Yuri the Dog Wins Palm Dog at Cannes for Chile‑Brazil Film La Perra

Overview

• The Palm Dog was awarded to Yuri on Friday, May 22, 2026, recognizing the canine performance in La Perra at the Festival de Cannes Directors' Fortnight.
• La Perra is a Chile‑Brazil coproduction directed by Dominga Sotomayor and adapted from Pilar Quintana’s novel with a screenplay credit for Inés Bortagaray.
• Producers say Yuri was rescued from Mirada Animal Chile, trained through a collaborative program run by producer Planta with trainers Nicolás Carrillo and Marcela Carrasco, and was adopted after filming.
• The film’s production team includes Rodrigo Teixeira, Fernando Bascuñán and Berta Marchiori, and the screenplay creates a new role played by Selton Mello that does not appear in the book.
• The Palm Dog is a long‑running parallel prize at Cannes that spotlights notable canine performances and has previously honored dogs from films such as Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood and Anatomy of a Fall.