During the closing ceremony of the 34th Namur International French-Language Film Festival on Friday, the Jury presided by André Techiné chose to hand out the Bayard d’or to the French film Oh Mercy! [+leggi anche:
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The highest honour of the festival thus goes to the latest work by the French filmmaker, which premiered in Cannes and focuses on a police investigation in a (very) working-class district of Roubaix, a film which to this day does not have distribution in Belgium. This award could change that. Winner of two awards, By The Name of Tania will be released by MOOOV in Belgian cinemas on 23 October. This hybrid film, which makes categories of fiction and documentary appear almost obsolete, won the Special Jury Prize,as well as the award of Best Photography for the beautiful work of Belgian cinematographer Virginie Surdej.

Another Belgian film was honoured: the new film from Fabrice du Welz, Adoration [+leggi anche:
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The young jury, which focused on feature debuts, gave its biggest award to Erwan Le Duc’s The Bare Necessity [+leggi anche:
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The audience, meanwhile, rewarded Mehdi M. Barsaoui’s moving film, A Son [+leggi anche:
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The list of awards:

Official Competition

Bayard d’or
Oh Mercy! [+leggi anche:
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Special Jury Prize
By The Name of Tania [+leggi anche:
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Special Jury Mention
Kuessipan - Myriam Verreault (Canada)

Bayard for Best Screenplay
Boris Lojkine, Bojina Panayotova - Camille [+leggi anche:
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Bayard for Best Photography
Virginie Surdej - By the Name of Tania

Bayard for Best Performance
Fantine Harduin, Thomas Gioria - Adoration [+leggi anche:
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Bayard for Best First Fiction Film
The Bare Necessity [+leggi anche:
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Discovery Award
Le Père de Nafi - Mamadou Dia (Senegal)

Best Performance Award
Adèle Haenel, Jonathan Couzinié - Heroes Don't Die [+leggi anche:
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Agnès Award
Adam [+leggi anche:
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Jury Junior Prize
Fahim [+leggi anche:
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Audience Award for Best Feature Fiction Film
A Son [+leggi anche:
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Audience Award for Best Documentary
Le Temps long - Lou Colpé (Belgium) (medium-length film)

Bayard for Best Short Film
La Musique - Jean-Benoit Ugeux (Belgium)

Jury Prize
Sous l’écorce - Ève-Chems De Brouwer (France)

Best Director Award
Cadeau de Noël - Bogdan Muresanu (Romania/Spain)

Mention
Postcards from the End of the World - Konstantinos Antonopoulos (Greece)

Jury Prize
Akram - Adrien Berlandi, Mickey Broothaerts (Belgium)

Best Director Award
Thibault Wolfhart, Samir Youssef - Bruxelles-Beyrouth (Belgium)

Best Photography Award
Charlotte Muller - L’Isola Dei Sogni (Belgium)

Best Performance Award
Jean-Benoît Ugeux - La Musique

Mention
Détours - Christopher Yates (Belgium)

Audience Award for Best Short Film
Désirée - Victoria Jadot (Belgium)

ARTE award – Short Film
Miss Chazelles - Thomas Vernay (France)

BeTV Award – Belgian Short Film
Plaqué or - Chloé Léonil (Belgium)

RTBF Award – Belgian Short Film
Le Dragon à deux têtes - Páris Cannes (Belgium)

University of Namur Award
Le Dragon à deux têtes - Páris Cannes

BeTV Award – Feature Film
Camille - Boris Lojkine

Critics’ Award – Belgian Feature Film
Our Mothers [+leggi anche:
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Cinevox Award – Belgian Feature Film
Lola [+leggi anche:
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Cinevox Mention
Loups tendres et loufoques - Arnaud Demuynck, Rémi Durin, Hugo Frassetto, Pascale Hecquet et Anaïs Sorrentino (France/Belgium) (medium-length film)