Emilia Perez’s actresses, Coralie Fargit’s “body horror”, Payal Kapadia’s company. Women in the spotlight at the 77th Cannes Film Festival.

Of the 22 feature films in official competition, only four directors were selected in 77.^e Cannes Film Festival. Two of them appeared on the list awarded this May 25 by the 2024 jury and its president, Greta Gerwig. Frenchwoman Coralie Fargie was first awarded the screenplay prize The materialmoviebody horror” with Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley, a raunchy satire of young people whose bodies, charred and transformed, provoke their excitement on the Croisette. Receiving his award, the 47-year-old director emphasized how his film is about “the experience of women around the world.”

A few minutes later Payal Kapadia herself took the stage with her three co-stars Kani Kusruti, Divya Prabha and Chhaya Kadam and received the grand prize which was presented Everything we think of as light the first Indian film in thirty years to enter competition. A story of camaraderie and friendship between three women escaping the conservative straitjacket of Indian society, a value the director emphasized in his speech.

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Among the women in the spotlight are the quartet, too Emilia Perez, was awarded a collective performance award by the jury for highlighting the diversity of their characters. Jacques Audiard’s film, an incredible and twisting “opera” about a Mexican drug dealer who wants to change sex, stars Selena Gomez, Zoe Saldana, Adriana Paz and trans actress Carla Sofia Gascon. The latter, being alone on the stage to receive the award, called for tolerance towards trans people in a tearful speech.

Dialogue

The list remains 77^e Cannes festival will reward many directors. Including three that put heroines in the spotlight. In addition to Jacques Oudiar, Iranian Mohammad Rasoulof, who was secretly exiled from his country to present: The sacred fig seed, won a Special Jury Prize for this film, which shows a family torn apart from within as the Woman, Life, Freedom movement and its violent repression rumbles on. What about 2024 Palme d’Or winner American Sean Baker? AnoraThe broken love story of an escort girl and the son of a Russian oligarch, he ended his acceptance speech by bowing on stage. “sex workers, past, present and future. Women’s stories told by men. it is enough, perhaps, to reflect the jury’s desire to take the path of equality, choosing a dialogue between the sexes, in every sense of the word. An ideal that cinema, through fiction, will repeat.