The José Ignacio Festival has ended: who were the winners

A new edition of the José Ignacio International Film Festival has just ended. Sponsored by Clarionfeature films have been premiered for Latin America, many of them now with Oscar nominationsafter passing through the Cannes Film Festival.

JIIFF viewers had the opportunity to decide, day by day and with their vote, which was the best film of this 14th edition. And the winner it turned out to be The taste of things. The feature film, directed by Trán Anh Húng, was screened on Tuesday 16 January in the first screening scheduled at an unusual time for the Festival, in the morning. It was screened in one of the festival’s venues, in the VIK Pavilion, and was followed by a debate that lasted almost 4 hours at the Parador La Huella.

As for the movie with Juliet Binochewhich was the one sent from France to compete for the Oscar for best international film, said Pablo Mazzola, programmer of JIIFF: “The film talks about the possibility of loving through cooking as an art. It gives us a moment of poetry that comforts the moments when, sometimes, reality hits us hardest. And resting in love is very important.”

The prize itself consists of a work by the Uruguayan plastic artist Federico Benites, who has worked through the recycling of wood of more than 100 years, works of great visual impact. The work crosses the artisanal and the pictorial, the classical European and Uruguayan constructivist, the playful, the reuse of elements and waste.

The other films shown were Anatomy of a fallby Justine Triet; poor creaturesby Yorgos Lanthimos; The area of ​​interestby Jonathan Glazer; Perfect daysby Wim Wenders; The wind that sweeps away, by Paula Hernández; AND May Decemberby Todd Haynes.

There was also a winning short film

Viewers were also able to choose the short film that won the audience award. And it was for Fortressdirected and produced by Mica Tyler and Daniel Bielosheikin.

The jury of the 2024 Short Film Competition was composed of the Argentine director Paula Hernández, the Chilean director Dominga Sotomayor and the Uruguayan screenwriter, director and producer Rodo Sayagués. The three decided that the December Prize would be awarded to Fortressby Mica Tyler and Daniil Bielosheikin, “for the austerity and honesty with which it portrays a profound connection through the observation of the space and time they inhabit”.

The December Prize consists of a trip to the 2024 Cannes Film Festival and a work by Uruguayan artist Carlos Vignolo.

The short film Black cubeby Gabriel Pagola, obtained a Special Mention “for the original use of sound and visual archives to save a fragment of a man’s real journey in space”.