CANNES 7th ART AWARDS WINNERS
2022
FEATURE FILMS
International Award – Grand Prize:
«Dreams live in trees» by Marco Della Fonte / United Kingdom
International Award – Best Director:
Marco Della Fonte «Dreams live in trees» / United Kingdom
International Award – Best First Time Director:
Thibault Duler Entrelacs» / France - Canada
International Award – Best Actress in a Lead role:
Natalia Polovinka in «Mother of apostles» by Zaza Buadze / Ukraine
National French Award – Grand Prize:
«Près de moi» by Alex Guery / France
Silk Road Award – Grand Prize:
Mom, I’m alive by Aziz Zairov and Mukhamed Mamyrbekov / Kazakhstan
SHORT FILMS
International Award – Grand Prize:
«365 days later» by Riku Suokas / Finland
International Award – Best Composer:
Noise In Your Eye «Censure» directed by Richard Bazley / United Kingdom
National French Award -Young Audience Prize:
«52 metres later » by Frederic Rabaud and Clotilde Gourdon / New Caledonia
Audience Prize:
«Fight for Ukraine» by Andrii Zaiets / Ukraine
Silk Road Award - Grand Prize:
«Lonely Season» by Hamid Reza Mahmoudi Mehrizi/ Iran
ANIMATION
International Award – Grand Prize:
«Miracle» by Shaofu Zhang / United States - China
Silk Road Award – Grand Prize: «The sprayer» by Farnoosh Abeo / Iran
DOCUMENTAIRE
International Award – Grand Prize Full Length Documentary:
« I was not born for war » by Vladyslav Robski / Ukraine
International Award – Grand Prize Short Documentary:
«Being me at the current America» by Dmae Roberts / United States
MUSIC VIDEO
International Award – Grand Prize:
«The Open» by Kit Pilosof / Canada
Audience Prize:
«Far Away man» by William (Wil) Bryant Allen / Australia
Silk Road Award – Grand Prize:
«Run girl» by Aaron Dormer / Germany
EXPERIMENTAL
International Award – Best Composer:
Sebastian Kauderer «Timeless Love» directed by Breton Tyner-Bryan / United States
National French Award – Grand Prize:
«Dans l’ombre» (In the shadow) by Fabrice Mathieu / France
directed by Joseba Elorza / Spain
Grand Prize Experimental: "Eternal" directed by Nicolai Sagasser / Germany
Silk Road Production Association Special Prize: "They call me Dax" directed by Patrick Alcedo / Canada
SILK ROAD PRODUCTION ASSOCIATION AWARDS
Best Director-Feature Film
Emmanuel Saez
“ROADS OF FEAR” / France
Best Cinematography-
Feature Film
Dimitri Borget, Alexandre Laurier
“ROADS OF FEAR” / France
Directed by Emmanuel Saez
Grand Prize-Documentary
«10 Rounds» / France
Directed by Jean-Christophe Gonon
Best Cinematography-Experimental Film
Marie-Pier Diamond
“Ancestral Land” directed by
Gabriel Bissonnette / Canada
CIIFF WINNERS
2021
INTERNATIONAL AWARDS
Best Director Short Film: Marcel Andre / "Bread and circuses" / USA
Best Feature Cinematography: "Broken Souls" directed by Juan Pablo Arroyo Abraham / Director of photography Anna Soler Ceprià / Mexico
Best Documentary Cinematography: "Ocean Souls" directed by Philip Hamilton / Director of photography Scott Wilson / United Kingdom
Best Composer Animated Film: Flavio Gargano / "Mila"/ USA
Best Actor in a Lead role: Hussein Eskandri / "Nargesi"directed by Payam Eskandari / Iran
Best Actress in a Secondary role: Shirin Aghakashi / "Nargesi" directed by Payam Eskandari / Iran
Grand Prize Feature Film: "Nargesi" directed by Payam Eskandari / Iran
Grand Prize Short Film: "The Autumn girl" directed by Kyle Misak / USA
Grand Prize Animation: "Mila" directed by Cinzia Angelini / USA
Grand Prize Documentary: "Ocean Souls" directed by Philip Hamilton / United Kingdom
Grand Prize Music Video: "Highland Home" directed by Dan Schaefer / USA
Audience Award Animated Film (ex aequo):
"Tomorrow" directed by Mohammad Shihab Uddin / Bangladesh
and "The Satchel" directed by Nissi Ogulu / Nigeria
Audience Award Documentary: "The Cathedral bells" directed by Kylie Tan / Singapore
Audience Award Music Video: "Boy scientist" directed by Susan Lim, Samudra Kajal Saika / USA
NATIONAL FRENCH AWARDS
Best Actress in a Lead role Feature Film: Jeanne Faucher in "La fin d’Aaron" directed by Florian Bardet
Grand Prize Short Film: "Champion" directed by Sylvain Begert
Grand Prize Documentary: "Armenia – Time for Artists" directed by Anahit Dasseux Ter Mesropian
and David Vital Durand
Grand Prize Music Video: "My bed of nails" directed by Michael Zaluski
SILK ROAD AWARDS (Silk Road's Countries):
Grand Prize Feature Film: "Nargesi" directed by Payam Eskandari / Iran
Grand Prize Short Film: "Solitude" directed by Fabio Grossi / Italy
Grand Prize Documentary: "White angels of Camargue – Europe last cowboys" directed by Dennis Schmelz / Germany
Grand Prize Music Video: "Searise" directed by Joseba Elorza / Spain
Grand Prize Experimental: "Eternal" directed by Nicolai Sagasser / Germany
Silk Road Production Association Special Prize: "They call me Dax" directed by Patrick Alcedo / Canada
CIIFF WINNERS
2020
INTERNATIONAL AWARDS
Best Director Short Film: Sirad Balducci / "Generation Lockdown" / USA
Best Cinematography: "Saving Jaws" / director of photography Keoni Tetawa Bowthorpe / USA
Best Composer: George Strezov/"Shibil"/ Bulgaria
Best Actress: Angela Lanza / "Cold Dark Hollow"/ USA
Best Actor: Wilmer Amando Suàrez / "The Errand Boy" / Colombia
Grand Prize Feature Film: "Shibil" / Directed by Nikola Bozadzhiev / Bulgaria
Grand Prize Short Film: "RESEMBLANCE" / Directed by Kevin J. O'Neill / USA
Grand Prize Animation: "RenaiDance" / Directed by Zhike Yang, Wenjie Wu, Han Chen Chang / USA
Grand Prize Documentary: "Boundless Life" / Directed by Stefan Rainer / Autriche
Grand Prize Experimental Film: "Spirits we dance" / Directed by Natalija Gormalova / Ghana
Grand Prize Music Video: "Gateway" / Namewee Studio Production / Taiwan
NATIONAL FRENCH AWARDS
Grand Prize Feature Film: "The end of the heroes" / Directed by Claude Saussereau
Grand Prize Short Film: "A girl and a gun" / Directed by Pierre Edouard Joubert
Grand Prize Animation: "The butterfly cage" / Directed by Héléna Serra, Maxime Sabisik
Grand Prize Documentary: "A contre courant"/ Directed by Maёl Charpentier
Grand Prize Experimental Film: "Ö" / Directed by Chloé Depeyrat
Audience Prize Documentary: "Face au vide" / Directed by Marc Brulard
Audience Prize Short Film: "Sarah" / directed by Sandrine Pouradier, Philippe Garcin
Silk Road AWARDS (Silk Road's Countries)
Grand Prize Short Film: "The other" / Directed by Ako Zandkarimi, Saman Hosseinpour / Iran
Grand Prize Animation: "Lea’s secret" / Directed by Rico Gutierrez / Philippines
Grand Prize Documentary: "B.L.I.N.D." / Directed by Sid Katragadda / India
Grand Prize Music Video: "A cat has four legs" / Directed by Alexey Belkin : Russian federation
Special Mention Prize: "Ander" / Directed by Alina Mustafina / Qatar