2023-11-19 02:00:00
The documentary ‘Tèviec’, by Hubert Béasse, won this Saturday the grand jury prize at the Bidasoa International Archaeological Film Festival (Ficab) which held its closing gala at the Amaia in Irun. The documentary that achieved the highest score from the public, and therefore the Special Audience Award, was for ‘Historias de una necropolis’, by Javier Trueba.
‘Tèviec’ narrates the investigation into the first known Mesolithic homicide, based on the discovery in the 1920s of a burial on the island of Téviec, in Morbihan (Brittany), dated between 5,000 and 10,000 years ago. Among the skeletons, one of them had two arrowheads embedded in the spinal column, which questioned whether our Mesolithic ancestors were peaceful hunter-gatherers.
The jury chaired by Isabel Izquierdo and made up of Juantxo Agirre, Julieta Juncadella, Eneko Sagardoy and Mertxe Urteaga, valued “the richness and precision with which it tells a fascinating story about the excavation of a Mesolithic burial. Of great cinematographic quality by combining different formats and temporalities, being very scientifically rigorous and at the same time, exciting.
The palmarés of the contest, which celebrated its twenty-third edition, awarded the Educational Section prize to the documentary ‘Erromatarren arastoak oinen azpian’, directed by Nagore Rementeria and Iñaki Leturia, in recognition of its pedagogical and outreach quality. The freshness and originality with which he poses the existence under our city of remnants of bygone ages, and for bringing so entertainingly and dynamically the history of Oiasso and of the Roman period in Irun closer, provoking especially curiosity and interest in it young public».
The Arkeolan award for scientific dissemination went to the film ‘Vikings: The Lost Kingdom’, by Alexis de Favitski and Pierre Stine, “for showing in a pleasant and understandable way the capacity of archeology and its auxiliary sciences to discard preconceived ideas and understand the day-to-day life of a society, in this case the Viking society.
The Ficab closing gala, after the awards ceremony, concluded with two screenings: the first, the documentary ‘La mano de Irulegi’, produced by the Aranzadi scientific society and which tells, in seventeen minutes, the exceptional archaeological discovery that It occurred a year ago. Next, a classic adventure film, ‘Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade’ was screened by the Bizinema collective, which was also in charge of the decoration that the Amaia cultural center displayed during the festival.’
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