Ruben Ostlund’s Swedish film “Triangle of Sadness”, a class warfare comedy about the military, won the Palme d’Or award at Saturday’s 75th Cannes Film Festival. This is Ostlund’s second win.

Ostlund won Cannes’ highest honor in 2017 for his movie “The Square”. “Triangle of Sadness” features Woody Harrelson playing a Marxist Yacht Captain and the dramatic scene of rampant vomiting. This film pushes the comedy even further.

Ostlund said, “We wanted (people) after the screening to go out together to have something fun to talk about.” We all agree that cinema has a unique aspect that allows us to watch together. While we need to keep something interesting to talk about, we also need to be entertained and have fun.

Second prize of the jury, the grand prix was split between Lukas’ tender drama about boyhood “Close” by Lukas Dhont and Claire Denis’ movie “Stars at Noon”.

Song Kang Ho, a Korean actor was awarded the best actor award for his role in Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Japanese film Broker. It is a story about a Korean family looking for a place for their abandoned child.

Song also starred as Bong Joon Ho’s Palme d’Or winner film “Parasite” at Cannes three years back.

Zar Amir Elbrahimi was awarded best actress for playing the role of a journalist in Ali Abbasi’s “Holy Spider,” a true crime thriller about a serial killer who targets sex workers within Iran’s Mashhad religious city. The film “Holy Spider”, which is violent and graphic, was not allowed to be shot in Iran. Instead it was produced in Jordan. Ebrahimi, who accepted the award, said that it depicts everything impossible to display in Iran.

A nine-member jury, headed by Vincent Lindon (French actor), selected the winners.

The jury split the prize between friendship tale “The Eight Mountains” by Charlotte Vandermeersch & Felix Van Groeningen as well as Polish director Jerzy Scholimowski’s “EO,” which is about a donkey’s trek across a pitiless, modern Europe.

Skolimowski stated, “I’d like to thank my donkeys,” he said. Skolimowski used six donkeys during filming.

Tarik Saleh (Swedish-Egyptian filmmaker) won best screenplay at Cannes with “Boy From Heaven,” an Egyptian thriller that was set in Cairo’s Al-Azhar Mosque.

Riley Keough won the Camera d’Or for Best First Film, this year’s winner being Gina Gammell. “War Pony” is a story about Pine Ridge Reservation, created in collaboration with Oglala Lakota residents and Sicangu Lakota citizens.

Saturday’s close ceremony marked the conclusion of an attempt to revive Cannes’ annual France extravaganza. The event was cut short by the pandemic in 2020 and only saw modest numbers last year. This year’s festival took place against the background of war in Ukraine. It sparked protests on red carpets as well as a discussion about cinema and war.

The Cannes top prize went to “Titane”, a French horror film about body horror. Julia Decournau was the only female director ever to take home the Palme. Before winning at Cannes, Bong Yoon Ho’s Parasite was crowned the winner in 2019.

This year, the biggest Hollywood films at Cannes — “Elvis,” “Top Gun: Maverick,” “Three Thousand Years of Longing” — played outside Cannes’ competition lineup of 21 films. Their presence restored some of Cannes’ glamour following the downsizing of the festival in the past two years due to the pandemic.