Cannes 2025: Day 11: Friday 23 May: Un Certain Regard Awards

Un Certain Regard Winners List 2025

Celebrating a cinema of discoveries, the 2025 selection has included 20 feature films – 9 of which are first features also competing for the Caméra d’or. This year, the opening film was Erige Sehiri‘s Promised Sky.

Chaired by British director, screenwriter and cinematographer Molly Manning Walker, the Jury included French-Swiss director and screenwriter Louise Courvoisier, Croatian director of the International Film Festival Rotterdam Vanja Kaludjercic, Italian director, producer and screenwriter Roberto Minervini and Argentinian actor Nahuel Pérez Biscayart.

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Un Certain Regard Prize

LA MISTERIOSA MIRADA DEL FLAMENCO (THE MYSTERIOUS GAZE OF THE FLAMINGO)
Diego Céspedes
1st film

Jury Prize

UN POETA (A POET) 
Simón Mesa Soto

Best Directing

ARAB & TARZAN NASSER
for Once Upon a Time in Gaza

Best Actor

FRANK DILLANE
in Urchin directed by Harris Dickinson

Best Actress

CLEO DIÁRA
in O Riso e a Faca (I Only Rest in the Storm) directed by Pedro Pinho

Best Screenplay

PILLION
Harry Lighton
1st film

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