‘I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning’ Wins Directors’ Fortnight Audience Award
Clio Barnard's film 'I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning' has won the People's Choice Award at Cannes' Directors' Fortnight. The film explores the lives of five working-class friends from Birmingham as they navigate their diverging paths in life. This award includes a cash bursary for the director and honors the late filmmaker Chantal Akerman.
- ▪The film follows five friends who grew up together in a Birmingham tower block.
- ▪It is an adaptation of Kieran Goddard's novel of the same name.
- ▪The People's Choice Award comes with a €7,500 cash bursary for the director.
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Oli (Jay Lycurgo), Patrick (Anthony Boyle), and Shiv (Lola Petticrew) in I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning. Chris Harris Share on Facebook Share on X Google Preferred Share to Flipboard Show additional share options Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share on Tumblr Share on Whats App Send an Email Print the Article Post a Comment Clio Barnard’s I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning has won the People’s Choice Award of Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight sidebar. The kitchen-sink drama follows five working class friends — Patrick, Shiv, Rian, Oli and Conor — who came up together in a tower block in Birmingham who are now in their 30s and find themselves on increasingly divergent — and for most of them, increasingly constrained — paths to the future.
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