JACQUELINE LENTZOU: LA SEMAINE DE LA CRITIQUE OF FESTIVAL DE CANNES

Jacqueline Lentzou’s latest short film Hector Malo: The Last Day of the Year has been awarded the Leica Cine Discovery Award at the Cannes Film Festival’s annual Critics’ Week.

Film Synopsis: New Year’s Eve dawns in a moon-kissed car, and Sofia has a dream that she tells no-one: while walking on a desert, she gets to know that she is sick. She pretends she does not care. Has she lost heart?

The Leica Cine Discovery Prize, which is now in its third year, forms part of the 57th Semaine de la Critique, which runs parallel to the Cannes Film Festival. Created in 1962 by the French Union of Film Critics, it focuses on the discovery of new young talent through the screening of first and second feature films, as well as shorts. It is considered to be one of the world’s most influential film festivals. Hector Malot: The Last Day of the Year.