Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul won the Palme d'Or top prize at the Cannes film festival today for a surreal reincarnation tale, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives.

Spanish actor Javier Bardem, who plays a terminally-ill hustler in Biutiful by Mexico's Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, shared the best actor award with Italy's Elio Germano. And France's Juliette Binoche was named best actress for her role as an unhappy antiques dealer in Certified Copy by Iran's Abbas Kiarostami.