Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke’s zany romantic drama A Helpful Ghost has received the highest prize at Cannes Critics’ Week.
The characteristic, which is the primary Thai movie to play within the parallel part for various years, received the inaugural AMI Paris Grand Prize.
This 12 months’s jury was presided over by Spanish director Rodrigo Sorogoyen (The Beasts, Riot Police, The New Years), who was joined by Oscar-winning Judas and the Black Messiah UK actor Daniel Kaluuya, Moroccan journalist Jihane Bougrine, French-Canadian cinematographer Josée Deshaies and Indonesian producer Yulia Evina Bhara.
A Helpful Ghost co-stars high Thai actress, mannequin and influencer Davika Hoorne as Nat, a lady who dies of mud air pollution after which returns as a ghost within the type of a vacuum cleaner, decided to save lots of her household from an analogous destiny.
The characteristic, which is the primary Thai movie to play within the parallel part for various years, received the inaugural AMI Paris Grand Prize.
The film co-stars high Thai actress, mannequin and influencer Davika Hoorne as Nat, a lady who dies of mud air pollution after which returns as a ghost within the type of a vacuum cleaner, decided to save lots of her household from an analogous destiny.
Witsarut Himmarat performs her husband March, whose rich manufacturing household reject this unconventional human-ghost relationship.
In different prizes, the French Contact Prize of the Jury went to France-based Chechen director Deni Oumar Pitsaev’s Imago.
The autobiographical documentary explores the director’s plans to construct a futuristically designed home at odds with the panorama and native traditions on a small plot of land in a Georgian valley on the foot of the Caucasus, on the border of Chechnya.
Quebecois actor Théodore Pellerin received the Louis Roederer Basis Rising Star Award for his efficiency in Pauline Loquès’s Nino, a few younger drifter, who spends three days wandering the streets after dropping the keys to his residence.
Leitz Cine Discovery Prize for brief movie was received by Randa Maroufi’s L’mina, about an unofficial coal mining city in Morocco.
In collateral prizes, Shih-Ching Tsou’s Left-Handed Woman received the Gan Basis Award for Distribution, which is able to help the French launch of the movie by Le Pacte.
The SACD Award for finest screenplay went to director Guillermo Galoe and Victor Alonso-Berbel for Sleepless Metropolis, on which they took co-writing credit.
The Canal+ Award for brief movie went to Erogenesis de by Xandra Popescu
