Macedonian director Tamara Kotevska and Romanian filmmaker Bogdan Mirica were among the winners of prizes handed out at Les Arcs Film Festival last night (December 15).
Twelve work-in-progress features screened as part of the festival’s Industry Village platform, with three earning prizes.
Kotevska, whose latest documentary The Tale Of Silyan is North Macedonia’s submission for this year’s international feature Oscar race, won the Titra Film prize of €10,000 towards post-production services for her debut fiction feature Man Vs Flock. The film is about an elderly farmer who finds himself fighting for his land against a Chinese construction company.
The €7,000 Alphapanda audience engagement award for digital film marketing went to Selma Sunniva’s Girl Beast. Produced by Manna Film, the Danish psychological drama explores how childhood trauma and dysfunctional relationships shape identity and sexuality in the teenage years of a young girl.
Special mention went to Swedish director Johannes Nyholm’s Weird Elliot produced by Sweden’s Hobab and the Netherlands’ Baldr Film, about an autistic vlogger who finds traces of a dead body captured on an old videotape and sets out to solve the mystery.
The 22D Music award, worth €10,000, went to Jan-Eric Mack’s Swiss project A Happy Family produced by C-Films, with a special mention to Jacqueline Lentzou’s A Day In The Life Of Jo: Chapter Phaedra produced by Greece’s Avion Films and Atalante Productions, Germany’s Kelek Film and France’s 4A4 Productions.
Other industry prizes included the €20,000 Eurimages co-production development award, which went to Bogdan Mirica’s Romanian film One Hand Jesus, produced by deFilm. The film is about an elderly priest with Alzheimer’s who takes his grandson on a wild road trip to confront a shepherd he believes is a child killer. Mirica’s 2016 debut feature Dogs premiered at Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight.
The €6,000 ArteKino International award went to Marleen Valien’s Hard Copy, produced by Germany’s Sommerhaus Filmproduktion, while the Producers’ Network awarded badges for the upcoming Cannes’ Marche du Film to Shereen Ali of Story Horse Pictures for Lisa Clarkson’s UK title In The Name Of Pleasure and Maria Golos of Rozbrat Film for Maciej Jankowski’s Polish project Confirmation.
This year’s Revelation Female Film Composer Award went to Léonie Pernet, who received a €2,000 prize from Sacem.
Les Arcs Industry Village concludes today, while the festival runs until Saturday, December 20.
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