“Petite Nature” by French director Samuel Theis won the Golden Alexander, the most prestigious award at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival. The film’s lead actor, Aliona Reinert, won Best Actor Award.
The young actor plays Johnny, an intelligent, sensitive ten-year-old whose difficult family life in a council estate in eastern France is turned upside down when his new teacher, Mr. Adamski, pushes him to believe in himself.
France in the spotlight of the 62nd Thessaloniki Film Festival
The 62nd Thessaloniki Film Festival was organized both face-to-face and online from November 4th – 14th. “The leading Greek cultural event” put French cinema in the spotlight with a retrospective of the films of Jean Renoir and Alain Resnais, plus a programme of more than forty productions and co-productions. The festival opened with Audrey Diwan’s “L’événement” and Jacques Audiard’s “Les Olympiades”. Franco-Greek director Maxence Stamatiadis won both the Silver Alexander and the Fischer Audience Award with “Au jour d’aujourd’hui”: “a representation of our relationship with technology as sensitive as it is remarkable, combining a possible future with a raw present.”
Samuel Theis
An actor and director, Samuel Theis studied Drama at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Techniques du Théâtre. “Petite Nature” (Softie) is Theis’ second film. His first film “Party Girl”, “somewhere between documentary and drama”, won the Caméra d’Or at Cannes in 2014.
62nd edition of the Thessaloniki Film Festival
The 62nd edition of the Thessaloniki Film Festival, was organized both face-to-face and online from November 4-14. This “leading cultural event in Greece” put French cinema in the spotlight through a retrospective by Jean Renoir, and Alain Resnais but also a program of more than fourty productions and co-productions with the opening “The event “, Directed by Audrey Diwan, and” Les Olympiades “by Jacques Audiard.” Au jour Today “by Franco-Greek Maxence Stamatiadis, also received the Alexandre d’Argent and the Fischer Audience Award for” his a representation as sensitive as it is singular of our relationship to technology as a possible future and a raw present ”.
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Sources : thenationalherald.com, 20minutes.fr, mediapart.fr, gr.ambafrance.org, bfmtv.com, laprovence.com, allocine.fr, semainedelacritique.com
