Other winners included Iranian dissident filmmaker Jafar Panahi, whose It Was Just an Accident won the festival's top prize, the Palme d’Or, just days after distribution company Neon picked up the US rights for the film.

Falling trees, condor men, and what was reportedly some actual, literal sabotage to the local power grid couldn’t stop it from happening: We’ve reached the end of the 78th Can

Bringing a turbulent world together through cinema, the 78th Cannes Film Festival went off largely without a hitch -- despite hosting a day of films honoring Ukraine at the outset, two persecuted Iranian filmmakers in competition and provocative films from both Israel and Gaza in various sections.