The winners of the 13th Champs-Elysées Film Festival: Eat the Night, Habibi…
This year, the Champs-Elysées Film Festival is once again putting the spotlight on difference.
After seven days of screenings, the jury of the Champs-Elysées Film Festival (CEFF) has finally delivered its verdict. This year, it consisted of Rebecca ZlotowskiMarie-Ange Luciani, Nicolas Peduzzi, Jimmy Laporal-Treasury And Alma Jodorowsky for long and Jean-Baptiste Durand, Nans Laborde-Jourdaa, Ovidie, Park Ji-Min And Emilie Brisavoine for the shorts.
As usual, the management of the Parisian festival organized by Sophie Dulac had selected six French films, and six others, American, to compete in two different selections. The complete CEFF 2024 selections can be discovered below:
THE SELECTION OF THE CHAMPS ELYSEES FILM FESTIVAL 2024
On the French side, it is Diaries from Lebanon of Myriam El Hajj who is awarded the Grand Jury Prize. The Lebanese director’s first feature film, presented at the last Berlinale, tells the story of her country through a documentary prism, and over a period from 2017 to 2021, focusing on three destinies.
The Jury Prize for Best French Director goes to Eat the Nightthe film by the French duo Caroline Poggi And Jonathan Vineland whose trailer can be found here. A fiction film that mixes video games and live-action images to tell the end of adolescence, as much as a story of cursed love set against the backdrop of drug trafficking, which already passed through the Croisette earlier in the year (Quinzaine des filmmakers), and which also won the Critics’ Prize for Best French Independent Feature.
At the same time, it is the Habibi, songs for my friends of Florent Gouëlou which won the Audience Award for Best French Feature. Diving into the world of drag queensit documents the last performance of the show “drag and cinema” of the 2023 season of the Golden Arrow. The review of First can be found below.
Habibi, songs for my friends: life is a cabaret, old friend! (critical)
On the American side, it is Good One ofIndia Donaldson which won the Grand Prix. Another first film, it was also selected for the Quinzaine this year, and tells the story of the disappointments of a father/daughter weekend spoiled by the presence of a friend of the first.
Alongside Good One to honor American independent cinema, it is Between the Temples of Nathan Silver which received the Jury Prize for Best American Director. A long one which marked the return of the American to the CEFF after the selection of Stinking Heaven in American competition in 2015, and which looks at the journey of faith of a cantor, disturbed by the registration of a former acquaintance in his Bat Mitzvah classes. Between the Temples also received the Critics’ Award for Best American Feature Film.
For his part, I Saw the TV Glow, the latest feature Joel Schoenbrun leaves his Parisian trip with the Audience Award for Best American Feature. A film that breaks the Fourth Wall, it tells the story of a teenager’s dive into the supernatural world of a television show. The criticism of First can be read below.
I Saw the TV Glow, a sensory UFO (review)
On the short film side, Sterling Hampton (Merman) And Hakim Atoui (Blood relationship) leave with the Grand Jury Prizes, and Jack Dunphy (Bob’s Funeral) And Sarah Malléon (Sirens) with the Public Prizes, while Berthe is Dead but it’s OK of Sacha Trillswins the France Télévisions Prize.
Two medium-length films jointly won the Grand Jury Prize: Incident of Bill Morrison And Reset of Souliman SchelfoutThe Audience Award for Best Medium-Length Film is awarded to Documentation trip by Madame Anita Conti (Louise Hémon).
