Clermont Ferrand 2014 Awards

Grand Prix

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  La Lampe au beurre de yak

  Hu Wei / France, China / 2013 / Fiction / 16'00

  A young itinerant photographer and his assistant offer to photograph some Tibetan nomads in front of various backgrounds.

  

  

Special Jury Prize

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  Molii

  Carine May , Mourad Boudaoud , Yassine Qnia , Hakim Zouhani / France / 2013 / Fiction / 13'17

  Steve is in his late twenties. Tonight, he's replacing his father, who works as watchman at the community pool. Everything is going smoothly, until the young man starts hearing strange noises.

  

  

Audience Prize

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  Inupiluk

  Sébastien Betbeder / France / 2014 / Fiction / 34'00

  Tonight, as often during the week, Thomas goes to meet Thomas in their usual café. But Thomas is miles away, on the other side of the world, on the snowy plains of Greenland where his father lives.

  

  

Best Original Film Score - SACEM Award

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  Scars of Cambodia

  Alexandre Liebert / France / 2013 / Documentary / 30'00

  Tut is a 52-year-old fisherman living in Kampot. In spite of the language barrier, he recounts for the first time and without any words his past during the Khmer Rouge regime, demonstrating the torture he experienced in prison the year he turned fifteen.

  

  

Best First Film

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  Prix S.A.C.D. (Société des Auteurs Compositeurs Dramatiques)

  

  T'étais où quand Michael Jackson est mort ?

  Jean-Baptiste Pouilloux / France / 2013 / Fiction / 11'38

  Paris, a few days after the death of the King of Pop, a few days before Christmas, an encounter shakes up their lives, Him and Her, in the back of a taxi. They ride amidst the city lights, the time of a desire.

  

  

Best French Speaking Animation - SACD Award

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  Lettres de femmes

  Augusto Zanovello / France / 2013 / Animation / 11'15

  On the battle fields of the First World War, the nurse Simon patches up the shattered faces of the infantrymen with love letters. These words from beloved women have the power to heal the wounds of these paper soldiers.

  

  

Canal + Award

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  Trucs de gosse

  Emilie Noblet / France / 2013 / Fiction / 30'52

  Julie is about to finish her studies and works in a movie theater to make some money. One night, she meets Matthieu, who has just been hired.

  

  

ACSE Award (National Agency for the Social Cohesion and the Equal Opportunity)

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  Todo se puede

  Elias Belkeddar / France / 2013 / Fiction / 28'22

  The tribulations of a young Mexican who is desperately trying to make love.

  

  

Telerama Press prize

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  La Fugue

  Jean-Bernard Marlin / France / 2013 / Fiction / 22'20

  Lakdar, a youth worker in a home for juvenile offenders in Marseille, goes to court along with one of the teenagers he’s in charge of, Sabrina. She is to be judged for an offence she committed a while before. Lakdar feels confident: he is convinced that their efforts...

  

  

Procirep's Award for Best Producer

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  pour ENVIE DE TEMPÊTE PRODUCTIONS, Frédéric Dubreuil

  

  Inupiluk

  Sébastien Betbeder / France / 2014 / Fiction / 34'00

  Tonight, as often during the week, Thomas goes to meet Thomas in their usual café. But Thomas is miles away, on the other side of the world, on the snowy plains of Greenland where his father lives.

  

  

Special Jury Mention

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  à Martine Schaambacher pour son interprétation

  

  D'où que vienne la douleur

  Khalil Cherti / France / 2013 / Fiction / 37'00

  Two years ago, Romy left her mother Monique, an unalluring prostitute, behind without leaving a trace or sending any news. Their confrontational reunion takes the form of a blaze of glory.

  

  

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  à Lætitia Dosch pour son interprétation

  

  Ennui ennui

  Gabriel Abrantes / France / 2013 / Fiction / 33'40

  While the French ambassadress to Afghanistan is negotiating disarmament with a Kuchi nomad, her daughter Cléo is kidnapped by an Afghan warlord.

  

  

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  Extrasystole

  Alice Douard / France / 2013 / Fiction / 35'45

  EXTRASYSTOLE: A premature heart contraction which interrupts the heartbeat.

  

  

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  Pedro malheur

  Camila Beltrán / France, Mexico / 2013 / Experimental/Fiction / 18'12

  This is the story of Pedro, a donkey-zebra who under the influence of alcohol kills his master and takes to the lone road to the beach in the middle of the night. Dawn puts Pedro in front of a wild sea, the donkey feels the sand and watches the waves before the arrival...

  

  

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  Sexy Dream

  Christophe Le Masne / France / 2013 / Fiction / 28'56

  They're all three in love with her. It took one of them years to declare his love; another relies on cheek to win her; the third watches too many porn movies. And there she is doing whatever she pleases.

  

  

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  Lame de fond

  Perrine Michel / France / 2013 / Documentary/Experimental / 57'00

  The sale of a family home. Memories. A craggy landscape. A plot. A delirium. Is this possible? An experience of perception, on the border of fantasy and reality.