The film that won the Palme d’Or at Cannes was filmed on the island of Evia

On May 28, the solemn closing ceremony of the 75th Cannes Film Festival took place, during which all the winners were announced.

Swedish director Ruben Östlund received a second Palme d’Or for Triangle of Sorrow. This is a satirical drama about the world of powerful and super-rich people obsessed with money, pleasure and their appearance. Its action takes place on a luxury yacht, which is captured by sea pirates, and then it crashes. Passengers find themselves on a desert island, where their hierarchy changes dramatically. This picture is about the absurdity of capitalism, power relations and social inequality. Filming took place in Chiliadou, on Evia (Χιλιαδού, στην Εύβοια).

“When we started making this film, we had a goal: to really try to make an exciting story and bring some content that makes people think about life,” said Ruben Östlund, “We wanted them to ask themselves questions, come out after show, and they had something to discuss.

Deputy Minister of Culture and Sports in charge of contemporary culture, Nicholas Yatromanolakis, congratulated the actors of the film and especially the employees of the Greek production company, writes parallaximag.gr.

The film festival opened with a film by Michel Hazanavicius. The film was originally called “Z”. But after the start of the Russian war against Ukraine, representatives of the Ukrainian film industry turned to the organizers of the film festival with a protest about the title of the film. After all, now Z is a symbol of Russian aggression against Ukrainians, which the Russian Federation uses as a swastika. Michel Hazanavicius supported Ukraine by abandoning the name “Z” (“Comme Z”) for his film.

Who this year received the coveted awards of one of the main film festivals in the world

Full list of all the winners of the Cannes Film Festival 2022:

• Grand Prix – “Stars at Noon” (Claire Denis) and “Close” (Lucas Dont)
• Best Director – Park Chan-wook (“Decision to Quit”)
• Best Screenplay – Tariq Saleh (“Boy from Heaven”)
• Best Actor – Song Kang-ho (“The Broker”)
• Best Actress – Zara Amir Ebrahimi (“Holy Spider”)
• Jury Prize – “Eeyore” (Jerzy Skolimowski) and “Eight Mountains” (Charlotte Vandermeersch and Felix van Groningen)
• Camera of Gold – War Pony (Riley Keough and Gina Gammell)
• Special Prize in honor of the 75th anniversary of the film festival – “Tori and Lokita” (brothers Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne)

Section “Un Certain Regard”

• Grand Prix – “Worst” directed by Lisa Akoka and Roman Gueret (France)
• Jury Prize – “Land of Joy” directed by Saim Sadig (Pakistan)
• Best Director – Alexander Belts for the film “Metronome”
• Best Screenplay – Maha Hajj for “Mediterranean Fever”
• The Jury Prize went to the French director Lola Quivoron for the film “Rodeo”.

Un Certain Regard is the second most important (after the main competition) program of the Cannes Film Festival. This section is dedicated to art-house films and runs in parallel with the main competition. In “Un Certain Regard” was presented motion picture of the Ukrainian director “Vision of the Butterfly” directed by Maxim Nakonechny. On the day of the premiere, the film at the Maxim festival and the team staged a performance to draw attention to the situation in Ukraine.

The special prize of the jury of the “Golden Eye” award for the best documentary film at the Cannes Film Festival went to the film “Mariupoli 2”, which was shot by the Lithuanian director Mantas Kvedaravichyus, who died in April this year in Mariupol.

Note that the film by Ukrainian director Dmitry Sukholitky-Sobchuk “Pamfir” caused a storm of applause at the Cannes Film Festival – the audience applauded standing for six minutes! Ukrainian films were also shown at the 75th Cannes Film Festival – documentaries Life to the limit and Zalizna Hundred.

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