77th Cannes Movie Competition: "Un Sure Regard" win for "Black Canine"

The jury prize went to Boris Lojkine’s social drama “The Story of Souleymane”. The characteristic movie debut “The Village Subsequent To Paradise” by Somali-Austrian director Mo Harawe, which was additionally up for an award, went house empty-handed.

This yr, the award for greatest director is shared by Roberto Minvervini (“The Damned”) and Rungano Nyoni (“On Changing into a Guinea Fowl”). The jury, chaired by Canadian director Xavier Dolan, selected Abou Sangare (“The Story of Souleymane”) as greatest actor, and Anasuya Sengupta (“The Shameless”) as greatest actress. The younger expertise award went to Louise Courvoisier for “Holy Cow”, whereas Tawfik Alzaidi’s “Norah” obtained a particular point out.

Prize favourite “The Village Subsequent To Paradise” went house empty-handed

Nevertheless, there was no award for “The Village Subsequent To Paradise” by Haware, who additionally wrote the screenplay. In his first characteristic movie, the director, who was born in Mogadishu in 1992 and got here to Austria as a refugee on the age of 17, is now an Austrian citizen and has made a reputation for himself as an autodidact within the quick movie scene, tells the story of a household and their worries in a village in Somalia and provides an perception into the tough, alien on a regular basis lifetime of this East African nation.

Haware can nonetheless hope for an award, nevertheless, as he’s additionally eligible for the Caméra d’or first movie award. This will probably be awarded tomorrow, Saturday, on the Croisette – the identical day because the awards in the principle competitors. Nevertheless, no Austrian movie is vying for the Palme d’Or right here.