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« CINEMA HERITAGE » International Film Festival: Discover the awards and images from the closing ceremony
After 4 days of screenings of films in and out of competition, restored heritage films, retrospectives and meetings with emerging filmmakers from all over the world, as well as with legends of the 7th art, the jury, presided over by Eric Demarsan and including Siddiq Barmak, Géla Babluani, Dinara Drukarova and Laurent Daillant, has delivered its verdict.
The prizes this year :
The Grand Prize for Shambhala by Min Bahadur Bham
Best Director goes to Mirlan Abdykalykov (film : Bride kidnapping, Kyrgyzstan
Special jury prize for Bauryna Saluby Askhat Kuchinchirekov, (Kyrgyzstan)
Special mention attributed to Vermiglio by Maura Delpero
Special mention for the cast ensemble of Sunday by Shokir Kholikov
A prize has been awarded to the director Abderrahmane Sissako for its contribution to world cinema
And our partner Monte Carlo Vermouth Prize goes to Hostages of war by Eldar Kaparov
After the ceremony, the many festival goers were able to see or rewatch the film Bamako by internationally acclaimed director Abderrahmane Sissako, who honoured us with his presence at the Grand Rex.
After growing up in Mali, Adberrahmane Sissako trained at the Federal State Film Institute in Moscow. It was there that he made his first short films, including October, which was presented in 1993 in the ‘Un certain regard’ section of the Cannes Festival. Director of La Vie sur terre (1998), Adberrahmane Sissako returned to the Croisette in 2002 for En attendant le bonheur, winner of the International Critics' Prize, in which he denounces the powerlessness of African public authorities and the anti immigration policies of Western countries. North/South relations were again explored in 2006 in Bamako with actress Aïssa Maïga, a humanist fable screened at Cannes in the Official Selection Out of Competition. He codirected two documentaries the same year with 8, and then in 2008 with Histoire de droits de l'Homme. In 2014, the director returned to fiction with the drama Timbuktu, drawing his inspiration from a current event that took place in Mali in 2012. The film was presented in Competition at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival.