Cannes Critics’ Week Winners: Thai Film ‘A Useful Ghost’ & ‘Imago’ Take Top Prizes

Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke’s zany romantic drama A Useful Ghost has received the highest prize at Cannes Critics’ Week.

The function, which is the primary Thai movie to play within the parallel segment for a lot of years, received the inaugural AMI Paris Grand Prize.

This yr’s jury was once presided over by means of Spanish director Rodrigo Sorogoyen (The Beasts, Riot Police, The New Years), who was once joined by means of Oscar-winning Judas and the Black Messiah UK actor Daniel Kaluuya, Moroccan journalist Jihane Bougrine, French-Canadian cinematographer Josée Deshaies and Indonesian manufacturer Yulia Evina Bhara.

A Useful Ghost co-stars best Thai actress, type and influencer Davika Hoorne as Nat, a lady who dies of mud air pollution after which returns as a ghost within the type of a vacuum cleaner, decided to avoid wasting her circle of relatives from a an identical destiny.

The function, which is the primary Thai movie to play within the parallel segment for a lot of years, received the inaugural AMI Paris Grand Prize.

The film co-stars best Thai actress, type and influencer Davika Hoorne as Nat, a lady who dies of mud air pollution after which returns as a ghost within the type of a vacuum cleaner, decided to avoid wasting her circle of relatives from a an identical destiny.

Witsarut Himmarat performs her husband March, whose rich production circle of relatives reject this unconventional human-ghost courting.

In different prizes, the French Touch Prize of the Jury went to France-based Chechen director Deni Oumar Pitsaev’s Imag

The autobiographical documentary explores the director’s plans to construct a futuristically designed area at odds with the panorama and native traditions on a small plot of land in a Georgian valley on the foot of the Caucasus, at the border of Chechnya.

Quebecois actor Théodore Pellerin received the Louis Roederer Foundation Rising Star Award for his efficiency in Pauline Loquès’s Nino, a few younger drifter, who spends 3 days wandering the streets after shedding the keys to his condo.

Leitz Cine Discovery Prize for brief movie was once received by means of Randa Maroufi’s L’mina, about an unofficial coal mining the city in Morocco.

In collateral prizes, Shih-Ching Tsou’s Left-Handed Girl received the Gan Foundation Award for Distribution, which can improve the French free up of the movie by means of Le Pacte.

The SACD Award for highest screenplay went to director Guillermo Galoe and Victor Alonso-Berbel for Sleepless City, on which they took co-writing credit.

The Canal+ Award for brief movie went to Erogenesis de by means of Xandra Popescu