“Gradual,” Marija Kavtaradze’s delicate romance, received the Crystal Arrow on the fifteenth version of Les Arcs Movie Pageant from a jury presided over by Oscar-nominated Iranian director Asghar Farhadi (“A Separation”).
Kavtaradze’s sophomore outing, “Gradual” world premiered on the Sundance Movie Pageant the place it received finest director. The movie revolves across the bond between Elena (Greta Grinevičiūtė), a recent dancer instructing to deaf youth, and Dovydas (Kęstutis Cicėnas), an indication language interpreter class.
“The Lecturers’ Lounge,” in the meantime, received the jury prize. The satirical film, directed Ilker Çatak, world premiered on the Berlin Movie Pageant, within the Panorama part, and was simply shortlisted within the Oscar’s worldwide characteristic movie race. Leonie Benesch stars an idealistic trainer who tries to uncover a thief inside her college and sparks chaos within the course of.
Dimitra Vlagopoulou received finest actress for her efficiency as an entertainer at an all-inclusive Greek resort in Sofia Exarchou’s “Animal;” whereas Gáspár Adonyi-Walsh received finest actor for his function in as a slacker pupil in Budapest who triggers a tabloid scandal in Gábor Reisz’s “Rationalization for All the things.”
The Viewers Award went to the psychological thriller “The Successor,” Xavier Legrand’s comply with as much as his debut “Custody” which had received the Silver Lion at Venice.
Curated by Frederic Boyer, who can also be Tribeca’s creative director, Les Arcs Pageant boasted a jury comprising of actors Rebecca Marder and Vincent Lacoste, musician Irène Drésel and novelist-turned-filmmaker Christine Angot.
The pageant, which ran Dec. 16-23, introduced collectively a formidable roster of excessive profile company, together with Isabelle Huppert, Antoine Reinartz, Jonathan Cohen, Vincent Macaigne, Joachim Lafosse, Matthias Schoenaerts, Michel Hazanavicius and Ruben Östlund, the two-time Palme d’Or profitable director (“Triangle of Disappointment”) who was this version’s visitor of honor and mentored members of the Expertise Village, one in all Les Arcs’s trade occasions.
Les Arcs additionally held its tenth version of the Femme de Cinema Awards in partnership with Sisley and honored Italian helmer Alice Rohrwacher (“La Chimera”). The celebratory occasion, spearheaded by Les Arcs co-founder Fabienne Sylvestre, additionally reunited earlier Femme de Cinema award recipients, together with Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović (“Murina”) and Mounia Meddour (“Papicha”).
