Other winners included Iranian dissident filmmaker Jafar Panahi, whose It Was Just an Accident won the festival's top prize, the Palme d’Or, just days after distribution company Neon picked up the American rights for the film.

The best-reviewed films of the Cannes Film Festival range from Ari Aster’s pandemic-set ’Eddington’ to Palme d’Or winner ‘It Was Just an Accident.’

This year’s Cannes Film Festival is over, ending in dramatic fashion with a power outage ahead of the closing ceremony that bestowed the Palme d’Or trophy to Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi’s film, “It Was Just an Accident.