La Jauria Wins Grand Prize at Cannes Critics' Week, Check Full List of Winners

As the Cannes Film Festival nears its conclusion on Saturday night, sidebar Critics Week handed out its awards this evening, with Andres Ramirez Pulido's La Jauria winning the Grand Prize. As this is Pulido's first feature, the film is also eligible for the Camera d'Or, which will be announced on Saturday during the festival's main closing ceremony. Cannes 2022: Shakira Looks Ultra-Chic in Black High-Slit Gown; Brings Old Hollywood Glamour on The Red Carpet.

According to Deadline, La Jauria won two awards at Critics' Week tonight, including the SACD Prize. The plot revolves around Eli, a country boy who is imprisoned in a Colombian tropical forest experimental minors' centre for a crime he committed with his friend El Mono. Every day, the teenagers engage in physically demanding manual labour as well as intensive group therapy. El Mono arrives at the same centre one day, bringing with him a past that Eli is trying to forget. Cannes 2022: Kristen Stewart Nails Three Distinct Chanel Looks and We’re Smitten (View Pics).

As reported by Deadline, the film is "a very special film" with "a finely calibrated mix of recognisable social realism and dystopian weirdness." Charlotte Wells' Aftersun (review here), starring Paul Mescal, and Emmanuelle Nicot's Love According To Dalva (review here) for young star Zelda Samson both received nominations tonight.

Here's the full list of winners:

Prizes of the Jury

Grand PrizeLa Jauria, dir: Andres Ramirez Pulido

French Touch Prize of the JuryAftersun, dir: Charlotte Wells

Louis Roederer Foundation Rising Star AwardZelda Samson for Love According To Dalva

Leitz Cine Discovery Prize for Short FilmIce Merchants, dir: Joao Gonzalez

Gan Foundation Award for DistributionThe Woodcutter Story, dir: Mikko Myllylahti

SACD PrizeAndres Ramirez Pulido, director/writer of La Jauria

Canal+ Award for Short FilmOn Xerxes' Throne, dir: Evi Kalogiropoulou (ANI)

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