Cannes Directors’ Fortnight Winners: Clio Bernard’s ‘I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning’ Scoops People’s Choice Audience Award
Clio Bernard's film 'I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning' has won the People's Choice Audience Award at Cannes' Directors' Fortnight. The film, which explores the lives of childhood friends facing the realities of adulthood, is adapted from a book by Keiran Goddard. This marks Bernard's third appearance in the Directors' Fortnight section of the festival.
- ▪I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning is directed by Clio Bernard and features actors such as Anthony Boyle and Joe Cole.
- ▪The film follows a group of childhood friends as they confront the challenges of adulthood.
- ▪The People's Choice Audience Award was launched in 2024 and includes a €7,500 cash prize.
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I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning Charades UK director Clio Bernard has clinched the People’s Choice Audience Award at parallel Cannes section Directors’ Fortnight. Starring Anthony Boyle, Joe Cole, Jay Lycurgo, Daryl McCormack and Lola Petticrew and adapted from the book of the same name by Keiran Goddard, I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning. It follows childhood friends Patrick, Shiv, Rian, Oli, and Conor who played together, skipped school together and dreamt of the lives they would have one day, but now they’re thirty, the future they imagined is slipping quietly out of reach.
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