Caméra d’Or prize

Created in 1978 to encourage greater recognition of young filmmakers, the Caméra d’Or is awarded to the best first film shown either in the Official Selection (Competition or Un Certain Regard), the Directors’ Fortnight or International Critics’ Week. The Caméra d’Or is presented at the Festival’s closing ceremony by the president of this jury.

 Camera d’or 2010 to Année bissextile (Ano bisiesto) by Mickael Rowe 

Other prizes

The Directors’ Fortnight does not usually offer awards to films in the selection, but some of our sponsors present awards that are announced at the closing ceremony.

ART CINEMA AWARD

The CICAE is the International Confederation of Art Cinemas has been linked to the Directors’ Fortnight since it was created in 1969.
The CICAE is the first international association of its kind: founded in 1955, it today represents 3,000 screens in 31 countries in Europe, Latin America and Africa.
Its mission is to promote quality motion pictures on wide screens, to defend the ‘’right for cultural diversity’’.
The ART CINEMA AWARDS are given in the major European festivals by an international jury of independent cinema programmers.
These awards help to bring to the international Arthouse network films of high quality, for it to find its audience. Juries are also seeking to encourage young directors, as well as productions coming out of less-recognized countries.
The Prize helps towards distribution systematically informing the 2,000 CICAE member cinemas, as an incentive for distribution companies to market the films discovered and in order to promote their circulation. Working on a country-by-country basis, local CICAE networks help distributors successfully market award-winning films, through recommendations for all cinemas, trade-only screenings to the members, networking of film copies, and the delivery of information to audiences.
The CICAE is recognized by the Council of Europe, the UNESCO, the European Community's MEDIA Programme, the CNC (FR), the FFA (DE) and the DGC (IT)

ART CINEMA AWARD 2010 : Pieds nus sur les limaces by Fabienne Berthaud (France)

SACD PRIZE
SACD's membership includes 48,000 authors of audiovisual works for exhibition (film, television, animation, radio, interactive creation…) and live performance. SACD acts as a collective management society of authors' rights, and supports and advises its members in professional and legal matters.
Through its cultural activities in favour of cinema, it supports creation, promotion of works and artists' training projects.
La SACD (Société des auteurs et compositeurs dramatiques) honors a French-language feature film in the Directors Fortnight selection. This film is chosen by a film commission chaired by Bertrand Tavernier.
SACD cinema commission: Jacques Fansten (president of SACD), Laurent Heynemann, Gérard Krawczyk, Bertrand Tavernier.

PRIX SACD / SACD PRIZE 2010 : Olivier Masset-Depasse and Illégal, directed and written by Olivier Masset-Depasse (Belgium – Luxembourg – France).

The Europa Cinemas Label
Created in 2003, the Europa Cinemas Label aims to enhance the promotion, circulation and box-office runs of European award-winning films on the screens of a cinema network stretching across Europe.
Awarded by a jury comprised of Europa Cinemas member exhibitors to one of the European films selected in the Directors’ Fortnight, the film is given the conditions of reaching a large audience.
Needless to say, that means the Label is awarded at a crucial moment in a film's career: its presentation at a major festival, a strategic stage in its release on the international market. The Label mobilises the media, the sales agents, the distributors and the exhibitors by providing them a financial incentive for programming the film on its release date and screening it for an extended period.
In this way Europa Cinemas encourages exhibitors to programme the film in all corners of its network, which comprises 2070 screens in 816 cinemas established in 475 cities in 42 countries.

Label Europa Cinemas 2010 : Le quattro volte by Michelangelo Frammartino (Italy)

JURY 2011:

Vincent Paul-Boncour - Exhibitor/distributor - Le Nouveau Latina/Carlotta Films - Paris (France)
Barbora Drobná - Exhibitor/distributor - Cinemax/Continental Film - Bratislava (Slovak Republic)
Elena Mascioli - Young Audience Coordinator - Cinema Farnese - Rome (Italy)
Mary Nazari - Exhibitor/producer - Pioner Cinema/Too much Pictures Film Company - Moscow (Russia)

And also : 

Prix Fipresci
 in 2010: Todos vos sodes capitans d'Oliver Laxe

Palm Dog award

in 2010 a Special Jury award was given to Vuk, the goatherd's dog in Le quattro volte by Michelangelo Frammartino