In the Electric Mist crowned at Beaune
French director Bertrand Tavernier scooped top honours at the 1st Beaune International Thriller Film Festival (see news), which closed on Sunday.
The competition jury – presided by Claude Chabrol and composed of actors Elsa Zylberstein, François Berléand, Amira Casar and Anne Consigny, novelist François Guérif and directors Noémie Lvovsky and Benoît Cohen – awarded the Grand Prize to In the Electric Mist [+see also:
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The Jury Prize went to Agustin Diaz Yanes’s Spanish feature Just Walking [+see also:
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Denmark also triumphed in the New Blood section, as the jury – headed by Etienne Chatiliez and including Sami Bouajila, Rachida Brakni, Samuel Le Bihan and Nicolas Saada – awarded Best Film to Nicolas Winding Refn’s UK production Bronson [+see also:
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film profile]. The only non-European winner was Japanese director Hiroshi Nishitani’s Suspect X, which picked up the Critics’ Prize.
(Translated from French)
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