The Cannes Film Festival has come to an end, with its various award lists: the Official Selection, which caused quite a stir (for all the wrong reasons), the Un Certain Regard selection, and here, the Critics’ Week selection:
Grand Award
Tiger Stripes by Amanda Nell Eu
Tiger Stripes
A movie by Amanda Nell Eu
With : Zafreen Zairizal, Piqa, Deena Ezral, Shaheizy Sam, June Lojong, Khairunazwan Rodzy, Fatimah Abu Bakar
A young girl suffers horrific physical changes that she tries to hide from the school by any means necessary. Her emotions and impulses are constantly shifting from one extreme to another, and she realizes that her body itself is changing at an alarming rate.
SACD Award
The Rapture by Iris Kaltenbäck
The Rapture
A movie by Iris Kaltenbäck
With : Alexis Manenti, Hafsia Herzi, Nina Meurisse, Younès Boucif
Lydia, a young woman in her thirties, has a brilliant career as a midwife, but her love life is a disaster. Having just split up, her best friend Salomé announces her pregnancy and asks her to be her midwife. The day Lydia runs into Amro, a one-night stand, with Salomé’s baby in his arms, Lydia tells him that the child is theirs. At first incredulous, Amro embraces her paternity and Lydia clings to her lie, risking losing everything.
Jury Award (FrenchTouch)
It’s raining in the house by Paloma Sermon-Daï
It’s raining in the house
A movie by Paloma Sermon-Daï
With : Purdey Bloquiau, Makenzy Lombet, Donovan Nizet, Louise Manteau, Amine Hamidou, Claude Bays, Chloé Petit, Gianni La Rocca, Sébastien Andres, Frédéric Moraine
Left to fend for themselves after their mother’s internment, a brother and sister support each other in the unsanitary conditions of the family home. Faced with a hot and stormy summer, they find themselves torn between adolescence and the adult life that waits for them.
Louis Reoderer Foundation Revelation Award
Jovan Ginić in Lost Country by Vladimir Perišić
Lost Country
A movie by Vladimir Perišić
With Jovan Ginic, Jasna Duričić, Miodrag Jovanović, Lazar Kovićn Pavle čemerikić
Serbia, 1996. During the student demonstrations against Miloševic’s regime, 15-year-old Stefan leads his own revolution in the heat of the moment: accepting the unacceptable, seeing his mother – a spokesperson for the ruling party – as an accomplice to the crime, and finding the strength to confront her, despite the love he feels for her.
Fondation Gan broadcasting Award
Pyramide Distribution, French distributor of Inshallah un fils by Amjad Al Rasheed
Inchallah un fils (Inshallah Walad, Inshallah a Boy)
A movie by Amjad Al-Rasheed
With : Mouna Hawa, Hitham Omari, Salwa Nakkara, Yumna Marwan, Mohammad Al-Jizawi, Eslam Al-Awadi
Nawal, a home help, widow and mother of a little girl, is fighting for her independence.
Leitz Ciné Discovery Award (Short film)
Boléro by Nans Laborde-Jourdàa
Boléro by Nans Laborde-Jourdàa
Fran is in his hometown to rest and visit his mother. Following the jerky rhythm of Boléro, this journey along the paths of memory and desire will lead him and the whole village to a joyously chaotic apotheosis.
Canal + Award (short film)
Boléro by Nans Laborde-Jourdàa
Boléro by Nans Laborde-Jourdàa
Fran is in his hometown to rest and visit his mother. Following the jerky rhythm of Boléro, this journey along the paths of memory and desire will lead him and the whole village to a joyously chaotic apotheosis.
The closing ceremony took place at Espace Miramar :
