MADRID, 24 sept (Xinhua) — The ribbon china “I am not Madame Bovary” for director Feng Xiaogang, won today the Golden Shell award for Best Film at the 64 edition of the International Film Festival of San Sebastian, Spain.
Feng is a renowned chinese director with more than twenty awards, among them a special mention at Venice for “Ye yan” (“The Banquet”, 2006), however in this occasion you go for the first time at the International Film Festival of San Sebastian.
For his part, the filmmaker south Korean filmmaker Hong Sang-soo won the Silver Shell for Best Director for her film “‘Yourself and yours” (“yours and you”), an intimist film faithful to the style of the author of other tapes such as “Now yes, before no” (2015) or “In another country” (2012), which makes a severe criticism addressed to the guild of intellectuals.
The china Fan Bingbing, 35 years old, the protagonist of the film “I am not Madame Bovary”, received the Silver Shell for Best Actress.
To collect the prize, a Fan admitted to be quite nervous.
“this Is a dream come true,” said the chinese actress to remember that the day of his birthday, on the opening day of the festival, requested expressly by the desire to win the Silver Shell.
In the best actor, the Silver Shell fell in the Spanish Eduard Fernández for the Spanish film “The man of a thousand faces”, who thanked very excited about the recognition.
In this edition of the special Jury prize was awarded equally to the Swedish movie “The giant” and argentina’s “winter”.
The film chileno “Rare”, the opera prima of the director Pepa San Martin, won the Premio Horizontes Latinos and the Sebastiane which rewards the best film of LGBT (lesbian-gay-transgendered and bisexual) of the festival, a film that proposes a reflection on the sexual discrimination in the society by the prejudices inherited, to the jury.
The jury of Horizontes Latinos was awarded a special mention to the film’s ecuadorian “Dawn,” by Ana Cristina Barragán, which tells the story of a small 11 year old who lives a difficult family situation “for the special trip that it makes to the children.”
The Latin american cinema was largely represented with 13 films from Chile, Argentina, Mexico, Ecuador, Venezuela, Brazil and Bolivia, and all competed in the section dedicated to the cinematography of the Latin Film Festival of San Sebastian.
finally, in this edition of the Festival, the Donostia Prize went to the actors american Ethan Hawke and Sigourney Weaver, who presented “The magnificent seven” and “A monster comes to see me”, respectively, in the middle of a great expectation.
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