The 77th Cannes Film Festival comes to an end on Saturday with the presentation of its main prize, the Palme d’Or, along with an honorary tribute to George Lucas.
The closing ceremony is scheduled to begin at 6:45 pm local time, 12:45 pm ET. It will be broadcast live on Brut internationally and broadcast on France 2 in France.
Any of the 22 films that premiered in competition at Cannes are eligible for the Palme d’Or and other awards such as the Grand Prix, best actress and best actor. The jury of nine people presided over, this year, by Greta Gerwig will decide everyone.
Jury deliberations take place in secret, so anything can win. But a few films are seen as the most likely candidates, among them Payal Kapadia’s “All We Imagine As Light,” Mohammad Rasoulof’s “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” and Sean Baker’s “Anora.”
“The Seed of the Sacred Fig”, about an Iranian family who experienced the 2022 protests in the country, was filmed clandestinely in Iran and includes real videos of the demonstrations. Shortly before his Cannes premiere, Rasoulof, who faces an eight-year prison sentence, fled Iran. He arrived in Cannes several days ago and, on the red carpet, displayed photos of two of his actors, Soheila Golestani and Missagh Zareh .
“All We Imagine As Light,” the first Indian film in competition at Cannes in 30 years, is about two nurses who form a bond in modern-day Mumbai. It is Kapadia’s second feature film, after the documentary “A Night of Knowing Nothing”.
“Anora,” from the American filmmaker behind “The Florida Project,” is about a Brooklyn sex worker who marries the son of a wealthy Russian oligarch, sparking a ridiculous rush to annul the marriage. The film’s star, Mikey Madison, gives one of the festival’s most acclaimed performances.
Other much talked about works include the science fiction epic “Megalopolis”, by two-time Palme d’Or winner Francis Ford Coppola; Coralie Fargeat’s bloody body horror satire “The Substance,” starring Demi Moore; and Jacques Audiard’s “Emilia Perez,” a Spanish-language musical about a Mexican drug lord who transforms into a woman Audiard previously won the Palme d’Or for 2015’s “Dheepan.”
During the brief awards ceremony, Lucas will receive an honorary Palme d’Or. During the festival, Cannes paid the same tribute to Meryl Streep and the Japanese anime factory Studio Ghibli.
After the award ceremony, the Palma winner will be shown to the public at the Grand Théâtre Lumière.
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