Mexican co-production wins Best Documentary in Cannes

"Allende mi abuelo Allende" of the Chilean-Mexican director Marcia Tambutti received the "Golden Eye" for Best International Documentary.

The movie intends to break silence over the director's grandfather: the late Chilean president Salvador Allende.

Tambutti returned to Chile in 2007 from Mexico, where her family was exiled, to gather testimonies about the personal life of Allende.

The jury was presided by the French-Cambodian film director Rithy Panh, the French filmmaker Nicolas Philibert, the French actress Irene Jacob, the Syrian producer Diana El Jeiroudi and the American film critic Scott Foundas.