A successful second edition
From June 18 to 23, the second edition Biarritz Film Festival – New Waves. At the end of five days of screenings, meetings and conferences aimed at revealing the next generation of filmmakers and actors, find out which films and performances have been honored.
This year, eight feature films competed to be awarded the Best Film prize by an exceptional international jury chaired by Lea Missius (Ava, Les Cinq Diables) and composed of Zoe Deutsch (The Outfit), Vincent Lacoste (César for Best Supporting Actor). actress for Lost Illusions), Kim Higuelin (César nominee for Breakthrough Woman, Consent), Margaret Zhang (Chinese director, photographer and writer), Manu Rios (Elite, A Strange Life), Kitty Chicha (Morrison) and Arash Khaxar (internationally renowned photographer ).
Attended the awards ceremony on June 22 to reveal the following winners to a house of over 1,400 people:
Main prize: girls girls will be Shuchi Talat
Jury Prize: Eat the Night by Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel
Performance Award: Saoirse Ronan in Nora Finscheidt’s The Outrun
Student Jury Prize: Eat the Night by Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel
Pass Culture Jury Prize: The Outrun by Nora Fingscheidt
Audience Award: La Nuit Holds Herself by Michel Blanchard
The jury of international artists also awarded a special mention to Thierry de Peret’s film “Image of a Son”.
Girls Will Be Girls, Eat the Night and The Outrun are the big winners of this second edition
was awarded the prestigious Grand Prix of the second edition of the Biarritz Film Festival – NOUVELLES VAGUES, Girls will be girls So Zihan Geng’s A Song Sung Blue succeeded.
In cinemas on August 21, a feature film glass plate tells the story of Mia (Preeti Panigrahi). At the age of 16, a young girl leads the life of a model student at an elite boarding school in northern India. As exams approach, mother Anila (Kani Kusruti) returns to the district to lend her support. But Meera’s encounter with a new student, Shri (Kesav Binoy Kironi), sows trouble in the relationship between the two women as they each find themselves confronted with their own desires.
Eat the Night, by Caroline Pogue and Jonathan Winnell, was crowned the Jury Prize and the Student Jury Prize. Such was the success of The Outrun that it was awarded the Pass Culture Jury Prize and the Interpretation Prize, which went to Saoirse Ronan for her performance.
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Source: Allocine
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