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

Prize for Best Director

1 500 € offered by the Nouvelle-Aquitaine Regional Council

Prize for Best Screenplay

1 000 € offered by the University of Poitiers

Audience Prize

1 500 € offered by the Poitiers Film Festival

Student Jury’s Prize

1 500 € offered by the University of Poitiers

Collectif 50/50 Prize
1 000€ offered by the Collectif 50/50

Creative Writing Prize
1 000 € offered by the city of Cannes

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

French Critics’ Discovery Prize

Festival pass for the Critics’ Week 2025 (Festival de Cannes) offered by the French Union of Film Critics

So French!

Jury’s Prize

500 € offered by the Poitiers Film Festival
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

International Student Jury’s Prize

500 € offered by the University of Poitiers

Audience Prize

Inscription at Short Film Corner | Rendez-vous Industry 2025 (Cannes Film Festival)

Cross-cutting awards

Maison du Film’s Prize

Inclusion of the winner’s film in L’autoprod, pre-selection for the LABEL film competition, and an association membership offered by “Maison du Film”

L’Extra Court Prize

Acquisition of the film for the “Extra Court” catalogue for its screening before features offered by “L’Agence du court-métrage”.

L’Agence du court métrage” gives all winners from the International Selection 10 FilmFest credits to facilitate registering their films with member festivals.

 

Jurys

International Selection

  • Marc-Benoît Créancier, producer
    After being a dancer at the Paris Opera’s dance school, Marc-Benoît Créancier turned to film when he attended La Fémis in 2006. He founded Easy Tiger in 2011 and has produced approximately 20 shorts and a dozen features, two of which received the César Award for best first film: Divines by Houda Benyamina (2016) and Les Magnétiques by Vincent Maël Cardona (2022).
  • Fatima Kaci, director and screenwriter
    A graduate of La Fémis, Fatima Kaci is a screenwriter and filmmaker. She has written and directed several short films. She was selected for La Cinef at the Festival de Cannes with La Voix des autres. At the Poitiers Film Festival 2023, she won the Audience Prize and the Amnesty International France Prize with this same film and participated in the Jump In workshops with her first feature film project.
  • Fanny Molins, director
    Fanny Molins is a filmmaker who was born on October, 1988. Atlantic Bar, her first documentary feature film, tells the story of a bar threatened with closure, painting the portrait of the boss and her regulars. The film was selected for L’ACID Cannes 2022, won an award at the Champs-Élysées Film Festival, and was nominated for the César 2024 in the category of best documentary.
  • Charlie Belin, director
    Charlie Belin is a filmmaker who graduated from La Poudrière. She’s the name behind several animated films with a sketched style, somewhere between fiction and documentary. Her latest film, Drôles d’oiseaux, sails the pathways of childhood through the eyes of a middle-school girl who’s passionate about ornithology.

So French!

  • Candice Motet-Debert
  • Alexia Sanchez
  • Sacha Teboul

The French Union of Film Critic's Jury

  • Clément Colliaux, movie critic at Libération, Prisme Cinéma, Tsounami and Critikat
  • Cloé Tralci, movie critic at Brefcinéma
  • Raphaëlle Pireyre, movie critic at AOC, Bref, Trois couleurs and Querelle

Student Jury

  • Capucine Baylet – Finance
  • Julia Céspedes Almazan – Erasmus
  • Blanche Mercier – Performing Arts
  • Massimo RossiAssistant director
  • Victor Thibault – Art History
  • Manon Thouart – Marketing

Collectif 50/50's Jury

The jury is made up of young talents from the Collectif 50/50 mentoring program:

  • Tevy Cepa, actress and director et réalisatrice
  • Tahin Demiral, director and artist
  • Léa Diraison, writer-director
  • Samia Kadiri, casting director

City of Cannes' Jury

The jury is made up of film students from the City of Cannes:

  • Clémence Auzi, Campus Georges
  • Méliès Gautier Bartoli, ESRA
  • Noé Després, BTS audiovisuel
  • Théo Jeannelle, Campus Georges Méliès
  • Falvio Mignone, ESRA

Amnesty International France Jury

  • Chantal Berger
  • Brigitte Billon
  • Françoise Gabriel
  • Emma Pegourie
  • Michel Quantin

High School Student Jury

It is made up of students enrolled in the cinema-audiovisual option at :

  • Angoulême — Lycée de l’Image et du Son
  • Brive-la-Gaillarde — Lycée d’Arsonval
  • Dreux — Lycée Rotrou
  • Ivry-sur-Seine — Lycée Romain Rolland
  • Loudun — Lycée Guy Chauvet
  • Rochefort — Lycée Merleau Ponty
  • Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat — Lycée Bernard Palissy
  • Tournan-en-Brie — Lycée Clément Ader

International Student Jury

The international student jury is made up of foreign students enrolled at the Centre de Français Langue Étrangère at the university of Poitiers, where they take French language courses. They are accompanied by their teacher Corinne Delbart.

  •  

    Tomas Felipe Cantillana Ruiz Diaz

  •  Uriel Hakimi
  • Narmin Imamaliyeva
  • Maria Valentina Quinone Perez