Fonseca Award for Best Feature Film

ZUMIRIKI, by Oskar Alegria

Jury Statement

«For the proposal of an intense, bold and liberating journey. In Basque, Zumiriki is an island in the middle of a stream. In this autobiographical and performative film, the director transports us to a non-place, with all the layers of memory that this space represents.»

Best Short Film Award

BUSTARENGA by ANA MARIA GOMES

Jury Statement

«For the way in which Ana Maria Gomes presents us with fascinating characters, for her humor - and for offering us such a rich portrait of a family nucleus from a point of view that is both foreign and belonging. Because of the way the director participates in the film to dialogue with these characters, always looking them in the face and never from above. “Bustarenga” is a beautiful film that gives us a lot. »

SHORT FILM HONORABLE MENTION

SANS VOUS, SANS MOI / WITHOUT YOU, WITHOUT ME 
BY ADÈLE SHAYKHULOVA 

Jury Statement

«For the poetic way in which the director approaches and recreates the loss and death of a loved one, evoking and activating archival material through the new technologies available, and how much it can alleviate or increase our pain.»

SHORT FILM HONORABLE MENTION

SPEAKER BY BEHNAM ASADOLAHI

Jury Statement

«For presenting us an original snapshot of Iranian reality with irony, humor and visual richness. For the sophistication, originality and surprise of being able to condense in five minutes social and aesthetic, narrative and cinematographic aspects in an authorial and clever way.»

SHORT FILM HONORABLE MENTION

TAPE LETTERS FROM THE WAITING ROOM 
by STEVEN MCINERNEY

Jury Statement

«For the richness of use of meaningful archival images which were never reduced to limiting interpretations. For editing images and sound in which images strength and mystery allow us to immerse ourselves in them by using memory as a bridge between what we see and what we don't know.»