EAVE graduates win the Grand Prix and 25 more awards in Cannes!

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Congratulations to the winners of the 78th Cannes Film Festival! We are thrilled to share that EAVE producers took home an impressive number of 26 awards — including the prestigious Grand Prix and Best Director in Competition!

Competition

SENTIMENTAL VALUE by Joachim Trier, producer: EAVE graduate Andrea Ottmar Berensen, co-producers: EAVE graduates Jonas Dornbach, Lizette Jonjic wins the Grand Prix of the 78th Cannes Film Festival.
THE SECRET AGENT by Kleber Mendonca Filho, co-producers: PUENTES graduate Fred Burle, EAVE graduate Leontine Petit, executive producer: EAVE+ graduate Dora Amorim wins Best Director (Kleber Mendonça Filho) and Best Actor (Wagner Moura)
SIRAT by Oliver Laxe, producer: PUENTES graduate Xavi Font wins the Jury Prize ex aequo
THE LITTLE SISTER by Hafsia Herzi, producer: PUENTES graduate Naomi Denamur wins Best Actress (Nadia Melliti)

Un Certain Regard

THE MYSTERIOUS GAZE OF THE FLAMINGO by Diego Cespedes, producer: PUENTES graduate Giancarlo Nasi wins the Un Certain Regard Prize
A POET by Simon Mesa Soto, co-producers: EAVE graduates Katharina Bergfeld, David Herdies, Heino Deckert, Michael Krotkiewski wins the Jury Prize
ONCE UPON A TIME IN GAZA by Arab et Tarzan Nasser, co-producers: EAVE graduates Edyta Janczak-Hiriart, Rashid Abdelhamid, Ahmed Amer, co-producer: EAVE graduate Dorothe Beinemeier wins Best Director
I ONLY REST IN THE STORM by Pedro Pinho, producer: TTB and EAVE graduate Filipa Reis, co-producers: EAVE graduate Ioana Lascar, EAVE graduate and Romanian National Coordinator Radu Stancu, PUENTES graudate and National Coordinator Latin America Tatiana Leite wins Best Actress (Cleo Diára)
PILLION by Harry Lighton, producer: EAVE graduate Ed Guiney wins Best Screenplay

Critics' Week

A USEFUL GHOST by Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke, co-producers: TTB graduate Karim Aitouna, EAVE graduate May Odeh wins the Grand Prix
IMAGO by Déni Oumar Pitsaev: co-producers: PUENTES graduate Géraldine Sprimont, EAVE graduate Anne-Laure Guégan wins the French Touch Jury Prize
EAVE project THE LAST TEARS OF THE DECEASED by Beza Hailu Lemma, producer: EAVE graduate Tamara Dawit wins the Next Step Prize

Directors’ Fortnight

WILD FOXES by Valéry Carnoy, producer: EAVE graduate Julie Esparbes wins the Europa Cinemas Label and the SACD Award
LEFT-HANDED GIRL by Shih-Ching Tsou, executive producer: EAVE graduate Alex C. Lo wins the Gan Foundation Award for Distribution

Other Awards

IMAGO by Déni Oumar Pitsaev: co-producers: PUENTES graduate Géraldine Sprimont, EAVE graduate Anne-Laure Guégan wins the Golden Eye for Best Documentary
THE LITTLE SISTER by Hafsia Herzi, producer: PUENTES graduate Naomi Denamur wins the Queer Palm
THE LOVE THAT REMAINS by Hlynur Pálmason, producers: EAVE graduates Anton Máni Svansson Katrin Pors, co-producer: EAVE graduate and group leader Didar Domehri wins the Palme Dog
THE SECRET AGENT by Kleber Mendonca Filho, co-producers: PUENTES graduate Fred Burle, EAVE graduate Leontine Petit, executive producer: EAVE+ graduate Dora Amorim wins the FRIPRESCI Award (Competition)
ALPHA by Julia Ducournau, co-producer: EAVE graduate Jean-Yves Roubin wins the CST Award for Best Artist-Technician
CONNEMARA by Alex Lutz, producer: EAVE graduate Benoit Roland wins the CST Award for Best Young Female Film Technician

Docs-in-Progress Awards

EVERYBODY TO KENMURE STREET by Felipe Bustos Sierra, producer: EAVE graduate Ciara Barry wins the Al Jazeera Documentary Award
SOMETHING FAMILIAR by Rachel Close, producer: EAVE graduate Monica Lazurean-Gorgan wins the Chicken & Egg Vision Award
THE PRODUCTION OF THE WORLD by Brett Story, producer: EAVE graduate Elhum Shakerifar wins the Post-Production Award (TransPerfect Media)
TWO MOUNTAINS WEIGHING DOWN MY CHEST by Viv Li, producer: EAVE graduate Olivia Sophie Van Leeuwen wins the Alphapanda Award

EAVE graduate Ukrainian producer Volodymyr Yatsenko receives France’s Order of Arts and Letters medal at Cannes. The French Ministry of Culture established the order in 1957 to honor individuals who have made significant contributions to the arts, literature, or the promotion of these fields both within France and internationally.

Heartfelt congratulations!

Page published 26 May 2025. Updated 27 May 2025.