'Shelter' finds room at top

"Take Shelter," starring Michael Shannon, came Deauville's top jerk. Helmer Rob Nichols' mental drama "Take Shelter" beat 13 other competitors to win the grand prize within the 37th Deauville American Film Festival, which wrapped Saturday. Pic, starring Michael Shannon just like a guy fighting with mental illness, won Cannes' Experts Week in May and examined competing at Sundance. It segues to Toronto now.Advert Vitam will release the film on 12 ,. 7 in France. Presided over by French helmer Olivier Assayas, the jury granted its prize to Matthew Gordon's coming-of-age drama "The Dynamiter," one of the competition's nine directorial debuts. Lensed in Mississippi, pic follows a teen fostering of his youthful half-brother after they are abandoned by their mother for your summer season. "The Dynamiter" is seeking theatrical distribution.Gordon is presently creating documentary "Lay offs On Wall Street: Bankers in their own personal Words," directed by his wife, Marianne Michallet, who professional produced "The Dynamiter."Tony Kaye's "Detachment," starring Adrien Brody and Christina Hendricks, nabbed the Fipresci worldwide experts prize as well as the Thought jerk. Tribeca Film has U.S. distribution rights Pretty Pictures distributes in Gaul.Deauville closed with Michel Hazanavicius' quiet film "The Artist," starring Jean Dujardin. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com