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DINARD 2024 Awards

Unicorns by Sally El Hosaini and James Krishna Floyd takes home two awards from Dinard

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- Other winners at the French gathering for British and Irish films included September Says, That They May Face the Rising Sun and Paul & Paulette Take a Bath

Unicorns by Sally El Hosaini and James Krishna Floyd takes home two awards from Dinard
Jason Patel and James Krishna Floyd during the awards ceremony (© Dinard Festival of British and Irish Film)

The 35th edition of the Dinard Festival of British and Irish Film hosted its awards ceremony on 5 October, after a week of many sold-out screenings and events.

The jury of the main competition, led by actress Arielle Dombasle, and also comprising French actress Alba Gaïa Bellugi, French actress-musician Julie Depardieu, French actor Stanislas Merhar, British actor Phoebe Campbell, Irish filmmaker Colm Bairéad, British filmmaker and artist Charlotte Colbert, and British actor Oliver Jackson-Cohen, presented the Ciné+ OCS Golden Hitchcock Award to Ariane Labed’s September Says [+see also:
film review
interview: Ariane Labed
film profile
]
. The actress’s debut feature as a director premiered in Un Certain Regard at Cannes earlier this year and follows two sisters, September and July, as their close bond is challenged by the outside world and themselves.

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The jury also gave the Best Performance Hitchcock Award to Lalor Roddy for his turn in That They May Face the Rising Sun [+see also:
film review
film profile
]
by Irish filmmaker Pat Collins, his first fiction feature.

The evening’s big winner, however, was Unicorns [+see also:
film review
film profile
]
by Sally El Hosaini and James Krishna Floyd, which was awarded both the Barrière Special Jury Prize and the Hitchcock Audience Award for Best Feature. Krishna Floyd was present together with the film’s lead actor, Jason Patel, who plays South Asian drag queen Aysha in this romantic comedy about cultural differences and acceptance. The co-director said in his acceptance speech that the film, which premiered at Toronto in 2023, was looking for French distribution.

In the Talent of Tomorrow Competition, dedicated to debut features (last year’s winner was Naqqash Khalid’s In Camera [+see also:
film review
interview: Naqqash Khalid
film profile
]
), with a jury composed of 18- to 25-year-old cinephiles, the Ouest-France Talent of Tomorrow Award went to Jethro Massey’s debut feature, Paul & Paulette Take a Bath [+see also:
film review
interview: Jethro Massey
film profile
]
. The film previously won the Critics’ Week Audience Award at the Venice Film Festival.

Here is the full list of award winners:

Competition

Ciné+ OCS Golden Hitchcock award
September Says [+see also:
film review
interview: Ariane Labed
film profile
]
– Ariane Labed (Ireland/UK/Germany)

Best Performance Hitchcock Award
Lalor Roddy – That They May Face the Rising Sun [+see also:
film review
film profile
]
(Ireland/UK)

Barrière Special Jury Prize
Unicorns [+see also:
film review
film profile
]
– Sally El Hosaini, James Krishna Floyd (UK/USA/Sweden)

Audience Awards

Hitchcock Audience Award for Best Feature
Unicorns – Sally El Hosaini, James Krishna Floyd

Hitchcock Audience Award for Best Short Film
Legacy – Harry Hadden-Paton (UK)

Talent of Tomorrow Competition

Ouest-France Talent of Tomorrow Award
Paul & Paulette Take a Bath [+see also:
film review
interview: Jethro Massey
film profile
]
– Jethro Massey (UK)

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