CANNES, France: The Cannes film festival ends Sunday with a movie about a hammer-wielding hitman, a rousing story of AIDS activists and a parable of Putin’s Russia among the favorites to lift its top prize, the Palme d’Or.

After 12 days of screenings and starry celebrations of the festival’s 70th anniversary -- which were somewhat muted by the Manchester bombing -- it is now up to the nine-member celebrity jury led by Spanish director Pedro Almodovar to decide which movie will triumph.

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