Molly Manning Walker's 'How to Have Sex' Wins Un Certain Regard Prize at Cannes Film Festival

How to Have Sex is about three British teenage girls who go on holiday with the aim of drinking, clubbing and flirting with men.

There was one small hiccup, however: director Molly Manning Walker was not in the audience when the award for her debut film was announced. The director was returning to Cannes from Italy and arrived late at the airport - forcing jury president John C. Reilly to sing a song to distract the audience while they waited.

How to Have Sex crew at Cannes Film Festival 2023

“I just flew here from Italy,” said the British director. She ran out of breath and finally stepped onto the stage in a T-shirt and shorts.

Manning Walker says she wanted to make a film from the girls' perspective and she hopes it can start a larger conversation about consent and what good sex looks like.

The Hollywood Reporter called the film "quietly astonishing", while The Guardian gave it four out of five stars, calling it "a delightfully unsentimental film, free of cliches and coming-of-age fare".

Kamal Lazraq's Hounds , about a father and son in Casablanca dealing with a kidnapping gone wrong, won the Jury Prize in the Un Certain Regard category.

The first Sudanese film to be included in the official Cannes selection, Goodbye Julia won the Un Certain Regard Prize. Director Mohamed Kordofani thanked the Sudanese people for their support and for not giving up. "In the worst moment for my country, I am extremely proud to be Sudanese," he said.

British director Molly Manning Walker

The Buriti Flower, which follows the indigenous Kraho people in the heart of the Brazilian jungle, won the Best Director award for Joao Salaviza and Renee Nader Messora.

“We want to thank, remember and honor all the souls of indigenous peoples whose lives were interrupted by massacres across our bloody continent,” Nader Messora said on May 26.

Un Certain Regard is a section focusing on art films that runs parallel to the Cannes Film Festival's main competition, the Palme d'Or, and will be announced today, May 27.

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