A Helpful Ghost, the debut characteristic from Thai director Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke, has received the Grand Prize on the sixty fourth version of Cannes Critics’ Week.
The absurdist fantasy comedy portrays a married couple the place the spouse dies of a respiratory sickness brought on by mud air pollution, after which returns to the grieving husband as a ghost within the type of a vacuum cleaner. The Thai characteristic picked up the Grand Prix AMI Paris trophy as awards for the Critics Week part in Cannes had been introduced on Wednesday. The movie stars Davika Hoorne and Witsarut Himmarat.
Additionally, the French Contact Prize of the Jury for finest first characteristic went to Chechen director Deni Oumar Pitsaev for Imago, a France-Belgium co-production. And the Louis Roederer Basis Rising Star Award for finest actor went to Canada’s Theodore Pellerin for his efficiency in French director Pauline Loques’ Nino.
In different prize-giving, the Leitz Cine Discovery prize for a brief movie went to L’mina, by director Randa Maroufi. And the Gan Basis Award for Distribution went to French distributor Le Pacte to help its launch marketing campaign for Left-Handed Woman, by director Shih-Ching Tsou and starring Shi-Yuan Ma and Janel Tsai.
As well as, the SACD Award went to Guillermo Galoe and Victor Alonso-Berbel for Sleepless Metropolis, a Spanish coming-of-age drama set in a shanty city. And the Canal+ Award for a brief movie went to Erogenesis, by director Xandra Popescu.
This yr’s Critics Week awards jury was led by president Rodrigo Sorogoyen and included Jihane Bougrine, Josee Deshaies, Yulia Evina Bhara and Daniel Kaluuya.