Among other top awards given, were to Academy Award winners Juliette Binoche and Javier Bardem for best actress and actor, along Best Actor with joint winner Elio Germano.

From the Associated Press:

The second-place grand prize went to French director Xavier Beauvois' solemn drama "Of Gods and Men," based on the true story of seven French monks beheaded during Algeria's civil war in 1996.

Chadian director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun's stark film "A Screaming Man" received the third-place jury prize. The film chronicles the tragic consequences for a father after he loses his cherished job as a swimming pool attendant to his son amid his country's civil war.

French actor-filmmaker Mathieu Amalric won the directing award for "On Tour," in which he plays the manager of a troupe of American burlesque strippers performing around France. Amalric invited his five stripper stars to join him on stage as he accepted the prize.

The screenplay honor was presented to South Korean director Lee Chang-dong for "Poetry," his gentle portrait of a grandmother (Yun Junghee) struggling to write a poem as she copes with the onset of Alzheimer's and her troublesome grandson.

The festival's Camera d'Or award for a first-time filmmaker went to Michael Rowe's "Leap Year," a romance that plays out in Mexico City.

South Korean filmmaker Hong Sangsoo's "Ha Ha Ha," a drama of alternating memories shared by two friends over drinks, won a secondary competition called "Un Certain Regard."

More on the Cannes Festival at www.festival-cannes.fr

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