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This year’s German Film Critics’ Honorary Award goes to Klaus Eder, retiring General Secretary of FIPRESCI, for lifetime achievement in the service of international film criticism. He headed FIPRESCI for 38 years, from 1987 to 2024, during which time he shaped it into what it is today: an umbrella federation of international film critics associations with 50 national sections worldwide and 36 additional countries represented individually. The German Film Critics Association also understands the honorary award for Klaus Eder as a tribute to FIPRESCI, which is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year.

The jury of the International Federation of Film Critics at the Cannes Film Festival has awarded, Saturday the 24th 2025, the International Critics’ Prize in the Official Selection – Competition to The Secret Agent by Kleber Mendonça Filho. «We chose a film that has a novelistic, epic generosity; that allows for digression, diversion, humor and character, to evoke a time and place, and a rich, strange and deeply troubling story of corruption and oppression. A film that makes its own rules, is personal yet universal, that takes its time and acts as a memory vessel for a world : the world of military-ruled Brazil in 1977, and the world of good people in bad times.» Discover other two prizes here.