24/05/2024 - CANNES 2024: The film by Canada’s Matthew Rankin has scooped the section’s inaugural Audience Award, while Jonas Trueba’s movie pocketed the Europa Cinemas Label

Handed out for the first time, the Audience Award of the 56th edition of the Directors’ Fortnight (which took place as an integral part of the 77th Cannes Film Festival) has singled out Universal Language by Canada’s Matthew Rankin, a film being sold by Belgium’s Best Friend Forever.

Meanwhile, The Other Way Around [+see also:
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Finally, the SACD Award, handed out to one of the French movies selected in the Directors’ Fortnight, was bestowed upon This Life of Mine [+see also:
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Here is the full list of winners:

Audience Award
Universal Language - Matthew Rankin (Canada)

Europa Cinemas Label
The Other Way Around [+see also:
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SACD Award
This Life of Mine [+see also:
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film profile] - Sophie Fillières (France)

(Translated from French)