With a straight forward to reading/giving awards the festival has closed an edition that will be recall for giving top awards to Asian Cinema and YES, to female filmmakers!
Will not deny that is a great surprise that precisely this festival is the one that honors that many female directors, but the most unexpected situations come from the least likely players. Yes, also believe is the first non-LGBT film festival that gives so many awards to lesbian-interest films! Great!
Usually the only thing that stays on-top-of-mind from this festival are the Horizontes Latinos winners but this year believe there will be more films as, of course, I’m curious about the two Asian Cinema films as well as that film with the actor that won the Best Actor award and the Argentinean film winner of the Best Cinematography.
Already mentioned in another post but will repeat, Rara by Pepa San Martin is Must-Be-Seen for me and now I’m very curious about the film about three women that suspect will not be easy-to-watch but now know that will have to watch as won too-many awards, congratulations to Maysaloun Hamoud for the multiple honors her film collected in San Sebastian.
So, this is it. See you next year. Adiós #64SSIFF.
Official Selection
Golden Shell for Best Film: 我不是潘金莲 Wo Bu Shi Pan Jinlian (I Am Not Madame Bovary), Xiaogang Feng, China
Silver Shell for Best Director: Hong Sang-soo for 당신 자신과 당신의 것 Dangsinjasingwa dangsinui geot (Yourself and Yours), South Korea
Silver Shell for Best Actress: Bingbing Fan in 我不是潘金莲 Wo Bu Shi Pan Jinlian (I Am Not Madame Bovary), Xiaogang Feng, China
Silver Shell for Best Actor: Eduard Fernandez for El Hombre de las Mil Caras, Alberto Rodriguez, Spain
Jury Prize for Best Screenplay: Isabel Peña and Rodrigo Sorogoyen for Que Dios Nos Perdone, Rodrigo Sorogoyen, Spain
Jury Prize for Best Cinematography: Ramiro Civita for El Invierno (The Winter), Emiliano Torres, Argentina and France
Jury Special Award (tie)
El Invierno (The Winter), Emiliano Torres, Argentina and France
Jätten (The Giant), Johannes Nyholm, Sweden and Denmark
Kuxta-New Directors Award: Park, Sofia Exarchou, Greece and Poland
Special Mention: Compte tes blessures (A Taste of Ink), Morgan Simon, France
Horizontes Latinos
Best Film: Rara, Pepa San Martín, Chile and Argentina
Special Mention: Alba, Ana Cristina Barragán, Ecuador, Mexico and Greece
Zabaltegi Award
Best Film: Eat That Question: Frank Zappa In His Own Word, Thorsten Schütte, France and Germany
Special Mention: La disco resplandece, Chema García Ibarra, Turkey
Other Awards
FIPRESCI Award: Lady Macbeth, William Oldroyd, Uk
Signis Award: Nocturama, Bertrand Bonello, France, Germany and Belgium
Special Mention: A Monster Calls, J. A. Bayona, Spain
Eroski Youth Award: Bar Bahar (In Between), Maysaloun Hamoud, Israel and France
5th Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum EGEDA
Best Project Award: 7:35 AM, Javier van de Couter, Argentina
Special Mention: Hogar, Marua Delpero, Italy and Argentina
EFADs-CACI Europe-Latin America Co-Production Grant: Los Días Según Ellos (Malambo King), Juan Pablo Félix, Argentina, Spain and France
Arte International Prize: Hogar, Marua Delpero, Italy and Argentina
Feroz Zinemaldia Award: El Hombre de Las Mil Caras, Alberto Rodríguez, Spain
Films in Progress 30 Industry Award: La Educación del Rey (Rey’s Education), Santiago Esteves, Argentina
CACI/Ibermedia TV Films in Progress Award: La Educación del Rey (Rey’s Education), Santiago Esteves, Argentina
Greepeace Award: L’odyssée (The Odyssey), Jérôme Salle, France
Irizar Basque Film Award: Pedaló, Juan Palacios, Spain
Basque Best Screenplay: New York. Quinta Planta, Mikel Rueda, Spain
Spanish Cooperation Award: Oscuro Animal, Felipe Guerrero, Colombia, Argentina, Netherlands, Germany and Greece
Special Mentions
Era o Hotel Cambridge, Eliane Caffé, Brazil, France and Spain
Viejo Calavera (Dark Skull), Kiro Russo, Bolivia and Qatar
Sebastiane Award: Bar Bahar (In Between), Maysaloun Hamoud, Israel and France
Sebastiane Latino Award: Rara, Pepa San Martín, Chile and Argentina
Solidarity Award: La Fille de Brest (150 Milligrams), Emmanuele Bercot, France
TVE Another Look Award: Bar Bahar (In Between), Maysaloun Hamoud, Israel and France
Tokyo Goham Award: Theater of Life, Peter Svatek, Canada
Audience Award: I, Daniel Blake, Ken Loach, UK, France and Belgium
European Film Audience Award: Ma Vie de Courgette (My Life as a Courgette), Claude Barras, Switzerland and France
15th International Film Student Meetings Awards – Short Films
Panavision Award: Étage X (Floor X),Francy Fabritz, DFFB–Berlin Film Conservatory, Germany
Special Mention: Umpire, Leonardo van Dilj, LUCA School of Arts, Belgium
Orona Award: 24º 51’ Latitud Norte, Carlos Lenin Treviño, Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos CUEC-UNAM, Mexico
Special Mention: A quien corresponda, Valeria Fernández, Universidad del Cine, Argentina
Donostia Award: Sigourney Weaver and Ethan Hawke
Jaeger-LeCoultre Latin Cinema Award: Gael García Bernal
Zinemira Award: Ramón Barea
To check winners at official site go here.
Closing Ceremony
