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THe Cannes shoot fete handed o'er the functionary awards during the closure ceremony of the 78th edition on the last day. The president of the main jury Juliette Binoche announced that the top prize of the festival went to It Was Just an Accident, directed by acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi. (Also read: Alia Bhatt stuns in a sultry saree for the closing ceremony of Cannes Film Festival)Jafar Panahi clinches Palme d'OrJafar Panahi returned to Cannes after a 14-year travel ban by the Iranian government with this new feature film. He had first come to Cannes in 1995 with The White Balloon, which won the Camera d'Or. In the next few years, he premiered Crimson Gold which won the Jury Award in 2003, This is Not a Film in 2011, and 3 Faces in 2018 which won Best Screenplay.Panahi also joined the elite list of filmmakers to have won the top prize in three of the prestigious film festivals in the world: Venice, Cannes and Berlin. He now joins the club of Henri-Georges Clouzot, Robert Altman and Michelangelo Antinioni, with the Palme win. Panahi won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival for The Circle (2000) and the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival for Offside (2006).Other winnersJoachim Trier's Sentimental Value, which wowed Cannes and received a whooping 19-minute standing ovation, took home the second big award of the night- the Grand Prix. The acting awards went to Nadia Melliti for The Little Sister and Wagner Moura for The Secret Agent. Brazilian filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho won best director for the film.Meanwhile, Cannes veterans Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne won Best Screenplay for Young Mothers. The Jury Prize was a tie, and went to Olivier Laxe for Sirat and Mascha Schilinski's The Sound of Falling. A special jury prize was given to Bi Gan for Resurrection.This year Indian filmmaker Payal Kapadia was part of the main competition jury. Her 2024 film All We Imagine As Light took home the Grand Prix last year.

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