Un Certain Regard

Un Certain Regard
Un Certain Regard official logo
Date	1978 - present
Country	France
Presented by	Cannes Film Festival
First award	1998
Currently held by	Diego Céspedes The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo (2025)
Website	festival-cannes.com

Un Certain Regard (French: [œ̃sɛʁtɛ̃ʁəɡaʁ] ; 'A Certain Glance') is a section of the Cannes Film Festival's official selection. It is run at the salle Debussy, parallel to the competition for the Palme d'Or . This section was introduced in 1978 by Gilles Jacob.

The section presents 20 films with more original and daring approaches than the Official Selection, distinguished by their storytelling and/or direction, and often spotlighting emerging or lesser-known filmmakers seeking international recognition. ^[1]

Since 1998, the section has awarded the Un Certain Regard Prize to one film in the lineup, recognising emerging talent and innovative work. ^[2] At the 1998 Cannes Film Festival, Killer by Darezhan Omirbaev was named the inaugural winner, while The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo by Diego Céspedes is the most recent winner (2025). ^[3]

Winners

In 1998, the Prix un certain regard was introduced to the section to recognize young talent and to encourage innovative and daring works by presenting one of the films with a grant to aid its distribution in France. ^[4] Since 2005, the prize consists of €30,000 financed by the Groupama GAN Foundation. ^[5]

Apichatpong Weerasethakul won for Blissfully Yours (2002)

Ousmane Sembène won for Moolaadé (2004)

Yorgos Lanthimos won for Dogtooth (2009)

Hong Sang-soo won for Hahaha (2010)

Mohammad Rasoulof won for A Man of Integrity (2017)

1990s

Year	English title	Original Title	Director	Production country
1998	Killer	Tueur à gages	Darezhan Omirbaev	Kazakhstan, France
1999	Beautiful People		Jasmin Dizdar	United Kingdom, Bosnia and Herzegovina

2000s

Year	English title	Original Title	Director	Production country
2000	Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her		Rodrigo García	United States
2001	Boyhood Loves	Amour d'enfance	Yves Caumon	France
2002	Blissfully Yours	สุดเสน่หา	Apichatpong Weerasethakul	Thailand
2003	The Best of Youth	La meglio gioventù	Marco Tullio Giordana	Italy
2004	Moolaadé		Ousmane Sembène	Senegal
2005	The Death of Mr. Lazarescu	Moartea domnului Lăzărescu	Cristi Puiu	Romania
2006	Luxury Car	江城夏日	Wang Chao	China, France
2007	California Dreamin'		Cristian Nemescu	Romania
2008	Tulpan		Sergey Dvortsevoy	Kazakhstan
2009	Dogtooth	Κυνόδοντας	Yorgos Lanthimos [6] [7]	Greece

2010s

Year	English title	Original Title	Director	Production country
2010	Hahaha	하하하	Hong Sang-soo	South Korea
2011	Arirang	아리랑	Kim Ki-duk
	Stopped on Track	Halt auf freier Strecke	Andreas Dresen	Germany
2012	After Lucia	Después de Lucía	Michel Franco	Mexico
2013	The Missing Picture	L'image manquante	Rithy Panh	Cambodia, France
2014	White God	Fehér isten	Kornél Mundruczó	Hungary, Germany, Sweden
2015	Rams	Hrútar	Grímur Hákonarson	Iceland, Denmark, Poland, Norway
2016	The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki	Hymyilevä mies	Juho Kuosmanen	Finland, Germany, Sweden
2017	A Man of Integrity	لِرد	Mohammad Rasoulof	Iran
2018	Border	Gräns	Ali Abbasi	Sweden
2019	The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão	A Vida Invisível de Eurídice Gusmão	Karim Aïnouz	Brazil

2020s

Year	English title	Original Title	Director	Production country
2021	Unclenching the Fists	Разжимая кулаки	Kira Kovalenko	Russia
2022	The Worst Ones	Les pires	Lise Akoka and Romane Gueret [8]	France
2023	How to Have Sex		Molly Manning Walker [9]	United Kingdom
2024	Black Dog	狗阵	Guan Hu	China
2025	The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo	La misteriosa mirada del flamenco	Diego Céspedes [10]	Chile, France, Germany, Spain, Belgium

Other awards

2000s

Year	Award	English title	Original title	Recipient
2000	Mention spéciale	Me You Them	Eu Tu Eles	Andrucha Waddington
2003	Prix le premier regard [11]	A Thousand Months	Mille mois	Faouzi Bensaidi
	Prix du jury	Crimson Gold	طلای سرخ	Jafar Panahi
2004	Prix du regard original [12]	Whisky		Juan Pablo Rebella, Pablo Stoll
	Prix du regard vers l'avenir [13]	Earth and Ashes	خاکستر و خاک	Atiq Rahimi
2005	Prix de l'intimité [14]	Le filmeur		Alain Cavalier
	Prix de l'espoir [15]	Delwende		S. Pierre Yameogo
2006	Prix spécial du jury	Ten Canoes		Rolf de Heer
	Prix d'interprétation féminine [16]	The Way I Spent the End of the World	Cum mi-am petrecut sfârșitul lumii	Dorotheea Petre
	Prix d'interprétation masculine [17]	The Violin	El violín	Ángel Tavira
	Prix du président du jury [18]	Murderers	Meurtrières	Patrick Grandperret
2007	Prix spécial du jury	Actresses	Actrices	Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi
	Coup de cœur du jury [19]	The Band's Visit	ביקור התזמורת	Eran Kolirin
2008	Prix du jury	Tokyo Sonata	トウキョウソナタ	Kiyoshi Kurosawa
	Coup de cœur du jury	Cloud 9	Wolke Neun	Andreas Dresen
	Le K.O. du certain regard	Tyson		James Toback
	Prix de l'espoir	Johnny Mad Dog		Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire
2009	Prix du jury	Police, Adjective	Polițist, adjectiv	Corneliu Porumboiu
	Prix spécial du jury ex-aequo	No One Knows About Persian Cats	کسی از گربه های ایرانی خبر نداره	Bahman Ghobadi
		Father of My Children	Le père de mes enfants	Mia Hansen-Løve

2010s

Year	Award	English title	Original title	Recipient
2010	Prix du jury	October	Octubre	Daniel Vega, Diego Vega
	Prix d’interprétation féminine	The Lips	Los Labios	Adela Sánchez, Eva Bianco, Victoria Raposo
2011	Prix spécial du jury	Elena	Елена	Andrey Zvyagintsev
	Prix de la mise en scène	Goodbye	به امید دیدار	Mohammad Rasoulof
2012	Mention spéciale	Children of Sarajevo	Djeca	Aida Begić
	Prix spécial du Jury	Le grand soir		Gustave Kervern, Benoît Delépine
	Prix d'interprétation féminine	Laurence Anyways		Suzanne Clément
		Our Children	À Perdre la Raison	Emilie Dequenne
2013	Prix spécial du jury	Omar	عمر	Hany Abu-Assad
	Prix de la mise en scène	Stranger by the Lake	L'Inconnu du lac	Alain Guiraudie
	Prix un talent certain pour l'ensemble des comédiens	The Golden Dream	La jaula de oro	Diego Quemada-Díez
	Prix de l’avenir	Fruitvale Station		Ryan Coogler
2014	Prix du jury	Force Majeure		Ruben Östlund
	Prix spécial du certain regard	The Salt of the Earth	Le sel de la terre	Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado
	Prix d'ensemble	Party Girl		Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger, Samuel Theis
	Prix du meilleur acteur [20] [21]	Charlie's Country		David Gulpilil
2015	Prix du Jury	The High Sun	Zvizdan	Dalibor Matanic
	Prix de la mise-en-scene	Journey to the Shore	岸辺の旅	Kiyoshi Kurosawa
	Prix avenir prometteur	The Fourth Direction		Gurvinder Singh
		Masaan		Neeraj Ghaywan
		Nahid		Ida Panahandeh
	Prix un certain talent	The Treasure	Comoara	Corneliu Porumboiu
2016	Prix du Jury	Harmonium	淵に立つ	Koji Fukada
	Prix de la mise-en-scène	Captain Fantastic		Matt Ross
	Prix du meilleur scénario	The Stopover	Voir du pays	Delphine Coulin, Muriel Coulin
	Prix spécial du certain regard	The Red Turtle	La Tortue rouge	Michael Dudok de Wit
2017	Prix du Jury	April's Daughter	Las Hijas de Abril	Michel Franco
	Prix d'interprétation féminine	Fortunata		Jasmine Trinca
	Prix de la poésie du cinéma	Barbara		Mathieu Amalric
	Prix de la mise-en-scène	Wind River		Taylor Sheridan
2018	Prix du Jury	The Dead and the Others	Chuva é Cantoria na Aldeia dos Mortos	João Salaviza, Renée Nader Messora
	Prix du meilleur acteur	Girl		Victor Polster
	Prix du scénario	Sofia		Meryem Benm'Barek-Aloïsi
	Prix de la mise-en-scène	Donbass		Sergei Loznitsa
2019	Jury Prize	Fire Will Come	O que arde	Oliver Laxe
	Prix d'interprétation féminine	On a Magical Night	Chambre 212	Chiara Mastroianni
	Prix du meilleur directeur	Beanpole	Дылда	Kantemir Balagov
	Prix Coup de cœur du jury	The Climb		Michael Angelo Covino
	Prix spécial du jury	Liberté		Albert Serra

2020s

Year	Award	English title	Original title	Recipient
2021	Jury Prize	Great Freedom	Große Freiheit	Sebastian Meise
	Ensemble Prize	Good Mother	Bonne Mère	Hafsia Herzi
	Prix de l'originalité	Lamb	Dýrið	Valdimar Jóhannsson
	Prix du Courage	La Civil		Teodora Mihai
	Mention spéciale	Prayers for the Stolen	Noche de fuego	Tatiana Huezo
2022 [8]	Jury Prize	Joyland		Saim Sadiq
	Best Director	Metronom		Alexandru Belc
	Best Performance	Corsage		Vicky Krieps
		Harka		Adam Bessa
	Best Screenplay	Mediterranean Fever		Maha Haj
	Coup de cœur	Rodeo		Lola Quivoron
2023 [9]	Jury Prize	Hounds	Les Meutes	Kamal Lazraq
	Best Director	The Mother of All Lies	كذب أبيض	Asmae El Moudir
	Freedom Prize	Goodbye Julia		Mohamed Kordofani
	Ensemble Prize	The Buriti Flower	Crowrã	João Salaviza, Renée Nader Messora, Cast and Crew
	New Voice Prize	Omen	Augure	Baloji Tshiani
2024	Jury Prize	Souleymane's Story	L'histoire de Souleymane	Boris Lojkine
	Best Director	The Damned		Roberto Minervini
		On Becoming a Guinea Fowl		Rungano Nyoni
	Best Performance	The Shameless		Anasuya Sengupta
		Souleymane's Story	L'histoire de Souleymane	Abou Sangare
	Youth Prize	Holy Cow	Vingt Dieux	Louise Courvoisier
	Special Mention	Norah	نورة	Tawfik Alzaidi
2025	Jury Prize	A Poet	Un Poeta	Simón Mesa Soto
	Best Director	Once Upon a Time in Gaza		Tarzan and Arab Nasser
	Best Screenplay	Pillion		Harry Lighton
	Best Actor	Urchin		Frank Dillane
	Best Actress	I Only Rest in the Storm	O Riso e a Faca	Cleo Diára

References and notes

1. Crawford, Matt (19 March 2024). "What Is Un Certain Regard At Cannes? History, Impact & Winners". Filmmaking Lifestyle. Retrieved 4 March 2025.
2. "Everything You Need to Know About the Cannes Film Festival". Backstage. 16 May 2024. Retrieved 18 January 2026.
3. "'Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo' wins Un Certain Regard competition at Cannes". Reuters. 23 May 2025. Retrieved 18 January 2026.
4. "Festival de Cannes: Un Certain Regard Prize". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 22 May 2007.
5. 2008 Cannes Film Festival, Fondation Groupama GAN
6. "2009 awards / Un certain regard". Cannes Film Festival. Archived from the original on 13 November 2011.
7. Hernandez, Eugene (2009-05-23). ""Dogtooth" Wins Top Cannes Un Certain Regard Prize". IndieWIRE . www.indiewire.com. Retrieved 2009-05-23.
8. "Un Certain Regard Winners List 2022". festival-cannes.com . 27 May 2022.
9. "Un Certain Regard Winners List 2023". festival-cannes.com . 26 May 2023.
10. Ntim, Zac (2025-05-23). "Chilean Drama 'The Mysterious Gaze Of The Flamingo' Wins Top Un Certain Regard Prize — Cannes". Deadline. Retrieved 2025-05-23.
11. The first glance prize
12. Prize of the original glance
13. Prize of the glance to the future
14. Intimacy prize
15. Prize of hope
16. Best actress award
17. Best actor award
18. Prize of the President of the jury
19. Jury's hunch
20. "Gulpilil wins a best actor award at Cannes Film Festival". Abc.net.au. 24 May 2014. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
21. Bunbury, Stephanie (24 May 2014). "Australian actor David Gulpilil wins best actor award at Cannes Film Festival". The Sydney Morning Herald . Retrieved 27 January 2018.