The 20th edition of COLCOA, the prestigious festival held annually in Los Angeles dedicated exclusively to French cinema, was held from April 18 through 26, 2016, with fourteen French artists in attendance.
25,000 spectators came out to see this year's presentation of 40 French features and 21 shorts at the Directors Guild of America Theater in Hollywood, with the the majority of films presented in preview screenings. The event's top prize, the Audience Award, went to Anne Fontaine's film Agnus Dei / The Innocents (The Innocents).
The French delegation included fourteen French actors and directors who made the trip to Los Angeles to meet with American audiences:
- Omar Sy for Monsieur Chocolat
- Claude Lelouch for Un plus une
- Cyril Dion for Tomorrow
- Mohamed Hamidi for The Cow
- Gilles Penso for The Frankenstein Complex
- Christian Carion for Come What May
- Roschdy Zem for Monsieur Chocolat
- Christian Vincent for Courted
- Nicolas Boukhrief for Inside the Cell
- Robert Guédiguian for Don't Tell Me the Boy Was Mad
- Jean-Paul Rappeneau for Families
- Dominique Besnehard
- Alexandre Poncet for The Frankenstein Complex
- Zita Hanrot for Fatima
Awards list
Feature films
- Audience Award Agnus Dei / The Innocents (The Innocents) by Anne Fontaine
- Audience Special Prize: Inside the Cell by Nicolas Boukhrief
- Audience Special Mention: Je suis un soldat by Laurent Larivière
- Special Mention: Un plus une by Claude Lelouch
- LAFCA Critics' Award: Come What May by Christian Carion
- LAFCA Critics' Special Prize: The First the Last by Bouli Lanners
- LAFCA Critics' Special Mention: Fatima by Philippe Faucon
- First Feature Award: The Wakhan Front by Clément Cogitore
- Coming Soon Award: Long Way North by Rémi Chayé
- Documentary Award: Tomorrow by Mélanie Laurent, Cyril Dion
Short films
- Jury Prize: Mother(s) by Maïmouna Doucouré
- Special Jury Prize: Millions of Tears by Natalie Beder
- Short Film Audience Award: It’s Caviar by Sarah Lelouch
- Short Film Special Jury Prize: Millions of Tears by Natalie Beder , Enemies Within by Sélim Azzazi
- Short Film Special Jury Prize: Cold Coffee by Stéphanie Lansaque, François Leroy
- Short Film Audience Special Mention: Our Fallen Heroes by Stéphane Landowski
- LAFCA Critics' Short Film Special Mention: Agnus Dei / The Innocents (The Innocents) by Anne Fontaine
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