of Cinema, Iran

Third Prize
DEUX ÉGARÉS SONT MORTS (Two Youths Died)
directed by Tommaso USBERTI
La Fémis, France

Awards
€15,000 grant for the First Prize, €11,250 for the Second and €7,500 for the Third.
The winner of the First Prize is also guaranteed the presentation of his/her first feature film at the Festival de Cannes.

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The awarded films will be screen at Cinéma du Panthéon on May 30th at 7 p.m.
All the films of the Cinéfondation selection will screen at the Cinémathèque Française on May 31st & June 1st.

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Cannes Film Festival continues to be a strong influence for film with recognition of students and short films. Julianne Moore states on the red carpet this evening, "It is the most important film festival in the world. Cinéfondation and short film selection for young film directors a location to demonstrate the strong upcoming talent.

Cinéfondation created in 1998 is devoted to the search for new talent, sometimes referred to as head hunting for talented young directors. Gilles Jacob began this initiative and continued to over see this selection until 2015.

There is a selection of fifteen to twenty short and medium-length films each year from film schools all over the world. This year Palme d’Odr (short films) and Cinéfondation includes several animated films and a few anticipated world premieres.

This year's jury is presided by President Cristian Mungiu. He is a Romanian filmmaker and writer. He is well-known at Cannes. 2007 he received the Golden Palm for his film 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days. The jury includes a world-wide representation:

: Barry Jenkins Tarell Alvin McCraney Oscars 2017

Clotilde HESME Actress (France)
Barry JENKINS Director, screenwriter, and Academy Award Winner (United States)
Eric KHOO Director, screenwriter, producer (Singapore)
Athina Rachel TSANGARI Director, screenwriter, producer (Greece)

Cinéfondation and Short Jury awards a prize to the best three at an official ceremony Friday, May, 26th at the Buñuel Theatre, which will be followed by a screening of the winning films.

This year's films include:

Palme d’Or Short Film Titles

: A Drowning Man Cannes Film Festival 2017

A DROWNING MAN
- Director Mahdi FLEIFEL
- Actors Mahdi FLEIFEL, Jalal QANIRY, Rebih EL-SALEOUS, Mounir ALKHATEEB, Thymios KOUKIOS
- Country Denmark, United Kingdom, Greece
- Synopsis Alone and far from home, The Kid makes his way through a strange city looking for the means to get through his day. Surrounded by predators he is forced to make compromises merely to survive, his life of exile grows one day longer.
ACROSS MY LAND
- Director Fiona GODIVIER
- Actors Summer Phoenix, Timothy V. Murphy, Preston Bailey
- Country USA, FRENCH
- Synopsis Father and son 'minutemen' patrol the American/Mexican border near their home in Nogales, Arizona.
- Trailer https://vimeo.com/200158464
DAMIANA
- Director Andrés RAMIREZ PULIDO
- Actors Magaly Lopez, Yaneth Sanchez
- Country Colombia
- Synopsis Deep inside the jungle, a group of teenage girls are being kept under supervision. Despite abandonment and hostility, Damiana hopes she can get in touch with her father.
- Trailer https://vimeo.com/215791881

: The Ceiling Cannes Film Festival 2017

KATTO (The Ceiling)
- Director Teppo AIRAKSINEN
- Actors Inna Bodson, Juho Milonoff, Pekka Strang
- Country Finland
- Synopsis On the brink of divorce a middle aged man, Olavi, retreats to his cabin by the lake. After a few days he finds that the ceiling has come down making him unable to stand up straight. His friend Tuomas arrives and insists that something has to be done whereas Olavi is content with the limited space.
KONIEC WIDZENIA (Time to go)
- Director Grzegorz MOŁDA
- Country Poland
- Synopsis Marta works at her father's automobile repair shop. After her boyfriend is arrested, Marta is faced with a difficult choice: to stay loyal to her father, or to do what it takes to get her boyfriend released. Marta's situation is complicated by a secret that she needs to reveal to both of the men in her life.
LUNCH TIME
- Director Alireza GHASEMI
- Actors Roya Bakhtiyari, Siavash Cheraghipoor,Khorshid Cheraghipour
- Country Iran
- Synopsis A 16-year-old girl has come to the hospital to identify the body of her mother. The people in charge at the hospital - due to her young age - won't let her into the morgue.
PÉPÉ LE MORSE - animation (Grandpa Walrus)
- Director Lucrèce ANDREAE
- Country France
- Trailer https://vimeo.com/184565646
- Social Media
  - Tumblr http://pepelemorse.tumblr.com/

: Push It Cannes Film Festival 2017

PUSH IT
- Director Julia THELIN
- Actors Geneth Gurmu, Jeremiah Jeppson, Emilia Azar
- Country Sweden
- Synopsis PUSH IT is a film about never being able to win, even though you're the best. Hedda tries to approach Adam in every way she can, but everything she does turns out wrong. But Adam gets to break all the rules. PUSH IT explores structures, physicality, identity and emotions. With the gym hall as its arena.
XIAO CHENG ER YUE (A Gentle Night)
- Director QIU Yang
- Country China
- Synopsis In a nameless Chinese city, a mother with her daughter missing, refuses to go gentle into this good night.
- Trailer https://vimeo.com/214525304

Cinéfondation Film Titles

BEN MAMSHICH (Heritage)
- Director Yuval AHARONI
- Country Israel
- Synopsis Noam, a young gay man, discovers that his father, who just died, had a secret affair with a married man. He follows and meets that man. He now holds his father’s secret.
- Trailer http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/festival/web-tv/trailer/ben-mamshich
HEYVAN (Animal)
- Directors Bahman ARK, Bahman ARK
- Country Iran
- Trailer http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/festival/web-tv/trailer/heyvan

: ATLANTÍDA, 2003 (Atlantis, 2003) Cannes

ATLANTÍDA, 2003 (Atlantis, 2003)
- Director Michal BLAŠKO
- Actors Elizaveta Maximová, Levan Mania, and Vladislav Šarišský
- Country Iran
- Synopsis Martin and Denisija, a young couple from Ukraine, are trying to get to Germany.
- Trailer https://vimeo.com/216033189
LEJLA
- Director Stijn BOUMA
- Actors Lejla Hadžić, Vedad Terzić, and Slobodan Čabaković
- Country Bosnia and Herzegovina | Netherlands
- Synopsis Lejla, a young woman from Sarajevo, takes care of her elderly father and feels stuck in her life. One day she meets Vedad and they fall in love. He offers her the chance of leaving with him, but she's unsure of what's best for her future.

: VAZIO DO LADO DE FORA (Empty on the Outside) Cannes Film Festival 2017

VAZIO DO LADO DE FORA (Empty on the Outside)
- Director Eduardo BRANDÃO PINTO
- Actors Dja MARTHINS, Claudia BARBOT, Samara COSTA, Hugo GRATIVOL, Lorena BLANES, Ana Rosa OLIVEIRA, Thais THEDIM, Wilian SANTIAGO, Rollo ROLLO, Jorge Luiz, JERONYMO, Beatriz GOMES, Eddie MIRANDA, Leonardo SERRA, Augusto FONTES JR, Maria DA PENHA, and Kiko ANDRADE
- Country Brazil
- Synopsis After the demolition of the houses and streets, the bodies or the life in pieces remained. There, a girl got ready for a party, a lady prayed, a daughter doubled shirts, a couple counted stars, a boy jumped on a bicycle, another onde danced with his turtle. Film recorded at Vila Autódromo, a community that resisted the devastation in Rio in 2016 during the Olympics.
- Trailer https://vimeo.com/188897931
TOKERU
- Director Aya IGASHI
- Country Japan
- Synopsis A couple is flirting in the classroom. Sitting on the other’s lap, kissing… Mako sits looking disgruntled. She leaves the classroom, passes through a path between paddy fields in the countryside, and arrives at a river. She then jumps into the river from the bridge still in uniform.
- Trailer http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/festival/web-tv/trailer/tokeru

: Afternoon Clouds Cannes Film Festival 2017

AFTERNOON CLOUDS
- Director Payal KAPADIA
- Country India
- Synopsis Afternoon Clouds depicts a 60-year old widow, who lives with her Nepali maid, Malati. The entire movie revolves around a single afternoon in their house. This film features Usha Naik and Trimala Adhikari.
À PERDRE HALEINE (To Lose Haleine)
- Director Léa KRAWCZYK
- Country France
CAMOUFLAGE
- Director Imge ÖZBILGE
- Country Indonesia | Turkey | Belgium
- Synopsis Camouflage tells the story of a forbidden friendship blossoming in a secret garden in the city where the East meets the West.This animated short inspired by Ottoman Miniatures and Hieronymus Bosch takes the audience to a mysterious and surreal world which is a reflection of the director reality.
- Trailer http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/festival/films/camouflage

: PEQUEÑO MANIFIESTO EN CONTRA DEL CINE SOLEMNE (Little Manifesto Against Solemn Cinema) Cannes Film Festival 2017

PEQUEÑO MANIFIESTO EN CONTRA DEL CINE SOLEMNE (Little Manifesto Against Solemn Cinema)
- Director Roberto PORTA
- Actors Juan GAMES, Ayelén ESPÍNDOLA
- Country Argentina
- Synopsis A trivial story about two people who meet at a party and spend the night together, told the most pretentious, most poetic, but above all, most solemn possible ways.
- Trailer http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/festival/web-tv/trailer/pequeno-manifiesto-en-contra-del-cine-solemne
WILD HORSES
- Director Rory STEWART
- Actors Emma CURTIS, CATER, HENDERSON, and COMPTON
- Country UK
- Synopsis Joan's efforts at teenage rebellion are frustrated by her illness and her mother, until her increasingly vivid dreams and overzealous tutor inspire her to release her independence.
- Trailer http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/festival/films/wild-horses
- Social Media
  - Facebook https://www.facebook.com/NFTSFilmTV/videos/1486475924737861/
LÁTHATATLANUL (Invisibly)
- Director Áron SZENTPÉTERI
- Actors Tamás BARKÓ, JÓZSA, JÓZSA, LADÁNYI, and Áron
- Country Hungary
- Synopsis Two people meet in the dark. The darkness of an invisible exhibition. Through the film, we follow them as they get closer and move apart from each other by crossing blurry boundaries. Boundaries that exist between and within people and are mostly invisible. Not only for the blind.
- Trailer http://www.festival-cannes.com/es/festival/web-tv/trailer/lathatatlanul
- Social Media
  - Facebook https://www.facebook.com/lathatatlanulfilm
DEUX ÉGARÉS SONT MORTS (Two Egars are Dead)
- Director Tommaso USBERTI
- Country France
- Synopsis In a wild landscape, Vera and Matteo live their first date of love. The girl's father surprises them and assaults the boy. At the end of a fierce fight Matteo knocks down the man. Vera asks the boy to take her to dance. Matteo, shaken, runs away.
YIN SHIAN BIEN JIAN GON LU (Towards the Sun)
- Director WANG Yi-Ling
- Actors Piero USBERTI - Matteo Luàna BAJRAMI, BALDUZZI, Maurizio CAMPANI, Davoli, Elisabetta DINI, Mario MAIORANO, and Andrea TRAVERSI
- Country Taiwan
- Synopsis This is a story about two social outcasts who help each other and make new goals in a road trip.
- Trailer http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/festival/web-tv/trailer/yin-shian-bien-jian-gon-lu

"Uma Thurman states on the red carpet this evening , "I love this festival. It is keeping cinema alive." These young talented directors are provided international exposure to the top film festival. You can see the screening guide here.

This film festival is May 17-28, 2017 in Cannes, France. This year will continue to evolve film worldwide. Stay tune here for coverage of events from fashion, red carpet, actresses/actors, and films.