Festival De Cannes (2008) Winners

1. Palme d'Or :


The Class (French Title :Entre les murs) directed by Laurent Cantet, based on the novel of the same name by François Bégaudeau.The novel is a semi-autobiographical account of Bégaudeau's experiences as a literature teacher in an inner city middle school in Paris.

2.Grand Prix Award

Gomorrah (Italian Title: Gomorra) directed by Matteo Garrone .The film deals with daily violence in the streets of Naples and Camorra. The protagonists are three young men living in a flat in Rome who call themselves "interno 10".

3. Jury Prize

ll Divo directed by Paolo Sorrentino. It is a Biopic based on the figure of former Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti., who has been elected to Parliament seven times since is was established in 1946. The narration spans the period since the seventh election of Andreotti as Italian PM in 1992, until the trial in which he was accused of collusion with Mafia.

4.Best Director Award

Three Monkeys (Turkish title: Üç Maymun ) directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan. A family dislocated when small failings blow up into extravagant lies battles against the odds to stay together by covering up the truth... In order to avoid hardship and responsibilities that would otherwise be impossible to endure, the family chooses to ignore the truth, not to see, hear or talk about it.




5.Best Screenplay Award



The Silence of Lorna (French title: Le silence de Lorna) by the Belgian director brothers Luc Dardenne and Jean-Pierre Dardenne. Plot: In order to become the owner of a snack bar with her boyfriend, Lorna, a young Albanian woman living in Belgium, becomes an accomplice to a diabolical plan devised by mobster Fabio. Fabio has orchestrated a sham marriage between her and Claudy. The marriage allows her to obtain Belgian citizenship and then marry a Russian Mafioso willing to pay a lot of money to acquire the same quickly. However, for this second marriage to be possible, Fabio has planned to kill Claudy. Will Lorna keep silent?


6. Best Actor Award ;



Won by Benicio Del Toro for the film 'CHE'.
A film about Marxist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara directed by Steven Soderbergh . The first part focuses on the Cuban revolution, from the moment Fidel Castro, Guevara and other revolutionaries landed on the Caribbean island, until they toppled the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista two years later. The second part focuses on the years following the Cuban revolution. It begins with Che's trip to the United Nations headquarters in New York City in 1964, until his death in the Bolivian mountains in 1967.


7.Best Actress Award :


Won by Sandra Corveloni for the Brazilian film 'Linha de Passe' directed by Walter Salles and Daniela Thomas.The film tells the story of four poverty-stricken brothers who live in a favela neighborhood in São Paulo. As their father dies, they have to fight for their dreams. One of the brothers seeks the opportunity of a better life with his soccer skills