(23 May 2025)
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Cannes, France – 23 May 2025
1. Wide shot ceremony; Thierry Frémaux walks to stage
2. Wide shot jury on stage, UPSOUND (English) Molly Manning Walker, jury president:
"Good evening, everyone."
3. Medium shot Nahuel Pérez Biscayat announces Best Director award to Tarzan Nasser and Arab Nasser for “Once Upon a Time in Gaza”
4. Various shots Tarzan Nasser and Arab Nasser on stage receiving standing ovation
5. Various shots Roberto Minervini announces Best Actress prize for Cléo Diara (“I Only Rest in the Storm")
6. Various shots Roberto Minervini announces Best Actor prize for Frank Dillane ("Urchin")
7. Various shots Vanja Kaludjercic announces Best Screenplay award for Harry Lighton ("Pillion")
8. Various shots Louise Courvoisier announces Jury Prize for “A Poet” by Simón Mesa Soto
9. Various shots Molly Manning Walker announces Un Certain Regard Grand Prix for Diego Céspedes for "The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo"
10. Various shots Diego Céspedes acceptance speech UPSOUND (English):
"This award doesn’t celebrate perfection it celebrates that fierce stubbornness to exist just as we are even when it makes others uncomfortable. And that stubbornness didn’t start with me it began with all the angry (indiscernible) who just wanted to love like everyone else. Thank you so much."
11. Wide shot winners and jury on stage
12. Pan winners and jury
13. Wide shot ceremony ends
STORYLINE:
Chilean drama “The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo” ("La misteriosa mirada del flamenco") won the Un Certain Regard grand prix at the 78th Cannes Film Festival Friday night.
The movie had faced competition for the second-most prestigious prizes at the festival from debut features by actors Scarlett Johansson, Harris Dickinson and Kristen Stewart.
Diego Céspedes’ first film is set in a transgender community in Chile as the AIDS epidemic begins in the 1980s.
"This award doesn’t celebrate perfection, it celebrates that fierce stubbornness to exist just as we are, even when it makes others uncomfortable," Céspedes said in his acceptance speech.
The longest ovation of the ceremony by far went to Palestinian twin brothers Tarzan and Arab Nasser, who won the best director prize for their film “Once Upon a Time in Gaza.”
The Un Certain regard jury prize went to “A Poet” by Simón Mesa Soto.
Best performance awards went to Frank Dillane for his role in Harris Dickinson’s movie "Urchin" and Cléo Diara for “I Only Rest in the Storm.”
The prizes are awarded to films by young auteurs. This year, 20 were selected, including nine debut features. The 2024 Un Certain Regard Prize went to Guan Hu’s feature “Black Dog.”
The president of the Un Certain Regard jury is British director, screenwriter and cinematographer Molly Manning Walker, whose first feature film, “How to Have Sex,” won the Un Certain Regard Prize at Cannes in 2023.
Other members of the jury are French-Swiss screenwriter and director Louise Courvoisier, Croatian director of the International Film Festival Rotterdam Vanja Kaludjercic, Italian director, producer and screenwriter Roberto Minervini and Argentinian actor Nahuel Pérez Biscayart.
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