On Wednesday, Argentinian director Francisco Lezama’s “Two Views,” Uruguayan director Daniel Handler’s “Unfastened Endings” and German director Sara Miró Fisher’s “The Blue Mark” opened in San The win on the Sebastian Movie Pageant’s trade awards ceremony revealed the prize for its most essential competitors, the European Movie Pageant.
“Pricey Bastiano” by Maria Elorza from Spain obtained the Icus Mira Beliac Award, the award for the perfect mission within the prestigious San Sebastian Improvement Plan.
Lezama’s two wins on the Discussion board mark his second win this yr, having beforehand received the 2024 Berlin Golden Bear for Finest Brief Movie for “Un movimiento extraño.”
Produced by Argentina’s Pionera Cine and developed by Lezama and Ignacio Cerro Tasks, this “melancholic comedy” about faith and household tensions, as Lezama places it, takes place amid the Catholic Church’s Throughout an institutional disaster as Catholics transformed to evangelicalism. Mercedes, a sixty-year-old religious Catholic, is obligated to host the girlfriend and unrecognized daughter of her deceased tenant in her house. The movie, presently in manufacturing, follows a Eucharistic priest’s makes an attempt to keep up sure rituals of conventional Catholicism in a small city the place converts to evangelicals are slowly altering the custom. kind.
In the identical discussion board competitors, Colombian Mariana Saffon’s “Mar de Leva” received the ArteKino Worldwide Prize, sponsored by the Franco-German writer Arte. Within the e book, Elena prepares for her father’s impending dying and faces a need she by no means imagined: changing into a mom. The mission marks the function movie debut of Safin, whose Between You and Milagros received the Finest Brief Movie Award on the 2020 Venice Horizon Movie Pageant. Well-known director and producer Franco Lolli (“Gente de bien”, “Litigante”) and Capucine Mahé of Colombia’s Evidencia Movies function chief producers.
“It was a privilege and a really thrilling problem to accompany Mariana Safin within the making of her debut function. Her sensible brief movie Between You and Milagros already demonstrated distinctive emotion, unwavering dedication and A really private viewpoint. kind.
Berlin Silver Bear winner Hendler received the WIP Latam Trade Award for his third directorial function, A Unfastened Finish. The protagonist of the story is Santiago, a low-level policeman, who got here to Fray Bentos, a small city on the border between Uruguay and Argentina, so as to keep away from being pursued by the Argentine police pressure. Penniless, however with sufficient crafty and a shabby uniform, he overcomes obstacles and enlists the assistance of native characters aiming to erase all traces of his previous and even dream of discovering the attainable love of his life.
Chilean director Naira Ilic’s second function movie “Cuerpo Celeste” received the Egoda Platino Industrial Award. It follows the life journey of Celeste, a teen pressured to deal with the dying of her father whereas her mom offers with a private disaster. Ilic’s debut function Sq. Meter screened in competitors on the 2011 Palm Springs Movie Pageant.
Feminist drama The Blue Mark, produced by the German Movie Academy in Berlin in partnership with Arkanum Photos and RBB, tells the story of siblings Rose and Sam. After studying that the rape accusations in opposition to Sam are true, Rose should learn to cope with her brother’s crimes. Milo Fisher co-wrote the movie’s screenplay with Agnes Maggard-Peterson.
A story diptych that treats reminiscence as invention and different parts as experimental non-fiction, Pricey Bastiano is predicated on a person who lived throughout World Conflict II. It’s set in opposition to the backdrop of a love letter despatched by a member of the politically and traditionally important Elorza household. This hybrid represents the newest work from Elorza, a widely known determine in San Sebastian cinema, whose I Sing for Books and Ladies obtained a particular screening on the 2022 San Sebastian Movie Pageant.
San Sebastian Trade Awards 2024
The thirteenth Europe-Latin America Co-Manufacturing Discussion board Awards
Finest Undertaking Award
“Two Landscapes” (Francisco Lezama, Argentina, Brazil)
Dell! Improvement Award
“Two Landscapes” (Francisco Lezama, Argentina, Brazil)
Artekino Worldwide Prize
“Mar de Leva” (Mariana Saffon, Colombia, France)
Latin America WIP
WIP Latin American Trade Award
“Unfastened Ends” (Daniel Hendler, Uruguay, Argentina)
Egeda Platino Industrial Award
“Celestial Our bodies” (Nayra Ilic, Chile, Italy)
European WIP
WIP European Trade Award
“Blue Marks (WT)” (Sarah Miro Fischer, Germany)
WIP European Awards
“Blue Marks (WT)” (Sarah Miro Fischer, Germany)
New Perspective Award
Stellar Award
“Pricey Bastiano” (Maria Elorza, Spain)
