AWARD WINNERS 2024
Iván Villarmea Álvarez, Filipe Lopes, Luciano Barisone
Grand Prize
Piblokto
by Anastasia Shubina and Timofey Glinin
Juri declaration:
Piblokto made a very strong impression on us. Both the images and sounds express something that goes beyond information, beyond thoughts about death, impacting our ideas about what is like to be in that place, living that life, in an eloquent way. We were drowned into the film by the poetic cinematography and the enchanted soundscapes which honors both the northern people and cinema as an art form.
Best Feature film
La Colonial
by David Buitrón Fernández
Juri declaration:
A film that leaves all the space to our eyes and imagination as spectators, depicting a community of marginalized people, with compelling dialogues and sometimes without a word. Its beautiful ending confronts the audience with their bodies breathing in the night.
Best Short film
Chello’Ncuollo / Impure
Olga Torrico
Juri declaration:
A beautiful and tender film about an universal rite of passage in which situated knowledge and an impressive sense of place go hand in hand to depict how nature takes its course.
Fiction Honorable Mention
I Promise You Paradise
Morad Mostafa
Juri declaration:
A young man from Africa, his partner and their son, in Egypt, waiting to leave for their «paradise»: Europe. They’re poor. So, she leaves with the baby and he has to stay. This film depicts an urgent situation of our contemporary world and it’s a great observational work on bodies and spaces.
Animation Honorable Mention
Cold Soup
Marta Monteiro
Juri declaration:
With this film we are slowly immersed in the life of an abused woman through a fluid and poetic animation and an interesting sound design, unveiling her resilience through a sequence of well-crafted images which made us vividly imagine her circumstances, dark humor, traumas and, specially, her courage.
Memory and Archive Honorable Mention
Nursted, From the Sleep Side
GF Ramsay
Juri declaration:
This experimental work manages to create an uncanny, somnambulist atmosphere that brings the past to the present in order to reflect on the way places preserve their inhabitants’ traces.