San Sebastian .- The film “Sparrows”, the Icelandic Rúnar Rúnarsson, Saturday won the top prize of the film festival in San Sebastian, where most large awards went to stop, however, ribbons French production.
“I am extremely happy to receive this award,” said Icelandic director to collect the Golden Shell for Best Film for “Sparrows”, a co-production Iceland, Denmark and Croatia which recounts the spiritual journey of a boy of 16, Efe reported.
Having lived with her mother in the Icelandic capital, Ari is sent back to a remote fjord region to settle with his father in a bleak environment where should strive to make their way.
Chaired by the Danish actress Paprika Steen, but the jury awarded the special prize for “Evolution” of French filmmaker Lucile Hadžihalilović.
“atypical” Movie in the words of its creator, mixing science-fiction auteur cinema, tells the story of a group of women who lives on a lonely island accompanied only by children subjected to bizarre medical experiments.
Shot in the Spanish archipelago of the Canary Islands, their images , a strong visual load, it also earned an award for his director of photography, Manu Dacosse.
The Belgian director Joachim Lafosse rose meanwhile to the Silver Shell for Best Director for the coproduction Franco-Belgian “Chevaliers Les Blancs” based on real fact that shocked France in 2007.
Returning known as “Zoe’s Ark case,” the film starring Vincent Lindon French, tells the story of the head of a particular NGO to take more than a hundred African children of a country at war, despite the refusal of the government to give them up for adoption in France.
“I think we to be very careful to not let ourselves be carried away by our emotions “violating the law, even in humanitarian cases, Lafosse said upon receiving the award.
The award for best screenplay was also held by two Frenchmen, brothers Jean-Marie and Arnaud Larrieu by “21 nuits avec Pattie” who wrote and directed together.
In this dramatic comedy that travels between reality and fiction, Caroline, a Parisian played by Isabelle Carré, interrupted their holidays to go bury his mother died suddenly in a village in the Pyrenees.
The funeral arrangements however give an unexpected turn when the body mysteriously disappears.
Latin American Film
The Latin American productions this year gained recognition through his interpreters.
The Cuban Yordanka Ariosa won the Silver Shell for Best actress for her portrayal of Magdalene, a prostitute tough mulatto in “King of Havana”, the Spanish Agusti Villaronga.
In this raw portrait of the marginal Cuba during the terrible 1990s, adaptation of a novel by journalist and writer Pedro Juan Gutierrez, Ariosa faced a “very difficult” role.
Magada “is a human being who has had to live in conditions that has not had to live all “and” reacts like an animal, “he said.
The Silver Shell for Best Actor was awarded ex aequo the Argentine Ricardo Darin and his co-star, Javier Camara, for” Truman “, co-production Spanish-Argentina Spanish director Cesc Gay.
The first plays Julian, passing through very difficult times due to a severe illness. The second, Thomas, a friend who comes from Canada to spend four days with him.
“I am grateful that the jury has decided to distinguish the two because it is difficult in this type of stories that tell a friendship between two people separate from one another, “Darin said. “We’ve had so much fun making this movie, we both laughed, we cried so much,” said House.
The jury decided this year to give a special mention. It was for “apostate”, co-produced by France, Uruguay and Spain.
In this comedy, the Uruguayan filmmaker Federico Veiroj portrays a man who one day undertake the cumbersome process to abandon the Catholic faith and Church erase your data records.
The New Directors Award went to the young French director Rudi Rosenberg for “Le Nouveau” and the award in Horizontes Latinos “Paulina”, Santiago Mitre, a co-production Argentina, Brazil and France.
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