Cannes: Directors’ Fortnight Honors ‘Les Garçons Et Guillaume’, ‘Selfish Giant’

The Directors’ Fortnight sidebar has its closing ceremony tonight with Yolande Moreau’s Henri screening after the prize ceremony. The section is actually non-competitive, but certain partners of the Société des Réalisateurs Français, the French directors’ body that organizes the event, attribute awards. Frenchman Guillaume Gallienne won two prizes tonight for Les Garçons Et Guillaume, A Table!, while Brit helmer Clio Barnard took the Europa Cinema Label honor for The Selfish Giant. Her film was recently acquired by Sundance Selects. Last year’s winners included Pablo Larrain’s No, which went on to be nominated for a foreign language Oscar, and Noémie Lvovsky’s Camille Redouble which later scored 13 nominations at France’s César Awards. Here’s the group that took prizes for the 2013 edition of the Fortnight:

Art Cinéma Award
Les Garçons Et Guillaume, A Table!, dir: Guillaume Gallienne

SACD Prize
Les Garçons Et Guillaume, A Table!, dir: Guillaume Gallienne
Special mention to Tip-Top, dir: Serge Bozon

Europa Cinéma Label Prize
The Selfish Giant, dir: Clio Barnard

Short Film
Gambozinos, dir: João Nicolau