The international jury of the Valladolid International Film Week has awarded this Saturday the French Golden Spike Mercy by Alain Guiraudiewhich has also received the Miguel Delibes award for Best Screenplay, as reported by the international jury in a press conference that took place at the Teatro Calderón.
The Silver Spike has been distributed ex aequo between Stranger Eyes by Yeo Siew Hua (Singapore) and the Spanish Dust will be by Carlos Marquet-Marcetwhile the Ribera del Duero award for best director went to the Chinese Guan Hu for Black dog and the José Salcedo Award for best editing went to Telmo Churro and Pedro Filipe Marques, for the Portuguese Great Tour directed by Miguel Gomes.
Laura Weissmahr has risen with the best actress award for his interpretation in Hail Maria by Mar Coll, while the award to best actor has fallen ex aequo to Jan Gunnar Røisepor and Thorbjørn Harr for his performance in sex by Dag Johan Haugerud, as well as a special mention for Ángela Molina and Alfredo Castro by Dust they will be.
“Complex gender balance”
He jury international of the Official Section, formed by the Greek director Sofia Exarchouthe Spanish actress Aida Folchcritic and editor Devika Girishthe German producer Ingmar Trost and the Spanish director and writer Luis Lopez Carrascohas unanimously valued the mixture of rural thriller and the comic exercise of Mercyas well as “its lightness that hides a complex balance of genres and tones.”
From the script, he highlighted his “intricate structure, perfectly paced transitionstwists and wit that, however, leaves a lot of room for fluidity, grace and reflection”, in which he has created a world that plays between “the specific and strange” and the real world and impulses.
Besides, the Pilar Miró award for the best new direction has fallen on the Spanish Elena Manrique by End of partywho took the opportunity to remember that “satire is in the DNA of our country and it seems that people don’t realize it”, while the José Salcedo award for best photography went to Weizhe Gao for his work in Black dogs.
Nonfiction and short films
Among the award-winning nonfiction works The different juries have decided on the Punto de Encuentro award, which has been awarded Holy Cow by Louise Courvoisier, while the Special Fundos prize went to Family Touch by Sarah Friedland.
In the History Time section, the grand prize went to the Chinese Wang Bing for Youth (Hard Times)while the special prize has traveled to the United States with the film by filmmaker Alexander Horwath Henry Fonda for President and they have given a special mention Savanna and the Mountainsby Paulo Carneiro.
The DOC Spain award has gone to Box resistance by Concha Barquero Artés and Alejandro Alvarado Jódarfor its use of Fernando Ruiz Vergara’s archives and its reflection on censorship, while the Seminci Joven award went to daughter of the volcanoby Jennifer de la Rosa.
Respect for short films, The Golden Spike of the Official International Short Films Section has gone to Baldilocks by Marthe Petersjust as two Silver Spikes have been awarded – this year the bases have been modified – to Pointer by Jason Adam Maselle and salt moon by Mariona Martínez, while the best European short film went to EITHER by Rúnar Rúnarsson and the Spanish short night award went to He Prince by Àlex Sardà.
Other Spikes and awards
The Calderón Theater has also hosted the delivery of lto Espiga Verde, dedicated to dealing with problems related to the environment, that the Chinese has received Jia Zhang-ke for documenting “with sensitivity and precision the development at the expense of its territory, its memory and nature.”
La Espiga Arcoíris, focused on telling and reflecting on the LGTBIQ+ collective and their stories, has been for Three kilometers to the end of the world by Manuel Parvû (Romania), which deals with the lack of understanding of new emotions in rural environments and, in the words of the jury, demonstrates “that past eras are still very much alive.”
Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point has received the award of the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI) signed by the American Taylor Taormina, while the festival’s audience award went to Bob Trevino Likes It by Tracie Laymon, in the Official Section, and in the Meeting Point section (non-fiction), for the French Holly Cow by filmmaker Vingt Dieux.
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