Ex aequo victory for best director in the Un Certain Regard section for Roberto Minervini and his The Damned presented at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. Here are all the winners.
An Italian-only film was presented in the Un Certain Regard section of Cannes Film Festival 2024. And here’s a prize, the one for best directionwhich goes to Roberto Minervini For The Damned (already in theaters for Lucky Red) ex aequo with Rungano Nyoni For On Becoming a Guinea Fowl. The 2024 selection proposed 18 feature films, including eight first works. The jury was chaired by Xavier Dolan and composed of directors Maimouna Doucouré And Asmae El Moudirthe actress Vicky Krieps and the critic Todd McMarthy.
Special mention went to Norah Of Tawfik AlzaidiJeunesse a prize Vingt Dieux Of Louise Couvoisier. The award for best actress went to Anasuya Sengupta For The Shamelessthe one for best actor a Abou Sangaré For The history of Souleymane. The latter, directed by Boris Lojkine, also won the jury prize. The overall winner, the Certain Regard Award, went to Black Dog Of Guan Hu.
“The award to Roberto Minervini in the section Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival confirms the talent of an author who has shown a well-defined idea of cinema over the years – he commented Paolo Del Brocco, CEO of Rai Cinema – and enriches the path of a director now recognized internationally. If in 2015, again here in Cannes, Roberto Minervini had told the forgotten land of Louisiananow with The damned he turns his gaze towards a handful of invisible soldiers far away from the world. Despair and personal fears are reflected in those of a universal community of men, targeted by a conflict that looks to our contemporaneity. And if the film captured the Jury’s favor, it is also because there is still a need to give a voice to those who have none and those who risk dying every day.
