2023-10-01 01:32:09
“O corno”, by the Spanish director Jaione Camborda, won this Saturday the Golden Shell for the best film at the San Sebastián Film Festival, while the Argentine “Puan” won the awards for best script and actor.
Second feature film by Camborda, born in 1983 in the northern Spanish city that hosts the festival, “O corno” tells the story of a woman named María (played by dancer Janet Novás).
María is a shellfish harvester who lives in a Galician coastal town in the 1970s and helps women give birth, but also to terminate pregnancies, until something goes wrong and she has to embark on a desperate escape.
“It is very special for me to receive this award here, in this city that saw me grow up and with so many dear people,” said Camborda.
– Double for the Argentine comedy “Puan” –
For his part, the Argentine Marcelo Subiotto shared the Silver Shell ex aequo for best performance with the Japanese Tatsuya Fuji (“Great Absence”).
Directed by the filmmakers María Alché and Benjamín Naishtat, in “Puan” Subiotto plays Marcelo Pena, a clumsy and unremarkable university professor of philosophy who is applying for a professorship and who is met with a tall, elegant and charismatic competitor, played by Leonardo. Sbaraglia.
“Thank you to the San Sebastián festival for honoring my work with such a distinction, thank you to your audience for having received our film with such a warm and loving attitude,” said Alché on behalf of Subiotto, who was not at the gala because he was filming.
In addition, “Puan” won the award for best script, signed by Alché and Naishtat themselves.
The last Silver Shell, for best direction, went to Taiwanese Tzu-Hui Peng and Ping-Wen Wang, for “Chun Xing” (“A Journey in Spring”).
For its part, the Horizontes award for the best film in the Latin American section of the Horizontes Latinos festival went to “Un Castillo”, by Argentinian Martín Benchimol.
Documentary and Benchimol’s first solo feature film, the film narrates the inheritance granted to a humble worker by her employer, a castle in the Argentine pampas.
“Cinema is this, looking at each other, meeting each other, putting ourselves in the other person’s shoes, both when we make the film and when we see it and can access what another person feels, and we must continue to celebrate that magic of cinema,” Benchimol explained. when collecting your prize.
– A festival conditioned by the strike –
Finally, the audience award went to “The Snow Society”, the film by Spanish director Juan Antonio Bayona that revisits the miraculous true story of survival of a group of Uruguayans whose plane crashed in the Andes in 1972.
The strike of Hollywood actors and scriptwriters conditioned the programming of the contest in the city in northern Spain, but there was no shortage of stars loved by fans, such as Juliette Binoche, Jessica Chastain, Madds Mikelsen and Gabriel Byrne.
On the other hand, the absence of the Spaniard Javier Bardem was evident, who out of respect for unemployment did not come to collect his Donostia Award, although his face continued to adorn the official poster omnipresent in San Sebastián, and it will be awarded to him next year.
The Spanish director Víctor Erice, 83, who grew up in this city, and the Japanese animation director Hayao Miyazaki, 82, who received it from his country, did collect their honorary awards, two legendary figures of the seventh art.
Here I am receiving an award “with all the gratitude I am capable of,” because “it has as its motto the name of the city to which I arrived when I was a few months old,” explained Erice, who was born in a small Basque town before moving to San Sebastian.
The parallel sections gained weight and some of his works aroused great interest, such as the excellent and hilarious Argentine gastronomic series “Nada”, which competed in the culinary film series, or the documentary about the Spanish musician C. Tangana “Esta ambition desmedida”, which brought together 3,000 people at its public screening.
Along these lines, the great controversy of the festival was carried out by the interview/documentary of the former ETA leader José Antonio Urrutikoetxea, alias Josu Ternera, by the Spanish journalist Jordi Évole, in a letter signed by more than 500 personalities, including victims of the Basque organization, repudiating its programming.
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