Polish Filmmaker Bags His Second Cannes Best Director Award
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“Welcome to Cannes!” the boss of the prestigious French festival Thierry Frémaux told them, yesterday to Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo as they climbed the steps of the Palais. Shortly afterwards, The Javis were getting excited on the stage to collect the award for the best direction for The Black Ball, a distinction they shared with Polish Pawel Pawlikowski, author of Fatherland, a beautiful and hard black-and-white portrait of Germany after …
It was to be expected that, after a historic 20-minute ovation, the Festival de Cannes 2026 would somehow award Los Javis. The creative tandem presented at the Croisette The black ball, representing Spain alongside Amarga Christmas by Pedro Almodóvar and Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s loved one. However, the only ones who have left the galo playing metal contest have been them, achieving the best direction of the contest in a former aequo with Pawel Pawlik…
Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo analyze the film about Lorca with which they have won the Best Management Award of Cannes and for which Netflix has paid between 4 and 5 million dollars for distributing it in the USA
BR Bayerischer Rundfunk [Newsroom]Munich (ots) - At the 79th International Film Festival in Cannes on 23 May 2026 director Pawel Pawlikowski has been awarded the award for the best director for "Fatherland" (OT) / Fatherland. The award is presented in cooperation with the ... Continue reading here...Original content of: BR Bayerischer Rundfunk, transmitted by news aktuell
The 79th Cannes Film Festival will be etched in gold in the history of Spanish cinema. Tonight, Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo, popularly known as "Los Javis," won the Best Director award for their second feature film, La bola negra (The Black Ball). This victory elevates the Madrid-born directors to a level of acclaim previously achieved in Spain by only two legends: Luis Buñuel in 1951 and Pedro Almodóvar in 1999. Read more
The filmmakers of The Black Ball share the award for the best management of the prestigious French contest with Polish Pavel Pawlikowski.
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