The Historical Movie Prize – fiction

Created in 2004, the Historical Movie Prize selection for the fiction category is prepared by François Aymé, general commissioner of the festival.
It is composed of 10 full-lengh movies dealing with historical, political, economical or social subjects.
For the time being, there is no such prize in France.
The selected movies are totally independent from the festival theme of the year. (for instance in 2009, the full-lengh movies in competition had different subjects than the main theme about the communism.)
All the movies in competition are presented in exclusive preview.
They are shown in original version with french subtitles.
Without being requested, the presence of the movies team is deeply encouraged.
The selected movies are projected once or twice. The awarded movies are projected once again the day following the closing ceremony.
An “outside selection” movie is added to the selections ans is presented a a closing projection.

TWO ESSENTIALS CRITERIA for the Historical Movie Prize to be granted :

• The aesthetic and cinematographical qualities of the movie
• Its historical interest.

THE THREE PRIZES OF THE HISTORICAL MOVIE
The Jury Prize.
The jury is made of five personnalities (film maker, producer, historian, writer, journalist, academic…).
2009 Jury Prize : Vincere de Marco Bellochio.
2009 Jury : Fabienne Servan-Schreiber, Anne Chaussebourg, Bernard Cohn, Igor Minaev, Nicolas Werth.

The Student Jury Prize.
The jury is made of five students from Bordeaux universities.
It is presided by a personnality from cinema.
2009 Student Jury Prize: Les Murmures dans le vent de Shahram Alidi
2009 Jury : Président : Philippe Faucon and the students Charlotte Billy, Pierre Cazeaux, Ludovic Lescieux, Alexandra Retterer, Laurie Villenave.

The Public Prize.
2009 Public Prize: Liberté de Tony Gatlif.

THE SPONSORS
The Jury prize is sponsored by :
le Chateau Haut-Brion, Grand Cru Classé de l’appellation Pessac-Léognan
et par la Caisse des Dépôts et Consignation.
The Jury Prize is gifted with Château Haut-Brion and Mission Haut-Brion wine case

The Student Jury Prize is sponsored Crédit Mutuel du Sud Ouest.

THE JURY PRESIDENTS

• 2009 : Fabienne Servan-Schreiber
• 2008 : Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
• 2007 : Marcel Bluwal
• 2006 : Christian Carion
• 2005 : Margarethe Von Trotta
• 2004 : Yves Boisset.