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Cannes, Jul 18 (EFE/EPA).-France's Julia Ducournau made history here Saturday, becoming only the second woman ever to receive the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival as the 74th edition of the event drew to a close.But the official announcement of Ducournau's "Titane" as the recipient of the Palme d'Or was something of an anti-climax because the jury president, Spike Lee, let slip the identity of the winning film at the start of the ceremony. (Camera: MARCO ÁLVAREZ SAN ROMÁN).FOOTAGE OF JULIA DUCOURNAU (DIRECTOR AND SCRIPTWRITER OF TITANE, WINNER OF PALME D'OR); THE TITANE TEAM: AGATHE ROUSSELLE (ACTRESS), JULIA DUCOURNAU (DIRECTOR AND SCRIPTWRITER), VINCENT LINDON (ACTOR) POSING IN FRONT OF THE CAMERA; JULIA DUCOURNAU (DIRECTOR AND SCRIPTWRITER OF TITANE, WINNER OF PALME D'OR) POSING WITH THE TROPHY; RENATE REINSVE (BEST ACTRESS AWARD FROM VERDENS VERSTE MENNESKE); APICHATPONG WEERASETHAKUL (DIRECTOR OF MEMORIA, JURY PRIZE WINNER EX-AEQUO); NADAV LAPID (DIRECTOR OF HA'BERECH,JURY PRIZE WINNER EX-AEQUO); JUHO KUOSMANEN (DIRECTOR OF HYTTI Nº6, GRAND PRIX EX-AEQUO); ASGHAR FARHADI (DIRECTOR OF GHAHREMAN, GRAND PRIX EX-AEQUO); RYUSUKE HAMAGUCHI (DIRECTOR AND CO-SCRIPTWRITER OF DRIVE MY CAR, WINNER OF BEST SCREENPLAY AWARD); CALEB LANDRY JONES (NITRAM BEST ACTOR AWARD); RUSSEL MAEL AND RON MAEL (ANNETTE'S CO-SCRIPTWRITERS, BEST DIRECTOR AWARD); THE OFFICIAL JURY (FROM LEFT TO RIGHT): DIDIER ALLOUCH (MODERATOR), KLEBER MENDONÇA FILHO (MEMBER OF THE OFFICIAL JURY, DIRECTOR), MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL (MEMBER OF THE OFFICIAL JURY, DIRECTOR AND ACTRESS) ,TAHAR RAHIM (OFFICIAL JURY MEMBER, ACTOR), JESSICA HAUSNER (OFFICIAL JURY MEMBER, DIRECTOR), SPIKE LEE (PRESIDENT OF OFFICIAL JURY), MÉLANIE LAURENT (OFFICIAL JURY MEMBER, ACTRESS), MATI DIOP (OFFICIAL JURY MEMBER, DIRECTOR, AND ACTRESS) SONG KHAN-HO (MEMBER OF THE OFFICIAL JURY, ACTOR), MYLÉNE FARMER (MEMBER OF THE OFFICIAL JURY, SINGER).SOUND BITES: DIRECTOR AND SCRIPTWRITER OF TITANE AND WINNER OF PALME D'OR, JULIA DUCOURNAU (IN FRENCH); DIRECTOR OF GHAHREMAN AND GRAND PRIX EX-AEQUO, ASGHAR FARHADI (IN FARSI), DIRECTOR OF MEMORIA, JURY PRIZE WINNER EX-AEQUO, APICHATPONG WEERASETHAKUL (IN ENGLISH), DIRECTOR OF HA'BERECH,JURY PRIZE WINNER EX-AEQUO, NADAV LAPID (IN FRENCH), BEST ACTRESS AWARD FROM VERDENS VERSTE MENNESKE, RENATE REINSVE (IN ENGLISH); NITRAM BEST ACTOR AWARD, CALEB LANDRY JONES (IN ENGLISH); PRESIDENT OF OFFICIAL JURY, SPIKE LEE (IN ENGLISH).TRANSLATIONS:1. DIRECTOR AND SCRIPTWRITER OF TITANE, WINNER OF PALME D'OR.- I believe and I hope that today's award was given only because of my film. I sincerely hope that it has nothing to do with my gender because I believe that gender does not define me as a filmmaker nor as a person. I am not only about my gender. I don't think so. I am the second woman to receive this award and I thought a lot about Jane Campion tonight. I wondered what it would be like for her to be the first. And I must say that the fact that I'm the second suggested that this is a movement in progress. I am the second so there will be the third, the fourth, the fifth.- It is never easy to be free. I believe that you have to fight all the time, no matter what happens, no matter what the circumstances. Freedom, unfortunately, is not something you acquired. And we are talking about the Cannes festival, of course, we are not talking about other things. I think freedom can only come from within. It is a struggle, a constant struggle.2. ASGHAR FARHADI, DIRECTOR OF GHAHREMAN, GRAND PRIX EX-AEQUO WINNER.- I am very happy. I was already so when I saw that I was going to be in the festival. I must say that I did not believe it would be possible at the beginning. I was going to be a jury in this edition. They had proposed it to me and when they proposed it I said no , I told them I had a film to present and I had a chance to do so. And to be able to discover it here together with the Cannes public has been a great honor.3. NADAV LAPID, DIRECTOR OF HA'BERECH,JURY PRIZE WINNER EX-AEQUO WINNER.- I think that in Israel there are many people who are convinced that everything that happens in the solar system is kind of against Israel, that the Cannes festival has been invented against Israel, that the film was invented to smear Israel, and that was the last goal of the Lumiére brothers. So I think we can calm down a bit.
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