Mexico's Amat Escalante wins Cannes best director

Mexico’s Amat Escalante won the best director prize at the Cannes Film Festival Sunday for the ultra-violent “Heli” about his country’s blood-drenched drug wars.

The 34-year-old filmmaker showed a family trapped in a brutally vicious circle of crime and revenge, with torture scenes that left some queasy viewers running for the aisles.