{"id":134590,"date":"2024-05-31T17:05:46","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T15:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iffr.com\/en\/?p=134590"},"modified":"2024-08-07T15:53:28","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T13:53:28","slug":"blog-cannes-awards-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iffr.com\/en\/blog-cannes-awards-2024","title":{"rendered":"Three IFFR-backed titles awarded in Cannes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Grand Prix, the festival’s second top prize, going to All We Imagine as Light<\/strong> by Payal Kapadia capped a Cannes in which titles supported by the Hubert Bals Fund and IFFR Pro shone brightly. With five IFFR-backed titles having premiered across the selections, we\u2019re celebrating the reaction to all the supported talent, with their films receiving glowing recognition and rave reviews.<\/p>\n\n\n

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All We Imagine as Light wins Grand Prix<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Payal Kapadia had been the first Indian filmmaker to screen a film in the Cannes main competition in over 30 years and now makes history as the first to win the festival\u2019s second prize with her fiction feature debut. The prize was matched by the resounding reaction from the press on this \u201cgorgeous romance\u201d (Little White Lies<\/em><\/a>) that follows the lives of two women moving through monsoon season in Mumbai.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is a glorious film,\u201d said The Guardian<\/a>, echoed<\/em> by IndieWire<\/em><\/a>, the BBC<\/em><\/a>, amongst others, who all awarded the \u201cmagical\u201d film top marks. They praised its \u201cenriching humanity and gentleness\u201d that was \u201cboth dreamlike and like waking up from a dream.\u201d IndieWire<\/em> labelled it a \u201csensual triumph.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The film was awarded crucial development funding in 2019 by the Hubert Bals Fund before it was presented at IFFR Pro\u2019s co-production market, CineMart in 2020. The Hubert Bals Fund then offered the project HBF+Europe: Minority Co-production Support, and as a Dutch co-production with BALDR Film, it received NFF+HBF funds via the Netherlands Film Fund.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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