Culture · Film Festivals
Key Facts
—Two Cannes prizes: Elefantes na Névoa (Elephants in the Fog), the debut feature of Nepali director Abinash Bikram Shah, won both the Un Certain Regard Jury Prize and the Best Sound Design award at the 79th Festival de Cannes on Friday May 22, 2026.
—Brazilian production stake: The film is a five-country coproduction between Nepal, Germany, France, Norway and Brazil, with Brazilian producers Tatiana Leite (Bubbles Project) and Leonardo Mecchi (Enquadramento Produções) anchoring the package and the Brazilian post-production house executing the sound design that won the technical award.
—The Un Certain Regard palmarés: The top prize in the section went to Austrian director Sandra Wollner’s Everytime, with Elefantes na Névoa taking the Jury Prize (effectively second place), Iron Boy (France-Belgium) taking the Special Jury Prize, and Marina de Tavira sharing Best Performance for Mexican film Siempre soy tu animal materno.
