The Jury has deliberated and the winners of Cannes Festival 2022 were announced. We are please to announce the winners and jury from each category.
For the XR section, please read HERE the winners of Cannes XR and VeeR Awards, in the two sections: Best VR Story and Best VR Interactive Experience.
The winners of the 25th La Cinef Selection
The Short Films and La Cinef Jury, presided by Yousry Nasrallah and comprised of Monia Chokri, Félix Moati, Jean-Claude Raspiengeas et Laura Wandel, has awarded the 2022 La Cinef Prizes during a ceremony held in the Buñuel Theater, followed by the screening of the winning films.
La Cinef Selection included 16 student films, chosen out of 1 528 entries coming from 378 film schools around the world.

[First Prize] IL BARBIERE COMPLOTTISTA (A Conspiracy Man) – directed by Valerio Ferrara
(Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Italie)
[Second Prize] DI ER (Somewhere) directed by Li Jiahe
Hebei University of Science and Technology School of Film and Television, Chine
[Joint Third Prize] GLORIOUS REVOLUTION directed by Masha Novikova
London Film School, Royaume Uni
LES HUMAINS SONT CONS QUAND ILS S’EMPILENT (Humans Are Dumber When Crammed up Together) directed by Laurène Fernandez
La CinéFabrique, France

Un Certain Regard Winners List 2022
Focused on arthouse, artistically daring films, the 2022 Un Certain Regard Competition has included 20 feature films – seven of which are first features also competing for the Caméra d’or. The opening film was Mathieu Vadepied’s Father and Soldier. Chaired by actress-director-producer Valeria Golino, the Jury included director Debra Granik, actress Joanna Kulig, actor-singer Benjamin Biolay and actor-producer Edgar Ramírez.

Un Certain Regard Prize LES PIRES (The Worst Ones) by Lise AKOKA & Romane GUERET
Jury Prize JOYLAND by Saim SADIQ
Best Director Prize Alexandru BELC for METRONOM
Best Performance Prize (jointly awarded) Vicky KRIEPS in CORSAGE
Best Performance Prize (jointly awarded)Adam BESSA in HARK
Best Screenplay Prize MEDITERRANEAN FEVER by Maha HAJ
« Coup de cœur » Prize RODEO by Lola QUIVORON

Shorts films in Competition

The big winners from the SHORT FILMS COMPETITION ARE:
![]() HAI BIAN SHENG QI YI ZUO XUAN YA (THE WATER MURMURS) by Story Chen | LORI (MELANCHOLY OF MY MOTHER’S LULLABIES) by Abinash Bikram Shah![]() |
as every year the Cherry on the Cake
The 75th Festival de Cannes Feature Films winners’ list

Palme d’or
TRIANGLE OF SADNESS directed by Ruben ÖSTLUND

Grand Prix (jointly awarded)
CLOSE directed by Lukas DHONT and STARS AT NOON directed by Claire DENIS
Award for Best Director
PARK Chan-Wook for HEOJIL KYOLSHIM (DECISION TO LEAVE)
Award for Best Screenplay
Tarik SALEH for WALAD MIN AL JANNA (BOY FROM HEAVEN)
Jury Prize (jointly awarded)
EO directed by Jerzy SKOLIMOWSKI
LE OTTO MONTAGNE (THE EIGHT MOUNTAINS) directed by Charlotte VANDERMEERSCH & Felix VAN GROENINGEN
75th anniversary Prize
TORI ET LOKITA (TORI AND LOKITA) directed by Jean-Pierre & Luc DARDENNE
Award for Best Actress
Zar AMIR EBRAHIMI in HOLY SPIDER directed by Ali ABBASI
Award for Best Actor
SONG Kang-ho in BROKER directed by KORE-EDA Hirokazu

Higher Technical Commission (CST)
The CST jury has awarded the CST ARTIST-TECHNICIAN AWARD 2022 to the entire sound crew headed up by Andréas Franck, Bent Holm, Jacob Ilgner and Jonas Rudels for the film TRIANGLE OF SADNESS by Ruben Östlund and the CST Young Film Technician Award to Marion Burger, head set designer for the film UN PETIT FRÈRE (MOTHER AND SON) by Léonor Serraille.
Caméra d’or
Two winners who have made their style stand out:
/WAR PONY directed by Riley KEOUGH and Gina GAMMELL, presented as part of the UN CERTAIN REGARD Official Selection
PLAN 75directed by HAYAKAWA Chie
