Build your dream Award: a new prize in Cannes

Première is associated with this trophy which will reward the director of a first feature film released in France in the last twelve months. With Chen Kaige as president of a jury which also includes Hafsia Herzi, Mélanie Laurent and Yann Demange

A new trophy as a bet on the future. On May 14, the Build Your Dream Award, co-created by BYD and Mediawan, will be awarded in Cannes, at La Terrasse by Albane. A prize to reward the author of a first feature film released in French theaters in the last twelve months and not passed through the Cannes box, to avoid any duplication with the Caméra d’Or

Editor-in-chief of FirstThierry Cheze established the selection of the 15 works in the running, from all continents and signed by seven female directors, seven directors and a director-director pair. We find there On low heat by the American Sarah Friedland, Christy and his brother by the Irishman Brendan Canty, Fires on the plain from the Chinese Ji Zhang, Didi by Taiwanese-American Sean Wang, Disco Afrika: A Malagasy story from the Malagasy Luck Razanajaona, Honeymoon by the Ukrainian Zhanna Ozirna, In The Summers by the American-Colombian Alessandra Lacorazza, Little Trouble Girls by the Slovenian Urska Djukic, Muganga- the one who heals by the French Marie-Hélène Roux, On Falling by the Portuguese Laura CarreiraWe believe you Belgians Charlotte Devillers and Arnaud Duleys, Summer meetings by the French Valentine Cadic, Really naked by the Belgian Muriel D’Ansembourg, A fragile and wonderful world by the Lebanese Cyril Aris and Together by Australian Michael Shanks.

Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival (tied with The piano lesson) For Farewell my concubineChen Kaige will chair the jury responsible for deciding between these fifteen feature films alongside Hafsia Herzi, Mélanie Laurent, Yann Demange and Thierry Cheze. The winner will receive the trophy, designed by designer Victoria Wilmotte, and a prize of 40,000 euros. And Première is pleased to be associated with this new prize, celebrating the emergence of new voices in the world’s seventh art.