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The feature film jury of the 16th Arcs Film Festival, which takes place each year in the winter sports resort of the same name, has just delivered its verdict. It is Kneecap by Rich Peppiatt (French release on June 18) which won the Crystal Arrow for the best European feature film among the eight selected. The energetic story of three young Irish rappers trying to find their way in a fractured country. The film also won the prize for best original music, the Cinglés du cinéma prize and the young jury prize.
The public prize, awarded by the votes of spectators, rewarded Peacock by the Austrian Bernhard Wenger, or the quest for the identity of a professional chameleon played by Albrecht Schuch (In the West, nothing new). Norwegian Loveable by Lilja Inglofsdottir, a drama about a separation, received the Grand Jury Prize and the Best Actor Prize for actress Helga Guren. Another interpretation prize was given to Marilena Amato in Victoria by Alessandro Cassigoli and Casey Kauffman, about a Neapolitan hairdresser's desire to have a child. Finally, Lithuanian Toxic about a young girl's entry into a modeling school won the prize for best photography. The feature film jury was made up of actors Pio Marmaï, Céline Sallette and Sofiane Zermani, writer Delphine de Vigan, director Peter Kerekes and composer Herdís Stafánsdóttir.
For its part, the short film jury, formed by the actresses Camille Chamoux, Lina El Arabi and Bérangère McNeese, the director of Vermines Sébastien Vaniček and the short film department manager at France TV Christophe Taudière, awarded the prize for best film in this format among the twelve proposed to Dancing in the Corner by Jan Bujnowski: a story set at the fall of the wall, in Poland, when color TVs invade homes…
Complete winners of the 16th Arcs Film Festival:
Crystal Arrow: Kneecap by Rich Peppiatt
Audience Award: Peacock by Austrian Bernhard Wenger
Grand jury prize: Loveable by Lilja Inglofsdottir
Interpretation Award: Helga Guren in Loveable
Interpretation Award: Marilena Amato in Victoria by Alessandro Cassigoli and Casey Kauffman
Best Original Music: Michael Asante for Kneecap
Prize for best photography: Vytautas Katkus for Toxic by Saulė Bliuvaitė
UniversCiné Prize in the Height section: September & July by Ariane Labed
Cineuropa Prize: Toxic by Saulė Bluvaitė
Cinema Cranks Award: Kneecapspecial mention to Toxic
Young Jury Prize: Kneecapspecial mention to Peacock
Prize for best short film: Dancing in the Corner by Jan Bujnowski, special mention to Death of a Hero by Karin Franz Körlof