Sri Lankan themed ‘Dheepan’ wins Palme d’Or, top honor of Cannes Film Festival 2015

May 25, 2015 (LBO) – Jacques Audiard's immigrant drama "Dheepan" has won the Palme d'Or, the top honor of the Cannes Film Festival, foreign media reported. "Dheepan" is about a trio of Sri Lankans who pretend to be a family in order to flee from Sri Lanka for a housing project in France. The runner-up prize, the Grand Prix, went to "Son of Saul," a grim Hungarian Holocaust drama by first-time director Laszlo Nemes. Hou Hsiao-Hsien, the Taiwanese filmmaker, won best director for martial arts drama "The Assassin". The best actress prize was split between Rooney Mara of Todd Haynes' `50s lesbian drama "Carol," and Emmanuelle Bercot, the French star of the roller coaster marriage drama "My King."