Yesterday evening the winners of the Sopadin Award for best screenwriter were revealed at the 31^st edition. The Grand Prix was awarded to Manele Labidi Labbé for his screenplay Arab Blues [+leggi anche:
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The jury, chaired by Julie Gayet, awarded the special prize to Madeleine Collins by Antoine Barraud (The Sinkholes [+leggi anche:
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The 20^th Junior Award for Best Screenplay went to Seul à la noce (lit. Alone at the Wedding) by Thomas Keumurian. A young couple is getting married. Picture some friends from all over the world, an old building in the countryside, a bourgeois family on good form, a castle and fireworks. Add Henri: a dumb guy who is incapable of holding a conversation and a drink at the same time. During the occasion Henri will fall in love with the bride's sister, stir up the rivalry of a belligerent son-in-law, find himself singing in the Christian choir, and reveal, in spite of himself, the melancholy hiding behind the guests’ smiling faces.

It's also worth noting that the jury awarded a special jury prize to Zeno Graton for Sous la glace (lit. Under the Ice) in the junior section, whose plot unfolds in a juvenile detention centre, isolated in the Ardennes. Joseph, 17, struggles between his emotional dependence on a manipulative father, his passionate love for William, a rebellious adolescent in the centre, the preparation of his social reintegration project, and his imminent release, which frightens him most of all.

For the record, some of the winners of recent years include Blessed [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Annarita Zambrano
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