Prizes & Jurys

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 Direction

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
At the end of each competition screening, fill in your ballot to vote for the Audience Prize.

Student Jury’s Prize

1 500 € offered by the University of Poitiers

Creative Writing Prize

1 500 € offered by the city of Cannes

Collectif 50/50 Prize

1 000€ offered by the Collectif 50/50

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

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”

French Critics’ Discovery Prize

Festival pass for the Critics’ Week 2026 (Festival de Cannes) offered by the French Union of Film Critics

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 2026 (Cannes Film Festival)

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.

3 screenwriting residencies are offered by Jump In workshop partners:

• Ville de Poitiers, Résidence Villa Bloch
• ALCA, Résidence Internationale Chalet Mauriac
• Ville de Cannes, Résidence Médiathèque Noailles

Marie Amachoukeli trained at La Fémis. She wrote and directed, with Claire Burger, the film Forbach (Jury’s Special Prize at the Poitiers Film Festival 2008 and Grand Prize at the Clermont-Ferrand Festival), then C’est gratuit pour les filles (César Award for Best Short Film), and finally Demolition Party. In 2014, they transitioned to feature films with Party Girl (Caméra d’Or – Festival de Cannes). She continued solo with the film Àma Gloria [p.29], which opened the Cannes Critics’ Week in 2023.

Lucrèce Andreae graduated from Gobelins and La Poudrière, where she directed Trois petits points and Les Mots de la carpe, both selected for the Poitiers Film Festival. After working on other projects, she directed Pépé le morse, a short film selected for numerous festivals including Cannes and Annecy, and which won the César Award for Best Animated Short Film in 2018. She also released a graphic novel in 2020 (Flipette & Vénère, published by Delcourt) and is currently working with Miyu Productions on an animated feature film entitled Bergeronnette.

Jamal Belmahi, screenwriter
Jamal Belmahi writes for television and cinema (Six pieds sur Terre by Karim Bensalah, Les Chevaux de Dieu by Nabil Ayouch, Adieu l’Afrique by Pierre-Alain Meier). He is a screenplay consultant for feature films and series in the Arab world and in France. He contributes to writing residencies and film schools. He is one of the founding members of the SCA, the scriptwriters’ guild.

Quentin Dolmaire, actor
Quentin Dolmaire began acting in theatre at the age of 10. In 2015, he landed the lead role in Arnaud Desplechin’s film Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse (My Golden Days), for which he was nominated for a César Award. He went on to appear in films by Michel Hazanavicius, Nadav Lapid, Sébastien Betbeder and others. On the small screen, he stood out in the series OVNI(S), directed by Antony Cordier. His performance as Stéphane in Fifi earned him the Best Actor Award at the Premiers Plans d’Angers Film Festival.

Mathilde Delaunay began her career in 2011 at Ecce Films after studying literature and cinema. She has been producing shorts, documentaries, and features since 2020 through her company Barberousse Films (Le Feu au lac – Cannes 2022, Castells – Locarno 2022, Barking in the Dark, Wonderwall – Cannes 2025, Grand Prix Côté Court) and is currently accompanying Pierre Menahem and Róisín Burns on their debut feature films.

Noémie Hay
Noémie Hay, alias Limistic, is a freelance illustrator with a colourful universe and an artist from Poitiers with a boundless imagination.

Fuad Hindieh
Fuad Hindieh is a Palestinian filmmaker in residence at Villa Bloch, hosted by the City of Poitiers in partnership with the Cité internationale des arts.

Alexia Sanchez
Alexia Sanchez is a film reception assistant at L’Agence.

Esther Brejon
Esther Brejon is a journalist and film critic. She produces features for the programme Forever Cinéma on Ciné+ and writes regularly for Rockyrama and Sorociné. She is a member of the selection committee for short films at Critics’ Week.

Axel Cadieux
Axel Cadieux is editor-in-chief of Sofilm magazine and author of a dozen books on Michael Mann, Paul Verhoeven, Eyes Wide Shut, Twin Peaks and genre cinema in France.

Camille Griner
Camille Griner contributes to Sofilm, Zone Critique and Cult.news. She also works as a screenwriter, director and casting director. She is currently writing her first essay on cinema and preparing to shoot her new short film.

Emma Alabeurthe — Management
Lya Derouineau-Roy — Philosophy, Law
Amine Dibaoui-Khobeizi — History
Cassandre Guérin — Psychology
Emeric Lhériteau — Literature and Image Culture
Geoffroy Querrec — Computer Science
Alyssa Sarlande — Performing Arts

The jury is composed of young talents from the Collectif 50/50 mentoring programme:            Raphaëlle Pireyre, film critic
Clarisse Guichard, film editor
Adamou Saïtek, director, screenwriter and actor
Alya Toth, film score composer

The jury is composed of film students from the City of Cannes:
Lucas Boulay — BTS Audiovisual, Lycée Carnot
Apolline Gromier — Diploma in Screenwriting and Narration, Campus Georges Méliès
Marie Guis — ESRA
Louis Husson — ESRA
Xavier Martinet — Diploma in Screenwriting and Narration, Campus Georges Méliès

Amnesty International France’s Jury:
Josette Barbotin
Myriam Ben Younès-Meunier
Nicolas Cavin
Emma Pegourié
Ambre Priou

It is made up of students enrolled in the cinema and audiovisual programme at the following secondary schools:
• Angoulême — Lycée de l’Image et du Son
• Brive-la-Gaillarde — Lycée d’Arsonval
• Dreux — Lycée Rotrou
• Ivry-sur-Seine — Lycée Romain Rolland
• Lavaur — Lycée Las Cases• Loudun — Lycée Guy Chauvet
• Rochefort — Lycée Merleau Ponty
• Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat — Lycée Bernard Palissy
• Tournan-en-Brie — Lycée Clément Ader

The international student jury is composed of foreign students enrolled at the Centre de Français Langue Étrangère (Centre for French as a Foreign Language) at the University of Poitiers, where they are taking French language courses. They are accompanied by their teacher, Corinne Delbart.
• Denitza Alexova Haralampieva — Bulgaria
• Diana Argudo Larrea — Ecuador
• Simon Bnoud — Egypt
• Kirill Shelopov — Ukraine
• Mariia Shelopova — Ukraine

Amnesty International France
Film has always contributed and played a role in illustrating and defending human rights. Through its award, the Amnesty International group in Poitiers aims to recognize a young filmmaker whose work invites us to open our eyes to the state of human, economic, social, cultural, and ecological rights throughout the world.

Collectif 50/50
Collectif 50/50 fights for equality and inclusion in television and film. The association develops actions (inclusive directory, 50/50 bible, mentoring program, etc.), develops studies with data, especially regarding the place of women in the industry, and proposes incentivizing measures to public authorities and the different actors in film to accelerate change.

L’Agence du court métrage
Since 1983, “L’Agence du court métrage” has been a central actor in the distribution of short films. A place for scouting and discovering new talents and for laying the groundwork for new distribution markets, the Agency is dedicated to working alongside directors, production companies, and distributors.

Maison du Film
“Maison du Film” is an association open to all that aims to foster the initial professionalization of French film talents. Through its initiatives (Trio residency, Screenplay Experience…), its training programs, and its spotlight operations (the LABELS, L’autoprod’…), “Maison du Film” networks and accompanies individuals across all professional categories throughout the year.

Manifest
Manifest currently operates as a distributor (sales and festivals) with a catalogue of over 500 films, representing more than 70 production companies and manages between 60 and 70 films each year. In 2024, Manifest won the César Award for Best Fiction Short Film, the Palme d’Or at the Festival de Cannes, the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film, and the Distributor Award presented by Unifrance.

Short Film Corner
The SFC | Rendez-vous Industry, a Festival de Cannes initiative, incites reflection on cinema and short films and galvanizes interactions between professionals. The 4-day program is built around several key moments: presentation of the projects in development and production, the New Producers Room, master classes, Industry Panels, Directors’ Talks, Workshops, and professional meetings…

Syndicat Français de la Critique de Cinéma
The French Union of Film Critics is composed of 380 members, writers, and journalists, all of whom are film critics. It aims to share its expertise, defend and legitimate this profession via numerous events intended for different and varied audiences, and cultivate the spirit of film critique.

Ville de Cannes
From May 4 to 6, 2026, the second edition of the International Festival of Film School Productions, organized by the city of Cannes, will take place. The event will present 4 programs of shorts, scouted from the Poitiers Film Festival. The city of Cannes is tasking 5 film students to carry out this selection process and award the Creative Writing Prize. It is also accompanying the Jump In initiative by offering a residency at the Noailles Library to a young talent from the workshops.