Irish produced The Killing of a Sacred Deer joint winner of Best Screenplay at the Cannes film festival

Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos and produced by Dublin based Element Pictures The Killing of a Scared Deer was the joint winner of the Best Screenplay award alongside Lynne Ramsay’s You Were Never Really Here at the 2017 Cannes film festival.
The film, which stars Irish pairing Colin Farrell and Barry Keoghan opposite Nicole Kidman, had earned high praise at the prestigious festival and was strongly tipped to sweep one of the main gongs at the event.
The film which centers around Farrell and Kidman as the parents of children whose lives are endangered by the revenge-seeking son (Keoghan) of a man who died under the care of a surgeon, played by Farrell is the second time that Greek director Lanthhimos has tasted victory at Cannes, previously winning the Jury Prize in 2015 for The Lobster which was shot in Parknasilla, Co. Kerry and also starred Colin Farrell.
This year's Jury Prize was won by Andrey Zvyagintsev, for Loveless, which also saw Joaquin Phoenix and Diane Kruger take home the best actor and best actress gongs for the same film.
Other big winners at Cannes were The Palme d'Or instead went to The Square which took home the Palme d'Or, while 120 Beats per Minute picked up the Grand Prix award.
Sophia Coppola became only the second woman (and the first in 56 years) to take  home best director award for best director for her film The Beguiled.
A full list of winners is available here