Forward of the 2025 awards ceremony on Saturday, Might 24, the competition has introduced the winners for the Un Sure Regard part, with the highest prize going to “The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo.” A co-production between Chile, France, Belgium, Spain, and Germany, the Nineteen Eighties-set drama marks the function directorial debut of Chilean filmmaker Diego Céspedes.
The Finest Screenplay award for the Un Sure Regard part went to Harry Lighton for his function directorial debut, A24’s “Pillion,” starring Harry Melling and Alexander Skarsgård. In his Critic’s Decide assessment out of Cannes, IndieWire’s Ryan Lattanzio mentioned of the movie, “Dick-sucking, boot-licking, and ball-gagging are de rigueur for a film like author/director Harry Lighton’s wildly graphic and unusually transferring BDSM romance, ‘Pillion.’ However for a British queer movie that places the particulars of a homosexual dominant-submissive affair (or association, higher but) up entrance and up shut, actors Alexander Skarsgård and Harry Melling discover the candy heart of a narrative marked by clamps, cages, and assless unitards.”
Simón Mesa Soto’s “A Poet,” one other IndieWire Critic’s Decide, went on to win the Jury Prize. Ben Croll wrote of the movie, “Cut up into 4 chapters and filmed on grainy, 16mm inventory that leaves a masks of schmutz across the corners of the body, ‘A Poet’ loops round questions of artwork and commerce in an endearingly crazy tone. The movie’s bawdy humorousness performs off a non-professional star — himself a full-time instructor from a close-by faculty — that appears like he was drawn by Robert Crumb and acts the half simply as properly.”
“Urchin” star Frank Dillane shared the efficiency award with Cléo Diara for the Portuguese postcolonial drama “I Solely Relaxation within the Storm.” Dillane, who stars in “Urchin” as a homeless London man succumbing to habit, will find yourself within the fall awards dialog stateside if Harris Dickinson’s debut finds the proper distributor. “I Solely Relaxation within the Storm” can be searching for a purchaser, as are “Flamingo,” “A Poet,” and Palestine’s well-reviewed “As soon as Upon a Time in Taza.”
But to be introduced is the Digital camera d’Or, the general prize for the very best first function, which encompasses movies all through the official choice together with Un Sure Regard. Candidates for this award nonetheless embrace Dickinson for “Urchin” in addition to Scarlett Johansson’s “Eleanor the Nice” and Kristen Stewart’s “The Chronology of Water.” The Johansson and Stewart movies didn’t win any Un Sure Regard awards on Friday, however that doesn’t get rid of them from probably receiving the Digital camera d’Or on Saturday.
Learn the complete record of winners for the Un Sure Regard part beneath.
Prix Un Sure Regard: “The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo,” Diego Céspedes
Jury Prize: “A Poet,” Simón Mesa Soto
Finest Screenplay: Harry Lighton, “Pillion”
Finest Efficiency: Cléo Diara, “I Solely Relaxation within the Storm” and Frank Dillane, “Urchin”
Finest Director: Tarzan and Arab Nasser, “As soon as Upon a Time in Gaza”
Ryan Lattanzio contributed reporting.