The actors of ‘Suro’, with the director Mikerl Gurrea standing during the presentation of the film at Zinemaldia 2022. /
The Donostia Hiria audience award went to ‘Argentina 1985’
After the applause of the public and critics, ‘Suro’ begins to receive awards. The 2022 San Sebastian Film Festival has announced some of the official awards that will be presented at tonight’s gala. Among them, the Irizar Basque Film Award, which has been awarded to the first feature film by Mikel Gurrea from San Sebastian and which is a candidate for recognition by the jury of the Zinemaldia Official Section.
‘Suro’, starring Vicky Luengo and Pol López, has also won the Fipresci award from the International Federation of Film Press. The Basque Screenwriters Association has awarded the script written by Mikel Gurrea and Francisco Kosterlitz, based on the experience that Gurrea himself had years ago when he spent a season in the cork industry in Catalonia. From there came the story of Helena and Iván, who set out to build a new life in the cork oak forests, but their different views on how to live on earth emerge, challenging their future as a couple.
The Donostia Hiria Audience Award at Zinemaldia 2022 went to ‘Argentina 1985’, by Santiago Mitre. The film, starring Ricardo Darín, is inspired by the true story of prosecutors Julio Strassera and Luis Moreno Ocampo, who in 1985 dared to investigate and persecute the bloodiest military dictatorship in Argentine history.
Film Festival Awards 2022
Irizar Award for Basque Cinema:
‘Sure’. Special mention: ‘I sing to books and to women’Donostia City Audience Award:
‘Argentina, 1985’. Best European Film: ‘As Bestas’TCM Youth Award:
‘To the books and to the women I sing’Premio Agenda 2030 Euskadi Basque Country:
‘Tori y Logita’Dunia Ayaso Award:
‘Dryers’. Special Mention: ‘The Yellow Roof’Fipresci Award:
‘suro’Premio Feroz Film Festival 2022:
‘The Kings of the world’Basque Screenwriters Association Award:
Mikel Gurrea and Francisco Kosterlitz (Suro)Sebastian Award:
‘Something you said last night’Premio Lurra – Greenpeace:
‘Alcarrás’PREMIUM SIGNS:
‘The Kings of the world’. Special Mention: ‘Runner’
‘As bestas’, by Rodrigo Sorogoyen, has won the award for best European film at this San Sebastian Film Festival, while the TCM youth award has recognized the quote ‘To the books and to the women I sing’, by Maria Elorza. The feature film by the director born in Vitoria -but who has lived in Donostia since she was 8 years old- has been the only Basque in competition in the New Directors section.
Tonight, starting at 9:00 p.m., the closing gala will be held in which the main prizes of this edition of the Zinemaldia will be awarded, in addition to some of these awards that have already been announced.