A double winner in Venice this past September with the Silver Lion Grand Jury prize and Luigi De Laurentiis Lion of the Future award, Alice Diop could double down with Saint Omer as the infanticide jury room drama has been nominated for the Prix Louis-Delluc’s two sections: Best Film and Best First Film. If Diop wins for Best Feature it would be a rare female filmmaker win – the last woman to win the award was Pascale Ferran’s Lady Chatterley in 2006. Last year’s winner was the Un Certain Regard selected Onoda – 10 000 nuits dans la jungle by Arthur Harari. In the Best First Feature section, Saint Omer will measure itself up against The Worst One by Lise Akoka and Romane Gueret (the Un Certain Regard section winner) and Charlotte Le Bon’s Falcon Lake(critically acclaimed film from the Directors’ Fortnight). Previous past winner include Rebecca Zlotowski for Belle Épine and Julia Ducournau for Raw. Here are the noms for both categories. Winners will be unveiled on November 30th.
Best Feature:
Saint Omer – Alice Diop
Pacifiction – Albert Serra
L’innocent – Louis Garrel
Les Amandiers – Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi
Le Lycéen – Christophe Honoré
Un Beau Matin – Mia Hansen-Løve
Les Enfants des autres – Rebecca Zlotowski
Les Harkis – Philippe Faucon
Best First Feature:
Saint Omer – Alice Diop
Méduse – Sophie Levy
Les Pires – Lise Akoka, Romane Gueret
Falcon Lake – Charlotte Le Bon
La Passagère – Héloïse Pelloquet
Les Années super 8 – Annie Ernaux, David Ernaux-Briot
La passagère – Heloïse Pelloquet
Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).
