Chaired by Agnes Jauy, and composed of Guillaume de Tonquedec, Alison Paradis, Sarah Succo and William Lebgill, the jury of the 10th edition of the Saint-Jean-de-Luz Festival has selected Pier-Philippe Chevigny’s first feature film, Dissidente. This Quebec film is the big winner of this edition, as it also wins the audience award and the acting award for its lead actor, Ariane Castellanos. Yurt won the SFCC Critics Award and Best Director Award.
Full list of festival winners:
- Youth Jury Prize sponsored by Porosus: Anais Thelen for The Man of Clay
- Audience Award sponsored by French Television: Pier-Philippe Chevigny for Dissidente
- SFCC Critics Award: Nehir Tuna for Yurt
- Award for Male Actor Sponsored by Department Council: Diego Murgia in Michael Dichter’s Fantastic Three
- Female Interpretation Prize sponsored by JOACASINO: Ariane Castellanos in Pierre-Philippe Chevigny’s Dissidente
- Best Director Award: Nehir Tuna for Yurt
- Grand Prix sponsored by Blue Efficiency: Pier-Philippe Chevigny for Dissidente
- A special mention for Anais Thelen’s Man of Clay
This 10th edition was crowned with great success with more than 9000 spectators. To close the festival, Julien Carpentier’s film La vie de ma Mère, starring Agnes Jau and William Lebgill, was screened. The film will release on March 6.
Selection of the 2023 Saint-Jean-de-Luz festival
competition:
- dissident Pierre-Philippe Chevin (Canada, France)
- clay man By Anais Thelain (France)
- Lights of Aden by Amr Gamal (Yemen, Sudan, Saudi Arabia)
- Matria Alvaro Gago (Spain)
- New wife of Lea Todorov (France, Italy)
- Leaving the Night by Delphine Girard (Belgium, Canada, France)
- Return to Alexandria by Tamer Rughli (Switzerland, France, Egypt)
- Rossosperanza by Annarita Zambrano (Italy, France)
- fantastic three Michael Dichter (France)
- Yurt by Nehir Tuna (Turkey)
Out of competition:
- Track Kings by Thierry Clifford (coming out movie)
- My mother’s life Julien Carpentier (closing film)
- Noah’s Ark Brian Marciano (France)
- Bizkarsoro by Josu Martinez (France)
- I’m not a hero by Rudy Milstein (France)
- Vincent Capello’s New World (France)
- Father of Ronan Tronchaux (France)
- Suddenly Alone by Thomas Baideguin (France)
- Past Love Syndrome by Anne Sirot and Raphael Balbon (Belgium, France)
- “The Taste of Others” by Agnes Jauy (France
- Like a wolf (pre-festival session) by Caroline Glorion (France)
Short films in the competition:
- The Acrobatic Age of Mathieu Barbet
- Thirsty by Lisa Sallustio
- White Crows Denis Lyakov
- New by Marie-Julie Baup
- by Mamina Massimo Rigi
- Marte Verde Martingale
- Not even bad from Sarah Stern
- Good boy Vincent de Lestrade
Short films without competition:
- Actor Hugo David and Raphael Cuenard
- The Impatients by Quentin Delcourt
- Mukbanger by Hugo Becker
- Our emergencies at Linh-Dan Pham
- By Tomo Marine Hébert
Saint-Jean-de-Luz 2023 FIF took place from 2 to 8 October.
Source: Allocine
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