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Cannes Film Festival 2024 highlights: our verdict is in

What to watch or not to watch – cut to the Cannes Film Festival 2024 highlights

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Indian filmmaker shunned by cinema establishment wins Cannes grand prize

Payal Kapadia, who won the prestigious Grand Prix, faced disciplinary action by her alma mater and still has a pending case registered against her

The Independent UK

Anora, tale of a stripper who marries a Russian oligarch, wins Palme d’Or at Cannes

Karla Sofía Gascón becomes the first trans woman to share best acting award in the film Emilia Pérez

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The winners at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival

The 77th edition of the Cannes Film Festival ended Saturday in the south of France with the awarding of its top prize, the Palme d'Or. Here is a list of the winners:

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Sean Baker’s sex-worker romance ‘Anora’ wins Palme d’Or in Cannes

Sean Baker’s “Anora”, a whirlwind Brooklyn odyssey about an erotic dancer who marries the son of a wealthy Russian oligarch, won the Palme d’Or on Saturday as female-focused stories dominated the awards at the 77th Cannes Film Festival.

France 24

Cannes 2024 week two roundup – scuffles, screwballs and spellbinders

While there’s no out-and-out masterpiece this year, and at times more fun to be had watching the audience fighting, Sean Baker’s acid class comedy, Jacques Audiard’s drug-lord musical and India’s first Palme d’Or contender in decades are knockouts

The Guardian - UK

Women at the helm as Indian films make a big splash in Cannes

Indian cinema has enjoyed a bumper year in Cannes, with seven films from the country screening across the festival’s various strands. FRANCE 24 spoke to filmmaker Payal Kapadia, India's first Palme d’Or contender in 30 years with her “All We Imagine as Light”, and the cast and director of police…

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The 8 best movies we saw at Cannes Film Festival 2024

The best of this year’s festival as selected by Jacob Stolworthy, including a controversial body horror, one of the bleakest films in history – and definitely not ‘Megalopolis’

The Independent UK

Escaped Iranian director wraps up wide-open race for Cannes Palme d’Or

The race for the Palme d’Or wound up with a bang on Friday with the screening of escaped Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof’s “The Seed of the Sacred Fig”, adding a geopolitically charged red-carpet appearance to a 77th Cannes Film Festival that has delivered several strong contenders for the top prize…

France 24

The most political apolitical festival ever? Here’s how Cannes 2024 went – and who will win

There were no overt boycotts this year, but there were entries about theocracy, Trump and the far right. There was still room for love, though – and sex. Here’s who I think will win, and my alternative ‘Braddies’ awards

The Guardian - UK

Cannes 2024: Payal Kapadia’s ‘All We Imagine As Light’ to compete for the Palme d’Or

Payal Kapadia’s drama is the first Indian title in over 40 years to feature in the prestigious In Competition section of the Cannes Film Festival

The Hindu

A Night of Knowing Nothing review – kaleidoscopic doc is cinephilia at its best

Payal Kapadia’s award-winning film sees artistic creativity go hand in hand with the fight for political freedom in Modi’s India

The Guardian - UK

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