19/10/2015 - The film by Italy’s Pietro Marcello has snagged the Grand Prix at the sixth edition of the festival, while the Audience Award has gone to Tempête by Samuel Collardey

Helmed by general delegate Paolo Moretti, the La Roche-sur-Yon International Film Festival has, over just a few years, carved out a niche in the schedule of the myriad film gatherings organised in France. Its sixth edition was won yesterday by Lost and Beautiful [+see also:
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The Audience Award went to Tempête [+see also:
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Also of note was the triumph of Tangerine by US filmmaker Sean Baker in the competitive New Waves section, which also handed out a Special Mention to Mate-me por favor by Brazil’s Anita Rocha da Silveira. 

This edition of the La Roche-sur-Yon Festival, which invited Vincent Lindon (winner of the Best Actor Award at Cannes in May for The Measure of a Man [+see also:
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(Translated from French)