Cannes Fest: ‘How to Have Sex’ Wins Best Film in Un Certain Regard
‘Omen,’ ‘Goodbye Julia,’ ‘Hounds’ and ‘Mother of All Lies’ earned awards in the Cannes sidebar.

Four African films earned awards at the Un Certain Regard ceremony Friday night.
Asmae El Moudir won the Un Certain Regard’s best director honor for her hybrid documentary, The Mother of All Lies, a search for the truth behind her family’s stories of the 1981 Bread Riots in Morocco.
Kamal Lazraq won the Un Certain Regard jury prize for Hounds, a crime drama set in the suburbs of Casablanca. Omen, the directing debut of Belgian-Congolese hip-hop artist Baloji, took the new voice prize for best first feature. Sudanese drama Goodbye Julia from director Mohamed Kordofani — another debut — won the Un Certain Regard’s freedom prize.
American actor John C. Reilly chaired this year’s Un Certain Regard jury, which also included French director and screenwriter Alice Winocour, German actress Paula Beer, French-Cambodian director and producer Davy Chou and Belgian actress Émilie Dequenne.