Prizes
International Selection
Jury’s Grand Prize
3 000 € offered by Grand Poitiers
Jury’s Special Prize
1 500 € offered by the Nouvelle-Aquitaine Regional Council
Best Director Prize
1 500 € offered by the Nouvelle-Aquitaine Regional Council
Best Screenplay Prize
1 000 € offered by the University of Poitiers
Student Jury’s Prize
1 500 € offered by the University of Poitiers
Audience Prize
1 500 € offered by the Poitiers Film Festival
French Critics’ Discovery Prize
Inscription at Short Film Corner | Rendez-vous Industry 2024 (Cannes Film Festival)
Amnesty International France Prize
400 € offered by Amnesty International France
Manifest Prize
Integration of the film in the sales catalogue for 3 years and distribution in festivals for 1 year offered by Manifest
The “Agence du court métrage” (Short Film Agency) gives all winners from the International Selection 10 FilmFest credits to facilitate registering their films with member festivals.
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Jury’s Prize
10 FilmFest credits, 1-year subscription to Brefcinema offered by L’Agence du court métrage.
High-school students’ Prize
500 € offered by the Nouvelle-Aquitaine Regional Council
Audience Prize
Free registration to Short Film Corner 2024
International Student Jury Prize
Creation of the English subtitles for the director laureate offered by VOSTAO
Cross-cutting awards
L’Extra Court Prize
Acquisition of the film for the “Extra Court” catalogue for its projection before screenings offered by the Agency.
Jurys
International Selection
- Elie Grappe, director
Elie Grappe studied at the conservatory in Lyon and then at the ECAL, where he created the short films Répétition and Suspendu. In 2021, his first feature Olga won the SACD Prize at “La Semaine de la Critique” in Cannes. This film was Switzerland’s submission to the Oscars in 2022 and received the Swiss Film Award. - Matthias Joulaud, director
After studying photography and drawing at the Beaux Arts de Paris, Matthias Joulaud went on to pursue film by entering the filmmaking track of the ECAL/HEAD master’s program. He regularly navigate between the practice of documentary, fiction, and clips. In 2019, he founded the La Maison Momo association in partnership with his co-filmmaker and friend Lucien Roux. In 2022, they won the French Critics’ Discovery Prize at the Poitiers Film Festival for their film Ramboy.
- Katia Khazak, producer
Katia Khazak studied film at the Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris III. In 2014, she joined the production company Aurora Films and produced in particular, with Charlotte Vincent, the films Retour à Séoul by Davy Chou (Un Certain Regard – Cannes 2022), Dirty Difficult Dangerous by Wissam Charaf [p. 23] (Giornate Degli Autori – Venice International Film Festival 2022), and La Bête dans la jungle by Patrick Chiha (Panorama – Berlin 2023). - Khadija Kouyaté, actress, writer and director
Actress, author and stage director, Khadija Kouyaté joins the CNSAD after studying at Paris 3 University. She creates the Marée rouge Company and in 2021 stages her first play De ultĭo ou les yeux de Cedda. She makes her screen acting debut in the film Sages-femmes by Léa Fehner (2023)
- Catherine Paillé, scriptwriter
Catherine Paillé studied at the Fémis. She has co-written films such as Gente de bien by Franco Lolli, Les Ogres by Léa Fehner, À l’abordage by Guillaume Brac, Shéhérazade by Jean-Bernard Marlin, and Sauvages, the next film by Claude Barras
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- Amandine Alamichele
- Clément Bigot
- Marie Sizorn
The French Union of Film Critics Jury
- Ludovic Béot, movie critic at Inrockuptibles
- Lisa Durand, movie critic at Sorociné
- Raphaëlle Pireyre, movie critique at AOC, Bref, Trois couleurs
Student Jury
- Mathilde Bardon – Histoire de l’Art et Archéologie
- Colin Blondel – Sciences de la vie
- Mathilde Caillouet – Anthropologie parcours ethnographie et écritures audiovisuelles
- Cassandre Chalot – Gestion
- Zian Delage – Economie gestion
- Nina Desdoits – Arts du spectacle
- Noah Martinetti – Histoire
Amnesty International France Jury
- Josette Barbotin
- Zoé Hurter
- Myriam Meunier
- Michel Quantin
- Maxence Sanchez
International Student Jury
- Rios Beatrice – United States
- Claros Medina Alfredo Aldo – Peru
- Wu Qian – China
- Chaggar Raminder – India
- Jiang Yiwen – China