Fipresci and Ecumenical Prizes
65th Festival de Cannes Fipresci and Ecumenical Awards
On Saturday May 26, the jury of the Fipresci prize, International Federation of Cinema Press, has awarded the International Critics Prize to the following films:
In the Official Selection: V Tumane - In the Fog, Ukrainian film by Sergei Loznitsa, the story of a Resistance fighter suspected of collaboration abducted by his comrades to be killed in the forest. Presented on Friday 25 in competition at Cannes, this two-hour work, with a slow rhythm as the war itself, opens with a breathtaking sequence shot.
In the Un Certain Regard selection, the prize went to the film The Wild Beasts of the South, a first American feature film in the style of a philosophical tale in Louisiana, illuminated by Quvenzhané Wallis, a six-year old girl who has real screen presence in the lead role of a brilliant film by Benh Zeitlin, in which the fundamental roles of freedom, human relations and family are developed with great emotion and originality. It is served by actors full of authenticity and a gorgeous photo. All this makes it a true celebration of life, love and hope!
Finally, the parallel sections Fipresci prize went to the first feature film by Rachid Djaïdani Rengaine, a dynamic controlled fiction, born from nine years of work on inter-community racism. Rengaine features a North African girl who wants to marry a black man; one of his 40 brothers refuses the union with a "nigger" while loving on the quiet a Jewish girl. The film was warmly received at its presentation in the Cannes Directors' Fortnight.
The Ecumenical Jury awarded its 2012 prize to the film Jagten - The Hunt. The story of a hunting party in which the game is a good man, plagued by mistrust and manipulation of a torn apart community, in search of forgiveness and lost harmony. The staging by Thomas Vinterberg, based on fiction, puts in sight the changing status of the father and child. Things are not always what they seem! Special mention was given to the American film The Wild Beasts of the South by Benh Zeitlin
