30/05/2025 - CANNES 2025: The films supported by the French fund for international co-productions won ten awards on the Croisette, including six in official competition

The 78th Cannes Film Festival has once again confirmed France’s role as engine and pillar in the co-production of the best international auteur cinema. Indeed, no fewer than 16 feature films that have gone through the selective filter of the Aide aux cinémas du monde fund (co-managed and co-financed by the CNC and the French Institute in order to encourage and support the international co-production of feature films between France and the rest of the world) were selected this year in the various categories of the Croisette–and nine of which won awards, including five in official competition.
The Aide aux cinémas du monde (ACM) was rewarded in the official competition by the Palme d’Or given to It Was Just an Accident [+see also:
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film profile] by Norwegian director Joachim Trier, the double Best Directing and Best Actor awards received by The Secret Agent [+see also:
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film profile] by Brazilian filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho, by the Jury Prize given to Sirât [+see also:
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Three other films carrying the ACM label were in official competition: Two Prosecutors [+see also:
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interview: Tarik Saleh
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interview: Chie Hayakawa
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Films that benefited from the Aide aux cinémas du monde also shone bright in Un Certain Regard with the main award going to The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo [+see also:
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interview: Diego Céspedes
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interview: Tarzan Nasser
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interview: Pedro Pinho
film profile] by fellow Portuguese artist Pedro Pinho. The other ACM titles in Un Certain Regard were Aïcha Can't Fly Away [+see also:
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interview: Morad Mostafa
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interview: Erige Sehiri
film profile] by Tunisian filmmaker Erige Sehiri. Another feature supported by the ACM also had its world premiere in Official selection, in the Cannes Première section: Magellan [+see also:
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Finally, the Aide aux cinémas du monde rounded off its brilliant Cannes 2025 run in the parallel section, with the Critics’ Week Grand Prize going to A Useful Ghost [+see also:
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film profile] by Thai filmmaker Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke. The ACM title Sleepless City [+see also:
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Since its creation in 2012, the Aide aux cinémas du monde has supported 695 projects (590 fiction films, 92 documentaries, 11 animation titles and two hybrid films) of 113 different nationalities.

(Translated from French)