Gimeno’s feature debut, which explores female sexual desire and repression, took the honor for best European Film screening in the Cannes sidebar.

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the debut feature from Spanish director Elena Martín Gimeno, has won the Europa Cinemas Label prize for best European film in the 2023 Cannes Fest’s Directors’ Fortnight section.The drama, about a seemingly perfect couple who can’t manage to have sex anymore, explores themes of repression and female sexual desire.