There is not only the Palme d’Or in the life of the Cannes festival-goer. There are many other rewards, the main ones being:
Tilda Swinton’s Palm Dog with Three Spaniels
This award in the form of a canine collar, Tilda Swinton put it around her neck before doing a FaceTime with her dogs who remained in Scotland. Because it is they, Dora, Rosie and Snowbear, enlisted by his side in The Souvenir Part II by Joanna Hogg, who won the Palm Dog 2021. These three springer spaniels succeed Brandy, the staffordshire terrier from Once upon a time in Hollywood by Quentin Tarantino, for this independent prize which rewards the best canine performance at the Cannes Film Festival.
The Queer Palm at The divide by Catherine Corsini
The Queer Palm jury was chaired this year by actor and director Nicolas Maury. And among 26 films in the running for this prize, which distinguishes a singular film in terms of the treatment of LGBT issues, it is The divide by Catherine Corsini, who was rewarded for her lesbian bourgeois couple embodied by Marina Foïs and Valeria-Bruni Tedeschi, discovering the struggle of the yellow vests during a visit to the hospital. The previous Queer Palm had been awarded to Portrait of the girl on fire by Céline Sciamma.
The Un Certain Regard Prize Loose fists by Kira Kovalenko
The jury chaired by Briton Andrea Arnold awarded the Un Certain Regard prize to Loose fists, by Kira Kovalenko. It is the second feature film by a young 31-year-old Russian filmmaker, whose 20 minutes didn’t have time to see the movie, but that left some of those who saw it in shock. The film tells the story of Ada’s quest for freedom, a cramped teenager in her family of boys and her remote village in North Ossetia.
Critics’ Week Grand Prize at Feathers by Omar El Zohairi
This is Feathers, the debut film by 32-year-old Egyptian director Omar El Zohairi, who won the award for oldest of the parallel sections. This film tells how a woman “devoted body and soul to her husband and her children” will suddenly have to assume “the role of head of the family”, after a magician accidentally turns her husband into a hen, during the birthday of their four-year-old son. The jury for Critics’ Week was chaired this year by Romanian director Cristian Mungiu, who won the Palme d’Or for 4 months, 3 weeks, 2 days.