Trophy artists
Kyriaki Moustaki
Kyriaki Moustaki is a Vallauris-based ceramist whose work is inspired by Greek mythology. Originally from the Greek island of Naxos, part of the Cyclades in the Aegean Sea, she remains attached to her homeland. While Naxos is rich in marble and emery, the land devoted to agriculture is scarce and precious, as on the Greek islands. The clay also reminds her of her first childhood toys, which she made herself from clay. This artist creates works using the Raku or glazed clay technique. She has an exhibition space in Vallauris and continues to take part in international pottery markets and exhibitions in France and abroad.
Store: 9 rue Clément Bel, near Place de l’Homme au mouton by Picasso, Vallauris.
Ernesto Novo
Born into a French-Vietnamese immigrant family, Ernesto Novo grew up in a family of eleven children in Arianne, a neighborhood with a strong cultural mix. As a child, he discovered in drawing a place of freedom and refuge. As he grew up, he trained at the Villa Arson in Nice, while at the same time enjoying incredible travel experiences around the world, where he drew on the ground with chalk. This was the beginning of his relationship with public space as a place of expression and protest, but also as a place of interaction with the people who pass through it.
Today, Ernesto Novo is a talented painter and street artist whose work, both studio and fresco, pays tribute to music and to people in the shadows, celebrating living together and the richness of the hearts of those who work for peace. He does not hesitate to commit himself, for example, to the restitution of African works of art, to the cause of migrants and integration, and to raising awareness of climate change. To this end, he has just created a fresco in Bombay on the theme of sustainable development.
Ernesto’s Instagram: @ernesto.novo
FIFES Awards
Graine d’Or
La Golden Seed is FIFES’ highest distinction. It represents the seeds of the future sown by change-makers. The award-winning film invites us to get moving.
Prix Coup de Cœur
The award Coup de Cœur is awarded to a work that tells the story of a life, a way of being and a way of doing that moves us and touches our hearts.
Prix Spécial du Jury
The award Special Jury Prize rewards an extraordinary film that takes us to the frontier between dream and reality, documentary and fiction, and proposes a different vision of the world.
Prix for the Public
Le Audience Award is the award given by the spectators present at the festival screenings. It is awarded to one of the films in competition – international or youth – or out of competition (Local Corner).
