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Queer palm

Queer Palm
Awarded for Best LGBT-related film at the Cannes Film Festival
Location Cannes
Country France
Presented by Cannes Film Festival
First awarded 2010

The Queer Palm is an independently sponsored prize for selected LGBT-relevant films entered into the Cannes Film Festival. The award was founded in 2010 by journalist Franck Finance-Madureira. It is sponsored by Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau, filmmakers of Jeanne and the Perfect Guy, The Adventures of Felix, Crustacés et Coquillages, and L'Arbre et la forêt.

The award recognizes a film for its treatment of LGBT themes and gleans from among those films nominated or entered under Official Selection, Un Certain Regard, International Critics' Week, Directors' Fortnight and the ACID section.

Special Mention – The Lobster by Yorgos Lanthimos
 Ireland
 United Kingdom
 Greece
 France
 Netherlands


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