Cannes 2008: It's a wrap

Palme d'Or winner Laurent Cantet (centre, with actor Francois Begaudeau on his left) with students from a Paris junior high school who appeared in his winning film Entre les Murs (The Class). The film chronicles a year in the life of an idealistic young schoolteacher (played by Begaudeau) in a tough multicultural section of Paris. Cantet brought his non-professional actors on stage to collect his award, bringing the glamorous audience in Cannes' Palais des Festivals to their well-shod feet Photograph: Francois Mori/AP

Benicio del Toro with his best actor award for his performance as Ernesto Guevara in Steven Soderbergh's four-hour epic on the Latin American revolutionary, Che Photograph: Anne-Christine Poujoulat/AFP

British artist turned film-maker Steve McQueen with his Camera d'Or for best first feature. He won it for Hunger, a visceral biopic of IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands Photograph: Anne-Christine Poujoulat/AFP

Two-time Palme d'Or winners Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne with their best screenplay award for Le Silence de Lorna, about the struggles of a young Albanian immigrant in Belgium Photograph: Anne-Christine Poujoulat/AFP

Cannes 2008 jury president Sean Penn applauds during the closing ceremony of the 61st edition of the film festival. The actor/director said that it had been a very good year for films at Cannes, adding that he only regretted that "there weren't a few more comedies in competition" - a wry reference to the predominantly dark fare in competition this year Photograph: Eric Gaillard/Reuters

Two films that focused on politics and corruption in Italy won Cannes 2008's grand prix and the jury prize (second and third runner-up, respectively): Matteo Garrone (right) won the grand prix for Gomorrah, a brutal examination of organised crime in Naples, while Paolo Sorrentino received the jury prize for Il Divo, which charted the fall from grace of seven-time Italian prime minister, Giulio Andreotti Photograph: Anne-Christine Poujoulat/AFP

The Palermo Shooting stars (from left) Campino, Milla Jovovich and Dennis Hopper arriving for the premiere of the Wim Wenders film, which closed the 2008 Cannes film festival Photograph: Anne-Christine Poujoulat/AFP

Director Wim Wenders taking photographs at the premiere of his film, The Palermo Shooting, which closed the 61st Cannes film festival Photograph: Francois Guillot/AFP

Romanian director Marian Crisan (right), who won the Palme d'Or for best short film for his Megatron, is congratulated by Australian director Julis Avery, who received the jury prize in the same category for Jerrycan Photograph: Guillaume Horcajuelo/EPA