"If meaning and identity is produced through differences, the disintegration of borders becomes both terrifying and potentially liberating. That goes for the artificiality of geographical borders, as well as for those described by cinematic tradition. For its uncompromising aesthetic ambition reminiscent of Tarkovsky, but with a monumental physicality and a determination to turn the cinema into a mental space entirely of its own design, we are awarding the Prix Special du Jury to Salomé Lamas for Extinction."