[3] Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda won the Palme d'Or, the festival's top prize, for his drama film Shoplifters, marking Japan first win after more than twenty years.

The official festival poster features Jean-Paul Belmondo and Anna Karina from Jean-Luc Godard's 1965 film Pierrot le Fou.

According to festival's official statement, the poster is inspired by and paid tribute to the work of French photographer Georges Pierre.

[1]The festival opened with Everybody Knows by Asghar Farhadi, and closed with The Man Who Killed Don Quixote by Terry Gilliam.

The issue prompted Juror Ava DuVernay, who made 13th for Netflix, to make a plea for "flexibility of thought".