74th Cannes Film Festival: Top prizes awarded to women

Awards night at the 74th Cannes Film Festival was special with so many of the top prizes going to women. Women constituted the majority of the feature film competition jury- five out of nine - for the first time in the festival's history.

Feature Films
PALME D'OR
TITANE
Julia DUCOURNAU

HONORARY PALME D'OR
JODIE FOSTER

CAMÉRA D'OR
DIRECTORS'FORTNIGHT
MURINA
Antoneta ALAMAT KUSIJANOVIC

Un Certain Regard
The five-member Un Certain Regard Jury had three women
(six of the nine prizes awarded to women.
UN CERTAIN REGARD PRIZE
RAZZHIMAYA KULAKI (UNCLENCHING THE FISTS)
Kira KOVALENKO

ENSEMBLE PRIZE
BONNE MÈRE(GOOD MOTHER)
Hafsia HERZI

COURAGE PRIZE
LA CIVIL
Teodora Ana MIHAI

SPECIAL MENTION - UN CERTAIN REGARD
NOCHE DE FUEGO (PRAYERS FOR THE STOLEN) Tatiana HUEZO

Two other festival juries - one for the Camera d'or award, the other for Cinefondation and Short Films - were also headed by women.
3RD PRIZE CINÉFONDATION (EX-AEQUO)
PRIN ORAS CIRCULA SCURTE POVESTI DE DRAGOSTE (LOVE STORIES ON THE MOVE)
Carina-Gabriela DASOVEANU

Palme d'or Short Films
Hong Kong Tang Yi (New York University student).
ALL THE CROWS IN THE WORLD (HONG KONG).