Justine Triet’s Anatomy Of A Fall Wins Palme d’or at Cannes Film Festival

Anatomy Of A Fall (Anatomie D’une Chute) directed by Justine Triet won the Palme d’or award, the top prize of the 76th Cannes Film Festival, becoming the third woman to win the prestigious prize. Jane Campion won in 1993 for The Piano, and Julia Ducournau won in 2001 for Titane.

The French thriller stars Sandra Hüller as a German writer trying to prove her innocence in her French husband’s death.

The Grand Prix along with the CST Award for Technical Artist went to The Zone Of Interest directed by Jonathan Glazer. In the Holocaust drama, Christian Friedel stars as the commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig (Sandra Hüller), who strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp.

Complete list of winners of 2023 Cannes Film Festival.

Feature Films

Palme d’or
Anatomy of a Fall (Anatomie D’une Chute)
Justine Triet

Grand Prix
The Zone of Interest
Jonathan Glazer

Best Director
Tran Anh Hùng
for La Passion De Dodin Bouffant (The Pot-au-feu)

Jury Prize
Kuolleet Lehdet (Fallen Leaves)
Aki Kaurismäki

Best Screenplay
Sakamoto Yuji for Kaibutsu (Monster) directed by Kore-eda Hirokazu

Best Performance by an Actress
Merve Dizdar in Kuru Otlar Ustune (About Dry Grasses) directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Best Performance by an Actor
Kōji Yakusho in Perfect Days directed by Wim Wenders

Short films

 Palme d’or
27
Flóra Anna Buda

Special Mention
Fár (Intrusion)
Gunnur Martinsdóttir Schlüter

Un Certain Regard

Un Certain Regard Prize
How to Have Sex
Molly Manning Walker
1st Film

Jury’s Prize
Les Meutes (Hounds)
Kamal Lazraq
1st Film

Directing Prize
Asmae El Moudir
In Kadib Abyad (The Mother of All Lies)

New Voice Prize
Augure (Omen)
Baloji
1st Film

Ensemble Prize
Crowrã (The Buriti Flower)
João Salaviza & Renée Nader Messora

Freedom Prize
Goodbye Julia
Mohamed Kordofani
1st Film

La Cinef

First Prize
Norwegian Offspring
Marlene Emilie Lyngstad
Den Danske Filmskole, Denmark

Second Prize
Hole
Hwang Hyein
Korean Academy of Film Arts, South Korea

Third Prize
Ayyur (Moon)
Zineb Wakrim
Ésav Marrakech, Morocco

Caméra d’or

 Bên Trong Vo Ken Vang (Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell)
Pham An Thien
Directors’ Fortnight

L’œil d’or – Year of the documentary (ex aequo)

Les Filles d’Olfa
Kaouther Ben Hania

Kadib Abyad (The Mother of All Lies)
Asmae El Moudir

The Higher Technical Commission for Sound and Images

The jury of the CST artist-technician prize awarded the 2023 prize to Johnnie Burn, Sound Designer and Chief Sound Editor on Jonathan Glazer’s film “The Zone of Interest”. His sound design embodies the horror of genocide and questions our humanity.

The 2023 jury of the CST Young technician Prize selected Anne-Sophie Delseries, head set designer on the film “Marguerite’s Theorem”. Thanks to the delicacy of her work, Anne-Sophie Delseries succeeded in giving birth to a third character who is an essential part of the film’s narrative.