Home: 34 festivals, 19 awards, one DVD

  • 12.07.2009

In all, Home has taken part in 34 festivals, most recently collecting its 19th prize. A quick recap?

Kacey Mottet Klein won the Valois for Best Director and a Special Mention from the Jury at the 2008 Angoulême Francophone Film Festival.
Bayard d’Or for Best Photography to Agnès Godard at the 2008 Festival International du Film Francophone de Namur. With a Bayard d’honneur for Isabelle Huppert.
The FIPRESCI Prize at the Vth Reykjavik International Film Festival 2008.
The SILVER ASTOR Award for Isabelle Huppert and the ADF Award (Argentinean Photography Authors Association) to Agnès Godard at the Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar Del Plata 2008
GRAND PRIX for feature film, CRITIC’S PRIZE and Franco-German Youth Prize at the 2008 Tübingen-Stuttgart International Francophone Film Festival.
Best Film, Best Screenplay, Best Newcomer(Kacey Mottet Klein) at the Swiss Film Prize Quartz 2009.
Prix de la ville d’Athènes at the 10th Festival du film francophone de Grèce 2009.
Prix Nouveau Talent Cinéma – SACD 2009.
Audience Award for Best Feature Film at the Barcelona International Women’s Film Festival 2009.
Screenplay Award – Rabat International Auteur Film Festival 2009.
The Grand Prix – GOLDEN ANGEL at the Tofifest International Film Festival 2009 and the Best Actress Award to Isabelle Huppert.

For those of you with mouths watering but still unfamiliar with the film, it’s already available on DVD. It was even recently chosen as DVD of the Week on the website of the
médiathèque de Bruxelles
So as not to confuse you with a certain highly-promoted documentary, we’ve chosen to illustrate this news item with the cover. You never know…