12/07/2022 - US director Daniel Eisenberg wins the international competition, Algeria’s Narimane Mari dominates the French competition and Serb Nikola Spasic scoops the trophy for Best First Film

Presided over by Mati Diop and further bolstered by João Pedro Rodrigues, Ted Fendt, Patrick Holzapfel and Bani Khoshnoudi, the international competition jury of the 33rd Marseille International Film Festival – FIDMarseille has awarded its 2022 Grand Prize to The Unstable Object II by US director Daniel Eisenberg, who was also crowned with the International Georges de Beauregard Prize. A production uniting the likes of France, Germany, Turkey and the USA, the film continues the director’s triangulation of the world of work which he initiated in 2011 by way of The Unstable Object. This time round, his camera travels inside a workshop in Germany where we follow the fabrication of a prosthetic hand in a traditional glove factory in the south of France and in a jeans factory in Istanbul.

In respect of the French competition (whose jury was led by Dounia Sichov and further consisted of Patric Chiha, Manuel Asín, Patric Chiha, Mika Biermann and Jazmín López), victory went to We Had The Day, Bonsoir by Narimane Mari, a Centrale Électrique production through which the Algerian filmmaker pays tribute to her late partner, painter Michel Haas. This movie also nabbed the CNAP (French National Centre of Plastic Arts) Prize, decided upon by a jury including Maureen Fazendeiro, Chema González and Marie Reinert. The National Georges de Beauregard Prize, meanwhile, was awarded to Denis Cointe’s medium-length movie Barail.

For its part, the Best First Film Award (courtesy of a jury including Clément Schneider, Luísa Homem and Roger Koza) was won by Serbian director Nikola Spasic’s Christina [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Nikola Spasic
film profile], a fiction film produced by Rezon and revolving around a transgender sex worker, while a Special Mention was awarded to Dying In Ibiza (A Film in Three Summers) [+see also:
trailer
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The full list of winners is as follows:

International Competition

Grand Prize
The Unstable Object II - Daniel Eisenberg (France/Germany/Turkey/USA)

International Georges de Beauregard Prize
The Unstable Object II - Daniel Eisenberg

International Georges de Beauregard Prize – Special Mention
The Last Two Days - Leonardo Mouramateus (Brazil)


French Competition

Grand Prize
We Had The Day, Bonsoir - Narimane Mari (France)

National Georges de Beauregard Prize
Barail – Denis Cointe (France) (medium-length work)

National Georges de Beauregard Prize – Special Mention
GPS Signal Lost - Pierre Voland (France/Belgium) (medium-length work)

First Film Competition

Best First Film
Christina [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Nikola Spasic
film profile] – Nikola Spasic (Serbia)

Special Mentions
Person – Wang ChuYu (China)
Dying In Ibiza (A Film in Three Summers) [+see also:
trailer
film profile] - Anton Balekdjian, Léo Couture, Mattéo Eustachon (France)

CNAP Competition

CNAP Competition Prize
We Had The Day, Bonsoir - Narimane Mari

Special Mention
A Woman Escapes - Sofia Bohdanowicz, Burak Çevik, Blake Williams (Canada/Turkey)

Flash Competition

Flash Competition Prize
Sappukei - Chun Wang and Hikky Chen (Taiwan) (short film)

Alice Guy Award
Je donne à mon cœur une médaille pour t’avoir oublié – Danielle Arbid (France) (short film)

National Association of Experimental Cinema (GNCR) Prize
Lucie Loses Her Horse [+see also:
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interview: Claude Schmitz
film profile] - Claude Schmitz (France/Belgium)

Renaud Victor Prize
L’Arche – Amira Louadah (Algeria/France) (short film)

Marseille Best New Hope Prize
Dying In Ibiza (A Film in Three Summers) - Anton Balekdjian, Léo Couture, Mattéo Eustachon

European High School Students’ Prize
Dying In Ibiza (A Film in Three Summers) - Anton Balekdjian, Léo Couture, Mattéo Eustachon

Air France Audience Award
Dying In Ibiza (A Film in Three Summers) - Anton Balekdjian, Léo Couture, Mattéo Eustachon

FIDLab (Co-Production Platform)

Air France Award
The Christmas Card - Lucy Kerr (USA)

Casa de Velásquez/ECAM Award
Neverland - Isabel Pagliai (France)


Municipality Film Award
Following The Sound - Kyoshi Sugita (Japan)

Culori Prize
Fleur de bambou - Kiyé Simon Luang (Laos/France)


Camargo Foundation Prize
Se van sus naves - Óscar Vincentelli (Venezuela/Spain)

Kodak – Silverway Prize
All the Renaults in the World - Declan Clarke (Ireland)

Mactari Prize
Echo - Joshua Bonnetta (Canada)

Micro Climat Studios Prize
MMXX [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Cristi Puiu
film profile] - Cristi Puiu (Romania)

Providenza Prize
The Night Came About - Mira Adoumier (Lebanon/Holland)

Sublimages Prize
The Seasons - Maureen Fazendeiro (Portugal/France)

Pocket Video Award
I Look Like My Mother - Amina Maher (Iran
/Germany)

Docs Alliance Award
The Seasons - Maureen Fazendeiro

Nebulae/Doclisboa Award
Fleur de bambou - Kiyé Simon Luang

(Translated from French)