Cannes Critics’ Week Winners: ‘La Gradiva’ Scoops Grand Prize

French director Marine Atlan’s La Gradiva has scooped the top Ami Paris Grand Prize in the competition of Cannes parallel section Critics’ Week.

The first film follows a group of French high-school students who travel to Naples on a school trip to discover the ruins of Pompeii and the bodies petrified by Vesuvius. Emotions and desires spill out against the backdrop of the ancient site and its beauty.

This year’s jury was presided over by Indian filmmaker Payal Kapadia, who was joined by Quebecois actor Théodore Pellerin, singer-songwriter Oklou, Ghanaian-British producer Ama Ampadu, and journalist and director of the Bangkok World Film Festival Donsaron Kovitvanitcha.

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