About this event
Created six years ago, under the auspices of the Cannes Film Festival, Positive Cinema Week is dedicated to a cinema that changes the way we look at the world, questions its industry and puts its art at the service of future generations. Positive cinema denounces injustice and highlights situations that we sometimes find difficult to confront. It brings people together, shifts the lines, influences our ways of thinking and behaving and invites citizens from all over the world to get involved.
The award ceremony will start at 8pm. The evening will continue with an exchange with the director Flore Vasseur followed by the screening of her documentary Bigger Than Usat 9pm.
PRICES AND PROGRAMMING
This evening will be the occasion for the Positive Economy Institute to award four prizes for the best Positive Cinema of 2021.
An honorary Positive Cinema Award will be presented to directors Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano for their commitment by Jacques Attali, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Positive Economy Institute.
The prize for the best positive short film will be awarded on 9 December by Audrey Tcherkoff, Executive President of the Positive Economy Institute, at the Megacities Shortdocsawards ceremony.
Bigger than us by Flore Vasseur will be awarded the prize for best positive feature documentary by the Tournaire jewellery company.
At the ceremony, the President of the Jury will award the prize for the best positive feature film of the year 2021 to one of the ten feature films in competition:
- A GOOD MANby Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar (France)
- BILLIE HOLIDAY, A MATTER OF STATE, by Lee Daniels (USA)
- GUILTY AS CHARGEDby Kevin Macdonald (USA, UK)
- TWOby Filippo Meneghetti (France, Belgium, Luxembourg)
- LA FRACTUREby Catherine Corsini (France)
- THE LAND OF MENby Naël Marandin (France)
- THE EVENTby Audrey Diwan (France)
- ROUGEby Farid Bentoumi (France, Belgium)
- SOUND OF METALby Darius Marder (USA)
- A TRIUMPHby Emmanuel Courcol (France)
JURY
Romanian director Radu Mihaileanu(The Source of Women, The Concert) will chair the jury for this 6th edition. The jury also includes actresses Frédérique Bel and Léopoldine Huyghues Despointes, author and actor Adda Abdeli and Yves Bigot, Director General of TV5 Monde.