The Cannes Film Festival wrapped up in France on Saturday with two adaptations taking home awards. 

The filmmaking duo behind “La Bola Negra (The Black Ball),” Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, won the award for Best Director. They shared the award this year with Pawel Pawlikowski, who directed “Fatherland.”

“La Bola Negra” is a Spanish-language film that adapts the final, unfinished novel by Federico García Lorca by the same name as well as the play “La Piedra Oscura” or “The Dark Stone” by Alberto Conejero. It tells the story of three gay men across different eras in time. Glenn Close and Penélope Cruz join Guitarricadelafuente, Miguel Bernardeau, Julio Torres and Carlos Gonzàlez. 

The first teaser trailer for the film was released last week, though no U.S. release date has been announced.

Virginie Efira and Tao Okamoto shared the Best Actress award for their roles in “All of a Sudden.” The film, which is based on the book “When Life Suddenly Takes a Turn,” was Japanese filmmaker Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s first French-language film. The book is a collection of letters between a philosopher with terminal cancer and a medical anthropologist. 

Non-adaptation winners at this year’s festival included:

Palme d’Or: “Fjord”

Grand Prix: “Minotaur”

Jury Prize: “The Dreamed Adventure”

Best Actor: Emmanuel Macchia and Valentin Campagne in “Coward”

Best Screenplay: “A Man of His Time”

Camera d’Or for Best First Feature: “Ben’imana”

Short Film Palme d’Or: “Para Los Contrincantes”

Read all about the other adaptations that screened at the Cannes Film Festival this year here. 

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Danielle Haynes is the co-founder and co-editor of Booked & Screened, covering book-to-screen adaptations, film and TV development. She’s currently reading “Parable of the Sower” by Octavia E. Butler, a forthcoming film adaptation.