On Saturday evening, as the Cannes Film Festival draws to a close, Critics’ Week tonight presented its awards with the Andrés Ramírez Pulido Award. the judge. Critics’ Week is dedicated to the first and second films and this is Pulido’s debut, so the film can also get a gold camera that will be announced on Saturday at the festival’s main closing ceremony.
the judge He took home two gongs to Critics’ Week tonight and also won the SACD Award. The story is about Elius, a provincial boy who is imprisoned in an experimental youth center in the heart of the Colombian jungle for a crime committed with his friend El Mono. Adults are subjected to daily manual labor and intensive group therapy. One day El Mono is taken to the same center and brings with him a past from which Eliu tries to escape.
Deadline reviews called the film “a well-balanced mix of recognizable social realism and dystopian quirks” and “a very special film”.
The next goal scored tonight was from Charlotte Wales. ᲛAfter (Review here), with Paul Mescal, reprized by A24 this week; and Emanuele Nicot loves to drink (Review here) Young star for Zelda Samson.
This is the complete list of winners:
jury awards
Მ Local award
the judgeDirector: Andres Ramirez Pulido
French Touch Jury Prize
ᲛAfterDirector: Charlotte Galles
Rising Star Award from the Louis Roderer Foundation
Zelda for Samson loves to drink
Leitz Cine Discovery Award for short film
ice merchantsDirector: Joao González
Ghana Foundation Award for Distribution
A history of wood cuttingDirector: Mikko Myllylahti
SACD Award
Andrés Ramírez Pulido, director / screenwriter the judge
Canal + Award for the short film
On the throne of XerxesDirector: Evi Kalogiropoulou
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