Director and Human Rights Watch Toronto Committee member Adam Egoyan has won the Ecumenical Jury Prize at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival. The prize was awarded to Egoyan for his latest feature, Adoration, which is about a teenage boy who tells a false story to his class about his Arab father.
After the win, Egoyan told the press that the movie is provocative, and was a brave choice for the six-member international jury.
Egoyan has won the Ecumenical Prize before, for his 1997 film The Sweet Hereafter.
