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The Cannes Film Festival unveiled the "Un Certain Regard" Winners list, celebrating a cinema of discoveries, Un Certain Regard's mission is to bring out new trends, new paths and new countries of cinema. The 2024 selection has included 18 feature films – 8 of which are first features also competing for the Caméra d’or. This year, the opening film was Rúnar Rúnarsson’s When the Light Breaks. Chaired by Canadian actor, director, screenwriter and producer Xavier Dolan, the Jury included French-Senegalese screenwriter and director Maïmouna Doucouré, Moroccan director, screenwriter and producer Asmae El Moudir, German-Luxembourg actress Vicky Krieps, and American film critic, director, and writer Todd McCarthy.

Special mention 

NORAH
by Tawfik Alzaidi
1st film

Youth Award

HOLY COW
by Louise Courvoisier
1st film

Best Actress

ANASUYA SENGUPTA
in The Shameless

Best Actor

ABOU SANGARÉ
in L’Histoire de Souleymane

Best Director ex-aequo

ROBERTO MINERVINI
for The Damned

RUNGANO NYONI
for On Becoming a Guinea Fowl

Jury Prize

L'HISTOIRE DE SOULEYMANE
by Boris Lojkine

Un Certain Regard Prize

BLACK DOG
by Guan Hu

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