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After “La Rivière” by Dominique Marchais last year, it is the turn of young filmmaker Louise Courvoisier to receive the prestigious prize for her first film inspired by the place and people of her childhood.
One year after Dominique Marchais’ award for his beautiful documentary the Riverthe Jean-Vigo prize goes this year to Louise Courvoisier for her film Twenty Gods. Awarded since 1951, the Jean-Vigo Prize aims to reward a “author of the future”, distinguishing “the independence of mind, the quality and originality of the filmmakers“. 65 feature films and 38 short films were in the race this year, based on arthouse films released during the year 2024.
The jury praised the director’s first feature film, already awarded the Youth Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, for “his way of reinvesting the teen movie with a delightful vitality, brazenly guiding his young performers towards a truth and a striking freedom”. Shot in his native Jura, the film tells a story of mice and cheese, where a teenager named Totone, lost in life, sets out to make the best Comte in the region to win an agricultural competition. Its theatrical release is scheduled for December 11.
“A first authentic and intelligent film, a chronicle of the agricultural environment,
