Matt Damon tears up at Cannes as his film 'Stillwater' recieves a standing ovation

Hollywood star Matt Damon got emotional at the screening of his new film 'Stillwater' at the ongoing Cannes Film Festival. The film was screened under out-of-competition section at the film festival.

Helmed by Tom McCarthy, the screening of the film brought the assembled crowd to its feet in the Grand Theatre Lumiere as the lights came upon the film`s team, and brought tears to Damon`s eyes.

The story of `Stillwater` focuses on Damon`s Bill Baker, an Oklahoma oil-rig roughneck with a shoddy past as a father who heads to Marseille, hellbent on freeing his daughter (Abigail Breslin), an exchange student imprisoned for murdering her girlfriend, a crime she says she didn`t commit.