31/08/2015 - The Valois d'Or for Best Film and that for Best Actress went to a feature that rubbed shoulders with A Decent Man and All Yours on the awards list

Much Loved by Nabil Ayouch

Having been revealed in the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight, Much Loved [+see also:
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A Decent Man [+see also:
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Interestingly, the Valois for Best Screenplay went to All Yours [+see also:
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film profile] by Belgian director David Lambert (watch the interview with the director), which also took home the award handed out by the student jury, and which will be released in France on 7 October by Outplay. Lastly, the 2015 awards list for the eighth Angoulême Francophone Film Festival is rounded off by the short film Chaud lapin, while this year’s Valois for Best French-language Producer (given out by an association of distributors) singled out Christophe Rossignon and Philippe Boëffard, for Nord Ouest Films.

(Translated from French)