This year's runner for the Palme is Ken Loach. Loach's reputation is well known across the industry, and his films have been nominated for the award 8 times in the past. Filmed in 20th Century Ireland, The Wind That Shakes the Barley, the film follows a path of the nation's people uprising against oppression. The film is set in the times before the 1922 Irish Civil War.

This year Loach hopes to win his first Palme D'Or, that can comfortably sit beside his other trophies including his Lifetime Achievement award, received in 1998 at The British Independent Film Awards.

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