The 2015 Festival de Cannes wrapped up this weekend with a call to arms for climate change. Closing the festival was the nature documentary Ice and the Sky by The March of the Penguins director Luc Jacquet who returns to Antarctica to tell the life story of 83-year-old French glaciologist Claude Lorius. “Showing this film in the world’s largest film festival is contributing to highlighting this huge challenge facing humanity as quickly as possible to secure its future and the future of the planet,” Jacquet told the press in Cannes.

The Festival also concluded with the announcement of various competition winners. This year, Jacques Audiard surprised pretty much everyone by winning the Palme d’Or with this film Dheepan, a low key study of Tamil Tiger refugees trying to build a new life in France.

Not so surprisingly, the runner up Grand Prix Prize went to László Nemes for Son of Saul and in “third place”, Yorgos Lanthimos won the Prix du jury for The Lobster. The Directors Prize was awarded to Hou Hsiao-hsien for The Assassin, Vincent Lindon (La Loi du Marche) won best actor and Rooney Mara (Carol) and Emmanuelle Bercot (Mon Roi) shared the best actress accolade.

In the Un Certain Regard section of the 68^th Cannes Film Festival, the jury awarded the top prize to Iceland’s Rams, by Grímur Hákonarson. The High Sun by Croatian director Dalibor Matanić picked up the jury prize, and Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Journey to the Shorewon the best direction award.

So many wonderful films to look forward to, however in the meantime, enjoy these must see films of the week, all of which have screened at the prestigious Festival de Cannes in the past. 

The Festival de Cannes is well under way and the reviews have been coming in thick and fast. Enjoy keeping up with all the action by checking out the festival coverage on variety.com, indiewire.com, or theguardian.com. Just beware; once you start browsing, it’s hard to stop.  

Here are the top five must see films of the week, all of which have screened at the prestigious Festival de Cannes in the past.

This week on Rialto Channel catch award-winning and critically-acclaimed feature films that have screened in competition at Cannes recently.

The Festival de Cannes kicks off on the 13^th and all the talk is about, would you believe, selfies. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Cannes Festival director Thierry Fremaux has requested an unofficial selfie ban on the red carpet saying, "We don't want to prohibit it, but we want to slow down the process of selfies on the steps." Clearly an attempt to avoid a bottleneck on the stairs of the Cannes red carpet, he hammered home his thoughts on this form of amateur photography by saying “You never look as ugly as you do in a selfie.” From personal experience, I can only agree.

Here are the top five must see films of the week.

The Festival de Cannes is only nine days away and Rialto Channel is celebrating! Throughout May Rialto Channel is screening an eclectic collection of award winning and critically acclaimed feature films that have screened in competition at Cannes recently, such as the Oscar nominated films The Great Beauty and Omar, Abdellatif Kechiche’s three-hour French lesbian love story, Blue is the Warmest Colour as well as the winner of the Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize Like Father, Like Son. 

Each Monday I’ll be giving you a rundown of the top five must see films of the week, so clear your diary, snuggle up and enjoy Cannes Month on Rialto Channel. 

May is an exceptionally good month on Rialto Channel as we celebrate the Cannes Film Festival by screening an eclectic collection of award winning and critically acclaimed feature films that have screened in competition at Cannes recently. The Festival du Cannes is the most prestigious and glamorous of the European Film Festivals, and is as dedicated to screening work from established auteurs as it is showcasing new talent 

Coming up throughout May, you’ll be able to catch Oscar nominated films such as The Great Beauty and Omar, Abdellatif Kechiche’s three-hour French lesbian love story, Blue is the Warmest Colour as well as the winner of the Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize Like Father, Like Son. Each Monday I’ll be giving you a rundown of the top five must see films of the week.

However, before we launch into May, don’t miss the Oscar award winning documentary 20 Feet From Stardom screening this Thursday, it’s my first pick of the week. 

As far as jobs go, Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon and Michael Winterbottom definitely stumbled on to a beauty with their series The Trip. The trio first worked together thirteen years ago in 24 Hour Party People and more recently in Tristram Shandy: A Cock And Bull Story. It was during shootingTristram Shandy that the three came up with the idea of making a television show together where Coogan and Brydon would play versions of themselves, travel around picturesque spots, eat exceptionally good food, and just talking about stuff. What started out as a six episode series for the BBC, was then re-edited into a feature film, and was such a success, a few years later they went and did it all again – this time in Italy. The Trip to Italy is my first pick of the week. 

There’s plenty for music lovers to enjoy this week on Rialto Channel. Catch Mama Africa, a documentary about Miriam Makeba on Thursday evening and The Great Hip Hop Hoax, another documentary about a couple of Scottish boys who fooled music execs into thinking they were LA homeboys. End the week on a high-octane punk note with Good Vibrations, a witty drama and biopic about Terri Hooley, an Irishman who ignited the punk scene in 70s Belfast. It’s my first pick of the week.

Walking is trending on Rialto Channel at the moment. Last week in Downhill, a bunch of middle age British men had mid life crisis’s walking the Wainwright's Coast to Coast Walk from St Bees in Cumbria to Robin Hood's Bay in North Yorkshire. This week, a disillusioned young woman takes to the unforgiving Australian outback in an attempt to understand her difficult upbringing and find the meaning of life. This stunning film is called Tracks, and it’s my first pick of the week.