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Rapper and singer René Pérez Jogger, also known as Residente, leads the cast of In the Summers, top prize winner at the Deauville American Film Festival Photo: Deauville American Film Festival The Jury of the 50th edition of the Deauville American film festival, presided over by Benoît Magimel, with Ludivine Sagnier, Emilie Dequenne, Agathe Riedinger, Damien Bonnard, Lou Lampros and Martin Bourboulon have awarded the Festival’s top prize to In The Summers, by Colombian American writer-director Alessandra Lacorazza for her debut feature.

Already noted at the Sundance Film Festival earlier in the year, the film relates the story a broken family dynamic through the eyes of two young girls during their formative years. René Pérez Joglar (also known by his rapper/singer stage name Residente) leads the cast.

The honours were bestowed at the Festival’s closing ceremony last night.

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Grand Prix: In The Summers...

Nobody really makes AIDS dramas anymore, which seems as good a reason as any to make one now. The disease that, forty-odd years ago, decimated a generation of queer people and prompted a prejudice-driven global panic hasn’t gone away — least of all in various developing countries, where it isn’t popularly defined by gender or sexuality, and death rates are still high. But its narrative has changed. For many, advances in antiretroviral and preventative drugs have stripped HIV of its aura of terror, making it something to be lived with, not a ticking clock to the end. With little posturing or overtly groundbreaking intent, French writer-director Gaël Morel unusually and sensitively bridges these eras of HIV/AIDS in his gentle romantic melodrama “To Live, To Die, To Live Again” — beginning in a distinctly Nineties register of mainstream queer cinema, before looking ahead to the 21st century.

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Exclusive: Goodfellas has acquired international rights for French director Gaël Morel’s drama To Live, To Die, To Live Again set against the AIDS epidemic in the early 1990s, ahead of its world premiere in Cannes.

Rising French actors Victor Belmondo, Lou Lampros and Théo Christine co-star as a romantically entwined trio whose youthful dalliance takes them into life-changing territory with the arrival of AIDS. While they expect the worse, the destiny of each character will take an unexpected turn.

Morel has taken inspiration from his own teenage fears around AIDS in the 1990s as well as research he did for a planned documentary on people who caught the virus and were saved at the last minute by the development of effective antiretroviral therapies.

Michèle Halberstadt and Laurent Pétin produced the film under the banner of their Paris-based film company Arp Sélection, which will also distribute the feature in France.

Stars: Thomas Parigi, Edwige Blondiau, Lou Lampros, Jean-Louise Coulloc’h | Written by Lucas Delangle, Olivier Strauss | Directed by Lucas Delangle

Living high in the French Alps, the titular Jacky Caillou (Thomas Parigi) is introduced using his tape recorder to document everyday noises. After picking up the sounds of creaking stairs and a lawnmower, he notices whisperings. Before audiences can get creeped out by such noises, the source is revealed as the lead’s grandmother, Gisèle (Edwige Blondiau), at work.

A magnetizer-healer that is recognised by all the locals, Gisèle begins instructing her grandson by passing on her gift. This coincides with the arrival of Elsa (Lou Lampros), who travelled from the city to consult about her worsening condition, which is visualised in a growing stain. The woman’s struggle at opening herself up to the healing makes it difficult for Gisèle to work, yet Jacky is determined to help.

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Last month, Scream VI and 65 released on the very same day, and believe it or not we’re getting yet another big screen double feature from the horror genre this week.

Here’s all the new horror releasing April 11 – April 16, 2023!

For daily reminders about new horror releases, be sure to follow @HorrorCalendar.

After scaring up $4.5 million at the worldwide box office, viral hit Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey was finally made available to watch at home beginning yesterday.

You can rent the film for $9.99 or purchase it for $19.98 on Amazon now.

Rhys Frake-Waterfield directed the bloody horror movie for Jagged Edge Productions, a twisted take on the classic children’s tale. And yes, a sequel is already on the way.

In this version of the classic story, Christopher Robin is headed off to college and he has abandoned his old friends, which then leads to the duo embracing their inner monsters.

Dark Star Pictures will release Lucas Delangle’s highly-anticipated werewolf horror-fantasy The Strange Case of Jacky Calliou in theaters April 7 and on VOD and DVD April 11, and Bloody Disgusting has an exclusive look at the film’s trailer.

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“When Jacky’s grandmother, a renowned healer, suddenly passes away and a particularly compelling young woman with a mysterious rash arrives on his doorstep, he has no choice but to stay and try to help. As her condition worsens, it becomes clear that she’s afflicted with no ordinary illness. She’s transforming into something dangerous before his eyes, but he’s already in too deep to abandon her.”

Thomas Parigi, Edwige Blondiau, Lou Lampros, and Jean-Louise Coulloc’h star in a film that “spooks its audience without the use of many special effects.”

“It’s an invisible force, so we have to find ways to materialize it all the time in the image,...

Selected actors will vie for five coveted spots in each of the most promising actor and actress categories.

France’s Academy of Cinema Arts and Techniques, which runs the prestigious César awards, has unveiled its annual Revelations shortlist of local rising stars. They will vie for five coveted spots in each of the most promising actor and actress categories that will make the official nominees selection ahead of the 48th annual Cesars ceremony in Paris on February 24.

Among this year’s breakout stars are Saint Omer actresses Guslagie Malanda and Kayije Kagame, Cannes’ title Forever Young stars Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Clara Bretheau and Sofiane Bennacer,...

Brussels-based company Best Friend Forever has acquired pair of French movies, “The Strange Case of Jacky Caillou” and “Madgala,” which will world premiere in the Cannes sidebar, Acid.

“The Strange Case of Jacky Caillou” is the feature debut of Lucas Delangle, who previously worked with Claire Simon on “The Competition,” among other films. Set in a small village in the French Alps, the film follows a young man, Jacky Caillou, who lives with his loving grandmother Gisele, a magnetic healer.

Produced by Charles Philippe and Lucile Ric at Les films du Clan, the film stars newcomer Thomas Parigi and rising French talent Lou Lampros. Arizona Distribution will release the film in France later this year.

“Lucas Delangle is a new French voice to be discovered; he is already very mature and plays with cinema narration and genre,” said Martin Gondre and Charles Bin, Best Friend Forever co-founders. “His first film...

Premiering out of Venice’s Horizons Extra sidebar on Tuesday, ”My Night” marks the feature debut of Antoinette Boulat, a leading casting directors behind recent films like “The French Dispatch,” “Bergman Island” and “Non-Fiction,” now making the jump behind the lens.

A veteran of the French industry, Boulat co-wrote and directed this intimate character study that follows the adolescent Marion (Lou Lampros) over the course of one peripatetic Paris night as she dwells in the past and looks to the future, mourning the death of her sister while recognizing that her chance encounter with Alex (“Synonyms” star Tom Mercier) might point toward new horizons.

“At the start, the idea was really to follow a young woman in Paris at night,” the filmmaker tells Variety. “The city unnerves me, not in the fearful sense, but that paying close attention to our surroundings can be quite unsettling.”

“Building on that point, I thought,...