Laurent Cantet, the French director who won the Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival in 2008 for his film 'The Class,' has died. He was 63.

French director Laurent Cantet, who won the Cannes Palme d'Or in 2008 for The Class, has died at the age of 63. Based on the semi-autobiographical book by writer François Bégaudeau about his experiences working as a literature teacher in an inner city school in Paris,

The Cannes Film Festival bid farewell to "a fierce humanist, who sought light despite social violence and found hope despite the harshness of reality". View on euronews

French filmmaker Laurent Cantet, whose 2008 film The Class won the Palme d’Or in Cannes in 2008, died on April 25 at the age of 63. The acclaimed filmmaker was planning to shoot his next film Enzo, co-written by Robin Campillo and produced by Anatomy Of A Fall producer Marie-Ange Luciani, later this year.

Director of Palme d’Or-winning film Entre les Murs (The Class) was much praised for humanism in projects