The “Un Certain Regard” prize, the main parallel section of the 75th Cannes Film Festival, centered on
“auteur and discovery cinema”
, went to French film
Les Pires
by Lise Akoka and Romane Gueret on Friday.
The film chosen by the jury chaired by Valeria Golino tells of a wild casting in a city of Boulogne-sur-Mer (Pas-de-Calais).
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Between reality and fiction, the film, which will be released in theaters in France on November 12, required a long work of immersion and the meeting of hundreds of children.
The two co-directors, Lise Akoka and Romane Gueret, both worked in the casting or coaching of children for the cinema, an experience which nourished the film.
They had notably shot a web series for Arte,
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The prize for directing went to Romanian Alexandru Belc for
Metronom.
Two performers share the prize for best performance: Luxembourg's Vicky Krieps for her role as Empress Sissi in
Corsage
and Adam Bessa, who lends her features to Ali, a young Tunisian who lives on contraband gasoline sold on a piece of cake sidewalk, in
Harka.
Best Screenplay went to
Maha Haj's Palestinian film
Mediterranean Fever .
Rodéo
, the first feature film by Frenchwoman Lola Quivoron, about a band of marginal bikers, left with a consolation prize: the
"jury's favourite".