Alice Guy: The First, and the Continuum That Follows

Alice Guy: The First, and the Continuum That Follows

Cinema begins with Alice Guy-Blaché, not at its margins, but at its origin. Through the Prix Alice Guy, Véronique Le Bris restores a lineage long obscured, placing today’s women directors within a continuity that was never absent, only forgotten.

Alice Guy Prize 2026 — Cinema at Its Source

Alice Guy Prize 2026 — Cinema at Its Source

Created in 2018, the Alice Guy Prize does more than reward a film, it restores a lineage. By placing Hafsia Herzi alongside Alice Guy, it reconnects contemporary cinema with its origin, where authorship, narrative, and a different gaze first took form.