tell us more aboutjulia tell us more about julia ducournau tell us more aboutjulia ducournau and hersignificant it is.— significant it is. it is very significant. _ significant it is. it is very significant. julia - significant it is. it is very i significant. julia ducournau significant it is. it is very - significant. julia ducournau is only in her 30s, so she is not a director who has been around for a long time and a long time outside of —— and a lot of people outside of france might not really know her. she had some type of frame or fame in 2016, even with this film, titane, people were saying that the film was so graphic that some people lately walked out stopping at attorneys, that is what she doesn't she is really breaking out and making an international impact which is wonderful and i think it also sends a message to the rest of the world that people are ready to see all these large film festivals be much more diverse with women and with people of colour, being participants and winning these awards, so i hope this is the beginning of many more women winning and hope lee a pe

it did not, it was history making. julia ducournau won for herfilm, titane — do you know she is onlye, so definitely history—making, and also remember, spike lee is the first african—american to helm and be the jurist, the lead of the cannes film festival this year, so first black person to be on the jury and the first person to win the palme d'0r a female, so wonderful to have history making at the cannes film festival right after the pandemic. as you say, barriers being broken. tell us more aboutjulia ducournau and her win, and how significant it is. it's very significant. julia ducournau is only in her 30s so she is not a director who has been around for a long time, and a lot of people outside of france may not really know her. she had some type of fame back in 2016 when she had a really well received film by the name of raw. she really sticks with the horror, thriller, kind of graphic genre, and even this year, with titane, there were people saying the film was so graphic that some people actually walked out. that's her niche, that's what she does, so she is really breaking out

its director, julia ducournau, made history by becoming only the second woman ever to win the palme dallenging film and she was pleased by all the positive feedback. that is the biggest victory for me, because i do not explain anything and i really trust in the experience we live together in the room, in this current room, and i trust the audience to get into that and feel what they feel and to somehow understand at their own level what is going on in the story. spike lee headed thejury at cannes, the first time a black person had done so, but he will be remembered most perhaps for inadvertently revealing the winner of the palme d'0r at the wrong moment, right at the beginning of the ceremony instead of at the end. the film that won the palme d'0r is titane. wait, wait, wait, don't! lee's jury, which for the first time had a majority female make—up, had some adventurous films to evaluate. from the opening night picture, the operatic musical annette, to director paul verhoeven�*s benedetta, a love story between two 17th century nuns, to a hero, a story of a man who gets himself into a