The French animation film I Lost My Body (J’ai perdu mon corps) by Jérémy Clapin was awarded the Nespresso Grand Prize at the 58th Critics Week at the Cannes Film Festival. In the film, a cut-off hand escapes from a dissection lab with one crucial goal: to get back to its body. As it scrambles through the pitfalls of Paris, it remembers its life with the young man it was once attached to… until they met Gabrielle.
A White, White Day (Hvítur, Hvítur Dagur) directed by Hlynur Pálmason. described as “A story of grief, revenge and unconditional love” won the Louis Roederer Foundation Rising Star Award. Set in a remote Icelandic town, an off-duty police chief begins to suspect a local man of having had an affair with his late wife, who died in a tragic accident two years earlier. Gradually his obsession for finding out the truth accumulates and inevitably begins to endanger himself and his loved ones
Winners of the 58th Semaine de la Critique
Nespresso Grand Prize
I LOST MY BODY ( J’AI PERDU MON CORPS) by Jérémy Clapin
Louis Roederer Foundation Rising Star Award
Ingvar E. Sigurðsson for A WHITE, WHITE DAY ( HVÍTUR, HVÍTUR DAGUR) by Hlynur Pálmason
Leitz Cine Discovery Prize for short film
SHE RUNS by Qiu Yang
Other Awards
Gan Foundation Award for Distribution
The Jokers Films, french distributor for VIVARIUM by Lorcan Finnegan
SACD Award
César Díaz, writer of NUESTRAS MADRES (OUR MOTHERS)
Canal+ Award for short films
IKKI ILLA MEINT (SANS MAUVAISE INTENTION) by Andrias Høgenni