La Gradiva by Marine Atlan 2026 Ornano-Valenti Prize

Estab­lished in 1991 by mem­bers of the Motion Pic­ture Asso­ci­a­tion (MPA), which brings togeth­er six Amer­i­can film pro­duc­tion and dis­tri­b­u­tion stu­dios, the Ornano-Valen­ti Prize is award­ed by a jury of Anglo-Sax­on jour­nal­ists and pro­fes­sion­als chaired by Jean-Guil­laume d’Ornano. This prize recog­nis­es a French debut fea­ture film with the aim of pro­mot­ing its recog­ni­tion, pro­mo­tion and inter­na­tion­al reach. Since 2009, this ini­tia­tive has been sup­port­ed by the Fran­co-Amer­i­can Cul­tur­al Fund.

This year, the Ornano-Valen­ti Prize will be pre­sent­ed to Marine Atlan’s La Gradi­va at the Deauville Film Fes­ti­val Awards Cer­e­mo­ny on 12 September.

La Gradiva by Marine Atlan

With Colas Quig­nard, Suzanne Gerin Hen­ry, Mitia Capel­li­er Audat, Anto­nia Buresi

A group of French sixth-for­m­ers set off on a school trip to Naples to explore the ruins of Pom­peii and the bod­ies pet­ri­fied by Mount Vesu­vius. It is there that they are sud­den­ly over­come by a sense of ver­ti­go. One by one, they allow them­selves to be over­whelmed by desire and anger until they sur­ren­der to it completely.

In cin­e­mas 21 octo­ber 2026

Dis­tri­b­u­tion | Tandem

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