The winners of the 35th Dinard Film Festival, renamed this year the British & Irish Film Festival, were announced yesterday by the Jury, led by President Arielle Dombasle.
Of particular note is the presence of Paul & Paulette take a bath, our favorite film, which we’ll be reviewing in a wider format with its director and lead actress!
Jury Prizes
Golden Hitchcock – Best Feature Film
September says by Ariane Labed
With: Mia Tharia, Niamh Moriarty, Cal O’Driscoll, Pascale Kann, Rakhee Thakrar, Barry John Kinsella, Shane Connellan, Amelia Valentina Pankhania, Rachel Benaissa, Emmanuel Okoye
Sisters July and September are inseparable. July, the youngest, lives under the protection of her older sister. Their peculiar dynamic is a preoccupation for their single mother, Sheela. When September is temporarily expelled from the Lycée, July must fend for herself, and begins to assert her independence. After a mysterious event, the three take refuge in a country house, but everything has changed…
Hitchcock for Best Performance
Lalor Roddy in That they may face the rising sun by Pat Collins
With: Barry Ward, Anna Bederke, Lalor Roddy, Sean McGinley, Ruth McCabe, Phillip Dolan, John Olohan, Brendan Conroy, Catherine Byrne, Patrick Ryan
Joe and Kate Ruttledge have returned from London to live and work among the small, close-knit community near to where Joe grew up. Now deeply embedded in life around the lake, the drama of a year in their lives and those of the memorable characters around them unfolds through the rituals of work, play and the passing seasons as this enclosed world becomes an everywhere.
Special Jury Prize
Unicorns by James Floyd, Sally El Hosaini
With: Ben Hardy, Jason Patel, Hannah Onslow, Val The Brown Queen, Ali Afzal, Sagar Radia, Nisha Nayar, Michael Karim, Dan Linney, Karen Sampford
The disturbing encounter between a drag queen and a young single father who works as a mechanic. The story of a love he thinks is forbidden and unconventional.
Audience Prizes
Audience Hitchcock for Feature Film
Unicorns by James Floyd, Sally El Hosaini
With: Ben Hardy, Jason Patel, Hannah Onslow, Val The Brown Queen, Ali Afzal, Sagar Radia, Nisha Nayar, Michael Karim, Dan Linney, Karen Sampford
The disturbing encounter between a drag queen and a young single father who works as a mechanic. The story of a love he thinks is forbidden and unconventional.
Audience Hitchcock for Short Film
Legacy by Harry Hadden-Paton
Talent of Tomorrow Prize
Paul & Paulette take a bath by Jethro Massey
With: Marie Benati, Jérémie Galiana, Laurence Vaissiere, Gilles Graveleau, Fanny Cottençon, Margot Joseph, James Gerard, Laura Bourdeau, Marc Tassell, Mustapha Taibi
An unconventional romantic comedy featuring a young American photographer and a French girl with a macabre taste. Paul and Paulette’s chance meeting on a Paris boulevard gives rise to an unusual friendship that develops around a dark game: reconstructing notorious crime scenes from bygone eras in the very places where they occurred. As their morbid road trip approaches the most recent past, it becomes increasingly uncomfortable, blurring the lines between reality and fantasy, but finding surprising joy in the darkest corners of humanity.