Dinard 2026: Clio Barnard wins the Hitchcock d'Or, the winners of a 37th edition looking to tomorrow
Five days of British and Irish cinema facing the sea, a jury chaired by Amira Casar and a list that focuses on new eyes: the 37th edition of the British and Irish Film Festival closed on October 10 on a certainty — the succession is already there.
There are festivals that live like a crossing. In Dinard, from October 7 to 11, 2026, one room to the other is moved across the Channel, between two projections of what British and Irish cinema produce more alive. The 37th edition of the British and Irish Film Festival made its mark on Saturday, October 10, at the Palais des Arts and the Festival, after five days and five rooms dedicated to the big screen.
The Gold Hitchcock for Clio Barnard
The jury, chaired by actress Amira Casar and composed of Zoé Adjani, Thibault de Montalembert, Ben Hardy and producer Stephen Woolley, awarded the Hitchcock d'Or CINÉ+ OCS to I see buildings falling like lightning (I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning), by the British filmmaker Clio Barnard. A choice that says a lot about the festival's DNA: a cinema anchored in reality, attentive to ordinary lives and territories.
The price of the best interpretation has come back to Flora Nicholson and Clare Dunne for The Education of Jane Cumming, by Sophie Heldman. The Special Barrière Award has distinguished Rose of Nevada, by Mark Jenkin, one of the most singular British filmmakers of the moment. On the public side, festivalgoers have won Skintown, by Kieron J. Walsh, for feature films, and PuntNicky Larkin's for the courts.
The Young People's Prize: a "Talent of Tomorrow"
But the best-known prize for Dinard's spirit is perhaps the youngest. « Talent of tomorrow » award West FranceAwarded by a jury of spectators aged 18-25, awarded Lady, ofOlive NwosuA festival that entrusts part of its prize to the generation that is coming: this is a way to prepare the sequel, edition after edition.
For the film lovers of the diaspora, as for professionals, Dinard remains this unique event where the cinema of the past Manche looks from Brittany — and where the talents of tomorrow are visible first and foremost. The 38th edition now has a heading: that drawn by this list.
Practical information
Event: Dinard British and Irish Film Festival — 37th edition (completed)
Dates: Wednesday 7 to Sunday 11 October 2026; rankings Saturday 10 October 2026
Place: Dinard (Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany) — 5 rooms; awards ceremony at the Palais des Arts and the Festival
Official site: dinardfestivaldufilm.fr
Ticket: 2026 edition completed — next appointment in autumn 2027 (dates not announced to date)
— Moïse 1er, the Festival Explorer
Source: West France