The result was so fine that their collaboration extended to more songs, not everyone yet released. Leroy was immediately impressed by the soulful garage sound of the song that would be called 'Sweet Thing', and flew to Stockholm to work with Mikael. His biggest influences are the underground disco sounds of the late 70´s and early 80´s and that led to Mikael contacting the undisputed king of boogie - Leroy Burgess - while working on his first label signed house project Slippery People in the year 2000. Nowadays Stockholm based and recording under his aliases Tiger Stripes, D´Malicious and 12th Floor gives Mikael the opportunity to release stuff ranging from heavy tech house sounds to percussive afro house. At the same time he also discovered the funky soul and jazz sounds of the 60s and 70s and these are all influences that still can be heard in his eclectic approach on dance music - inspired as much by Albert Ayler and Roy Ayers as Derrick May or Underground Resistance. Heavily fascinated and triggered by the house music boom that eventually had reached Sweden in the late 80s, his first steps as a song writer were heavily inspired by the sounds of Inner City and S´Express. They are still eligible for Cannes’ Caméra d’Or aimed at debut features in the parallel sections as well as Official Selection.From the tender age of 10 Mikael started this journey by learning to play a variety of instruments including bass, guitar, drums and piano.

The competition is not over for the first features in the selection. The prizes were announced in a closing ceremony in the Critics’ Week Espace Miramar, followed by closing night film Erwan Le Duc’s tragi-comedy and second feature No Love Lost. Last year’s grand prize went to Andrés Ramírez Pulido’s The Pack (La Jauria), while UK director Charlotte Wells’s father-daughter drama Aftersun won the inaugural French Touch Prize before heading off to its prize-winning run on the international festival and awards circuit. Led by artistic director Ava Cahen, now in her second year at the helm, this year’s Critics Week featured 11 films and seven in competition, all of which were world premieres and six of which were directed by women, including four in competition.ĭiwan was joined on her jury by journalist, curator and advisor to the programming of the Berlin Film Festival Meenakshi Shedde as well as Sundance’s Film Festival programming director Kim Yutani, Portuguese cinematographer Rui Poças and German actor, choreographer and dancer Franz Rogowski. The psychological thriller tackles themes of female friendship and motherhood and stars Hafsia Herzi, Nina Meurisse, Alexis Manenti and Younes Boucif. Iris Kaltenback won the SACD prize for screenwriting for The Rapture (Le Ravissement) that she also directs. The Gan Foundation award for Distribution went to French distributor Pyramide Films for Amjad Al Rasheed’s Inshallah A Boy, a debut feature about a home care worker, widow and mother (Palestinian actress Mouna Hawa) who fights for her independence. Nans Laborde-Jourdàa’s Boléro took both the Leitz Ciné Discovery Prize for best short film and the Canal+ short film award. Jovan Ginic scooped the Louis Roederer Foundation Rising Star Award for Best Actor for Vladimir Perisic’s Lost Country. In its second year, the €8,000 French Touch jury prize went to Belgian filmmaker Paloma Sermon-Daï’s It’s Raining in the House (Il Pleut Dans la Maison), about a brother and sister struggling to survive as their home floods and their bank accounts dry up. It has passed the test of time,” Critics’ Week’s 2023 jury president Audrey Diwan told Screen. It was the first film of the selection that we saw. “Irreverent and uncompromising, Tiger Stripes does not try to please, it is content to fully assume its seductive singularity. Films Boutique is handling international sales and Jour2Fete will release the film in France. Not only is Tiger Stripes the first film from Malaysia in Cannes for several years, but Eu is the first female director from the country in selection at the festival.

Screen’s review said the film “truly growls in its depiction of the brutal nature of girl friendship and the shock of the menstrual metamorphosis.” The film is a multi-territory co-production between Malaysia, Taiwan, Singapore, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Indonesia and Qatar. Nell Eu’s debut feature explores themes of metamorphosis and rebellion in her film about a teenage girl whose body begins to morph at an alarming rate as she learns to embrace her true self. Malaysian director Amanda Nell Eu’s art horror Tiger Stripes won the top €10,000 grand prize of the 62 nd edition of Cannes’ Critics Week sidebar.

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