Marine Atlan’s debut characteristic La Gradiva has claimed the highest honor at Cannes’ Critics’ Week parallel part, strolling away with the celebrated AMI Paris Grand Prize after wowing a jury headed by Indian filmmaker Payal Kapadia (All We Imagine As Light).
The movie follows a gaggle of French youngsters on a college tour to Naples, the place an encounter with the preserved victims of Vesuvius at Pompeii unleashes a torrent of pent-up emotion and longing among the many college students, who discover themselves overwhelmed by historical magnificence and their very own awakening needs.
Take a look at a clip for La Gradiva under.
Kapadia, whose personal movie All We Think about as Mild took the Grand Prix at Cannes two years in the past, led a jury that included Québécois actor Théodore Pellerin, musician Oklou, Ghanaian-British producer Ama Ampadu, and journalist and Bangkok World Movie Pageant director Donsaron Kovitvanitcha.
The Louis Roederer Basis Rising Star Award went to Spanish actress-turned-director Aina Clotet for Viva, her characteristic directorial debut. The wry, bittersweet comedy, set in opposition to a sweltering Catalan summer time, follows a lady navigating a wholesale reassessment of her life and profession within the wake of a breast most cancers analysis.
‘Viva’
Courtesy of Cannes Critics’ Week
Among the many collateral prizes, Chinese language director Zou Jing’s A Woman Unknown claimed the Gan Basis Award for Distribution, with Pyramide Distribution set to deal with its French launch. The movie charts the lifetime of a younger lady handed between three households — every giving her a brand new id — as a part of a broader reckoning with the mass abandonment of new child women underneath China’s one-child coverage.
The SACD Award for greatest screenplay was shared by director Blerta Basholli and co-writer Nicole Borgeat for Dua, a coming-of-age drama set in Kosovo on the eve of the late-Nineties conflict.
Within the quick movie classes, Romain F. Dubois took the Sony Discovery Prize for Skinny Boots, whereas Berthold Wahjudi’s “Vaterland” or A Bule Named Yanto claimed the Canal+ Award.
Now in its sixty fifth version, Critics’ Week — which focuses solely on first and second options from rising filmmakers — screened 11 options chosen from greater than 1,050 submissions, alongside ten quick movies. The part opened with Phuong Mai Nguyen’s In Waves and closed with Adieu Monde Merciless.
Discover the total checklist of 2025 Cannes Critics’ Week winners under.
AMI Paris Grand Prize
La Gradiva, director: Marine Atlan
Louis Roederer Basis Rising Star Award
Viva, director: Aina Clotet
Gan Basis Award for Distribution
A Woman Unknown, director: Zou Jing
SACD Award
Dua, director: Blerta Basholli
Sony Discovery Prize for Brief Movie
Skinny Boots, director: Romain F. Dubois
Canal+ Award for Brief Movie
“Vaterland” or A Bule Named Yanto, director: Berthold Wahjudi
