‘The Worst Ones’ wins top Un Certain Regard prize at Cannes

Other prize winners in the section include Joyland, Metronom and Mediterranean Fever.The Worst Ones, from French directors Lise Akoka and Romane Gueret, has won the top prize in the Un Certain Regard section of this year’s Cannes Film Festival.Also awarded honours by the section’s jury were Joyland, Metronom and Mediterranean Fever.The Worst Ones (Les Pires) is the debut feature from Akoka and Gueret, who also wrote the script with Elénore Gurrey.

The story of a group of young people recruited for a film shoot, the film was produced by Frédéric Jouve and Marine Alaric for Les Films Velvet.

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