Pictures: Nuri Ceylan's “Winter Sleep” Wins Palme d'Or at Cannes

The 67th edition of the annual Cannes International Film Festival was concluded yesterday, after the crowning of Nuri Ceylan's “ Winter Sleep” with the Palme d'Or for best film among the festival's various selections. Winter Sleep has earlier won the prize of the Ecumenical Jury of the festival.

The film is set inside a remote hotel “Othello” in Anatolia, owned by Aydin, a retired actor who also runs the hotel with his young wife Nihal and his sister Necla. In winter as the snow begins to fall, the hotel turns into a shelter, but also an inescapable place that fuels their animosities.

The festival's closing ceremony was held yesterday, in which Sleep and the rest of the winners, selected by a jury headed by the acclaimed New Zealand director and screenwriter Jane Campion were announced.

The festival's grand prize went to Italian director Alice Rohrwacher for her coming of age story set in the Northern Italian countryside “ The Wonders”. British actor Timothy Spallwas awarded best actor, for his role in Mike Leigh’s biopic Mr. Turner, about British painter J.M.W Turner, while Julianne Moore was awarded best actress for her role in David Cronenberg's “ Maps to the Stars”.

Foxcatcher director Bennett Miller was named the competition's best director, for his work in the Mike Schultz biopic. Leviathan's writers Andrey Zvyagintsev and Oleg Negin won for best screenplay. The jury prize was given out to two films: Mommy by Xavier Dolanand Goodbye to Language by Jean-Luc Godard. Dolan, who is 25 years old, had his two previous films also play in Cannes, in the Directors’ Fortnight and Un Certain Regard sections.