PARIS—Canada's Xavier Dolan has won the Grand Prix, the second-place prize at the Cannes Film Festival, for his dysfunctional family drama It's Only the End of the World. Xavier Dolan reacts to winning the Grand Prix award, the second-place prize, at Cannes for his film "Juste la fin du monde" (It's Only the End of the World). Veteran British director Ken Loach has won his second Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival for I, Daniel Blake. It ties with Atom Egoyan's The Sweet Hereafter, which won the Grand Prix in 1997, for the highest honour ever won by a Canadian at Cannes. The award for the 79-year-old, the festival’s top prize, was announced by actor Mel Gibson at the Sunday ceremony at the Palais des Festivals on the French Riviera.

Source: thestar May 22, 2016 13:26 UTC