{"id":451,"date":"2026-05-22T12:13:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T12:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=451"},"modified":"2026-05-22T12:13:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T12:13:21","slug":"female-dogs-and-directors-dominate-palm-dog-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=451","title":{"rendered":"Female Dogs and Directors Dominate Palm Dog Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\tTwo films, two women directors, two female dogs. Sometimes the festival writes its own thematic through-lines.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=449\">Tales From amfAR\u2019s $20 Million Cannes Fundraising Gala, Featuring Rami Malek and Heidi Klum<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe Palm Dog \u2014 the beloved unofficial awards show celebrating the best canine performances across the festival\u2019s official selection and various sidebars \u2014 has long since become a genuine Cannes fixture, founded by Toby Rose back in 2001. This year it delivered a double bill of canine triumph that had the beach crowd at the Cannes Members Club reaching for their metaphorical hankies \u2014 and, perhaps not coincidentally, both winning performances came from female dogs in films helmed by female directors.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe main Palm Dog went to Yuri, the roguish stray at the heart of Chilean director Dominga Sotomayor\u2019s <em>La Perra<\/em>, premiering in Directors\u2019 Fortnight. Named by her new owner, Silvia after a Mexican pop star whose 1980s hits ricochet from a rickety TV, Yuri upends Silvia\u2019s solitary existence on a windswept island off the southern coast of Chile, setting the protagonist on a journey of self-discovery that forces her to confront childhood traumas.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tSotomayor, who adapted the film from Pilar Quintana\u2019s novel, was drawn to how the source material refused to romanticize the relationship between dog and owner, and to what she called the fascinating tension between domestication and an animal\u2019s uncontrollable nature.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAccepting the coveted embossed leather collar in person, Sotomayor said she had wanted to create a dog role that was a deep character, looking for identity and freedom. In Yuri \u2014 restless, willful, magnificently herself \u2014 she found one.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=447\">Sam Levinson Warns \u2018Euphoria\u2019 Fans to Watch Final Episodes \u201cthe Moment They Drop\u201d to Avoid Spoilers and Declares Season 3 \u201cHands Down Our Best\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe Jury Prize went to Lola, the female canine scene-stealer from Clio Barnard\u2019s <em>I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning<\/em>, also in Directors\u2019 Fortnight and fresh from winning the sidebar\u2019s People\u2019s Choice Award. In the film, Lola belongs to Oli, a slacker and small-time drug dealer played by Jay Lycurgo, who is inspired to change his ways after adopting her \u2014 their relationship described by more than one reviewer as one of the most heartwarming in any film at this year\u2019s festival. The kitchen-sink drama follows five working-class friends \u2014 Patrick, Shiv, Rian, Oli and Conor \u2014 who grew up together in a tower block in Birmingham and are now in their thirties, finding themselves on increasingly divergent, and for most of them increasingly constrained, paths to the future.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tBarnard attended the ceremony with Soprano, Lola\u2019s female stand-in and a convincing lookalike, who accepted the collar with considerable enthusiasm and even more considerable wriggling. Finding such a local substitute is a Palm Dog tradition \u2014 Rose has long made it his mission to track down lookalike dogs when the actual winners can\u2019t make the trip.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tBut it was Barnard\u2019s account of Lola\u2019s own backstory that gave the afternoon its emotional peak. Before the collar was fastened, she described a dog who had once lived rough on the streets before being rescued by a shelter \u2014 and it was there that she was discovered and cast. 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