| Queer Palm | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Best LGBT-related film at the Cannes Film Festival |
| Location | Cannes |
| Country | France |
| Presented by | Cannes Film Festival |
| First award | 2010 |
| Website | https://www.queerpalm.org/ |
The Queer Palm is an independently sponsored prize for selected LGBTQIA+-relevant films entered into the Cannes Film Festival. The award was founded in 2010 by journalist Franck Finance-Madureira. It is sponsored by Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau, filmmakers of Jeanne and the Perfect Guy , The Adventures of Felix , Crustacés et Coquillages , and L'Arbre et la forêt .
The award recognizes a film for its treatment of LGBT themes and selects from among those films nominated or entered under Official Selection, Un Certain Regard , Critics' Week, Directors' Fortnight and the ACID section.
Along with Berlin's Teddy Award and Venice's Queer Lion, the Queer Palm is a major international film award dedicated specifically for LGBT cinema. [1] However, the festival has faced some criticism for purportedly sidelining the award and not allowing it to become an official award of the festival organization. [1]
Beginning in 2022, the Queer Palm also partnered with the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival to launch the Best Queer Short Award (Prix du Queer métrage) for the best LGBTQ-themed short film in that festival's program. [2]
| Year | English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Kaboom | Gregg Araki | United States, France | |
| 108 Cuchillo de Palo | Cuchillo de palo | Renate Costa | Spain | |
| Heartbeats | Les Amours imaginaires | Xavier Dolan | Canada | |
| On Tour | Tournée | Mathieu Amalric | France, Germany | |
| 2011 | Beauty | Skoonheid | Oliver Hermanus | South Africa |
| Declaration of War | La Guerre est déclarée | Valérie Donzelli | France | |
| Kids of Today | Des jeunes gens mödernes | Jérôme de Missolz | France, Belgium | |
| Chatrak | Vimukthi Jayasundara | India | ||
| My Little Princess | Eva Ionesco | France, Romania | ||
| Old Cats | Gatos viejos | Pedro Peirano and Sebastián Silva | Chile | |
| Palawan Fate | Busong | Auraeus Solito | Philippines | |
| The Silver Cliff | O Abismo Prateado | Karim Aïnouz | Brazil | |
| The Skin I Live In | La piel que habito | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain | |
| Snowtown | Justin Kurzel | Australia | ||
| Walk Away Renee | Jonathan Caouette | United States | ||
| 2012 | Laurence Anyways | Xavier Dolan | Canada | |
| Augustine | Alice Winocour | France | ||
| Beyond the Hills | După dealuri | Cristian Mungiu | Romania | |
| Beyond the Walls | Hors les murs | David Lambert | Belgium, Canada, France | |
| For Love's Sake | 愛と誠 | Takashi Miike | Japan | |
| Hold Back | Rengaine | Rachid Djaïdani | France | |
| Holy Motors | Leos Carax | France, Germany | ||
| The Invisibles | Les Invisibles | Sébastien Lifshitz | France | |
| Mystery | 浮城謎事 | Lou Ye | China | |
| Noor | Çağla Zencirci and Guillaume Giovanetti | India | ||
| The Paperboy | Lee Daniels | United States | ||
| Peddlers | Vasan Bala | India | ||
| The We and the I | Michel Gondry | United States | ||
| 2013 | Stranger by the Lake | L'Inconnu du lac | Alain Guiraudie | France |
| Behind the Candelabra | Steven Soderbergh | United States | ||
| Blue Is the Warmest Colour | La Vie d'Adèle – Chapitres 1 & 2 | Abdellatif Kechiche | France | |
| Bombay Talkies | Ajeeb Dastaan Hai Yeh | Karan Johar | India | |
| Me, Myself and Mum | Les Garçons et Guillaume, à table! | Guillaume Gallienne | France | |
| Opium | Arielle Dombasle | |||
| Sarah Prefers to Run | Sarah préfère la course | Chloé Robichaud | Canada | |
| You and the Night | Les Rencontres d'après minuit | Yann Gonzalez | France | |
| 2014 | Pride | Matthew Warchus | United Kingdom | |
| Breathe | Respire | Mélanie Laurent | France | |
| Darker Than Midnight | Più buio di mezzanotte | Sebastiano Riso | Italy | |
| Faire: L'amour | Djinn Carrénard | France | ||
| A Girl at My Door | 도희야 | July Jung | South Korea | |
| Girlhood | Bande de filles | Céline Sciamma | France | |
| Love at First Fight | Les Combattants | Thomas Cailley | ||
| Mommy | Xavier Dolan | Canada | ||
| Party Girl | Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger and Samuel Theis | France | ||
| Saint Laurent | Bertrand Bonello | |||
| When Animals Dream | Når dyrene drømmer | Jonas Alexander Arnby | Denmark | |
| Whiplash | Damien Chazelle | United States | ||
| Xenia | Ξενία | Panos H. Koutras | Greece, France, Belgium | |
| 2015 | Carol | Todd Haynes | United States | |
| Amy | Asif Kapadia | United Kingdom | ||
| Dope | Rick Famuyiwa | United States | ||
| The Lobster | Yorgos Lanthimos | Ireland, United Kingdom, Greece, France, Netherlands | ||
| Love | Gaspar Noé | France, Belgium | ||
| Marguerite & Julien | Marguerite et Julien | Valérie Donzelli | France | |
| Much Loved | Zin Li Fik | Nabil Ayouch | Morocco, France | |
| Mustang | Deniz Gamze Ergüven | France, Germany, Turkey | ||
| Pauline | Pauline s'arrache | Emilie Brisavoine | France | |
| Two Friends | Les deux amis | Louis Garrel | ||
| Vanity | La Vanité | Lionel Baier | Switzerland, France | |
| The Wakhan Front | Ni le ciel, ni le terre | Clément Cogitore | France, Belgium | |
| Where There Is Shade | De l'ombre il y a | Nathan Nicholovitch | France | |
| 2016 | The Lives of Thérèse | Les Vies de Thérèse | Sébastien Lifshitz | France |
| Apnea | Apnée | Jean-Christophe Meurisse | France | |
| Aquarius | Kleber Mendonça Filho | Brazil | ||
| Le Cancre | Paul Vecchiali | France | ||
| The Dancer | La Danseuse | Stéphanie Di Giusto | France, Belgium, Czech Republic | |
| Divines | Uda Benyamina | France, Qatar | ||
| Fiore | Claudio Giovannesi | Italy | ||
| The Handmaiden | 아가씨 | Park Chan-wook | South Korea | |
| The Neon Demon | Nicolas Winding Refn | France, Denmark, United States | ||
| Raw | Grave | Julia Ducournau | France, Belgium | |
| Slack Bay | Ma Loute | Bruno Dumont | France, Germany | |
| Staying Vertical | Rester vertical | Alain Guiraudie | France | |
| Willy 1er | Ludovic and Zoran Boukherma, Marielle Gautier and Hugo P. Thomas | |||
| 2017 | BPM (Beats per Minute) | 120 battements par minute | Robin Campillo | France |
| Coby | Christian Sonderegger | |||
| Golden Years | Nos années folles | André Téchiné | France | |
| How to Talk to Girls at Parties | John Cameron Mitchell | United States | ||
| Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts | Marlina Si Pembunuh dalam Empat Babak | Mouly Surya | Indonesia | |
| The Prince of Nothingwood | Sonia Kronlund | |||
| They | Anahita Ghazvinizadeh | United States, Qatar | ||
| 2018 | Girl | Lukas Dhont | Belgium, Netherlands | |
| El Angel | Luis Ortega | Argentina, Spain | ||
| Border | Gräns | Ali Abbasi | Sweden | |
| Carmen and Lola | Carmen y Lola | Arantxa Echevarria | Spain | |
| Cassandro the Exotico! | Marie Losier | France | ||
| Diamantino | Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt | Portugal, France, Brazil | ||
| Euphoria | Euforia | Valeria Golino | Italy | |
| The Harvesters | Die Stropers | Etienne Kallos | South Africa | |
| Knife+Heart | Un couteau dans le cœur | Yann Gonzalez | France, Mexico, Switzerland | |
| Love Blooms | L'Amour debout | Michaël Dacheux | France | |
| Rafiki | Wanuri Kahiu | Kenya | ||
| Sauvage | Camille Vidal-Naquet | France | ||
| Shéhérazade | Jean-Bernard Marlin | |||
| Sorry Angel | Plaire, aimer et courir vite | Christophe Honoré | ||
| Whitney | Kevin Macdonald | United States, United Kingdom | ||
| 2019 | Portrait of a Lady on Fire | Portrait de la jeune fille en feu | Céline Sciamma | France |
| Adam | Maryam Touzani | Morocco | ||
| And Then We Danced | და ჩვენ ვიცეკვეთ | Levan Akin | Sweden, Georgia, France | |
| Bacurau | Kleber Mendonça Filho, Juliano Dornelles | Brazil, France | ||
| Beanpole | Дылда | Kantemir Balagov | Russia | |
| Frankie | Ira Sachs | United States, France, Portugal | ||
| Liberté | Albert Serra | France, Germany, Spain, Portugal | ||
| Indianara | Aude Chevalier-Beaumel, Marcelo Barbosa | Brazil | ||
| Matthias & Maxime | Xavier Dolan | Canada | ||
| Oh Mercy! | Roubaix, une lumière | Arnaud Desplechin | France | |
| Pain and Glory | Dolor y gloria | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain | |
| Port Authority | Danielle Lessovitz | United States, France | ||
| Rocketman | Dexter Fletcher | United States | ||
| Tlamess | Ala Eddine Slim | Tunisia, France | ||
| You Deserve a Lover | Tu mérites un amour | Hafsia Herzi | France | |
| Zombi Child | Bertrand Bonello | |||
| Year | English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Award not presented due to the COVID-19 pandemic in France [22] | |||
| 2021 | The Divide | La Fracture | Catherine Corsini | France |
| Anaïs in Love | Les Amours d'Anaïs | Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet | France | |
| Benedetta | Paul Verhoeven | France, Netherlands, Belgium | ||
| Bruno Reidal | Bruno Reidal, Confession d'un meurtrier | Vincent Le Port | France | |
| Compartment No. 6 | Hytti nro 6 | Juho Kuosmanen | Finland, Estonia, Germany, Russia | |
| Everything Went Fine | Tout s'est bien passé | François Ozon | France | |
| Ghost Song | Nicolas Peduzzi | |||
| Great Freedom | Große Freiheit | Sebastian Meise | Austria, Germany | |
| The Hill Where Lionesses Roar | Luaneshat e kodrës | Luàna Bajrami | France, Kosovo | |
| Moneyboys | 金錢男孩 | C. B. Yi | Taiwan, Austria, France, Belgium | |
| Neptune Frost | Saul Williams, Anisia Uzeyman | Rwanda, United States | ||
| Paris, 13th District | Les Olympiades | Jacques Audiard | France | |
| Returning to Reims (Fragments) | Jean-Gabriel Périot | |||
| Softie | Petite Nature | Samuel Theis | ||
| Titane | Julia Ducournau | France, Belgium | ||
| Venus by Water | Lin Wang | |||
| Women Do Cry | Жените наистина плачат | Vesela Kazakova, Mina Mileva | Bulgaria, France | |
| 2022 | Joyland | جوائے لینڈ | Saim Sadiq | Pakistan |
| The Blue Caftan | أزرق القفطان | Maryam Touzani | France, Morocco, Belgium, Denmark | |
| Burning Days | Kurak Günler | Emin Alper | Turkey, France | |
| Close | Lukas Dhont | Belgium, France, Netherlands | ||
| Continental Drift (South) | La Dérive des continents (au sud) | Lionel Baier | Switzerland, France | |
| Diary of a Fleeting Affair | Chronique d'une liaison passagère | Emmanuel Mouret | France | |
| Dodo | Panos H. Koutras | Greece France, Belgium | ||
| Feminist Riposte | Riposte féministe | Marie Perennès, Simon Depardon | France | |
| The Five Devils | Les Cinq Diables | Léa Mysius | ||
| Forever Young | Les Amandiers | Valeria Bruni Tedeschi | France, Italy | |
| Irma Vep | Olivier Assayas | United States, France | ||
| A Male | Un Varón | Fabián Hernández | Colombia, France, Germany, Netherlands | |
| Moonage Daydream | Brett Morgen | Germany, United States | ||
| Pacifiction | Tourment sur les îles | Albert Serra | France, Spain, Portugal, Germany | |
| Rodeo | Rodéo | Lola Quivoron | France | |
| Tchaikovsky's Wife | Жена Чайковского | Kirill Serebrennikov | Russia, France, Switzerland | |
| Will-o'-the-Wisp | Fogo-Fatuo | João Pedro Rodrigues | Portugal, France | |
| 2023 | Monster | 怪物 | Hirokazu Kore-eda | Japan |
| Along Came Love | Le Temps d'aimer | Katell Quillévéré | France, Belgium | |
| Anatomy of a Fall | Anatomie d'une chute | Justine Triet | France | |
| Homecoming | Le Retour | Catherine Corsini | ||
| How to Have Sex | Molly Manning Walker | United Kingdom, Greece, Belgium | ||
| The Idol (series) | Sam Levinson | United States | ||
| Kubi | 首 | Takeshi Kitano | Japan | |
| The Nature of Love | Simple comme Sylvain | Monia Chokri | Canada | |
| Power Alley | Levante | Lillah Halla | Brazil, France, Uruguay | |
| A Prince | Un prince | Pierre Creton | France | |
| Rosalie | Stéphanie Di Giusto | France, Belgium | ||
| She Is Conann | Conann | Bertrand Mandico | ||
| A Song Sung Blue | 小白船 | Geng Zihan | China | |
| 2024 | Three Kilometres to the End of the World | Trei Kilometri Pana La Capatul Lumii | Emanuel Pârvu | Romania |
| Across the Sea | La mer au loin | Saïd Hamich Benlarbi | France, Morocco, Belgium, Qatar | |
| Baby | Marcelo Caetano | Brazil, France, Netherlands | ||
| The Balconettes | Les Femmes au balcon | Noémie Merlant | France | |
| The Belle from Gaza | La Belle de Gaza | Yolande Zauberman | ||
| Bird | Andrea Arnold | United Kingdom, France, Germany, United States | ||
| Block Pass | La Pampa | Antoine Chevrollier | France | |
| Eat the Night | Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel | |||
| Emilia Pérez | Jacques Audiard | France | ||
| Marcello Mio | Christophe Honoré | France, Italy | ||
| Misericordia | Miséricorde | Alain Guiraudie | France, Spain, Portugal | |
| Most People Die on Sundays | Los domingos mueren más personas | Iair Said | Argentina | |
| Motel Destino | Karim Aïnouz | Brazil, France, Germany | ||
| My Sunshine | ぼくのお日さま | Hiroshi Okuyama | Japan | |
| Queens of Drama | Les Reines du drame | Alexis Langlois | France, Belgium | |
| The Shameless | Konstantin Bojanov | India, Switzerland, France, Bulgaria, Taiwan | ||
| To Live, To Die, To Live Again | Vivre, Mourir, Renaître | Gaël Morel | France | |
| Viet and Nam | Trong lòng đất | Truong Minh Quý | Vietnam, Philippines, Switzerland | |
| 2025 | ||||
| The Little Sister | La Petite Dernière | Hafsia Herzi | France, Germany | |
| Alpha | Julia Ducournau | France, Belgium | ||
| Drifting Laurent | Laurent dans le Vent | Anton Balekdjian, Léo Couture and Mattéo Eustachon | France | |
| Drunken Noodles | Lucio Castro | United States, Argentina | ||
| Enzo | Robin Campillo | France, Italy, Belgium | ||
| Her Will Be Done | Que ma volonté soit faite | Julia Kowalski | France, Poland | |
| The History of Sound | Oliver Hermanus | United Kingdom, United States | ||
| I Only Rest in the Storm | O Riso e a Faca | Pedro Pinho | Portugal, Brazil, France, Romania | |
| Love Letters | Des preuves d’amour | Alice Douard | France | |
| Love Me Tender | Anna Cazenave Cambet | France | ||
| The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo | La misteriosa mirada del flamenco | Diego Céspedes | Chile, France, Germany, Spain, Belgium | |
| Pillion | Harry Lighton | United Kingdom, Ireland | ||
| The Richest Woman in the World | La femme la plus riche du monde | Thierry Klifa | France, Belgium | |
| Sorry, Baby | Eva Victor | United States | ||
| A Useful Ghost | ผีใช้ได้ค่ะ | Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke | Thailand, France, Singapore, Germany | |
| The Wave | La ola | Sebastián Lelio | Chile, United States | |
| Year | English Title | Original Title | Director(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | It's Not a Cowboy Movie | Ce n'est pas un film de cow-boys | Benjamin Parent |
| 2015 | Lost Queens | Locas Perdidas | Ignacio Juricic Merillán |
| The Fox Exploits the Tiger's Might | Lucky Kuswandi | ||
| Kung Fury | David Sandberg | ||
| Ramona | Andrei Cretulescu | ||
| Rate Me | Fyzal Boulifa | ||
| Sunday Lunch | Le Repas Dominical | Céline Devaux | |
| Victor XX | Ian Garrido López | ||
| 2016 [14] [15] | Gabber Lover | Anna Cazenave Cambet | |
| In the Hills | Hamid Ahmadi | ||
| In the Year of the Monkey | Prenjak | Wregas Bhanuteja | |
| Superbia | Luca Tóth | ||
| The Virgin Soldier | Le Soldat vierge | Erwan Le Duc | |
| 2017 | Islands | Les Îles | Yann Gonzalez |
| Bad Bunny | Coelho Mau | Carlos Conceição | |
| The Best Fireworks Ever | Najpiekniejsze fajerwerki ever | Aleksandra Terpinska | |
| Cherries | Trešnje | Dubravka Turić | |
| Heritage | Ben Mamshich | Yuval Aharoni | |
| Möbius | Sam Kuhn | ||
| 2018 [18] [31] | The Orphan | O Órfão | Carolina Markowicz |
| Rubber Dolphin | Dolphin Megumi | Ori Aharon | |
| Sailor's Delight | Louise Aubertin, Éloïse Girard, Marine Meneyrol, Jonas Ritter, Loucas Rongeart, Amandine Thomoux | ||
| Ultra Pulpe | Bertrand Mandico | ||
| 2019 [32] [21] | The Distance Between Us and the Sky | Vasilis Kekatos | |
| Complex Subject | Slozhnopodchinennoe | Olesya Yakovleva | |
| Grand Bouquet | Nao Yoshigai | ||
| Jeremiah | Kenya Gillespie | ||
| Journey Through a Body | Camille Degeye | ||
| The Manila Lover | Johanna Pyykkö | ||
| She Runs | Qiu Yan | ||
| Year | English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 [23] [24] | The Fall of the Swift | La Caída del vencejo | Gonzalo Quincoces | Spain |
| Frida | Aleksandra Odić | Germany | ||
| Billy Boy | Sacha Amaral | Argentina | ||
| Brutalia, Days of Labour | Manolis Lavris | Greece, Belgium | ||
| Cicada | Yoon Daewoen | South Korea | ||
| King Max | Adèle Vincenti-Crasson | France | ||
| On Solid Ground | Über Wasser | Jela Hasler | Switzerland | |
| The Right Words | Haut les cœurs | Adrian Moyse Dullin | France | |
| Simone Is Gone | Simone est partie | Mathilde Chavanne | ||
| 2022 [25] [26] | Will You Look at Me | 当我望向你的时候 | Shuli Huang | China |
| Aribada | Simon(e) Jaikiriuma Paetau, Natalia Escobar | |||
| Burial of Life as a Young Girl | Des jeunes filles enterrent leur vie | Maïté Sonnet | ||
| Fire at the Lake | Le Feu au lac | Pierre Menahem | France | |
| Hideous | Yann Gonzalez | |||
| The Melting Creatures | Les Créatures qui fondent au soleil | Diego Céspedes | ||
| Mumlife | Ruby Challenger | Australia | ||
| On Xerxes' Throne | Sur le trône de Xerxès | Evi Kalogiropoulou | ||
| The Pass | Pepi Ginsberg | United States | ||
| Persona | 각질 | Sujin Moon | South Korea | |
| The Silent Whistle | Feng Zheng | Li Yingtong | United States | |
| Swan in the Centre | Swan dans le centre | Iris Chassaigne | ||
| 2023 [33] [28] | Bolero | Nans Laborde-Jourdàa | France | |
| 27 | Flóra Anna Buda | France, Hungary | ||
| I Saw the Face of the Devil | J'ai vu le visage du diable | Julia Kowalski | France | |
| Inside the Skin | Daroone Poust | Shafagh Abosaba, Maryam Mahdiye | Iran | |
| Mast-Del | Maryam Tafakory | |||
| Strange Way of Life | Extrana forma de vida | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain | |
| Stranger | Jehnny Beth, Iris Chassaigne | France | ||
| 2024 [29] [30] | Southern Brides | Las novias del sur | Elena Lopez Riera | Switzerland, Spain |
| Immaculata | Kim Lêa Sakka | Germany, Lebanon | ||
| My Senses Are All I Have to Offer | As minhas sensações são tudo o que tenho para oferecer | Isadora Neves Marques | Portugal | |
| Sauna Day | Sannapäiv | Anna Hints, Tushar Prakash | Estonia | |
| Three | 三 | Amie Song | United States | |
| 2025 | ||||
| Bleat! | கத்து! | Ananth Subramaniam | Malaysia, Philippines, France | |
| Before the Sea Forgets | Ngọc Duy Lê | Singapore | ||
| Erogenesis | Xandra Popescu | Germany | ||
| Talk Me | Joecar Hanna | United States, Spain | ||