Nearly 2,300 final year students from 97 general, technological and vocational high schools voted for Jeanne Herry’s film which dealt with “restorative justice”.
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The film I will always see your faces by Jeanne Herry wins the César for high school students this Monday, we can read on the X account of the César Academy. The prize was presented by Nicole Belloubet, Minister of National Education and Youth, and Élisabeth Tanner, general secretary of the Academy of Cinema Arts and Techniques. The presentation of the César for high school students will take place on Wednesday March 20, 2024 at the Sorbonne.
The five films competing to win the award were: Anatomy of a fallby Justine Triet, Dog of the breakageby Jean-Baptiste Durand, The Goldman trialby Cédric Kahn, The Animal Kingdomby Thomas Cailley and I will always see your faces, by Jeanne Herry. The director was interested in “restorative justice”. Introduced into French law in 2014, and revised in 2020, the notion of “restorative justice” consists of having convicts meet their victims at their place of detention under the mediation of volunteers from civil society.
The César for high school students was created in 2019. This year, 2,286 final year students from 97 general, technological and vocational high schools voted. These high schools are located throughout France, in Guadeloupe, Reunion Island, Martinique, but also in Mexico, Milan and Tokyo, thanks to the participation of French establishments abroad.
