Cannes 2024: Indian Film 'All We Imagine...' Loses Un Certain Regard Prize To 'Black Dog', Check Full List Of Winners

Chinese director Hu Guan's film "Black Dog" won the Un Certain Regard Prize at Cannes. The Jury Prize in this category was awarded to Boris Lojkine’s asylum-seeker tale, "The Story Of Souleymane."

Chinese director Hu Guan's film "Black Dog" won the Un Certain Regard Prize at Cannes. ( Image Source :Festival De Cannes/Instagram. )

New Delhi: Chinese director Hu Guan's film "Black Dog" won the Un Certain Regard Prize at Cannes. The Jury Prize in this category was awarded to Boris Lojkine’s asylum-seeker tale, "The Story Of Souleymane." Anasuya Sengupta received the Un Certain Regard Prize for Best Actress for her role in "The Shameless." Un Certain Regard is a section within the official selection of the Cannes Film Festival.

About The Shameless

'The Shameless' follows the story of a sex worker who escapes a Delhi brothel after stabbing a policeman. According to Variety, Anasuya Sengupta dedicated her award “to the queer community and other marginalized communities all around the world for so bravely fighting a fight they really shouldn’t have to fight.” She stated, “You don’t have to be queer to fight for equality, you don’t have to be colonized to know that colonizing is pathetic — we just need to be very, very decent human beings.”

Check out the full list of winners here:

Special mention

NORAH

Tawfik Alzaidi

1st film

Youth Award

HOLY COW

Louise Courvoisier

1st film

Best Actress

ANASUYA SENGUPTA

The Shameless

Best Actor

ABOU SANGARÉ

L’Histoire de Souleymane

Best Director ex-aequo

ROBERTO MINERVINI

The Damned

RUNGANO NYONI

On Becoming a Guinea Fowl

Jury Prize

L’HISTOIRE DE SOULEYMANE

Boris Lojkine

Un Certain Regard Prize

BLACK DOG

Guan Hu

 

 

 

 

 

 

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About Black Dog

'Black Dog' tells the story of a damaged loner who returns to his desert hometown after a stint in prison and finds a kindred spirit in an equally world-weary greyhound. The film beat 17 other titles to win the top prize in the festival’s second-most prestigious competitive section, Un Certain Regard.

Cannes Un Certain Regard Prize

According to the official statement, the 2024 Un Certain Regard selection included 18 feature films, with 8 of them being first features also competing for the Caméra d’or. This year's opening film was Rúnar Rúnarsson’s "When the Light Breaks." The jury was chaired by Canadian actor, director, screenwriter, and producer Xavier Dolan, and included French-Senegalese screenwriter and director Maïmouna Doucouré, Moroccan director, screenwriter, and producer Asmae El Moudir, German-Luxembourg actress Vicky Krieps, and American film critic, director, and writer Todd McCarthy.