Lumières Award for Best French-Language Film

Lumières Award for Best French-Language Film
Awarded for	The best French-language film from outside France
Country	France
Presented by	Académie des Lumières
First awarded	2003
Last awarded	2019

The Lumières Award for Best French-Language Film (French: Prix Lumières du meilleur film francophone) is a discontinued award given by the Académie des Lumières from 2003 to 2019. It rewarded the best French-language film made outside France each year. It replaced the Lumières Award for Best Foreign Film (French: Prix Lumières du meilleur film étranger) that was awarded from 1996 to 2002. It was replaced in 2020 by the Lumières Award for Best International Co-Production.

Winners and nominees

In the following lists, the titles and names with a blue background are the winners and recipients respectively; those not in bold are the nominees.

2000s

Year	English title	Original title	Director (s)
2003 (8th)	The Son	Le Fils	Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne
2004 (9th)	The Barbarian Invasions	Les Invasions barbares	Denys Arcand
2005 (10th)	Tomorrow We Move	Demain on déménage	Chantal Akerman
2006 (11th)	L'Enfant		Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne
2007 (12th)	Bamako		Abderrahmane Sissako
	The United States of Albert	Les États-Unis d'Albert	André Forcier
	C.R.A.Z.Y.		Jean-Marc Vallée
	Bunker Paradise		Stefan Liberski
	Barakat!		Djamila Sahraoui
2008 (13th)	Délice Paloma		Nadir Moknèche
	Cowboy		Benoît Mariage
	Gone for a Dance	J'aurais voulu être un danseur	Alain Berliner
	In the Arms of My Enemy	Voleurs de chevaux	Micha Wald
	Days of Darkness	L'Age des ténèbres	Denys Arcand
	Africa Paradis		Sylvestre Amoussou
2009 (14th)	Lorna's Silence	Le Silence de Lorna	Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne
	Johnny Mad Dog		Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire
	Home		Ursula Meier
	Rumba		Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, Bruno Romy
	Faro: Goddess of the Waters	Faro, la reine des eaux	Salif Traore

2010s

Year	English title	Original title	Director (s)
2010 (15th)	I Killed My Mother	J'ai tué ma mère	Xavier Dolan
	Les Saignantes		Jean-Pierre Bekolo
	That Day	1 journée	Jacob Berger
	Hand of the Headless Man	Où est la main de l'homme sans tête	Guillaume Malandrin and Stéphane Malandrin
	Private Lessons	Elève libre	Joachim Lafosse
	Beyond the Ocean	Les Oiseaux du ciel	Eliane de Latour
2011 (16th)	A Screaming Man	Un Homme qui crie	Mahamat Saleh Haroun
	Orly		Angela Schanelec
	Amer		Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani
	Illegal	Illégal	Olivier Masset-Depasse
	Heartbeats	Les Amours Imaginaires	Xavier Dolan
2012 (17th)	Incendies		Denis Villeneuve
	The Kid with a Bike	Le Gamin au vélo	Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne
	The Giants	Les Géants	Bouli Lanners
	Curling		Denis Côté
	Where Do We Go Now?	Et maintenant on va où ?	Nadine Labaki
2013 (18th)	The Pirogue	La Pirogue	Moussa Touré
	Monsieur Lazhar		Philippe Falardeau
	Laurence Anyways		Xavier Dolan
	Sister	L'Enfant d'en Haut	Ursula Meier
	Our Children	A perdre la raison	Joachim Lafosse
2014 (19th)	Horses of God	Les Chevaux de Dieu	Nabil Ayouch
	Today	Aujourd'hui	Alain Gomis
	The Repentant	El Taaib (Le Repenti)	Merzak Allouache
	Dead Man Talking		Patrick Ridremont
	Gabrielle		Louise Archambault
	The Dismantling	Le Démantèlement	Sébastien Pilote
2015 (20th)	Two Days, One Night	Deux jours, une nuit	Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
	C'est eux les chiens...		Hisham Lasri
	Fièvres		Hicham Ayouch
	L'Oranais		Lyès Salem
	Mommy		Xavier Dolan
	Run		Philippe Lacôte
2016 (21st)
	Much Loved		Nabil Ayouch
	As I Open My Eyes	À peine j'ouvre les yeux	Leyla Bouzid
	Next Year	L'Année prochaine	Vania Leturcq
	The Rooftops	Les Terrasses	Merzak Allouache
	The Brand New Testament	Le Tout Nouveau Testament	Jaco Van Dormael
	La Vanité		Lionel Baier
2017 (22nd)
	Hedi		Mohammed Ben Attia
	Belgica		Felix Van Groeningen
	The Unknown Girl	La Fille inconnue	Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
	It's Only the End of the World	Juste la fin du monde	Xavier Dolan
	Mimosas		Oliver Laxe
	The First, the Last	Les Premiers, les Derniers	Bouli Lanners
2018 (23rd)
	Insyriated	Une famille syrienne	Philippe Van Leeuw
	Before Summer Ends	Avant la fin de l’été	Maryam Goormaghtigh
	Beauty and the Dogs	La Belle et la Meute	Kaouther Ben Hania
	A Wedding	Noces	Stephan Streker
	Lost in Paris	Paris pieds nus	Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon
2019 (24th)
	Girl		Lukas Dhont
	Capernaum		Nadine Labaki
	Chris the Swiss		Anja Kofmel
	The Insult	L'Insulte	Ziad Doueiri
	Our Struggles	Nos batailles	Guillaume Senez

See also

• César Award for Best Foreign Film

External links

• Lumières Award for Best French-Language Film at AlloCiné