Falling trees, condor men, and what was reportedly some actual, literal sabotage to the local power grid couldn’t stop it from happening: We’ve reached the end of the 78th Can

Other winners included Iranian dissident filmmaker Jafar Panahi, whose It Was Just an Accident won the festival's top prize, the Palme d’Or, just days after distribution company Neon picked up the US rights for the film.

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.