Awards & Juries

BRIFF AWARDS 2021

International Competition

Jury : Samuel Theis, Marilyne Canto, Helena Noguerra, Tómas Lemarquis, Olivier Masset-Depasse

° GRAND PRIX °

Limbo
Ben Sharrock
2019 / UK / 103’

2.500€ for the distributor or the person holding the rights for the film’s distribution offered by Circles Group
1.500€ for the film offered by Circles Group
5.000€ offered by La Libre Belgique & 5.000€ offered by De Morgen
for the purchase of media advertising space as part of the promotion of the film

° JURY PRIZE °

Yong An Zhen Gu Shi Ji
Shujun Wei
2021 / China / 123’

5.000€ offered by La Libre Belgique for the purchase of media advertising space as part
of the promotion of the film

° AUDIENCE AWARD °

Olga
Ellie Grappe
2021 / Switerland, Ukraine, France / 85’

1.500€ for the film
5.000€ offered by La Libre Belgique for the purchase of media advertising space as part
of the promotion of the film

Directors' week

Jury : Galatea Bellugi, Julie Lopes Curval, Geert Van Rampelberg, Tatiana Rojo, Laura Wandel, Vincent Bal

° GRAND PRIX °

Le Kiosque
Alexandra Pianelli
2020 / France / 78’

2.500€ for the director
5.000€ offered by La Libre Belgique for the purchase of media advertising space as part
of the promotion of the film

° JURY PRIZE °

Soy Libre
Laure Portier
2021 / France, Belgium / 78’

1.500€ for the director offered by CinéFemme
5.000€ offered by La Libre Belgique for the purchase of media advertising space as part
of the promotion of the film

° SPECIAL MENTION °

A Metamorfose dos Pássaros
Catarina Vasconcelos
2020 / Portugal / 101’

° EUROPEAN YOUNG JURY AWARD °

Jury : Ignace Maekelbergh, Mladen Pechevski, Zofia Mizgalewicz, Pau Vall Capdet

A Metamorfose dos Pássaros
Catarina Vasconcelos
2020 / Portugal / 101’

National Competition

Jury : Arnaud Dumatin, Dorothée Grosjean, Lucie Desquiens

° GRAND PRIX °

Lucie perd son cheval
Claude Schmitz
.
2021 / Belgium, France / 81’

3.000€ offered by BCOH for the distributor, or the person holding the rights for the film’s distribution
2.000€ offered by BCOH for the film
5.000€ offered by La Libre Belgique & 5.000€ offered by De Morgen
for the purchase of media advertising space as part of the promotion of the film

° JURY PRIZE °

Kom hier dat ik u kus
Sabinne Lubbe Bakker
& Niels Van Koevorden
2020 / Belgium, Holland / 100’

2.500 offered by the Cultural Department of the City of Brussels

° AUDIENCE AWARD °

Le cœur noir des forêts
Serge Mirzabekiantz
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2021 / Belgium, France / 104’

1.500€ for the distributor or the person holding the rights for the film’s distribution
1.500€ for the film

° BEST ACTRESSES & ACTORS °

Phèdre ou l'explosion des corps confinés
Méryl Fortunat-Rossi.
2021 / Belgium, France / 67’

2.000€ offered by the Cultural Department of the City of Brussels

° CINEVOX AWARD °

Jury : Colette Sodoyez, Vincent Legros, André Pasquasy

Kom hier dat ik u kus
Sabine Lubbe Bakker & Niels Van Koevorden
2020 / Belgium, Holland / 100’

A release in a UGC cinema in Brussels for a Belgian fiction film for one week

TV BROADCASTING RIGHTS

° RTBF °

Quo Vadis
Jasmila Žbanić
2020 / Bosnia and Herzegovina / 102’

10.000€ in TV broadcasting rights by RTBF

° BeTV °

Olga
Ellie Grappe
2021 / Switzerland, Ukraine, France / 85’

4.000€ in TV broadcasting rights by BeTV

International

Marilyne Canto

Marilyne Canto graduated from the School of the National Theater of Strasbourg (TNS) in 1990 and began her career on stage, under the direction of Jacques Lasalle and Jean Jourd’heuil. Her adventure continued in front of the cameras of Claude Chabrol, Dominique Cabrera, Manuel Poirier, Pierre Salvadori, René Féret, Maïwenn and Robert Guédiguian. The actress also played in several TV movies with William Karel or Alain Tasma. Alongside her acting career, she further expressed her love of cinema as an assistant to Philippe Garrel and subsequently signed several short films as a director: Nouilles, which won the Grand Prix at the Brest festival in 2007, Fais de beaux rêves, which received the César for best short film in 2007 as well as the Grand Prix at the Clermont-Ferrand and Belfort festivals in 2006. From short films to features, there is only one step, which she took with Le Sens de l’humour, selected in Locarno and supported by the Gan Foundation. She also directed Faire la paix, a documentary for Arte. Besides, we have had the opportunity to see her in many first films such as: Après la guerre by Annarita Zambranno or Le Ciel étoilé au-dessus de ma tête by Ilan Klipper. She also participated in the Alex Hugo series, alongside Samuel Le Bihan. This year, we will find her in Ibrahim by Samir Guesmi as well as in Presque, Bernard Campan’s next film.

Tómas Lemarquis

It was in Iceland, his homeland, that Tómas Lemarquis began his film career playing the Noi’s character in the film Nói albínói. Crowned with numerous awards around the world, the film earned Tómas Lemarquis a nomination for Best Actor at the European Film Awards in 2003. A nomination that brought him notoriety the following years. From then on embodying one of the rising stars of European cinema, the actor landed several films and TV films “made in Europe” before landing roles in major international blockbusters, such as Snowpiercer, 3 Days To Kill, X-Men Apocalypse and Blade Runner 2049. Tómas also played one of the main characters in the film Touch Me Not by Adina Pintilie, winner of the 2018 Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival. In 2021, he can be found in the Gone For Good series.

Helena Noguerra

Watch out, talent without borders! Model, presenter, actress, director but also author of novels and plays (including a very very Nul creation scripted by a certain Dominique Farrugia). Helena Noguerra knows how to do everything! Her discography includes today seven solo albums and numerous collaborations. On the cinema side, she has played in more than twenty films, unashamedly interpreting the roles of a sassy libertarian (L’Arnacoeur by Pascal Chaumeil), a housewife (La Vie domestique by Isabelle Czajka), or even of Interpol agent (La Marque des anges by Sylvain White). In 2008, she directed the short film Peep-Show Heros for the X Femmes collection of CANAL + and then the documentary Le Strip burlesque ou la philosophie du corset. We also owe her three novels: L’Ennemi est à l’intérieur, Et je me suis mise à table (both at Denoël’s) and Ciao Amore (Flammarion). We will find her in the theaters in 2022 with La Reine de la piste, a musical piece written around her albums and directed by Pierre Notte.

Olivier Masset-Depasse

Ever since his first short films Chambre froide (2000) and Dans l’ombre (2004), Olivier Masset-Depasse’s work portrays determined female characters ready to do anything to achieve their goals. These two short films have won around sixty awards at festivals around the world. His second feature film Illégal, a social drama against a backdrop of illegal immigration, received the SACD prize at the 42nd Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes and was nominated for the César 2011. In 2014 he made the TV movieSanctuaire for CANAL +, a historical film which collects two FIPA d’or at the Biarritz festival. In 2019, Duelles, a psychological thriller, was shown in a “Special Presentation” at the TIFF and received great acclaim in the United States. Today, Olivier Masset-Depasse is preparing the American remake of Duelles with Jessica Chastain and Anne Hathaway in the title roles. He will then follow with the third part of Largo Winch.

Samuel Theis

Born in 1978, Samuel Theis first studied drama at the National School of Theater Arts and Techniques in Lyon. He then joined the scenario workshop of La Fémis before directing his first feature film, Party Girl, inspired by his mother’s life. On the border between documentary and fiction, members of his family play their own roles. Co-directed with Marie Amachoukeli and Claire Burger, the film opened the “Un Certain Regard” selection at Cannes in 2014 and won the Camera d’Or. Samuel Theis is both an actor and a director. His second feature film, Petite Nature, was produced by Caroline Bonmarchand (Toscan du Plantier Prize for best producer in 2021), and presented in a special screening at the Critics’ Week at the last Cannes Film Festival.

Directors' Week

Galatea Kraghede Bellugi

Born in Paris from an Italian father and a Danish mother, Galatea Bellugi took her first steps at the Théâtre du Soleil in Le Dernier Caravansérail directed by Ariane Mnouchkine. In 2016, she played Mélanie, a 15-year-old girl pregnant with her first love in Guillaume Senez’s Keeper. Her performance for this role rewarded her with the Interpretation Award at the Marrakech International Film Festival. In 2017, she played the role of Anna in L’Apparition, directed by Xavier Giannoli. A real confirmation of her talent as an actress, which earned her a nomination for the César for Most Promising Actress. The same year, the young woman also shot for the first time in Italy, in Gabriele Salvatores’ film Il Raggazo Invisibile 2. The extension of her talent continued through to singing, alongside Mathieu Amalric in the musical Tralala by the Larrieu brothers. This year, the actress played opposite to Matthieu Lucci and our compatriot Emilie Dequenne on the set of La Mort d’Albino Rodrigue, Christine Dory’s new drama.

Geert Van Rampelberg

With the Studio Herman Teirlinck diploma in his pocket, Geert Van Rampelberg created the Olympique Dramatique theater company and made his television debut in 1997. In 2003 his first steps in cinema immerse him into La Mémoire d’un tueur by Erik Van Looy which immediately earned him international recognition. The public saw in him a real Belgian value, sought after in cinema, television as well as in the theater and even in singing. In 2012, he received the Best Actor Award at the Ostend Film Festival for his stunning performance in Time of My Life by Nic Balthazar. The same year, he was also part of the cast of the Oscar-nominated film The Broken Circle Breakdown by Felix van Groeningen. Change of course in 2018: the actor takes the lead role in the new Belgian series De Infiltrant. Beyond our borders, Geert also demonstrated his outstanding talent in La Tierra roja, the Argentinian feature film by Diego Martínez Vignatti and in Caverne, Delphine Girard’s distinguished short film.

Julie Lopes Curval

After studying photography and drama, Julie Lopes Curval became co-writer of Une Affaire qui roule by Eric Véniard and of Rôle de sa vie by François Favrat. Her first feature film, Bord de mer, won the Camera d’Or at the Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes in 2002. The films that followed, Toi et Moi, Mères et Filles and Le Beau Monde also had a lot of success both in France and abroad. They were selected at numerous festivals such as the Montreal World Film Festival, the Toronto International Film Festival, the Chicago International Film Festival and the Festival de Cannes. For Arte, she directed L’Annonce, which received the Best Director Award at the La Rochelle Festival in 2015.

Amou Tati (Tatiana Rojo)

Of Ivorian origin, Amou Tati was born in Le Havre. At a very young age she returned to live in San-Pédro, where she discovered theater and won, at ten years old, the Prize for the best actress of the Mini Variétoscope. Four years later, she was nominated Best National Actress of the Ivory Coast thanks to her interpretation in La Ville Maglodidi by Paul Akoto Yao. At eighteen, she moved to Paris where she landed various small roles. In 2002, she was seen in Daniel Vigne’s Fatou l’espoir and in 2008, she appeared in La Rivale by Edouard Carrion. In 2015, the young actress was nominated Best Actress at the Montreal Film Festival for her role in Bourlem Guerdjou’s Danbé la tête haute. This recognition was later confirmed in Les Rayures du zèbre alongside Benoît Poelvoorde or in Mon Ket, in which she played opposite François Damiens. Her acting talents also spread onto the stage with Amoutati à l’état brut, a first show created in 2009, which was followed by Amoutati, la Dame de fer, a humorous one-woman-show directed by Eric Checco, which was very successful at the Festival d’Avignon. In 2015, she played in Paris at the Théâtre Trévise. Since then, success has followed her everywhere: in France, at the Francophonies en Limousin as well as at the Apollo Theater, but also in the rest of Europe and Africa, notably at the Abidjan Performing Arts Market. Her contribution to the outreach of the Ivory Coast at a national and international level earned her the 2016 Prix d’Excellence des Arts Vivants given by His Excellency Alassane Ouattara. While in full adaptation of her show La Dame de fer, we are able to find her on TV5 in Les Héritières, by Nolwenn Lemesle.

Vincent Bal

After graduating from Sint-Lucasinstituut, Vincent Bal joined the great family of the Seventh Art as a filmmaker and draftsman. He directed many acclaimed short films, such as The Bloody Olive (1996). His first feature film Man Van Staal (1998) won the jury prize at the Berlinale Children’s Film Festival. Three years later, Minoes attracted nearly a million spectators. He then created an animation series (Kika & Bob), and in 2012 adapted David Grossman’s book Het Zigzagkind into a film. In 2014, he directed the musical Brabançonne, which featured actors from both Flanders and Wallonia. Since 2016, Vincent has enjoyed great success on social networks as a “shadowlogist”, drawing from the shadows formed by everyday objects. He has also been a teacher in the cinema department of the KASK in Ghent since 2001.

Laura Wandel

After her film studies at the IAD (Institut des Arts de Diffusion, Belgium), Laura Wandel took her graduation short film, Murs (2007), to festivals worldwide. She directed two other short films, O Négatif (2011) and Les corps étrangers (2014). The latter was selected in the Official Competition of the Festival de Cannes in 2014. Her first feature, Un Monde, was selected at the Festival de Cannes in 2021 in the section ‘Un Certain Regard’ and won the FIPRESCI Award. She is currently working on her second feature.

National

Lucie Desquiens

After earning a bachelor’s degree in Social and Political Sciences at University College London, followed by a master’s degree in Public and Private Management at HEC Paris and Sciences Po, Lucie Desquiens joined Charades in 2019.
Founded in 2017 by Carole Baraton, Yohann Comte and Pierre Mazars, Charades is an international film sales and co-production company.
Lucie is in charge of acquisitions and manages sales for East Asia, Portugal, Scandinavia, Latin America and South Africa.

Arnaud Dumatin

While working in parallel for various festivals and cultural structures, Arnaud Dumatin joined the Festival La Rochelle Cinéma team in 2001. After having held various positions there, he became its co-managing director in early 2018. Created in 1973, the non-competitive festival will celebrate its 50th anniversary in July 2022. It presents each year through different sections (retrospectives, tributes, discoveries ...) more than two hundred films from around the world, recent or illustrious and from all cinematographic genres. Passionate about Seventh Art, Arnaud Dumatin is also an author, composer and performer in the group Institut whose latest album, L’Effet waouh des zones côtières, has just been released.

Dorothée Grosjean

Dorothée Grosjean started her career at Gaumont alongside the director of distribution (who became, following the joint venture with Disney, managing director of Gaumont-Buena Vista International). She then joined the Public Système Cinéma to manage public relations for internationals festivals such as Deauville (American cinema), Cognac (detective film) or even Gérardmer (fantastic film)… Six years later she returned to Gaumont, to work internationally this time, for a short period in marketing then in sales and promotion of films abroad. In 2011 she began her career as an artistic agent, a mission that she is still carrying out at Cinéart.

European Young Jury

Ignace Maekelbergh

Belgium

Mladen Pechevski

Bulgaria

Zofia Mizgalewicz

Poland

Pau Vall Capdet

Spain

Cinévox Jury

Colette Sodoyez

Colette Sodoyez vit à Bruxelles, est comédienne au théâtre, fait des doublages de voix et de l'improvisation.

Vincent Legros

Vincent Legros vit à Spa et est un passionné de cinéma. Il participe à l'organisation du Festival du Film de Spa ainsi qu'au Festival du Film International policier de Liège.