Lithuanian film ‘The Visitor’ wins latest development prize at Les Arcs industry village

By Ben Dalton2022-12-13T11:34:00+00:00

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the visitor

Source: Les Arcs

Vytautas Katkus, Marija Razgute

Vytautas Katkus’ Lithuanian feature The Visitor has won its latest development prize, taking the Coproduction Village award at Les Arcs Industry Village.

It was selected for the €6,000 prize by Remi Burah, president of ArteKino Foundation and CEO of Arte France Cinema. Burah noted “a director walking the line between fiction and documentary, social realism and fantastic poetry.”

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The Visitor previously won the Cannes Critics’ Week Next Step prize in May. The film follows a young man as he tries to make a new life for himself in a foreign land where he does not speak the language or know anyone.

The Visitor will be Katkus’ debut feature, produced by Brigita Beniusyte and Marija Razgute for M-Films.

In the Les Arcs Work in Progress section, Annarita Zambrano’s Rossosperanza won the €10,000 post-production award. The film is a black comedy set in a luxurious villa in the 1980s, where a group of ‘difficult’ children from wealthy families are sent for rehabilitation.

Daniel Hoesl’s Veni Vidi Vici won the audience engagement award, consisting of €600 advertising spend and €4,400 in-kind to develop a digital marketing strategy and social media campaign around the film’s festival premiere.

Producers Jelena Angelovski from Montenegro’s Meander Film and Katarina Krnacova from Slovakia’s Silverart were both awarded badges for the Cannes Producers Network.

Previous Les Arcs industry winners include Lukas Dhont’s Girl in 2017, which went on to win the Camera d’Or at Cannes; and Sacha Polak’s Netherlands-UK co-production Silver Haze, which was recently acquired by New Europe Film Sales.