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Julia Ducournau's Titane wins Palme d'or at Cannes 2021: Details here

The awards of the 74th Cannes Film Festival were decided by a jury chaired by Spike Lee

Julia Ducournau's Titane wins Palme d'or at Cannes 2021: Details here
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Julia Ducournau (centre)

Saibal Chatterjee New Delhi
Julia Ducournau, the 37-year-old French director of “Titane”, a freaky and provocative body-horror drama has become the first female director in 28 years to win the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’or.
 
The awards of the 74th Cannes Film Festival were decided by a jury chaired by Spike Lee and handed out at the event’s closing ceremony in the Grand Theatre Lumiere on Saturday.

Titane tells the story of a young woman who survives a car crash as a child and goes on to have a peculiar