7 PALMES D' OR

The Cannes Palme d’Or was awarded to "Dheepan" for the film’s authentic, heartrending and deeply humane look at the experiences of 21st-century refugees, as faced by its electrifying protagonist. A cinematic punch to the gut. — A Tamil Tiger warrior becomes a deserter in order to leave Sri Lanka, where a civil war is raging. He comes across a young woman and a girl who also need to escape from their homeland; although unrelated, they form a makeshift family and reach Paris by using a dead man's passport. French immigration officers take them to a suburban apartment complex that looks like a prison. There, instead of making a fresh start, the three have to contend with the violence of local thugs and drug dealers. — Palme d'Or | Cannes Film Festival | 2015

More political and humanist than ever, the tireless Ken Loach is looking for human worth behind the coldness of bureaucracy, statistics and numbers and rightfully wins the second Palme d’Or of his career in Cannes. — Daniel Blake is a 60-year-old carpenter from Newcastle. After a heart attack, he's going to need for the first time the help of the state to survive, but the convoluted bureaucracy is leading him nowhere. He crosses paths with a single mother with similar problems and, finding unexpected friendship and warmth in each other, they join forces and try to fight back. — Palme d'Or | Cannes Film Festival | 2016 Audience Award | Locarno Film Festival | 2016 Audience Award | San Sebastián Film Festival | 2016

How does art talk about art? Ruben Östlund plays around with surrealism, satire and physical comedy, following the moral and professional dilemmas of a museum director setting up a controversial new exhibit and triggering massive reactions. Palme d’Or in Cannes. — The intelligent and handsome curator of a contemporary art museum is a divorced father, drives an electric car and supports charitable organizations. The new exhibition he has curated is an installment that invites people to consider altruism and promotes responsibility towards our fellow human beings. Sometimes, though, it's hard to live up to your own ideals. Both him and the museum are facing existential crises. — Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film | Oscars | 2018 Palme d'Or | Cannes Film Festival | 2017 Best European Film | Goya Awards | 2018

It took the Palme d’Or at Cannes, even as its director was accused back home in Japan of bringing shame on his country. A family who shoplift to survive take in a child who isn’t theirs, and ending up with them is the best thing that has ever happened to her. — Fresh from another petty theft, a man and his son find a little girl out in the freezing cold, clearly chilled to the bone. His wife isn’t keen at first, but she ends up agreeing to take the girl in and look after her. Money is short and they scrape by from day to day, yet theirs is a happy home, until the day something goes wrong. — Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film | Oscars | 2019 Palme d'Or | Cannes Film Festival | 2018

The cinematic triumph of Cinobo-favourite Bong Joon-ho. A stylistic apotheosis filled with suspense and a piercing social commentary that defies genre. Rightful winner of the Palm d’ Or and the Best Picture Oscar that made Academy history. — The Kims are a loving family, but they are all unemployed and their future seems gloom. The son of the family finds a job as a private tutor and can finally hope for a steady income. Carrying the whole family’s expectations, he goes to interview at the Park household – owners of an international tech company – where he will meet the lady of the house. After that first meeting, a cascade of unfortunate events begins. — Best Film | Oscars | 2020 Best Director | Oscars | 2020 Best Original Screenplay | Oscars | 2020 Best International Feature Film | Oscars | 2020 Palme d'Or | Cannes Film Festival | 2019

The Palm d’Or that sent shockwaves through Cannes. After the triumph of Raw, Ducournau returns to become only the second woman in the festibal's history to have won its highest honor. She did it with a story that’s hard to stomach, where nothing is as it seems and nothing is out of limits. — After a series of unexplained crimes, a father rediscovers his son, who has been missing for 10 years. Titane: A metal highly resistant to heat and corrosion, with high tensile strength alloys. — Palme d'Or | Cannes Film Festival | 2021