The first prize, the Golden Atlas (€12,000 awarded by the CUA) went to the Ukrainian film Honeymoonwhich recounts the first days of the war. Co-presidents Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon (actors and directors) congratulated “ a film which, with very few resources, brings the horror of war into the privacy of an apartment ». « It’s great to be able to tell this story. I hope we can turn slogans like ‘Slava Ukraïni’ into action “, the director, Zhanna Ozirna, was moved on stage.
The critics’ prize was awarded to the Dutchman Stijn Bouma for The Hunt for Meral Öwhile the public price returned to Radio Prague by Czech Jiri Madl. The ceremony began with the presentation of the youth prize to The New Year that Never Cameby the Romanian director Bogdan Muresanu. The jurors, high school students from across the region, saluted “ these characters who bring us into their fight against oppression “. The director’s emotion was palpable… He who had no idea that he was going to go back on stage to collect the Silver Atlas (€5,000 from the Hauts-de-France Region).
