Clio Barnard’s I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning has received the Individuals’s Alternative Award of Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight sidebar.
The kitchen-sink drama follows 5 working class pals — Patrick, Shiv, Rian, Oli and Conor — who got here up collectively in a tower block in Birmingham who at the moment are of their 30s and discover themselves on more and more divergent — and for many of them, more and more constrained — paths to the long run.
The Individuals’s Alternative award is backed by the Fondation Chantal Akerman, arrange in honor of the late French director Chantal Akerman (Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce), a Administrators’ Fortnight common. It comes with a €7,500 ($8,700) money bursary for the director of the successful movie.
Barnard’s fifth function is an adaptation of the novel of the identical title by Kieran Goddard. Enda Walsh, the author behind Die My Love and Starvation, tailored the novel for the display screen. The movie stars Anthony Boyle, Joe Cole, Jay Lycurgo, Daryl McCormack and Lola Petticrew. Tracy O’Riordan produced for Moonspun Movies. Curzon Movie is distributing within the U.Okay., with Charades dealing with world gross sales.
Barnard is not any stranger on the Croisette. Her function The Egocentric Big received the Europa Cinemas Label prize again in 2013.
A second Administrators’ Fortnight prize, the Coup de Cœur des Auteurs prize from French rights assortment society SACD, went to Shana, the solo function debut of French director Lila Pinell.
Tailored from her personal brief movie, Shana stars Eva Huault because the titular character: a unstable small-time drug supplier with a poisonous boyfriend about to get out of jail. Noémie Lvovsky, Inès Gherib, Anaïs Monah, Bettina De Van, Geneviève Krief and Sékouba Doucouré co-star. It’s produced by Ecce Movies and CG Cinema — the latter additionally behind Cannes Competitors title Minotaur, by Andrey Zvyagintsev. Losange Movies is dealing with world gross sales.
