{"id":131027,"date":"2024-05-24T22:01:38","date_gmt":"2024-05-24T22:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/24\/cannes-top-doc-prize-goes-to-ernest-cole-andthe-brink-of-dreams\/"},"modified":"2024-05-24T22:01:39","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T22:01:39","slug":"cannes-top-doc-prize-goes-to-ernest-cole-andthe-brink-of-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/24\/cannes-top-doc-prize-goes-to-ernest-cole-andthe-brink-of-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"Cannes’ Top Doc Prize Goes To ‘Ernest Cole’ And’The Brink Of Dreams’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tFor the second 12 months in a row, the L\u2019Oeil d\u2019or prize \u2013 the highest award for documentary on the Cannes Film Festival<\/a> \u2013 is being shared by two movies.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe award introduced on the Croisette at the moment went to Ernest Cole: Lost and Found<\/a><\/em>, directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Raoul Peck<\/a>, and The Brink of Dreams<\/a><\/em>, directed by Ayman El Amir<\/a> and Nada Riyadh<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tPeck\u2019s movie facilities on the titular South African photographer who documented life below apartheid for his nation\u2019s oppressed Black inhabitants. Actor LaKeith Stanfield<\/a> voices writings from the late artist within the movie. Ernest Cole: Lost and Found<\/em> premiered within the Special Screenings part of Cannes.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tDirector Raoul Peck on the Deadline Studio throughout the 77th Cannes Film Festival offered by NEOM on May 22, 2024.<\/span><\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMichael Buckner\/Deadline by way of Getty Images<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

\n\tThe L\u2019Oeil d\u2019or jury \u2013 comprised of president Nicolas Philibert, in addition to Dyana Gaye, Elise Jalladeau, Francis Legault and Mina Kavani \u2013 wrote, \u201cA film that follows the journey of a young South African photographer during the apartheid era. In 1967, at the age of 27, Ernest Cole published a book on the horrors of his country\u2019s regime, the publication of which forced him into exile in the United States and Europe, never to return to his native country. Based on a few testimonies, but even more on the artist\u2019s own words and the extraordinary photographic work recently rediscovered in a Swedish bank, the director tells the story of the wanderings of this fragile, rebellious artist, the loneliness and despair that slowly consumed him to the point where he gradually gave up photography. This tragic destiny, using Ernest Cole\u2019s own words and pictures, deeply moved us.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tThe 2024 L\u2019Oeil d\u2019or jury and prize winners.<\/span><\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy of Benjamin Geminel\/HansLucas<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

\n\tThe Brink of Dreams (Les Filles du Nil)<\/em>, a movie set within the administrators\u2019 native Egypt, premiered within the Critics Week sidebar to Cannes. The jury wrote, \u201cThe second takes us to a Coptic village in southern Egypt, in the footsteps of a small group of girls who rebel by forming a street theater troupe. Dreaming of becoming actresses, dancers or singers, they try to find their place, defying their families and the patriarchal traditions of their country. A film both simple and luminous, that could almost look like \u2018a walk in the park,\u2019 but instead shows us the complexity of their struggle to conquer freedom, and the turbulences generated around them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLast 12 months\u2019s L\u2019Oeil d\u2019or additionally went to 2 movies: Four Daughters<\/em>, directed by Kaouther Ben Hania, and The Mother of All Lies<\/em>, directed by Asmae El Moudir. Ben Hania\u2019s movie went on to earn an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Feature and was Tunisia\u2019s official entry within the Best International Film class. The Mother of All Lies<\/em> grew to become Morocco\u2019s official entry for Best International Film.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tThe L\u2019Oeil d\u2019or (Golden Eye) trophy<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n\tThe L\u2019Oeil d\u2019or prize comes with a \u20ac5,000 award. Twenty two movies vied for the \u201cgolden eye\u201d trophy this 12 months; eligible movies can premiere in Competition, Un Certain Regard, Out of Competition, Midnight Screenings and Special Screenings, Directors\u2019 Fortnight or Critics\u2019 Week.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe L\u2019Oeil d\u2019or is a comparatively new award within the Cannes pantheon, added solely in 2015. It was created by SCAM, France\u2019s Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 Civile des Auteurs Multim\u00e9dia. In addition to Four Daughters<\/em>, earlier winners embody a number of different movies that went on to earn Oscar nominations: Faces Places<\/em>, directed by Agn\u00e8s Varda and JR; For Sama<\/em>, directed by Waad Al-Kateab and Edward Watts, and All That Breathes<\/em>, directed by Shaunak Sen.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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