Pawlikowski wins best director trophy at Cannes

Oscar-winning director Paweł Pawlikowski won the best director award at this years' at the Cannes film festival. His latest movie, “Cold War,” is a tragic love story of Wiktor and Zula, a pair of mismatched musicians, set against the backdrop of the Iron Curtain. Pawlikowski, who claims has been blacklisted by the state-run Polish television said that his win was “a rare piece of good news” for Poland. “I don’t make political films and I don’t like watching them. I prefer to tell stories about characters who have complicated relationships, but in a world where history weighs on them, that becomes political,” he said in an interview with AFP press agency. Pawlikowski’s previous film, "Ida," which looked at the aftermath of the Holocaust in Poland, won the Oscar for the best foreign film in 2015.