TitaneIN COMPETITIONPalme d’Or: Titane (Julia Ducournau) (Read our review)Grand Prix ex aequo: A Hero (Asgar Farhadi)Grand Prix ex aequo: Compartment No. 6 (Juho Kuosmanen)Jury Prize ex aequo: Ahed's Knee (Nadav Lapid) (Read our review)Jury Prize ex aequo: Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul) (Read our review)Best Director: Leos Carax (Annette)Best Actor: Caleb Landry-Jones (Nitram)Best Actress: Renate Reinsve (The Worst Person in the World)Best Screenplay: Ryûsuke Hamaguchi and Takamasa Oe (Drive My Car) (Read our review)Unclenching the FistsUN Certain REGARDGrand Prize: Unclenching the Fists (Kira Kovalenko) (Read our review)Ensemble Prize: Bonne Mere (Hafsia Herzi)Jury Prize: Great Freedom (Sebastian Meise)Courage: La Civil (Teodora Ana Mihai)Originality: Lamb (Valdimar Jóhannsson)Jury Special Mention: Prayers for the Stolen (Tatiana Huezo)Directors' FORTNIGHTEuropa Cinemas Cannes Label for Best European Film: A Chiara (Jonas Carpignano)Sacd Prize: Magnetic Beats (Vincent Maël Cardona)A ChiaraCAMERA D'ORMurina (Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic...
- 7/17/2021
- MUBI
The final full day of screenings at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival ended with a statistic, which was delivered by Cannes General Delegate Thierry Fremaux on the stage of the Salle Debussy just before midnight on Friday:
Over the first 11 days of the festival and the thousands of Covid-19 tests administered on the premises each day, 70 people tested positive for the virus. For Fremaux and the festival, the stat – slightly more than the three-positive-tests-per-day estimate made earlier – was still one to celebrate, suggesting that the scaled-down Cannes managed to navigate a difficult time without turning into a superspreader event.
Of course, Fremaux’s announcement preceded the screening of Gaspar Noe’s “Vortex,” a movie about aging, illness and death, which perhaps made it a tricky moment to be celebrating all the negative tests.
The prize parade
According to the awards that have been handed out in Cannes, the festival’s top...
Over the first 11 days of the festival and the thousands of Covid-19 tests administered on the premises each day, 70 people tested positive for the virus. For Fremaux and the festival, the stat – slightly more than the three-positive-tests-per-day estimate made earlier – was still one to celebrate, suggesting that the scaled-down Cannes managed to navigate a difficult time without turning into a superspreader event.
Of course, Fremaux’s announcement preceded the screening of Gaspar Noe’s “Vortex,” a movie about aging, illness and death, which perhaps made it a tricky moment to be celebrating all the negative tests.
The prize parade
According to the awards that have been handed out in Cannes, the festival’s top...
- 7/17/2021
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Egyptian comedy-drama Feathers took top prize in Critics Week Photo: Courtesy of Cannes Critics Week In the run-up to this weekend at the Cannes Film Festival when the Official Competition prizes will be awarded by Spike Lee and his jury, the Critics’ Week - celebrating its 60th anniversary - has announced the winners of the strand to devoted to first and second films.
The Nespresso Grand Prize has gone to Feathers, a comedy-drama by Omar El Zohairy set in contemporary Egypt. The picaresque tale follows a woman with three children whose husband is turned into a chicken by a magician in a trick that goes awry.
Omar El Zohairy Photo: Courtesy of Cannes Film Festival The Rising Star award promoted by the Louis Roederer Foundation was bestowed on Sandra Melissa Torres for her performance in Simón Mesa Soto's Amparo as a working class mother seeking to save her son from military conscription in Columbia.
The Nespresso Grand Prize has gone to Feathers, a comedy-drama by Omar El Zohairy set in contemporary Egypt. The picaresque tale follows a woman with three children whose husband is turned into a chicken by a magician in a trick that goes awry.
Omar El Zohairy Photo: Courtesy of Cannes Film Festival The Rising Star award promoted by the Louis Roederer Foundation was bestowed on Sandra Melissa Torres for her performance in Simón Mesa Soto's Amparo as a working class mother seeking to save her son from military conscription in Columbia.
- 7/15/2021
- by Richard Mowe
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Prizes are beginning to roll in here at the Cannes Film Festival ahead of the main closing ceremony on Saturday night. Parallel section Critics’ Week, celebrating its 60th edition, is up first with Egyptian filmmaker Omar El Zohairi’s Feathers awarded the Nespresso Grand Prize. The surrealist story sees a magic trick gone awry at a children’s birthday party with the authoritative father of the family turned into a chicken. Critics’ Week is devoted to first and second features, and Feathers, as a debut feature, is also eligible for the Camera d’Or (which will be announced on Saturday during the main awards ceremony).
Former Palme d’Or winner Cristian Mungui chaired the Critics’ Week jury for its 60th anniversary this year. The panel also awarded the Louis Roederer Foundation Rising Star Award to Sandra Melissa Torres in Amparo by Simón Mesa Soto. She plays a single mother struggling...
Former Palme d’Or winner Cristian Mungui chaired the Critics’ Week jury for its 60th anniversary this year. The panel also awarded the Louis Roederer Foundation Rising Star Award to Sandra Melissa Torres in Amparo by Simón Mesa Soto. She plays a single mother struggling...
- 7/14/2021
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
Omar El Zohairy’s comedy-drama “Feathers” has won the Nespresso Grand Prize at Critics’ Week, the Cannes Film Festival’s strand dedicated to first and second films.
Set in contemporary Egypt, “Feathers” follows the journey of a woman with three children whose idealist husband is turned into a chicken by a magician in a magic-trick gone awry. El Zohairy used over 30 real chickens in the production with the assistance of an animal trainer. It was produced by Still Moving (France), and co-produced by Film Clinic (Egypt), Lagoonie Film Production (Egypt), Kepler Film (The Netherlands) and Heretic (Greece).
Meanwhile, the Louis Roederer Foundation Rising Star Award went to Sandra Melissa Torres for her performance in Simón Mesa Soto’s “Amparo,” about a working-class mother desperately attempting to save her son from military conscription in Colombia.
The Grand Prize and Rising Star awards were given by the jury which was presided over...
Set in contemporary Egypt, “Feathers” follows the journey of a woman with three children whose idealist husband is turned into a chicken by a magician in a magic-trick gone awry. El Zohairy used over 30 real chickens in the production with the assistance of an animal trainer. It was produced by Still Moving (France), and co-produced by Film Clinic (Egypt), Lagoonie Film Production (Egypt), Kepler Film (The Netherlands) and Heretic (Greece).
Meanwhile, the Louis Roederer Foundation Rising Star Award went to Sandra Melissa Torres for her performance in Simón Mesa Soto’s “Amparo,” about a working-class mother desperately attempting to save her son from military conscription in Colombia.
The Grand Prize and Rising Star awards were given by the jury which was presided over...
- 7/14/2021
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
The 60th edition marks film critic Charles Tesson’s last year at the helm.
Egyptian director Omar El Zohairy’s surreal tragi-comedy Feathers has scooped the €15,000 grand prize at the 60th edition of Cannes’ Critics’ Week.
It is the debut feature of El Zohairy who cut his teeth working as an assistant director to Youssef Chahine and Yousry Nasrallah.
The story revolves around a family liberated from the control of a tyrannical patriarch after he is turned into a chicken during a magic show. Juliette Lepoutre and Pierre Menahem at France’s Still Moving lead produced in co-production with Cairo-based Film Clinic,...
Egyptian director Omar El Zohairy’s surreal tragi-comedy Feathers has scooped the €15,000 grand prize at the 60th edition of Cannes’ Critics’ Week.
It is the debut feature of El Zohairy who cut his teeth working as an assistant director to Youssef Chahine and Yousry Nasrallah.
The story revolves around a family liberated from the control of a tyrannical patriarch after he is turned into a chicken during a magic show. Juliette Lepoutre and Pierre Menahem at France’s Still Moving lead produced in co-production with Cairo-based Film Clinic,...
- 7/14/2021
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Simón Mesa Soto’s “Amparo,” which world premiered Monday in Cannes’ Critics’ Week, is both the portrait of its complex protagonist of the same name and a frightening thriller that over two days follows a desperate mother trying to save her son from forced military service. Mesa Soto, winner of the Palme d’Or for short film with “Leidi” in 2014, spoke to Variety about his feature.
Set in Colombia in the late 1990s, an era of turmoil for the country whose consequences are deeply entrenched in today’s social unrest, Mesa Soto sharply observes a corrupt and patriarchal system through the experience of one of so many mother’s — including the director’s own — who powerlessly see how their children are drafted for a seemingly never ending war, a war that as one of the soldiers acknowledges “is fought by the poor.”
Lensed by Juan Sarmiento G., the clean cut...
Set in Colombia in the late 1990s, an era of turmoil for the country whose consequences are deeply entrenched in today’s social unrest, Mesa Soto sharply observes a corrupt and patriarchal system through the experience of one of so many mother’s — including the director’s own — who powerlessly see how their children are drafted for a seemingly never ending war, a war that as one of the soldiers acknowledges “is fought by the poor.”
Lensed by Juan Sarmiento G., the clean cut...
- 7/12/2021
- by Emiliano Granada
- Variety Film + TV
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