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The Roche-sur-Yon Film Festival crowns Have a Nice Day

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- The Grand Prix has gone to the Chinese animated film, while a Special Prize was bestowed upon Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me by Your Name and a Special Mention upon Winter Brothers

The Roche-sur-Yon Film Festival crowns Have a Nice Day
Have a Nice Day by Liu Jian

China has tasted victory at the eighth La Roche­-sur­-Yon International Film Festival, as the international jury’s Grand Prix was bestowed upon the animated film Have a Nice Day by Liu Jian. The feature, which was premiered in competition at Berlin and was removed from the programme of the Annecy Film Festival after the Chinese authorities exerted pressure on the gathering, is being sold by Memento Films.

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The Special Jury Prize from the international jury went to Call Me by Your Name [+see also:
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Q&A: Luca Guadagnino
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]
 by Italy’s Luca Guadagnino (which came out in the UK on Friday after a long and successful festival run that kicked off at the Sundance Film Festival, and which will be distributed in France from 17 January by Sony Pictures Releasing) and a Special Mention was granted to Winter Brothers [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Elliott Crosset Hove
interview: Hlynur Pálmason
film profile
]
by Iceland’s Hlynur Pálmason (which won multiple trophies following its premiere at Locarno, including the Best Actor Award and the Europa Cinemas Label – set to be released in France on 21 February 2018 via Arizona Distribution).

The competitive New Waves section (dedicated to movies exploring new filmmaking forms, with no constraints in terms of genre or running time) gave its top prize to the documentary Taste of Cement [+see also:
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by Ziad Kalthoum (which was previously a winner at Visions du Réel, and was produced by Germany, Lebanon, Syria, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar). 

Lastly, we should mention the Trajectories Award, which the jury of secondary-school students handed to Borg/McEnroe [+see also:
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 by Denmark’s Janus Metz (due to be released in France on 8 November, courtesy of Pretty Pictures), and the Audience Award, which was won by Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri [+see also:
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by British director Martin McDonagh (set to come out in French theatres on 17 January via Twentieth Century Fox France).

Here is the full list of winners:

Grand Prix
Have a Nice Day – Liu Jian (China)

Special Jury Prize 
Call Me by Your Name [+see also:
film review
trailer
Q&A: Luca Guadagnino
film profile
]
 - Luca Guadagnino (Italy/France/USA/Brazil)

Special Mention of the Jury
Winter Brothers [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Elliott Crosset Hove
interview: Hlynur Pálmason
film profile
]
- Hlynur Pálmason (Denmark/Iceland)

New Waves Jury Prize
Taste of Cement [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile
]
– Ziad Kalthoum (Germany/Lebanon/Syria/United Arab Emirates/Qatar)

Special Mention of the New Waves Jury
Os humores artificiais – Gabriel Abrantes (Portugal) (short film)

Trajectories Award of the Secondary-school Student Jury
Borg/McEnroe [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile
]
 – Janus Metz (Sweden/Denmark/Finland/Czech Republic)

Audience Award
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile
]
– Martin McDonagh (USA/UK)

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(Translated from French)

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