The Jean Renoir Prize for high school students is organized by the Ministry of National Education and Youth in partnership with the CNC, with the support of the FNCF and the Entraide du cinéma et des spectacles, and with the participation of the CEMEA, Cahiers du cinéma, Positif and So Film.
Through this system, all partners wish to stimulate students’ ability to have a reasoned judgment on works and give them a taste for discovering a diversity of films in cinemas..
In 2023-2024, the 1,300 participating students saw the following films in their partner cinemas, selected for them by a committee made up of education and cinema professionals:
- The Animal Kingdom by Thomas Cailley
- Linda wants chicken! by Chiara Malta and Sébastien Laudenbach
- Pick up by Marco Bellocchio
- Goodbye Julia by Mohamed Kordofani
- Making of by Cédric Kahn
- The Mother of All Lies by Asmae El Moudir
- Chronicles of Tehran by Ali Asgari and Alireza Khatami
Gathered at Fémis on May 6 and 7, two students per class participated in the deliberations to award the Jean Renoir prize for high school students, following meetings with representatives of each film (director, producer and/or distributor).
The Jean Renoir Prize for high school students was awarded to Goodbye Julia by Mohamed Kordofanireleased on November 8, 2023, distributed by ARP Sélection. The film is therefore included in the 2025 school year in the High School and Cinema Apprentices catalog which benefits 400,000 students across France each year.
Synopsis : A strange friendship links a rich Muslim Sudanese woman from the North to a Christian Sudanese woman from the South who is destitute after the death of her husband. What is behind the concern of one towards the other?
