And the winners are...

After 10 uplifting days of magical movies that shook the city’s cinemas to the core, the juries have made their choice. The 17th edition of the Festival awards the following prizes:

FEATURE FILMS

THE GOLDEN OCTOPUS

U Are the Universe (Ukraine) by Pavlo Ostrikov

SPECIAL JURY MENTION

She Loved Blossoms More (Greece) by Yannis Veslemes

Jury: Nicolas Boukhrief, film director and screenwriter; Manu Dacosse, director of photography; Katharina Kubrick, jewellery designer and art teacher. 

AUDIENCE AWARD

Dead Talents Society (Gui Cai Zhi Dao, Taïwan) by John Hsu

SILVER MÉLIÈS

U Are the Universe (Ukraine) by Pavlo Ostrikov

Jury: Yannick Dahan, film director and film journalist; Arnaud Dumatin, general manager of the Festival La Rochelle Cinéma and film lecturer; Caroline Vié, novelist and journalist. 

CROSSOVERS GRAND PRIX

Maldoror (Belgium, France) by Fabrice du Welz

SPECIAL JURY MENTION

Steppenwolf (Kazakhstan) by Adilkhan Yerzhanov

Jury: Céline Defremery, head of the French heritage-film catalogue at Studio Canal; Khavn De La Cruz, director and film lecturer; Jérôme Rougier, co-director of development at N9ne Studio. 

THE GOLDEN STORK

Memoir of a Snail (Australia) by Adam Elliot

Jury: Hugues Barbier, international film producer and distributor; Nathalie Bittinger, university film lecturer; Pablo Pico, composer for animated films. 

SHORT FILMS

GOLDEN OCTOPUS

Fragments of Us (Germany, Fragmente von uns)

by Ido Gotlib

MADE IN FRANCE

The Cost of Flesh (Au Prix de la chair)

by Tomas Palombi

GRAND EST STUDENT JURY PRIZE

The Cost of Flesh (France, Au Prix de la chair)

by Tomas Palombi

SILVER MÉLIÈS

Impossible Maladies (Italy)

by Alice and Stefano Tambellini

ANIMATED SHORTS

Stabat Mater (France)

by Hadrien Maton, Quentin Wittevrongel, Arnaud Mege

AUDIENCE AWARD

A Fermenting Woman (Canada)

by Priscilla Galvez

Jury: Franck Dubois, co-founder of Accurate Dream Studio and producer; Sophie Herscher-Bousseau, head of the film department at the Grand Est regional council; Grégory Rodriguez, director of photography and cinematographer.