Priyanka Chopra excited to see powerful talent from Asia at Cannes 2022, congratulates the winners

This year, global icon Priyanka Chopra couldn't make it to the 75th Cannes Film Festival. Mommy duties and a packed work schedule kept her busy.

But, she didn't miss the chance to congratulate the films that premiered at the prestigious gala.

Sharing a string of pictures in her Instagram Stories, the actress congratulated the makers for bagging the Cannes Awards. Moreover, she was excited to see a number of talented Asian films take the centre stage.


"Congratulations to all the winners at the Cannes Film Festival 2022. It's especially heartening to see the recognition for all the powerful talent from Asia," one of her stories read.

In her congratulatory posts, she wished all the Asian talent that won at the gala.

Delhi-based director Shaunak Sen's 'All That Breathes' won the 2022 L'Oeil d'Or (Golden Eye) for the best documentary at the 75th Cannes Film Festival, making it two in succession for India. The film was screened as part of the festival's Special Screenings line-up.

It is about two Delhi brothers Nadeem and Saud who, amid the city's worsening air and deteriorating social fabric, devote their lives to saving migratory black kites that are at the mercy of mankind's unthinking ways. In January, the documentary won the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival.

Sen's win is India's second in Cannes in two years. In 2021, Payal Kapadia's 'A Night of Knowing Nothing', which played in the parallel Semaine de la Critique (Cannes Critics' Week) took home the L'Oeil d'Or.

Pakistani film 'Joyland', written and directed by debutant Saim Sadiq, won the Jury Prize in the Un Certain Regard section of the prestigious gala, becoming the first-ever film from the subcontinent to bag the award.

The best director prize went to Park Chan-wook for his work on 'Decision to Leave', which marks a clear departure for the Korean director in terms of tone and mood.

Korean actor Song Kang-ho was adjudged the best actor in Japanese auteur Hirokazu Kore-eda's Busan-set drama 'Broker', about a cobbled-together family reminiscent of the one in the director's 2018 Palme d'Or. Song Kang-ho had a leading role in Bong Joon-ho's 2019 Palme d'Or winner 'Parasite'.

The best actress prize was snagged by Iranian actress Zar Amir Ebrahami, the female lead of 'Holy Spider', directed by Iranian-Danish filmmaker Ali Abbasi. The best screenplay award went to Egyptian-Swedish director Tarik Saleh for 'Boy from Heaven'.

The short film Palme d'Or went to China's Chen Jianying's 'The Water Murmurs'. A short film by Nepal's Abinash Bikram Shah's 'Lori' won a Special Mention, adding another trophy to an encouraging haul of awards at the festival by directors from the Indian subcontinent.

The jury of the 75th Cannes Film Festival, which actress Deepika Padukone was a part of this year, awarded the Palme d'Or to Swedish director Ruben Ostlund's 'Triangle of Sadness' at a closing ceremony last week on Saturday night. It was Ostlund's second film to win the Cannes Film Festival's top prize. He had won the Palme d'Or in 2017 for 'The Square'.

Ostlund is now the ninth director to have won the Palme d'Or twice. He joins a list that has Francis Ford Coppola, Shohei Imamura, Bille August, Emir Kusturica, Michael Haneke, Ken Loach and the Dardenne Brothers.

The Camera d'Or for the best directorial debut at the festival went to 'War Pony', an American film by the team of actress Riley Keough and producer Gina Gammell. Keough, 32, is the eldest grandchild of Elvis Presley, a film about whose life directed by Baz Luhrmann premiered in Cannes earlier in the week.

A Camera d'Or – Special Mention was won by Japanese director Chie Hayakawa for her first film 'Plan 75'.

The Grand Prix, the prize for the second-best film in Competition, witnessed a tie between 75-year-old French director Claire Denis's 'Stars at Noon', set in mid-1980s Nicaragua, and young Belgian filmmaker Lukas Dhont's sophomore venture 'Close', the story of a friendship between two teenage boys.

The Jury Prize, regarded but not clearly designated as the third prize, went jointly to 'Le Otto Montagne' (The Eighth Mountain), directed by the Belgian filmmaking couple Charlotte Vandermeersch and Felix van Groeningen, and octogenarian Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski for 'EO'.

For 'Tori and Lokita', the Dardenne Brothers, Jean-Pierre and Luc, won a Special Prize handed out to mark the 75th anniversary of the festival.

Belgian-French actress Virginie Efira served as the master of ceremonies at a closing ceremony that saw each one of the three Belgian films in Competition – 'Close', 'Le Otto Mantagne' and 'Tori and Lokita' – bag an award.

The 2022 Cannes Film Festival jury was presided over by veteran French actor Vincent Lindon. It included Padukone alongside Noomi Rapace, Joachim Trier, Jasmine Trinca, Jedd Nichols, Asghar Farhadi, Rebecca Hall and Ladj Ly.

This year, India was chosen as the 'Country of Honor' to mark the 75th year of Cannes, coinciding with India's 75th year of Independence.

On the work front, PeeCee is busyt working on 'Citadel', being created by the Russo brothers for Amazon Prime Video. She also has the Bollywood film 'Jee Le Zaraa' in the pipeline.