09/02/2010

Honours continue to rain down on Jacques Audiard’s A Prophet [+see also:
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The film’s major rival, Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon [+see also:
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Best French Debut Film went to Nassim Amaouche’s Goodbye Gary [+see also:
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Awarded since 2008, the prize for an unusual, French-language co-production, whose "unusual" work the critics are keen to emphasise, was handed to Patrick-Mario Bernard and Pierre Trividic’s The Other One [+see also:
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Meanwhile, François Leroy and Stéphanie Lansaque’s Mei Ling triumphed in the short film category.

Finally, on the television side, Best Drama was presented to Jean-Paul Lilienfield’s Skirt Day and Best Documentary to Philippe Kohly and Raphaëlle Bacqué’s L’Enfer de Matignon (“The Hell of Matignon”). A Courage Prize was specially awarded to Emmanuelle Bercot’s Tirez Sur le Caviste (“Shoot the Wine Merchant”).

(Translated from French)