2025 Prix Louis Delluc Winners

A few minutes ago the award jury presided by Gilles Jacob announced the winners for the 2025 edition of the prestigious Louis Delluc prize and perhaps the greatest very pleasant surprise is that both awards are given to films by female directors, which undoubtedly is not common for the award and the global film industry. Bravo!

Let's recall that award was founded in 1936 by film critics Maurice Bessy, Marcel Idzkowski and Georges Cravenne to "défendre avec enthousiasme et franchise le cinéma, art jeune et art de jeunes" (to defend cinema with enthusiasm and candor, a young art and an art of young people).  Louis Delluc, who died in 1924, was the theorist of a "French-style" cinema then in full development. A campaigner for institutional recognition of cinema, a prolific writer, and a leader of an early avant-garde of French cinema, he died at the age of 33 after having directed only 7 films.

The founders' idea is that the prize should be awarded each year, freely and independently, by a jury made up exclusively of film critics. Nowadays is awarded by a jury of film critics and professionals presided over by former Cannes Film Festival director Gilles Jacob. It traditionally opens the award season in France setting the stage for contenders likely to fibure in the Lumières and the César awards.

The Winners

Prix Louis Delluc: La Petite Dernière (The Little Sister), France and Germany



Prix Louis Delluc Premier Film: Le Rendez-vous de l’été (That Summer in Paris, Valentine Cadic, France



2025 Jury
President: Gilles Jacob
Vice President: Sophie Avon
Jury Members:Alex Vicente, Ariane Allard, Ava Cahen, Charlotte Lipinska, Élisabeth Franck-Dumas, Jean-Marc Lalanne, Jean-Michel Frodon, Gérard Lefort, Mathieu Macheret, Pierre Murat and Sophie Grassin

The Selection
The Selection was announced on November 2025.

Prix Louis Delluc
Dossier 137 (Case 137), Dominik Moll, France
Enzo, by Laurent Cantet directed by Robin Campillo, France, Italy and Belgium
La Petite Dernière (The Little Sister) by Hafsia Herzi, France and Germany
Laurent dans le vent, Mattéo Eustachon, Léo Couture, and Anton Balekdjian, France
Love Me Tender, Anna Cazenave Cambet, France and Luxembourg
Nouvelle Vague, Richard Linklater, France and USA

Prix Louis Delluc First Film
Arco, Ugo Bienvenu, France (animation)
L'épreuve du feu (Hearts on Fire), Aurélien Peyre, France
Le Rendez-vous de l’été (That Summer in Paris), Valentine Cadic, France
Kika, Alexe Poukine, Belgium and France
Nino, Pauline Loquès, France

To check the nominations go official site here.