Here are the 5 Alice Guy 2025 prize finalists
The prize rewarding the director of the year has never had so many participants. Dahomey, bye bye Tiberiads, All We imagine as light, crude diamond and twenty gods are elected films.
The Alice Guy Prize has existed since 2018. Its goal is to highlight the talent of directors, often missing in the big records. This year is not an exception since no woman filmmaker is named in the categories of the best production and the best film for Caesar.
Among the 85 films selected, 5 were retained by the few 5107 votersor 20.5% more than in 2024. A record for the price! A joint jury of six cinema professionals will soon designate the big winner. The date of the prize ceremony evening, open to all, has not yet been announced.
Among these Five finalist filmswe find All we imagine as light of Indian director Payal Kapadia. Selected in official competition at the Cannes Film Festival, he is crowned with Jury prize. The film with multiple nationalities (India, France, Italy, Luxembourg and Netherlands) was notably produced by French companies.
Two first feature films of directors are also selected: Raw diamond of Agathe Rieddinger and Twenty gods de Louise Courvoisier. These are in the running for the César for the best first film. They paint the portrait of characters from provinces, one living in the south of France, the other in the Jura. The two films are also common to reveal new young cinema talents: Clément Faveau is only 19 years old, and Malou Khebizi A 21.
Two documentaries are among these fictions. We find the director Franco-Sénégalese Mati Diop for her docu-fiction Dahomey. She highlights the looting of works in Benin, their return to the territory, and the responsibility of France. Franco-Algerian director Lina Soualem was also chosen for Bye bye Tiberiaswhere she returns to the traces of her family.
The goal of this prize is also to pay tribute to the very first woman filmmaker, Alice Guy. Erased from history, she is the director of the very first fiction of cinema, The cabbage fairyreleased in 1896.
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