The film Argentina 1985which was chosen for the opening of the 43rd International Festival of New Latin American Cinemaat the closing gala she won three Coral awards.
The awards went to Ricardo Darinfor best male performance; michael saighfor Best Art Direction e Mariano Llinás and Santiago Miterfor best screenplay.
Additionally, the film’s director, Santiago Mitre, won the Signis Award “for his accurate approach to the past from a profound perspective,” according to the Cuban press.
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In this way, the fiction that visits the historic Trial of the Juntas responsible for crimes against humanity during the last civil-military dictatorship in the country, adds a new international award.
Argentina 1985 it had already been awarded at the Venice Film Festival with the recognition of the Film Press and at the San Sebastián Film Festival, with the audience award.
In addition, the film starring Ricardo Darín and Peter Lanzani, along with a large cast, will participate in the Spanish Goyas meeting to be held on February 11 in Seville.
The film was also selected to represent Argentina at the next Academy Awards ceremony on March 12, 2023, in the category of Best International Film.
The history of the process
Mitre’s film, starring Alejandra Flechner, Norman Briski and Carlos Portaluppi, among others, tells the real case of the assignment carried out by the prosecutor Julio César Strassera and his substitute, Luis Moreno Ocampo together with his team, in the famous Trial of the Military Juntas. Darín plays Strassera and Lanzani, Moreno Ocampo.
The action takes place between 1984 and 1985when the prosecution of the top military commanders who had ruled between 1976 and 1982 was hampered by the Armed Forces and the Federal Chamber decided to try the military defendants itself.
Strassera and his team had only two months to prepare the indictment and present the case to trial along with a legal team of young students who investigated and presented the indictment to trial, which finally took place in 1985.
The most awarded in Cuba
On the other hand, at the closing ceremony of the Havana Film Festival, the feature film the big moveby the Bolivian Kiro Russo, who with his x-ray of working class life in La Paz, prevailed in the fiction and direction categories, as well as in sound and editing, by Russo himself and Pablo Panigua.
The closing ceremony at the Charles Chaplin cinema in the Cuban capital began with the delivery of a Choir of Honor Award to the Cuban troubadour Silvio Rodríguezand the controversial words of recognition by the Manuel Pérez National Cinema Award.
The recognition implied acknowledgment of the activity of the Nueva Trova Cubana movement and included an audiovisual tribute that the audience received with a standing ovation.
Upon receiving the accolade, Rodríguez said he was accepting the award on behalf of his absent colleagues from the ICAIC’s (Cuban Institute of Motion Picture Arts and Industry) Sound Experimentation Group, and cited a large list, including Pablo Milanés, Sergio Vitier, Noel Nicola, Emiliano Salvador and Eduardo Ramos.
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Source: Clarin
