this is finished Mar del Plata International Film Festival, marked by the return of face to face after three years, after a virtual and a mixed edition. The grand prize travels directly to Brazil this year, because the jury chose it Saudade purple fez in hereby Haroldo Borges.
The director triumphed in the Official Competition with a coming-of-age film following the life of 15-year-old Bruno, who has just been diagnosed with imminent total loss of vision. Borges also received a mention for the emotional tone he managed to capture with a cast without professional actors from a small town in Bahia in this metaphor of the political climate in Brazil in recent years.
Argentina hasn’t won the festival’s top prize for more than a decade, but this year the jury decided that directors Melisa Liebenthal and Ana García Blaya should share the award for best director. Liebenthal shone with the face of the jellyfish, focused on Marina’s misadventures after her face, without any explanation, completely changed. García Blaya stood out thanks to the Uruguayanadaptation of the novel by Pedro Mairal.
In the opinion of the jury, two other Argentine directors also stood out. Francisco J. Paparella received the Special Jury Prize awarded to Three brothers, the second film in his River Trilogy. And Lautaro García Candela received a mention for the road change change.
Sonia Parada won the Best Performance Award for her Bolivian film debut those belowby Alejandro Quiroga. Andrea Bujalskione of the most famous filmmakers in the competition, he had to settle for the best screenplay award he received La la. Things went worse for Portuguese Rita Azevedo Gomes, perhaps the most prestigious filmmaker in the competition, who came away empty-handed after presenting O trio in E flat.
Latin American competition
Perhaps the second competition in order of importance is the Latin American one, to which it is dedicated Lauquen train, choral story by Laura Citarella. The director had already won with her previous film, Poets visit Juana Bignozzi, the prize for best direction in the national competition. The Brazilian-Portuguese co-production I kill dry in flames, by directors Adirley Queirós and Joana Pimienta, won the Special Jury Prize at the Latin American Competition. The portrait of the queer community of Medellín anhell69, by Theo Montoya, received a special mention. The jury also chose the short film soulby the other Colombian Manuel Mateo, and highlighted also the one made by the Argentine Sofía Quirós Úbeda, the silence of the children.
Above the clouds, by María Aparicio from Córdoba, was recognized as the best film in the Argentine Competition. Shot in black and white, the film follows the worldly pleasures and small setbacks of four inhabitants of a gray city where they do not cross paths. Leandro Listorti was declared by the jury the best Argentine director thanks to herbaria, where the director finds common points that link the care of the plants to the conservation of the film material. The Argentine Competition also highlighted, in its short section, animation flesh of godby Patrick Plaza.
The Altered States section, the newest and most experimental of the festival’s competitions, was won by the documentary Geographies of solitudeby Jacquelyn Mills. The Canadian follows the environmentalist Zoe Lucas to the remote island of Sable, who has made a living for 40 years by cataloging the local flora and fauna. Janaína Nagata, from São Paulo, received a mention for her private film, an exhaustive investigation into the twenty minutes of footage that the young filmmaker saves from a family holiday in South Africa in the 1960s. The Argentinian short also received a mention The latest old onesby Pablo Mazzolo, on the social and environmental situation of Windsor and Detroit, on the border between Canada and the United States.
Finally, the award for the best project in transit, section for unfinished films, went to silver or shitby Toia Bonino and Marcos Joubert, a video diary of a prisoner thanks to the mobile phone that his fiancée managed to smuggle into prison. punkby the Peruvian Juan Daniel Fernández Molero, e big shadowby Maximiliano Schonfeld of Entre Ríos, were cited by the jury.
The festival concludes this Sunday with the screening of most of the films on this list in surprise performances.
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Source: Clarin
