Hungarian Holocaust drama Son of Saul was amongst the award winners at this year's Cannes Film Festival.

Laszlo Nemes' movie was named best film by FIPRESCI, the International Federation of Film Critics, The Wrap reports.

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FIPRESCI also awarded the Un Certain Regard award to Neeraj Ghaywan's Masaan, and Santiago Mitre's Paulina claimed the Critics' Week award.

Elsewhere, the prize of the Ecumenical Jury was won by Nanni Moretti's Mia Madre and new documentary award the L'Oeil d'Or was claimed by Marcia Tambutti's Beyond My Grandfather Allende.

Icelandic drama Rams was named the best film of the 2015 Cannes Film Festival's Un Certain Regard section.

Other winners in the section included Zvizdan - which won the jury prize, Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Kishibe No Tabi - which won the award for directing, Corneliu Porumboiu's Comoara - which won the Un Certain Talent Prize, and Neeraj Ghaywan's Masaan and Ida Panahandeh's Nahid - which shared the Promising Future Prize.

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Finally, the Palm Dog, an award which recognises the best canine performance in a movie, went to Maltipoo Lucky, who appears in Miguel Gomes' Arabian Nights.

The awards were chosen by nine film critics from Brazil, Denmark, Egypt, France, Hong Kong, India, Turkey and the UK.

Sony Pictures Classics bought rights to Son of Saul at this year's event.

This year's Cannes festival proved controversial after women were turned away from a screening for not wearing heels.