“Touchées”, “Lycée Toulouse-Lautrec”, “La Cour”: the winners of the La Rochelle Fiction Festival
They fed, heckled, upset the jury. Made him laugh too. The 41 works – including 25 unpublished French productions – selected for the La Rochelle Fiction Festival (Charente-Maritime) were as eclectic as they were ambitious. The prize list is all the more delicious. Thirteen prizes were awarded during the closing ceremony, hosted by Mathieu Madénian, this Saturday, September 17, at La Coursive. Full of mischief, the comedian began by inviting the room to hum “It looks like the south”, by Nino Ferrer. “We are going to sing together, all the channels, he slipped, mischievous. TF 1 and M 6, Amazon and Netflix! “I even saw NRJ 12 and Arte sing together,” laughed Madénian, before handing the microphone over to Sandrine Bonnaire, president of the jury.
The high point of the ceremony, Alexandra Lamy received the prize for best unit for “Touchées” (TF 1), a “poignant and very joyful” television film in which a group of women victims of violence (including Mélanie Doutey, Claudia Tagbo and Chloé Jouannet) rebuilt through fencing. “We can influence the way society looks,” insisted Philip Boëffard, producer. We have an obligation to make the world a better place and to move it forward in the right direction. »
Hafsia Herzi rewarded for “the Court”, her Arte series
This look, “Lycée Toulouse-Lautrec” (TF 1), which received the prize for the best 52-minute series, should also help to change it. The fiction tells the story of Victoire, a 17-year-old teenager, who finds herself forced to integrate an establishment for students with disabilities. “A crazy, cheeky and necessary project”, described Fanny Riedberger, the producer, who was inspired by her own experience. In a wheelchair, Ness Merad thanked: “This series allowed me to play a role, of course, but also to show you a part of my life. »
Hafsia Herzi was rewarded for the realization of “the Court” (Arte pertinent), analysis of the geography of the playgrounds, which designates the boys who play football. The telefilm, carried by the very young Lucy Loste Berset, prize young female Adami hope, questions the place allotted to each one from childhood. “The Man of Our Lives” (M 6), a choral series carried by Odile Vuillemin, Helena Noguerra, Élodie Frégé, Flore Bonaventura and Jonathan Zaccaï, in the role of the crook, received the prize for best screenplay; “Vortex” (France Télévisions), that of the best music.
As for the actors, Zoé Héran and Maïra Schmitt were honored for their interpretation of Violette and Lisa in “Life in front of you” (France Télévisions), a teenage love story against a backdrop of homophobia, and Nemo Schiffman, deeply moving in “Mom, don’t let me fall asleep”, where he plays a young man dangerously addicted to drugs. Vassili Schneider, he received the young male Adami hopeful prize, for “The Story of Annette Zelman” (France Télévisions).
Also rewarded, “Seventh Heaven” (OCS), which highlights the loves and desires of the elderly, and “Lost in California” (Arte), where a lunar Frenchman goes in search of an album by Dr Dre (who does not exist) in a Los Angeles that we discover in a new light. As well as “Attraction”, in the French-speaking series category, “Life And Death In The Warehouse” for European fiction.