Les Arcs Industry Village winners: “The Visitor”, “Rossosperanza” and “Veni Vidi Vici” win top prizes

The film debut of the Lithuanian filmmaker Vytautas Katkus The visitor won the Artekino International Award on Tuesday in the Les Arcs Coproduction Village, awarded with 6,000 euros.

The award, presented by Rémi Burah, President of the ArteKino Foundation and CEO of Arte France Cinéma, is given in support of the development of the project.

The project, which won Cannes Critics’ Week’s Next Step award in early May, is about a young man trying to start a new life in a foreign country where he doesn’t speak the language or know anyone.

“For this 2022 edition, the ArteKino International Award supports a first feature film by a director who walks the line between fiction and documentary, social realism and fantastic poetry, with a subtle balance that he has shown in his already very masterful short films, Burah said. .

The visitor was one of 18 feature film projects that participated in the Les Arcs Coproduction Village.

It is part of the Industry Village of the Les Arcs Film Festival, which runs from December 1 to 13 and also includes the Works in Progress, Talent Village and Music Village sidebars.

About 600 film and music professionals attended the event.

There were three awards for the Works in Progress Showcase with 14 feature films in post-production.

The Italian director Annarita Zambrano Rossosperanza won the TitraFilm award consisting of €10,000 post-production services for image and/or sound.

Zambrano’s second film, following 2017’s Un Certain Regard After the war, Rossosperanza. is a social satire set in an institution for wayward rich kids in the 1980s.

The film is produced by Mad Entertainment (Italy), Rai Cinema (Italy), TS Productions (France), Minerva Pictures (Italy).

The jury consisted of Ava Cahen, General Delegate of Cannes Critics’ Week, Louisa Dent, General Manager of Curzon Artificial Eye, and Director Ursula Meier.

“Really, it was a difficult decision, as we had many good projects to choose from, so we finally decided to recognize the work of a bold and ambitious director and give the TitraFilm Award to a crazy film Blood and to give. Hope,” they said in a joint statement.

The Alphapanda Audience Engagement Award of EUR 5,000 – a combination of advertising spend and digital marketing strategy – went to I came, I saw, I conquered by Austrian filmmakers Daniel Hoesl and Julia Niemann.

The film focuses on a very wealthy family with deadly aspirations and continues Hoesl’s exploration of the power of wealth and money in his earlier feature films. PrivateJane, WIN WIN and the filmmakers’ collective documentary davos.

The film was produced by Ulrich Seidl Filmproduktion.

The jury included Wild Bunch producer Florence Gastaud, Alphapanda film marketing strategist and founder Mathias Noschis, and Joanna Solecka, a film marketing and social media strategist and head of the company’s Warsaw office.

“We have no doubt that the film will achieve its goal of influencing audiences and changing the passive way we all deal with the outrageous distribution of wealth and power in our society,” they said.

The 22D Music Award, in its second year, went to the drama by Swedish director Sarah Gyllenstierna Hunters on a white field in which a hunt takes a strange turn.

The jury consisted of Emmanuel Delétang, CEO of 22D Music, and composers Ludovic Bource and Laëtitia Pansanel-Garric.

“The story of three humble men who let their primitive impulses overcome them during a weekend of hunting; this dark and absurd drama, perhaps visionary, touched us. What happens when death becomes an obsessive game? The sound dimension of the film and especially the original score will be essential to underline the various psychological aspects,” they said in a joint statement.

The Universciné award of €2,000 also went to Pascal Schuh, which is intended for projects appearing in the Talent Village selection for emerging filmmakers.It doesn’t fit the schedule.

The jury consisted of the producer Julie Billy of June Films in Paris and Georges Goldenstern, former director of the Cannes Cinéfondation.

“We were moved by the way the director tells the story and by the very modern way he looks at an unknown historical moment in our European history,” they said.

“Through this film we discovered how homosexuality was viewed in East Germany before the fall of the Wall and the complex emotions the LGBTQI+ community faced at the beginning of unification. This film is intimate and political and we want to reward its great ambition.”

There was also a special mention for Kálmán Nagy The disgrace of the Borbély family.

Among other awards, the Cannes Producers Network awarded Badges for the upcoming 2023 edition to Industry Village producers Jelena Angelovski from Meander Film (Montenegro) and Katarína Krnáčováa from Silverart (Slovakia).