Two French films, Emmanuel Courcol's The Big Hit, and the hand-drawn Josep, have won the 2020 European Film Awards for best comedy and best animated film, respectively.
In The Big Hit, French star Kad Merad (Welcome to the Sticks) plays a past-his-prime actor who attempts to give drama lessons to a group of prisoners staging a version of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot.
The film premiered at the special, three-day Special Cannes 202o film festival, held in October after the coronavirus pandemic forced the regular 2020 event, planned for May, to cancel.
Josep, the feature debut of editorial journalist Aurélien Froment. better known as award-winning cartoonist Aurel, was also set to premiere in Cannes' official selection in May.
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