LES ARCS 2021 Industry Village / Awards
Solitude bags a trophy at Les Arcs’ Co-Production Village
- Iceland’s Ninna Pálmadóttir walks away with the ArteKino International Award while Sophia Mocorrea’s Marriage by Abduction bags the Talent Village Prize
Unfolding within the Industry Village organised by the 13th Les Arcs Film Festival, the Co-Production Village and Talent Village have handed out their awards.
The ArteKino International Prize, awarded by Rémi Burah to one of the 18 projects in development selected for the Co-Production Village, was bestowed upon Solitude [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Ninna Pálmadóttir
film profile], a feature film project by Icelandic director Ninna Pálmadóttir. Written by her compatriot Rúnar Rúnarsson, the story revolves around Jón, an elderly farmer who is forced to leave his farm behind, on account of a dam site taking over his land. He settles down in a quiet city neighbourhood and soon makes friends with Ari, the local paper delivery boy who lives next door. The two of them forge a unique friendship, but a terrible misunderstanding teaches the elderly man that he must somehow find the courage to let go of his old, lonesome life in order to take charge of this new one... The movie is produced by Icelandic firm Pegasus Pictures in co-production with Croatia’s MP Film Production.
Decided upon by a jury composed of Savina Neirotti, Thomas Rosso and Laure Caillol, the Talent Village Prize (1,000 euros, put forward by the festival) was won by Marriage by Abduction, which is German-Argentine director Sophia Mocorrea’s first feature film project. Written by the filmmaker herself, the story homes in on Luisa from Buenos Aires and Fred from Brandenburg who want to get married. What starts out as a celebration of emancipation from traditional structures soon turns into a virtuoso dance between racism, patriarchal values and parental expectations…
As for the Producers Network associated with Cannes’ Marché du Film (represented at Les Arcs by Jérôme Paillard), they awarded two passes for the upcoming edition of the Croisette-based event to two women producers selected from the Co-Production Village: Latvia’s Inga Pranevska (Kultfilma – who attended the festival via Dzintars Dreibergs’ project Escape Net) and Switzerland’s Véronique Vergari (Luna Films – who presented Stéphane Riethauser’s project Orpheus).
The awards, to recap, were as follows:
Co-Production Village
ArteKino International Award
Solitude [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Ninna Pálmadóttir
film profile] - Ninna Pálmadóttir (Iceland/Croatia)
Talent Village
Talent Village Award
Marriage by Abduction - Sophia Mocorrea
(Translated from French)
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