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The prizes: 58th Cannes film festival.

Le palmarès du 58e Festival de Cannes

- Palme d'or: «L'enfant», de Jean-Pierre et Luc Dardenne (Belgique).
- Grand Prix: «Broken Flowers», de Jim Jarmusch (USA).
- Prix d'interprétation féminine: Hanna Laslo dans «Free Zone».
- Prix d'interprétation masculine: Tommy Lee Jones dans «Trois enterrements» (USA).
- Prix de la mise en scène: «Caché» (France), de Michael Haneke (Autriche).
- Prix du scénario: «Trois enterrements», de Tommy Lee Jones (USA).
- Prix du Jury: «Shanghai Dreams», de Wang Xiaoshuai (Chine).
- Caméra d'or (premier film): «Moi, toi et les autres», de Miranda July (USA), et «La Terre abandonnée» (Sulanga Enu Pinisa), de Vimukthi Jayasundara (Sri-Lanka).
- Palme d'or du court métrage: «Podorozhni» d'Igor Strembitskyy (Ukraine). Mention spéciale à «Clara» de Van Sowerwine (Australie).

Courtesy of Le Soir (Belgique)