SCI-FI MAKERS ON TOP OF 'CANNES'!

Renowned South Korea filmmaker 
Bong Joon-ho with 'Palme d'Or!

'Best Actress' award winner..

English actress Emily Beecham!

Famous for his science-fiction action movies in South Korea.. Bong Joon-ho's 'Parasite' won 'Palme d'Or' in recently over '72nd Cannes Film Festival'! And Best Actress award bagged by English actress Emily Beecham for her role as scientist in film 'Little Joe'! That means Sci-Fi got admiration in this 'Cannes Film Festival'. May be this is because film 'Birdman' maker Alejandro Inarritu was the jury president in it!

Poster of Bong Joon-ho made 

South Korea film 'Parasite'!

Anyway, Bong Joon-ho became the first Korean filmmaker to win this prestigious award. His movie 'Parasite' is a black comedy! With that Mati Diop's Senegalese film 'Atlantics' won 'Grand Prix' prize!

Celine Sciamma's 'Best Screenplay' 

winner 'Portrait of a Lady on Fire'!

In this French writer-director Celine Sciamma got 'Best Screen- play' for a lesbian themed period film 'Portrait of a Lady on Fire'! And Antonio Banderas (portraying Almodovar) got 'Best Actor' award for Spanish 'Pain and Glory'!

Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's 

'Best Directors' winner 'Young Ahmed'!

Palestinian director-actor Elia Suleiman

in Canadian film 'It must be Heaven'!

Winners of 'Palme d'Or' twice before.. Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne took the 'Best Directors' prize for their film..'Young Ahmed' with contemporary social realism in Belgium! Besides, Palestinian director & actor Elia Suleiman's optimistic comic Canadian film 'It must be Heaven' got 'Special- Mention'!
Congratulations all!!

- Manoj Kulkarni
  ['Chitrasrushti']