Highlighting filmmakers who show independence of spirit, originality and talent, the 71st Prix Jean Vigo went to Dominique Marchais for La Rivière. This marks the third time in the history of the award that a filmmaker wins with a feature-length documentary, after Frédéric Rossif in 1963 with Mourir à Madrid and Jérôme Laperrousaz in 1972 with Continental Circus. Dominique Marchais joins other winners including Jean-Luc Godard, Maurice Pialat, Alain Resnais, Claude Chabrol, Philippe Garrel, Bruno Dumont, Olivier Assayas, Noémie Lvovsky, Patricia Mazuy, Katell Quillévéré, Laurent Cantet, Xavier Beauvois, Alain Guiraudie, Mathieu Amalric and Alice Diop.

Produced by Mélanie Gérin and Paul Rozenberg for Zadig Films, La rivière is the 4th feature-length documentary by Dominique Marchais after Le Temps des grâces (discovered in Locarno in 2009), La ligne de partage des eaux (2014) and No Man Is an Island [+leggi anche:
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It is worth nothing that an Honorary Prix Vigo went this year to Claire Simon (whose latest documentary, Our Body [+leggi anche:
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