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FICA 2024: discover the prizes awarded by the Inalco jury
Once again this year, Inalco has enthusiastically joined forces with the Festival International des Cinémas d'Asie de Vesoul to share our knowledge and understanding of the world's plurality. The Inalco jury, composed of a teacher, two students and an administrative staff member (Anne Viguier, Ulysse Fornier, Enzo Labetoulle and Sonia Leconte), awarded the prize and the Inalco Coup de Coeur at the festival's closing ceremony.
The 31st edition of the festival will take place from February 11 to 18, 2025 with a new Inalco jury.
Inalco Prize: Snow Leopard
Our jury chose to award the Inalco Prize to Snow Leopard (གངས་གཟིག) by Pema Tseden for its look at the beauty of Tibetan mountains and the symbolic importance of the beings that inhabit them, for its approach to diplomatic relations between humans and non-humans, for its presentation of the legal difficulties of dealing with environmental issues.
The film's lead actor, Tseten Tashi, received the award on behalf of the director, who passed away prematurely in May 2023. Pema Tseden had previously won a Cyclo d'Or in 2016 for Tharlo, the Tibetan Shepherd - also awarded by the Inalco jury that year - and in 2019 for Jinpa.
Synopsis
The unexpected irruption of a snow leopard in the sheepfold of a local herdsman and the death of nine rams not only provoke the family's turmoil, father and son are in conflict: the son insists on killing the leopard, while the father insists on releasing it, but also attract a TV crew to the village...
Snow Leopard will be screened in the Inalco auditorium during the 2024-2025 cultural season. In the meantime, students from Inalco's Tibetan section had the chance to chat with actor Tseten Tashi at a meeting organized this Wednesday, February 14 by the student association Confluences Tibétaines.
Coup de cœur Inalco (special mention): Solids by the Seashore
The Inalco jury's Coup de Coeur was awarded to Solids by the Seashore (ทะเลของฉัน มีคลื่นเล็กน้อย ถึงปานกลาง) by Patiparn Boontarig, which mirrors the barriers men build to control the environment and those they establish in the social world. Image, sound and narration serve this parallel, which combines substance and form in harmonious harmony.
This is the first time the Inalco jury has awarded a Thai film as part of the FICA. The Thai director's first feature-length film, Solids by the Seashore also wins the Jury Prize, and had already made a name for itself at the last Busan International Film Festival, where it was awarded the NETPAC Prize.
Synopsis
On a once sandy beach, eaten away by high tides and now replaced by man-made dykes in southern Thailand, two young women meet. Shati is a young local Muslim from a conservative family. Fon is an activist turned visual artist who has come here for her new art exhibition. The more they get to know each other, the more Shati's internal conflict with her traditional roots grows. Caught between fear and desire, she recalls old childhood tales told by her beloved grandmother. During this pivotal period for Shati, the strange events in the outside world described in her grandmother's tales gradually begin to unfold. Whether it's a dream or not, Shati makes the decision to forge her own path and accept who she is.
In the press
Festival international des cinémas d'Asie rewards same director for third time, with posthumous title - France 3 Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
'Snow Leopard' Wins Top Prize at Vesoul Festival - Variety