All The Little Live Things Wins Cannes €20K Prize
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- All The Little Live Things won the 2026 ArteKino International Prize (€20,000) at the Cannes Investors Circle pitching event.
- Carine Tardieu adapted Wallace Stegner’s 1967 Pulitzer‑winning novel, moving the story to Normandy for the film.
- Kare Productions’ producers Antoine Rein and Fabrice Goldstein received the prize to fund the film, which will begin shooting next month with Benoît Magimel, Léa Drucker and Melanie Thierry.
- Cannes Investors Circle showcased eight projects, including works by Juho Kuosmanen, Atsuko Hirayanagi and Magnus von Horn, and highlighted brand participation in film financing.
- Koji Yanai, senior executive of Fast Retailing (Uniqlo), opened the event and discussed how brands are reshaping independent cinema financing.
- Wallace Stegner’s novel, the source material for the film, follows a couple coping with their son’s death amid 1960s social and political turmoil.
Why it matters: The €20,000 prize gives Kare Productions the cash needed to move All The Little Live Things into production, advancing Carine Tardieu’s profile after her recent Césars success and illustrating how brands like Fast Retailing are now directly funding independent films.
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