01/07/2024 - Austrian directors Lilith Kraxner and Milena Czernovsky’s movie won the international competition while Léa Lanoë’s Frieda TV dominated the French

Composed of Cyril Schäublin, José Luis Cienfuegos and Nathalie Léger, the international competition jury of the 35th Marseille International Film Festival – FIDMarseille has handed its 2024 Grand Prize to bluish [+see also:
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The Georges de Beauregard International Competition Prize was won by Tatiana Mazú González’s Argentine production Every Document Of Civilization, while a Special Mention was awarded to Irish director Declan Clarke’s movie If I Fall, Don’t Pick Me Up, which takes us back to Berlin in 1974 where young 32-year old director Walter Asmus is helping 68-year-old Samuel Beckett to direct his first personal film adaptation of Waiting for Godot. Their professional relationship soon turns into a friendship which lasts until the writer’s passing…

Victory in the French competition (whose jury included Paola Astorga, Leila Kilani and Florence Lazar) went to Frieda TV, which is Léa Lanoë’s debut feature film painting an incredibly sensitive portrait, steeped in friendship and a love of acting, of high-spirited, punkish Gerda Frieda Janett Gröger and the poetry she wields in spite of everything.

The CNAP Prize is also well worth a mention (recognising experimental or innovative works) and was won by the French production 7 Walks With Mark Brown [+see also:
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The full list of winners is as follows:

International Competition

Grand Prize
bluish [+see also:
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Georges de Beauregard Prize
Every Document of Civilization - Tatiana Mazú González (Argentina)

Jury Special Mention
If I Fall, Don’t Pick Me Up - Declan Clarke (Ireland)

French Competition

Grand Prize
Frieda TV - Léa Lanoë (France)

Georges de Beauregard National Prize
Critical Failure - Phoenix Atala (France) (medium-length film)

French National Centre of Visual Arts (CNAP) Prize
7 Walks with Mark Brown [+see also:
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First Films Competition

First Prize
The Outlandish - Tahar Kessi (Algeria/France/Qatar)

Special Mention
An Oscillating Shadow [+see also:
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Ciné+ Competition

Distribution Aid Prize in Partnership with GNCR
A Fidai Film [+see also:
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Flash Competition

Award
Un círculo que se fue rodando – Liv Schulman (France/Argentina) (short film)

Alice Guy Prize
Life Story – Jessica Dunn Rovinelli (USA) (short film)

Other awards

Renaud Victor Prize
A Fidai Film - Kamal Aljafari

Vacances Bleues Foundation European High Schoolers’ Prize
Gold Songs [+see also:
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Special Mention
Festa Major - Jean-Baptiste Alazard (France)

School of Second Chances Prize
Voyage Along the War [+see also:
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Special Mention
Gold Songs - Ico Costa

Audience Award
Festa Major - Jean-Baptiste Alazard

(Translated from French)