IFS Awards

BEST FEATURE

MEDUSA


BEST FEATURE

Category
Feature, Drama
Director
SOPHIE LEVY
Year
2021
Country
France
Runtime
01:26:00
Budget
350000 USD

Romane and Clemence are between 25 and 30 years old, they are sisters and live together. Romane has to look after Clémence, who is disabled since they had a car accident, when teenagers. Romane was not hurt, but Clemence had a cerebral vascular accident which lets her completely unable to speak and to walk in a normal way.
One night, while Clemence is asleep, Romane decides to go out. That night, she will get back home late with Guillaume, her new boyfriend. Day after day, Guillaume will gradually feel invested in a duty : make Clemence recover her speech and the use of her legs. But over the days, the complicity between Clemence and Guillaume will become more and more unbearable for Romane.

SPECIAL MENTION

Soutien de Famille


Category
Documentary, Experimental, Feature, cinematographical essay based on the artistic project
Director
Maxime Berthou
Year
2020
Country
France
Runtime
01:15:15
Budget
150000 EUR

Soutien de Famille is a cinematographical essay based on the artistic project Hogshead 733 that includes a journey, a sea adventure, a story of heritage, friendship & whiskey. The process follows the restoration of a typical 1941 wooden fishing boat, her last 733 miles sailing journey, and the final transformation of the boat, soaked with sea and adventure into two whisky barrels. Every specially chosen stage gives a possibility to research the poetics of specific manual labor expertise: boat building, sailing, barrel making, and whisky production.
A journey from Trebeurden Brittany to the island Islay in Scotland was undertaken with 20 stops en route, from 23 August until 21 September 2015.

BEST SHORT

THE VAN


Category
Short, Drama
Director
Erenik Beqiri
Year
2019
Country
France
Runtime
00:15:00
Budget
80000 EUR
Other Festivals
Festival de Cannes Cannes May 24, 2019 World Premiere Official sélection shortfilm France

The Van finally stops, the doors open and Ben comes out alive. A few more fights and he will be able to pay his way out of Albania, and hopefully, take his father with him.

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