Adoration left Cannes in the footsteps of The Sweet Hereafter, netting Atom Egoyan his second win of the festival’s ecumenical prize. The award, presented by an independent jury to movies that address spiritual matters, went to Egoyan’s latest at the close of the festival on Sunday.

The movie, about a boy haunted by the death of his parents, ‘invites us to re-evaluate existing cliches about the Other or that which is foreign in our own culture and religion.’ Egoyan won the same prize in 1997 for The Sweet Hereafter.

Adoration was one of two Canadian films in the running for the Palme d’Or at this year’s festival, along with the Rhombus-produced opener Blindness, though that honor went to the French film The Class.