EAVE project THE BRINK OF DREAMS wins the Golden Eye in Cannes!
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Great success at the Cannes Film Festival: EAVE graduates won the Grand Prix, the Jury Prize and 13 other prestigious awards!
We are delighted to announce that THE BRINK OF DREAMS by Nada Riyadh and EAVE graduate Ayman El Amir has won the most important documentary film award: l'Œil d'or - the Golden Eye! The film was developed at the EAVE Producers Workshop 2019 and celebrated its premiere at the Critics' Week in Cannes.
The Jury's statement: The Brink of Dreams “whisks us away to a Coptic village in southern Egypt, following the activities of a small group of young women who are rebelling by forming a street-theatre troupe. Harbouring dreams of becoming actresses, dancers or singers, they try to carve out a place for themselves, defying their families and the patriarchal traditions of their country. The film is at once simple and radiant, an almost unassuming movie that allows us to see, in all its complexity, their struggle to win their freedom as well as the turmoil this struggle creates around them.”
Cannes 2024 Competition awards
Grand Prix
ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT by Payal Kapadia, producers: EAVE graduate and Dutch National Coordinator Frank Hoeve, Creative Producer Indaba graduate Thomas Hakim, co-producer: EAVE graduate Gilles Chanial
Jury Prize
EMILIA PEREZ by Jacques Audiard, co-producer: PUENTES graduate Nicolas Celis
Best Director
GRAND TOUR by Miguel Gomes, producers: EAVE graduate Filipa Reis, Interchange graduate Marta Donzelli, co-producer: EAVE + graduate Tom Dercourt
Best Actress
EMILIA PEREZ by Jacques Audiard, co-producer: PUENTES graduate Nicolas Celis (Karla Sofía Gascón, Zoe Saldana, Selena Gomez and Adriana Paz)
Best Actor
KINDS OF KINDNESS by Yorgos Lanthimos, producer: EAVE graduate Ed Guiney (Jesse Plemons)
Camera d’Or
ARMAND by Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel, producer: EAVE graduate Andrea Berentsen Ottmar, co-producers: EAVE graduates Fred Burle, Koji Nelissen & Derk-Jan Warrink
Camera d’Or Special Mention
MONGREL by Chiang Wei Liang & You Qiao Yin, co-producer: EAVE graduate Marie Dubas
Short film Palme d’Or
THE MAN WHO COULD NOT REMAIN SILENT by Nebojsa Slijepcevic, producer: EAVE graduate Danijel Pek, Katarina Prpic, co-producers: EAVE graduates Katya Trichkova, Bostjan Virc
Un Certain Regard
Best Director
ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL by Rungano Nyoni, producer: EAVE graduate Ed Guiney
Best Actress
THE SHAMELESS by Konstantin Bojanov, executive producers: EAVE graduate Palmye Badinier, EAVE + graduate Philippe Coeytaux (Anasuya Sengupta)
Cannes Critics’ Week
Louis Roederer Foundation Rising Star Award
BABY by Marcelo Caetano, co-producer: EAVE graduate Stienette Bosklopper
Gan Foundation Award for Distribution
JULIE KEEPS QUIET by Leonardo van Dijl, co-producers: PUENTES graduate Nima Yousefi, in association with EAVE graduate Jan Naszewski & PUENTES graduate Marcin Łuczaj
SACD Award
JULIE KEEPS QUIET by Leonardo van Dijl, co-producers: PUENTES graduate Nima Yousefi, in association with EAVE graduate Jan Naszewski & PUENTES graduate Marcin Łuczaj
Director’s Fortnight
THE OTHER WAY AROUND by Jonas Trueba, producer: EAVE graduate Alejandro Arenas won the Europa Cinemas Label for best European film
Golden Eye Documentary Prize
EAVE project THE BRINK OF DREAMS by Nada Riyadh and EAVE graduate Ayman El Amir, producer: EAVE graduate Ayman El Amir
Page published 28 May 2024. Updated 31 May 2024.
