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Cannes Awards “Everytime” Grand Prize, “Elephants” Jury Prize

5/24/2026

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Cannes Film Festival awarded the Un Certain Regard Grand Prize to Austrian director Sandra Wollner’s drama Everytime.
Actress Leïla Bekhti praised the film’s emotional honesty about grief and family loss.
The festival also gave the Jury Prize to Abinash Bikram Shah for Elephants in the Fog, about Nepal’s transgender Kinnar community.
Club Kid, sold to A24 for $17 million, received no Un Certain Regard award.

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Cannes Film Festival awarded the Un Certain Regard Grand Prize to Austrian director Sandra Wollner’s drama Everytime.
Actress Leïla Bekhti praised the film’s emotional honesty about grief and family loss.
The festival also gave the Jury Prize to Abinash Bikram Shah for Elephants in the Fog, about Nepal’s transgender Kinnar community.
Club Kid, sold to A24 for $17 million, received no Un Certain Regard award.