The Queer Palm is an independently sponsored prize for selected LGBT-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.
Queer Palm | |
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Awarded for | Best LGBT-related film at the Cannes Film Festival |
Location | Cannes |
Country | France |
Presented by | Cannes Film Festival |
First awarded | 2010 |
Website | https://www.queerpalm.org/ |
The award recognizes a film for its treatment of LGBT themes and gleans 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]
Award year | Film | Director | Ref(s). |
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2012 | It's Not a Cowboy Movie (Ce n'est pas un film de cow-boys) | Benjamin Parent | [6] |
2015 | Lost Queens (Locas Perdidas) | Ignacio Juricic Merillán | [12] |
The Fox Exploits the Tiger's Might | Lucky Kuswandi | [13] | |
Kung Fury | David Sandberg | ||
Ramona | Andrei Cretulescu | ||
Rate Me | Fyzal Boulifa | ||
Sunday Lunch (Le Repas Dominical) | Céline Devaux | ||
Victor XX | Ian Garrido López | ||
2016 | Gabber Lover | Anna Cazenave Cambet | [14] |
In the Hills | Hamid Ahmadi | [15] | |
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 | [16] |
Bad Bunny (Coelho Mau) | Carlos Conceição | [17] | |
The Best Fireworks Ever (Najpiekniejsze fajerwerki ever) | Aleksandra Terpinska | ||
Cherries (Trešnje) | Dubravka Turić | ||
Heritage (Ben Mamshich) | Yuval Aharoni | ||
Möbius | Sam Kuhn | ||
2018 | The Orphan | Carolina Markowicz | [18] |
Rubber Dolphin (Dolphin Megumi) | Ori Aharon | [29] | |
Sailor's Delight | Louise Aubertin, Éloïse Girard, Marine Meneyrol, Jonas Ritter, Loucas Rongeart, Amandine Thomoux | ||
Ultra Pulpe | Bertrand Mandico | ||
2019 | The Distance Between Us and the Sky | Vasilis Kekatos | [30] |
Complex Subject (Slozhnopodchinennoe) | Olesya Yakovleva | [21] | |
Grand Bouquet | Nao Yoshigai | ||
Jeremiah | Kenya Gillespie | ||
Journey Through a Body | Camille Degeye | ||
The Manila Lover | Johanna Pyykkö | ||
She Runs | Qiu Yan | ||
2020 | Award not presented due to the cancellation of the festival in light of the COVID-19 pandemic in France. | [22] | |
2021 | The Fall of the Swift (La Caída del vencejo) | Gonzalo Quincoces | [23] |
Frida | Aleksandra Odić | ||
Billy Boy | Sacha Amaral | [24] | |
Brutalia, Days of Labour | Manolis Lavris | ||
Cicada | Yoon Daewoen | ||
King Max | Adèle Vincenti-Crasson | ||
On Solid Ground (Über Wasser) | Jela Hasler | ||
The Right Words (Haut les cœurs) | Adrian Moyse Dullin | ||
Simone Is Gone (Simone est partie) | Mathilde Chavanne | ||
2022 | Will You Look at Me (Dang Wo Wang Xiang Ni De Shi Hou) | Shuli Huang | [25] |
Aribada | Simon(e) Jaikiriuma Paetau, Natalia Escobar | [26] | |
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 | ||
Hideous | Yann Gonzalez | ||
The Melting Creatures (Les Créatures qui fondent au soleil) | Diego Céspedes | ||
Mumlife | Ruby Challenger | ||
On Xerxes' Throne (Sur le trône de Xerxès) | Evi Kalogiropoulou | ||
The Pass | Pepi Ginsberg | ||
Persona (Gakjil) | Sujin Moon | ||
The Silent Whistle (Feng Zheng) | Li Yingtong | ||
Swan in the Centre (Swan dans le centre) | Iris Chassaigne | ||
2023 | Bolero | Nans Laborde-Jourdàa | [31] |
27 | Flóra Anna Buda | [28] | |
I Saw the Face of the Devil (J'ai vu le visage du diable) | Julia Kowalski | ||
Inside the Skin (Daroone Poust) | Shafagh Abosaba, Maryam Mahdiye | ||
Mast-Del | Maryam Tafakory | ||
Strange Way of Life (Extrana forma de vida) | Pedro Almodóvar | ||
Stranger | Jehnny Beth, Iris Chassaigne |