First awards at the Cannes film festival
In the section Un Certain Regard, part of the official Festival's selection, but not in the main competition, the jury’s award went to brothers Diego and Daniel Vega for their film Octubre (October), an 83-minute co-production between Peru, Venezuela and Spain, in which a man’s life is changed by a baby left on his doorstep.
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In the same selection, a Korean film called Hahaha by Hong Sansoo won the Gan Foudnation prize for its touching treatment of friendship.
And the six-member Christian Ecumenical Jury awarded its prize to French director Xavier Beauvois’ Of Men and of Gods.
The prize goes to a film in the official competition which the jury considers conveys universal values of human dignity, peace and solidarity, and has a spiritual dimension.
Beauvois’ film, about seven French monks in a clinic in the Atlas Mountains of North Africa who are taken hostage and killed, fits their bill.
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