The 7th edition of the Brussels International Film Festival (BRIFF) wrapped on Wednesday with the unveiling of its victors, the biggest of which being Arnaud and Jean-Marie Larrieu’s movie, Jim’s Story [+lee también:
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ficha de la película], which was first unveiled in the Cannes Première section of the most recent Cannes Film Festival. The brothers’ nineth fiction feature film, which is adapted from Pierric Bailly’s novel of the same name - which caused a stir when published in 2021 - and buoyed by a first-class cast led by Karim Leklou, is due for release on 14 August both in France and in Belgium. The International Competition jury, composed of Michel Leclerc, Anne Coesens, Fabrizio Rongione and Stéphan Castang, then chose to award its Jury Prize to María Alché and Benjamín Naishtat’s Argentine film Puan [+lee también:
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ficha de la película], falling somewhere between a university comedy and a social chronicle, as well as a Special Mention to actresses Zar Amir Ebrahimi and Arienne Mando for their performance in Tatami [+lee también:
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The National Competition is also a highly anticipated feature of the festival line-up. Composed of Fabien Hagège, Johanna Nahon and Arnaud Godard, the jury of this section awarded its Grand Prize to filmmaker Alexe Poukine’s new documentary, Who Cares? [+lee también:
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ficha de la película], which invites us to accompany nurses on their rounds and asks the question: can nurses carry out their roles with kindness when working within an abusive system? The movie also bagged the Audience Award courtesy of this competition. The other big winner was For Night Will Come [+lee también:
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The Grand Prize in Directors’ Week, meanwhile, decided upon by a jury composed of Babetida Sadjo, Ann Sirot, Teona Strugar Mitevska and Vincent Lannoo, was awarded to Christian Einshøj for his documentary The Mountains [+lee también:
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The full list of winners is as follows:

International Competition

Grand Prize
Jim’s Story [+lee también:
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Jury Prize
Puan [+lee también:
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Special Mention
Zar Amir Ebrahimi & Arienne Mando - Tatami [+lee también:
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National Competition

Grand Prize
Who Cares? [+lee también:
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Jury Prize
For Night Will Come [+lee también:
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Best Actress
Elodie Bouchez – For Night Will Come

Best Actor
Mathias Legoût-Hammond – For Night Will Come

Technical Jury Prize for Sound
Grégory Le Maître, Corinne Dubien and Aymeric Dupas – For Night Will Come

Technical Jury Prize for Editing
Lenka Fillnerova – (Y)Our Mother [+lee también:
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Technical Jury Prize for Photography
Nastasja Saerens – Lost Children [+lee también:
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Directors’ Week

Grand Prize
The Mountains [+lee también:
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Jury Prize
Je’vida [+lee también:
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Other awards

National Competition Audience Award
Who Cares? - Alexe Poukine

Directors’ Week Audience Award
The Mountains - Christian Einshoj

FIPRESCI Prize
The Permanent Picture [+lee también:
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Young European Jury Prize
Riverboom - Claude Baechtold (Switzerland)