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DINARD 2024 Premi

Unicorns di Sally El Hosaini e James Krishna Floyd si aggiudica due premi a Dinard

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- Tra gli altri film premiati al raduno francese dedicato al cinema britannico e irlandese figurano September Says, That They May Face the Rising Sun e Paul & Paulette Take a Bath

Unicorns di Sally El Hosaini e James Krishna Floyd si aggiudica due premi a Dinard
Jason Patel e James Krishna Floyd durante la cerimonia di chiusura (© Dinard Festival of British and Irish Film)

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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 [+leggi anche:
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. 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 [+leggi anche:
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by Irish filmmaker Pat Collins, his first fiction feature.

The evening’s big winner, however, was Unicorns [+leggi anche:
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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 [+leggi anche:
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), 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 [+leggi anche:
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. 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 [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Ariane Labed
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– Ariane Labed (Ireland/UK/Germany)

Best Performance Hitchcock Award
Lalor Roddy – That They May Face the Rising Sun [+leggi anche:
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(Ireland/UK)

Barrière Special Jury Prize
Unicorns [+leggi anche:
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– 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 [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Jethro Massey
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– Jethro Massey (UK)

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