Movie | San Sebastian Film Festival main prize for the first time for a Colombian director

Colombian Laura Mora Ortega (b. 1981) film The King of the World has won the San Sebastian film festival’s main prize, the Golden Shell, reports, among other things The Hollywood Reporter. Mora’s film is about five young men who grew up on the streets of the city of Medellín, who set off on a journey in search of the promised land.

For the first time in the 70-year history of the Spanish festival, the Golden Clam was awarded to a Colombian film. The King of The World is Mora’s second feature film.

For the best the director’s award went to a Japanese Genki Kawamura with his debut film Hyakka, which deals with dementia. Kawamura is better known as a producer of animated films.

The jury’s special prize went to the American of Marian Mathias drama Runner. The film is about an 18-year-old girl who wants to fulfill her father’s last wish and goes to take her father’s ashes to his hometown along the Mississippi.

According to the audience of the festival, the best film was from Argentina Santiago Mitren Argentina, 1985a real-life courtroom drama.

You can find a list of all awardees from the festival website.