French female director's film 'Anatomy of a Fall' wins Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival 2023

Justine Triet used her acceptance speech at this year's Cannes Film Festival to criticise how protests against pension reform in France were "shockingly repressed and rejected", and to call for more work for young filmmakers.

“We have to make room for them, the space that I was given 15 years ago in a slightly less hostile world where it is still possible to make mistakes and start again,” she said.

Female director Justine Triet speaks when receiving the award

Triet won the award ahead of veteran directors such as Hirokazu Kore-eda, Ken Loach and Wim Wenders, all of whom have won at least one Palme d'Or.

She joins New Zealand's Jane Campion and France's Julia Ducournau as the third woman to win the Palme d'Or in a competition that this year saw a record seven female directors nominated.

The Grand Prix, the second highest award after the Palme d'Or, went to British director Jonathan Glazer's film Zone of Interest , about a family living next to the Auschwitz concentration camp.

Star Jane Fonda presents the Palme d'Or to Justine Triet

Starring in both award-winning films is German actress Sandra Hueller, who in Anatomy of a Fall plays a writer who is the prime suspect in her husband's death, and in Zone of Interest she plays the wife of the commandant of the Auschwitz camp.

Best Actress Award goes to Merve Dizdar

The Best Actress award went to Merve Dizdar - who plays a teacher in an isolated Turkish village - in Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan's About Dry Grasses .

British director Jonathan Glazer wins Grand Prix for Zone of Interest

Best Actor went to Koji Yakusho for his role as a Tokyo toilet cleaner in Wim Wenders' Perfect Days .

Director Justine Triet was delighted to receive the award.

Fallen Leaves by Aki Kaurismaki from Finland, who returned to the Cannes Film Festival after more than a decade, won the Jury Prize.

French-Vietnamese director Tran Anh Hung won the Best Director award for The Pot-au-Feu - a haunting French film about food starring Juliette Binoche and Benoit Magimel as a couple in love.

While presenting best screenplay, John C Reilly showed his support for Hollywood's famous screenwriters with about a minute of wordless mimicry before saying: "What we just experienced is what a movie would be like without screenwriters."

The screenwriting award went to Yuji Sakamoto for director Kore-eda's Monster , which tells the story of a series of misunderstandings surrounding the friendship of two schoolboys.

The closing film of this year's Cannes Film Festival is Pixar's Elemental , an animated film about a city where four elements live together, with the voices of Leah Lewis and Mamoudou Athie.

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