A year after a notable first edition, the Biarritz Film Festival – Nouvelles Vagues, supported by Chanel, once again settled in the French city for a new session which took place from June 18 to 23, 2024. Awards, stars …Here is everything you need to know about this new key event in the seventh art.
Kim Higelin, Vincent Lacoste… The jury of the Biarritz Film Festival – Nouvelles Vagues
From the launch of its first edition, the Biarritz Film Festival – Nouvelles Vagues presented the ambition of highlighting a young generation of filmmakers, mixing both emerging talents and already established directors.
So, last year, the Iranian screenwriter and producer Saeed Roustaee was appointed to chair a jury composed of French actress Lyna Khoudri (The French dispatch by Wes Anderson) or the American director Francesca Scorsese. On the occasion of the second edition of the festival supported by the house Chanel, New Waves reiterates its commitments and once again invites a handful of actors from the young French and international cinema scene to its jury.
This year, the French director Léa Mysius thus officiated as president of the jury. After the notable release of his first feature film (Ava2017) – featuring the actresses Noah Abita et Laure Calamy –, the filmmaker presented the excellent thriller in 2022 The Five Devils worn by Adèle Exarchopoulos and selected at the Filmmakers’ Fortnight au Cannes Festival. At her side, the actress Kim Higelin or the Caesarized actor Vincent Lacoste formed the jury for this new edition.
Finally, the actress Karla Sofia Gascónrevelation of the film Emilia Perez (2024) Jacques Audiard – for which she received the female actor award au Cannes Film Festival 2024 – was also present at the festival as guest of honor. Matt Dillon, James Franco, Alex Lutz or Alice Diop are also part of the list of actors invited to this second edition of the Biarritz Film Festival.
The film Girls Will Be Girls wins the Festival Grand Prize
If during its first edition, the Biarritz Film Festival was marked by the preview screening of the poignant feature film How to Have Sex (2023) by Molly Manning Walker, the eight works in competition for the best film award of 2024 have once again aroused emotion.
Among the latter, the beautiful film The Night drags (2024) by Michiel Blanchart, with Natacha Krief et Romain Duriswon the Audience Award while the feature film Eat the night (2024) not only wins the Jury Prize but also the Student Jury Prize.
Finally, it’s the movie Girls Will Be Girls (2024) Shuchi Talati who this year wins the big prize of Biarritz Film Festival – Nouvelles Vagues.
Just a few weeks after being presented in the excitement of Cannes Festivala certain number of feature films were also unveiled out of competition, in the idyllic setting of the festival New Waves. This is particularly the case of the film Le Roman de Jim (2024) featuring a five-star cast consisting of Karim Leklou, Laetitia Dosch, Sara Giraudeau et Noah Abitabut also the French blockbuster Le Comte de Monte Cristo (2024) which is already shaping up to be one of the most anticipated films of the year.
Director Francis Ford Coppola honored in special screening
In addition to being able to attend numerous exclusive preview screenings of films, visitors to the Biarritz Film Festival – Nouvelles Vagues were able to (re)discover a great classic of the seventh art as part of “The session on the beach”.
This year, the choice of actor Vincent Lacoste (member of the jury of this second edition) focused on a feature film by the director Francis Ford Coppola titled Peggy Sue got married (1986) which was screened at Port Vieux beach on June 20.
This film by the famous American director – who presented this year Megalopolis (2024) at the Cannes Film Festival – featuring the actors Nicolas Cage et Jim Carrey at the dawn of their career also attracted many festival-goers.
In short, with its programming inviting both young shoots of French and international cinema as well as experienced filmmakers, New Waves de Biarritz continues to establish itself, at the end of this second edition, as an event to follow for film buffs around the world.
The winners of the second edition of the Biarritz Film Festival – Nouvelles Vagues
Girls Will Be Girls (2024) Shuchi Talati wins the Grand Prix for the second edition of Biarritz Film Festival – Nouvelles Vagues.
Eat the Night (2024) Caroline Poggi et Jonathan Vinel wins the Jury Prize and the Student Jury Prize at the Biarritz Film Festival – Nouvelles Vagues.
As his look (2024) Thierry de Peretti wins the special mention from the Jury at the Biarritz Film Festival – Nouvelles Vagues.
Saoirse Ronan wins the Interpretation Award for his role in the film The Outrun (2024) de Nora Fingscheidt.
The Night drags (2024) Michael Blanchart wins the Audience Award at the Biarritz Film Festival – Nouvelles Vagues.
The Outrun (2024) Nora Fingscheidt wins the Pass Culture jury prize at the Biarritz Film Festival – Nouvelles Vagues.
