Discover the winners of the 33rd Pessac International Historical Film Festival

For one week, from November 20 to 27, the Pessac International Historical Film Festival screened in this suburb of Bordeaux 60 films, fictions and documentaries around a theme, which this year was that of the Earth and its miseries. From alerts to solutions, from landless farmers to devastated forests, so many angles that film directors are looking at. The festival presented its numerous prizes on Sunday, November 26, as follows.

Fiction competition

The Professional Jury Prize went to the film Chronicles of Tehran by Ali Asgari and Alireza Khatami
The Danielle Le Roy Prize of the student jury went to Green Border by Agnieszka Holland
The Audience Award was awarded to Me, captain by Matteo Garrone

Unpublished documentary competition

The Professional Jury Prize awarded The Sentinels of Oblivion by Jérôme Prieur
The Bernard Landier Prize of the high school jury was awarded to We were brothers by Hakob Melkonyan
The Audience Award went to A French woman in Kabul, the adventure of a lifetime by Marie-Pierre Camus and Charlotte Erlih

Overview of the documentary

The Pessac city jury prize was awarded to Hebron, Palestine, the factory of occupation by Idit Avrahami and Noam Sheizaf

Cinema history documentary competition

The Michel Ciment Prize rewarded Fellini, confidences rediscovered by Jean-Christophe Rosé
The CaMeo Jury Prize was awarded to Pedro Almodovar, the insolent La Mancha by Catherine Ulmer-Lopez

Cinema History Book Prize

Dominique Missika, The Bernard Natan Affair. The dark years of French cinema (Denoël editions). Published in August 2023.

Pope Clement Prize

Marie-Dominique Robin, director and journalist, is the author of nearly 200 documentaries and reports, notably The World according to Monsanto, The roundup in front of its judges, The Harvests of the future or The Factory of pandemics.