Honouring young, independent production companies, the IFCIC Prize awarded by the French Institute for the Funding of the Film and Cultural Industries was exceptionally bestowed upon two firms (on account of its cancellation for the duration of the pandemic), with the 16th trophy going to Petit Films (Jean des Forêts) and the 17th to Tripode Productions (Delphine Schmit and Guillaume Dreyfus).

Founded in 2010, Petit Films’ repertoire notably includes Raw [+lee también:
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entrevista: Julia Ducournau
ficha de la película] by Julia Ducournau, A Family for 1640 Days [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Fabien Gorgeart, The Girl with a Bracelet [+lee también:
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entrevista: Stéphane Demoustier
ficha de la película] by Stéphane Demoustier and Earwig [+lee también:
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entrevista: Lucile Hadzihalilovic
ficha de la película] by Lucile Hadzihalilovic (discovered in last year’s Toronto Platform line-up, awarded a Special Jury Prize in San Sebastián, and due for release in France on 18 January). That’s without forgetting Queens [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Yasmine Benkiran (which closed the most recent Critics’ Week in Venice) and Lê Bảo’s co-production Taste [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] (awarded the Special Jury Prize in the Berlinale’s 2021 Encounters line-up). There’s also 100,000,000,000,000 [+lee también:
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entrevista: Virgil Vernier
ficha de la película] by Virgil Vernier, which is soon to wrap filming (article), and Stéphane Demoustier’s new film in post-production (title yet to be confirmed).

Tripode Productions, meanwhile, which was founded in 2017 and turned heads this year by way of Emmanuelle Nicot’s Dalva [+lee también:
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entrevista: Emmanuelle Nicot
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ficha de la película] (Critics’ Week 2022) and Sylvie Audecoeur’s An Ordinary Mother [+lee también:
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entrevista: Ann Sirot & Raphael Balboni
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entrevista: César Díaz
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entrevista: César Díaz
ficha de la película], which Delphine Schmit produced by way of Perspective Films), Our Wildest Days [+lee también:
entrevista: Vasilis Kekatos
ficha de la película], which is Vasilis Kekatos’ first feature (awarded the 2019 Palme d'Or for Best Short Film), and Alex Lutz’s Connemara.

The awards see Petit Films and Tripode Productions joining the ranks of former IFCIC prize-winners, TS Productions (2004), Les Productions du Trésor (2005), Elia Films (2006), La Mouche du Coche (2007), Les Films du Poisson (2008), 2.4.7. Films (2009), The Film (2010), Origami Films (2011), Lionceau Films (2012), Dharamsala (2013), Lilies Films (2014), CG Cinéma (2015), Les Films du Bélier (2016), Maneki Films (2017) and TAT Productions (2019).