Corsican actress Ghjuvanna Benedetti, 22, won the Lumière prize for female revelation in 2025. A distinction awarded for her role in the film “The Kingdom” by Julien Colonna.
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A year off to a good start. The young actress Ghjuvanna Benedetti was crowned female revelation at the 2025 Lumières Awards on Monday January 20. A distinction awarded for her role in the film “The Kingdom” by director Julien Colonna.
-The feature film traces the story of Lesia, a Corsican teenager, torn from the carefree childhood when a man on a motorbike comes to pick her up one summer and takes her to join her father in an isolated villa. This father is a figure of big island banditry, caught up in the war taking place in the island environment. A chase of several weeks begins, between moments of tenderness and complicity between the father and his daughter, and rising tensions while the hunt is in full swing.
Big winner of this 30th ceremony, “Emilia Pérez” directed by Jacques Audiard, won five statuettes: that of best film, best direction, best screenplay, best actress for Karla Sofía Gascón, and best music for Camille and Clément Ducol.
Created in 1995 by British journalist Edward Behr and French producer Daniel Toscan du Plantier, the annual awards of the Académie des Lumières aim to mobilize the international press around French cinema.
