Iván Fund, the director of the film “Piedra Noche”, which won an award in Peru.
The film Night stonefrom the Argentine Iván Fund, was chosen as Best Film of the twenty-sixth edition of the Lima Film Festival, honorable mention also for the Argentine Agustina Pérez Rial, for Danube.
Premiere in 2021, Night stone took home the $ 5,000 prize granted by the BBVA Foundation, at the closing ceremony of the competition, which from 4 to 12 August screened more than one hundred films and short films in the Peruvian capital.
Piedra noche, the Iván Fund film, available on Cinear Play.
The plot
From a fantastic dimension, Fund’s film tells a story of pain a couple who mysteriously loses their only child at the sea.
While the parents, Greta and Bruno, are in mourning, their friend Sina goes to the coast to help them sell the house by the sea and, as they prepare to move, the man confirms the rumors of the locals by testifying that he saw a strange figure from the sea
Previously, director Iván Fund took his work to the Venice and San Sebastián festivals, where he competed in the prestigious Horizontes Latinos section. It also premiered at the Mar del Plata Film Festival in its 36th edition.
With Night stonethe Argentine director has deepened his turn towards fantastic cinema, which began in 2018 with soft rains will come. The first films of him, such as those celebrated Laugh (2009) or Lips (2010, co-directed with Santiago Loza), on the other hand, borders on documentary.
The most awarded
The announcement on the networks of the winners of the festival, where Piedra Noche from the Argentine Iván Fund won.
In addition, the fiction jury, chaired by Argentine director Clarisa Navas, recognized director Kiro Russo as the best director for the big movea drama that had its world premiere at the Venice International Film Festival last September.
Among the most important films was the Colombian A maleby Fabián Hernández, who won not only the special jury prize, but also the jury’s recognition of international critics, that of the best actor for his protagonist, Dylan Felipe Ramírez, and that of the jury of best photography.
For its part, the Chilean Aline Kuppenheim, star of 1976received the award for best actress and its director, Manuela Martelli, the award for best first film.
Piedra Noche’s poster, by Iván Fund.
The best screenplay went to Martín Boulocq and Rodrigo Hasbún for the Bolivian film The visitorwhile “Willaq Pirqa, the cinema of my people” was chosen as Best Peruvian film, by César Galindo.
In the documentary competition, the jury chaired by Brazilian director Coraci Ruiz chose the Peruvian director as the best exponent of this category. Pakuchaa film by Tito Catacora that tells the Andean rites that surround the breeding of alpacas.
In honorable mentions stood out Danubeof the Argentine Agustina Pérez Rial, e hostilityby the Mexican Sebastián Molina.
Under the slogan “Cinema unites us”, the festival organized by the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP) ended this Friday after nine days of more than 60 meetings with directors.
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Source: Clarin
