Titane: Palme d’Or Winner (Cannes Fest 2021)
Julia Ducournau becomes only the second female director to claim Cannes’ top prize.

After a series of unexplained crimes, a father finds his son, who has been missing for 10 years.Titanium: Metal highly resistant to heat and corrosion, resulting in very hard alloys.


After “Annette”, opening on July 6th, after “Benedetta” on the 9th, “Titane” caused a scandal on the 14th on the Croisette and sparked debates far beyond. It has aroused all the more since it received the palme d’or the day before last night. A historic Palme d’Or since it is only the second since 1945 awarded to a director. And a Palme d’Or awarded to a genre film, since it is now the expression consecrated for ..
After the very good reception that her first feature film, Grave, received, Julia Ducournau quickly wrote a first draft of Titanium of one hundred and ninety pages. However, she encountered difficulties in completing the script and experienced a one-year deadlock. She was aware of being eagerly awaited but, more than that, she was afraid of disappointing herself: “I went through the mourning of an energy, that of the first feature film…