10th L’Œil d’or Selection and Winners

L’Œil d’or (Golden Eye) is the documentary award created in 2015 by the Société civile des auteurs multimédia (LaScam), in collaboration with the Cannes Film Festival with the support of the Institut national de l'audiovisuel (INA), celebrates its 10th anniversary.

This year there are fourteen (14) documentaries in competition for the award and for the first time the documentaries in the ACID selection are included along the ones in the Official Selection, Semaine de la Critique and Quinzaine des Cinéastes.

The award will be presented on Friday, May 23 at the Salon des ambassadeurs du Palais des festival.


The Selection

Official Selection

Special Screenings
Bono: Stories of Surrender, Andrew Dominik, USA
The Six Billion Dollar Man, Eugene Jarecki, USA Special 10 Years Anniversary Jury Prize Winner
Cannes Premiere
Orwell: 2+2=5, Raoul Peck, USA and France
Cannes Classics
David Lynch, une énigme à Hollywood (Welcome to Lynchland), Stéphane Ghez, France
Dis pas de bêtises! (Watch What You Say), Vincent Gleen, France
I Huvudet På Bo (Being Bo Widerberg), Jon Asp et Mattias Nohrborg, Sweden
I Love Peru, Raphaël Quenard and Hugo David, France
My Mom Jayne: A Film by Mariska Hargitay, Mariska Hargitay, USA
Para Vigo Me Voy! (To Vigo I Go!), Lírio Ferreira and Karen Harley, Brazil
Slauson Rec, Leo Lewis O'Neil, USA

Semaine de la Critique
Imago, Déni Oumar Pitsaev Oumar Pitsaev, France and Belgium L’Œil d’or Winner

Quinzaine des Cinéastes
Militantropos, Yelizaveta Smith, Alina Gorlova and Simon Mozgovyi, Ukraine, Austria and France

ACID
الحياة بعد سهام La Vie après siham (Life After Siham), Namir Abdel Messeeh, France and Egypt
Put Your Soul On Your Hand and Walk, Sepideh Farsi, France, Palestine and Iran

The Jury
President: Julie Gayet, actress, producer and director, France
Carmen Castillo, director, Chile
Juliette Favreul Renaud, producer, France
Frédéric Maire, filmmaker, journalist and programmer, Switzerland
Marc Zinga, actor, Belgium and Congo