Cannes 77: Un Certain Regard Winners List
Ex-aequo prize for the Best Director to Roberto Minervini with "The Damned "and Rungano Nyoni for "On Becoming a Guinea Fowl"
© Jean-Louis Hupé / Festival de Cannes
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
©Festival de Cannes
