Les Arcs Business Village, the skilled platform of Les Arcs Movie Competition, handed out 14 awards at its 16th version this night (Monday, December 16).
Winners included Flooring Van der Meulen’s Joyful Days, recipient of the €20,000 Eurimages Co-production Growth award within the Coproduction village.
Scroll down for the complete checklist of winners
Produced by the Netherlands’ Keplerfilm, Joyful Days follows a grandmother who dangers burnout in attempting to take care of her grandchildren.
The movie has €101,000 of a projected €2.6m finances already in place, and is aiming for a late 2025 shoot forward of a summer time 2026 supply.
The jury praised “a personality hardly ever seen onscreen however omnipresent in our societies. We appreciated the distinctive and internationally-oriented directorial imaginative and prescient, in addition to the artistic growth technique of the crew.”
Anastasiia Solonevych’s Ukraine warfare drama 30 Days Of Summer time acquired a particular Eurimages Co-production Growth Award, additionally with €20,000, as a part of the measures adopted by the Eurimages fund in help of the Ukrainian movie business.
Produced by Bosonfilm, 30 Days Of Summer time follows a Ukrainian refugee who takes a job as an interpreter at a army camp, the place she reunites along with her estranger stepsister, who’s now a soldier. The €1.8m finances movie has €20,000 in place, with a projected August 2026 shoot date for 2027 supply.
Winners within the Work in Progress part, for characteristic movies in post-production with out gross sales illustration, included Thom Lunshof’s Dutch characteristic First Zone, a post-apocalyptic drama by which a girl fights her means again to her house. It took the €10,000 post-production companies award for picture and/or sound.
“By transforming the codes of western, the director succeeds in creating a movie that resonates with the up to date whereas sustaining a timeless common expressive drive,” wrote the jury, with the movie at the moment within the edit forward of a Q1 2025 supply.
With music once more distinguished within the Les Arcs business programme, Janicke Askevold’s Solomamma took the 22D Music award, consisting of €5,000 in-kind and €5,000 government manufacturing service.
Les Arcs Business Village closes tomorrow (Tuesday, December 17), having welcomed round 700 attendees for its 2024 version; with the competition operating till December 21.
Les Arcs Business Village winners 2024
Expertise Village
Ciclic Expertise Village Award – Made In Mud (Sp) dir. Anna Llargues
Expertise Village Particular Point out – Silk (Den) dir. Selma Sunniva
Co-production Village
Eurimages Co-production Growth Award – Joyful Days (Neth) dir. Flooring Van der Meulen
Eurimages Co-production Growth Particular Award – 30 Days Of Summer time (Ukr) dir. Anastasiia Solonevych
ArteKino Worldwide Award – Rosa Candida (Fr) dir. Clara Lemaire Anspach
Work in Progress
TitraFilm Award – First Zone (Neth) dir. Thom Lunshof
Alphapanda Viewers Engagement Award – Unusual River (Sp-Ger) dir. Jaume Claret Muxart
Alphapanda Particular Point out – Gabin, a Youth In The Backland (Fr-Ger-Switz) dir. Maxence Voiseux
22D Music Award – Solomamma (Nor-Den-Lat-Lith-Fin) dir. Janicke Askevold
Producers Community Awards
Kari Ulfsson of Sensor (Iceland) for Seven Balconies
Arthur Cohen of Elementary (Fr) for Grizzly
Revelation Feminine Movie Composer Award – Audrey Ismael
Coprocity Growth Award – Stink Eye (Col-Sp) dir. Cristina Sanchez Salamanca
Particular point out – A White Home (It-Fr) dir. Francesco Romano
