The win hands the festival’s top prize to a director who had been banned from leaving Iran for more than 15 years.

Our expectations were set sky high and still we left with an even 10 titles that floored us, including new work from Lynne Ramsay, Jafar Panahi and Nadav Lapid.

Growing up in France, Darius Khondji would often visit the Louvre to take pictures of exquisite statues and then spend hours ...