17/10/2005

Already winner at the Cannes festival in the section Un Certain Regard, La mort de Monsieur Lazarescu [+see also:
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Still on acting, the jury also honoured Fiona Gordon, protagonist of the Belgian film Iceberg [+see also:
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Completing the prize list: the Public Prize was picked up by Sauf le respect que je vous dois by Fabienne Godet. Interpreted by Olivier Gourmet, Dominique Blanc, Marion Cotillard and Julie Depardieu, the film had a budget of 1,99 million euros including 420 000 euros of Advance On Receipts from the National Film Centre (CNC). Produced by Le Bureau Films, it will be distributed in France from the 11th January 2006 by Haut et Court. Finally, Portugal was also honoured thanks to Margarida Cardoso which won the Emergence Price for Le rivage des murmures, a production from Filmes do Tejo, co-produced by Frenchman Films d'Après-midi with aid from the Germans at ZDF ARTE and sold internationally by Insomnia World Sales.

(Translated from French)