“Unstated,” “Family tree of Violence,” and “Aferrado” have received a trio of prime honors at this 12 months’s Clermont-Ferrand Quick Movie Competition, with every title successful a grand prize within the respective worldwide, nationwide and lab competitions.
Finest recognized for his appearing work on Australian movie and tv, “Unstated” director Damian Walshe-Howling can now burnish his behind-the-camera bona fides with Clermont-Ferrand’s prime worldwide trophy. Set in late-70s Sydney, the movie follows a younger, Croatian born girl whose life spins out into chaos as Croatian independence protests overtake her adopted hometown.
Led by Quebecois star Marc-André Grondin (“C.R.A.Z.Y.”) and directed by Pier-Philippe Chevigny, the slaughterhouse-set slow-boil “Mercenary” received a particular jury prize, whereas Maha Haj’s Locarno-winner “Upshot” can now add a Clermont-Ferrand viewers prize to an extended listing of honors.
U.Ok.-based duo Zhang & Knight claimed two prizes for his or her movie “A Bear Remembers,” taking house the Canal+ award and the European cinema award. Iceland’s Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsso (“A White, White Day,” “Godland”) received the worldwide competitors’s sole appearing award for his function as an alcoholic who tries to fight his personal addictions in Rúnar Rúnarsson’s “O.”
Mohamed Bourouissa’s “Family tree of Violence” scored the highest trophy out of this 12 months’s nationwide competitors. Coming from a filmmaker with a background in video artwork and large-scale installations, the movie makes use of 3D scanning and AI to discover questions of dispossession and social management by way of the prism of a commonplace police identification test. The brand new-media-assisted movie additionally received a VFX prize, sponsored by Adobe.
Rounding out the nationwide competitors, Kim Fino’s “Oh Perhaps Not Tonight” nabbed the particular jury prize, Natalie Musteata and Alexandre Singh’s “Two Folks Exchanging Saliva” claimed the viewers award, and Sharon Hakim’s “The Satan and the Bicycle” took the scholar prize. French funnyman Philippe Rebbot held the appearing honor for his work in Amroise Rateau’s “Loss of life of an Actor,” whereas the movie was additionally named finest comedy.
Mixing CGI and photogrammetry, Esteban Azuela’s low-fi 3D experiment “Aferrado” follows a automobile mechanic who leads a double life in trendy Mexico Metropolis. The movie can now boast the grand prize out of Clermont-Ferrand’s boundary-pushing Lab competitors. Different prizes went to Alia Haju’s “Ship of Fools,” Paul Kermarec “Ni Dieu Ni Pere,” Joseph Gaï Ramaka’s “Wamè” and Nikola Ilić’s “Exit Via the Cuckoo’s Nest,” which received each the Competition Connexion award and the dignity for finest documentary.
Clermont-Ferrand’s forty sixth version ran from Jan. 31 – Feb. 8 and break attendance data, welcoming 173,000 festival-goers.
