Festivals - PIFFF 2021 : Discover the list of winners

By Mulder, 07 december 2021

Tuesday, December 7 at 7:30 pm took place the closing ceremony of the 10th edition of the PIFFF at the Max Linder Panorama cinema, an edition that could be maintained thanks to the energy of the entire festival team and its volunteers.  After a 2020 edition cancelled due to a worldwide pandemic (a scenario worthy of our program), the 10th edition of the PIFFF was finally able to be blown out in front of an audience of faithful spectators who were as enthusiastic as ever!

As a reminder, the Golden Eye is awarded by the public. The French short film jury was composed this year of Estelle Charrié, Dédo, Raphaël Hernandez & Savitri Joly-Gonfard (the Seth Ickerman duo) and Jehanne Rousseau. The Ciné+ Frisson jury was represented by Myriam Hacène, general manager of Ciné+. The Mad jury was composed of 3 readers of Mad Movies magazine.

Bull : Golden eye and jury prize cine+ Frisson

Written and directed by Paul Andrew Williams
Produced by Sarah Gabriel, Marc Goldberg, Leonora Darby, Mark Lane, Dominic Tighe  
With Neil Maskell, David Hayman, Lois Brabin-Platt...
Music : Raffertie
Director of photography : Ben Chads, Vanessa Whyte
Editing : James Taylor
Distributed by Signature Entertainment (UK)
Release date : NC
Running time: 88 minutes
Synopsis: Bull returns to the fold after ten years away, determined to settle the score. In his sights are his former criminal partners and especially their boss, who happens to be his stepfather. Bull wants his son back, no matter how much blood is shed.
Festival notes: With productions as anecdotal as Welcome to the Cottage or Cherry Tree Lane, Paul Andrew Williams had not left a moving memory to the fans of genre cinema. It's an understatement to say that his unexpected return takes us by surprise, in tune with his anti-hero, formidably played by Neil Maskell. This tricky revenge movie is bathed in both a scarlet darkness and an almost intimidating aggressiveness. Its portrait of small forgotten British towns inevitably resonates with the peaks of Ben Wheatley's Kill List or Shane Meadows' Dead Man's Shoes, but it also traces its own path, driven by an audacity to be praised.
Our review (5/5) : https://mulderville.net/fr/critiques/5796/bull

Stephane : Jury Prize Mad
Written and directed by Timothée Hochet, Lucas Pastor
Produced by Vanessa Brias, Monsieur Poulpe
With Lucas Pastor, Bastien Garcia, Eva Grégorieff...
Director of photography : Xavier Cordonnier
Running time: 84 minutes
Synopsis : On the shooting of his amateur short film, Tim unintentionally runs into a certain Stéphane, a gruff, loud-mouthed man with stories that smack of a competition mythomaniac. Tim is convinced that he has a golden documentary subject.
Festival notes: Timothée Hochet's name was engraved in memories in 2017 with Calls, a high concept SF sound creation with a blockbuster vocal cast (French, of course, but still). Hochet is not one to rest on his laurels: if he always ventures into the creation of fictional universes functioning as distorting mirrors, he does it here in the form of a documentary resting on the shoulders of his privileged accomplice, Lucas Pastor. Invested as never in the title role, the latter has all the latitude to create a monstrous, ambiguous character, able to make you laugh and to freeze your blood in the same impulse. World premiere screening of a near-final "Work-in-Progress" version of the film.

Short film section : 
La verrue : French short film : Œil d'or and French short film jury prize 
Le varou : Jury prize Cine+ Frisson
Cuckoo ! : Golden eye

(Source : Press release)