The Un Certain Regard prize, the main parallel section of the 75th Cannes Film Festival, centered on “auteur and discovery cinema”, went to French film Les Pires by Lise Akoka and Romane Gueret on Friday. The film chosen by the jury chaired by Valeria Golino tells of a wild casting in a city of Boulogne-sur-Mer (Pas-de-Calais).
Between reality and fiction, the film, which will be released in theaters in France on November 12, required a long work of immersion and the meeting of hundreds of children. The two co-directors, Lise Akoka and Romane Gueret, both worked in the casting or coaching of children for the cinema, an experience which nourished the film. They had notably shot a web series for Arte, You prefer.
The first Pakistani film presented at Cannes, Saim Sadiq’s Joyland, takes home the jury prize. The prize for directing went to Romanian Alexandru Belc for Metronom. Two performers share the prize for best performance: Luxembourg’s Vicky Krieps for her role as Empress Sissi in Corsage and Adam Bessa, who lends her features to Ali, a young Tunisian who lives on contraband gasoline sold on a piece of cake sidewalk, in Harka.
Best Screenplay went to Maha Haj’s Palestinian film Mediterranean Fever. Rodeo, the first feature film by Frenchwoman Lola Quivoron, about a band of marginal bikers, left with a consolation prize: the “jury’s favourite”.
