Thank you very much for this award! As an heterosexual woman, I’m all the more moved and honoured
(Anne Fontaine, director)
Marvin is a beautiful and sensitive adaptation of an autobiographical novel by Edouard Louis, ‘Reinventing Marvin’, which charts the difficult coming of age and coming out of a young gay man in a rural village in the Vosges. The film, directed by Anne Fontaine, charts the journey of a teenage gay man, bullied at school and abused at home, who is able to become a confident, creative artist by using his own story to create art that is cathartic, inspiring and transforming. The performances of both Jules Porier and Finnegan Oldfield are outstanding as portrayals of Marvin at different stages of development in a film which is both profoundly moving and entertaining
(Brian Robinson, president of the jury)
The award ceremony took place on September 8th at Villa degli Autori, headquarter of Giornate degli Autori-Venice Days, lungomare Marconi 56, Lido di Venezia.
Jury members, Brian Robinson, Adriano Virone, Rich Cline, Daniel N. Casagrande e Marco Busato, after watching all the movies submitted by the different selecting commissions, confirms that are still competing for the Award the following 7 titles:
Una famiglia by Sebastiano Riso (Italy, 105’)
Marvin by Anne Fontaine (France, 115’)
The Prince and the Dybbuk by Elwira Niewiera, Piotr Rosołowski (Poland, Germany, 82’)
Martyr by Mazen Khaled (Lebanon, 80’)
Il contagio by Matteo Botrugno and Daniele Coluccini (Italy, 110’)
Les garçons sauvages by Bertrand Mandico (France, 110’)
Team Hurricane by Annika Berg (Denmark, 94’)
