With the Cannes Movie Pageant heading in direction of its conclusion on Saturday, the primary awards are beginning to trickle out. Sidebar Critics’ Week, which is dedicated to first and second options, closed this night, honoring Amanda Nell Eu’s debut Tiger Stripes with its Grand Prize. (Scroll down for the complete listing of winners).
Tiger Stripes, which can be eligible for the Digital camera d’Or which shall be handed out on Saturday, is a coming-of-age story that explores teenage rebel in a stifling society by means of the story of a 12-year-old lady whose physique begins to alter at an alarming and horrifying fee as she hits puberty. Fearing she shall be labeled a monster, she tries to hide her modified look till someday she decides she not needs to cover away.
The French Contact Prize of the Jury went to Il Pleut Dans la Maison (It’s Raining within the Home) by Paloma Sermon-Daï. Shot towards the backdrop of the picturesque Eau d’Heure lakes area of Belgian’s French-speaking Wallonia area, the hybrid drama follows two youngsters left to their very own units by their mom over the summer season in a squalid home.
Word that the French Contact Prize final 12 months went to Charlotte Wells’ breakout Aftersun, starting a groundswell that led all the way in which to an Oscar nomination for lead Paul Mescal.
Scoring a win for the Louis Roederer Basis Rising Star Award is Jovan Ginić in Vladimir Perišić’s Misplaced Nation.
Venice 2021 Golden Lion laureate Audrey Diwan presided over the Critics’ Week jury this 12 months.
Right here’s the complete listing of winners:
Grand Prize
Tiger Stripes, dir: Amanda Nell Eu
French Contact Prize of the Jury
Il Pleut Dans la Maison (It’s Raining within the Home), dir: Paloma Sermon-Daï.
Louis Roederer Basis Rising Star Award
Jovan Ginić for Misplaced Nation
Leitz Cine Discovery Prize for a Quick Movie
Boléro, dir: Nans Laborde-Jourdàa
Gan Basis Award for Distribution
Pyramide Movies, French distributor for Inshallah a Boy
SACD Award
Iris Kaltenbäck, author of Le Ravissement (The Rapture)
Canal + Award for Quick Movie
Boléro, dir: Nans Laborde-Jourdàa
