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| School movie wins Cannes honour | School movie wins Cannes honour |
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| French movie The Class, about life in a tough Paris school, has won the coveted Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. | |
| The prize, awarded by a jury headed by Sean Penn, came at the end of the world's most prestigious film festival. | The prize, awarded by a jury headed by Sean Penn, came at the end of the world's most prestigious film festival. |
| Directed by Laurent Cantet, The Class uses real students and teachers to chronicle a year in their lives. | |
| Hunger, a portrayal of the last six weeks of IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands' life, took the Camera d'Or prize for best first feature film. | Hunger, a portrayal of the last six weeks of IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands' life, took the Camera d'Or prize for best first feature film. |
| Benicio Del Toro won best actor for his lead role in Steven Soderbergh's biopic of Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara. | Benicio Del Toro won best actor for his lead role in Steven Soderbergh's biopic of Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara. |
| "I'd like to dedicate this to the man himself, Che Guevara," he told the audience. | "I'd like to dedicate this to the man himself, Che Guevara," he told the audience. |
| Brazilian star Sandra Corveloni won best actress for playing a pregnant mother of four in Sao Paolo in Line of Passage. | Brazilian star Sandra Corveloni won best actress for playing a pregnant mother of four in Sao Paolo in Line of Passage. |
| Clint Eastwood and Catherine Deneuve won lifetime achievement awards at the French festival's closing ceremony. | |
| Based on an autobiographical novel by young teacher Francois Begaudeau, The Class was praised as "an amazing, amazing film" by Penn. | |
| Italian mafia movie Gomorrah, set in Naples and based on a novel by Roberto Saviana, took the runner-up prize. |