“Love at First Fight” romcom sweeps Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight awards May 24, 2014 - 12:28 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - First-time director Thomas Cailley's “Love at First Fight” (“Les Combattants”) was named the best film at Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight section, organizers announced on Friday, May 23, according to TheWrap. The comedy won the section's Art Cinema Award, its SACD Prize for French-language films and its Europa Cinemas Label honor for European entries, making it the first film to sweep all three categories. It also won the separate FIPRESCI award, given by the international critics’ association, for the best film in any independent section at the festival. Directors’ Fortnight is an independent section that runs concurrently with the Cannes Film Festival. This year's lineup consisted of 17 films, including John Boorman's “Queen and Country,” Frederick Wiseman's “National Gallery,” Diego Lerman's “Refugiado” and two Sundance favorites, Jim Mickle's “Cold in July” and Damien Chazelle's “Whiplash.” The Palme d'Or and other major Cannes awards will be announced by the main competition jury at an awards ceremony on Saturday.   Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running”   Partner news |  Latest news Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty  Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty.Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza.Aliyev says no need for mediators in Armenia-Azerbaijan process Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev believes that Baku and Yerevan do not mediators in the process of normalizing relations.Aram I supports Karekin II’s “patriotic position” Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia Aram I has expressed support for the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin. |
