Irene M. Borrego’s film won the top prize, while Paolo Natale from Murcia was victorious in the short section with ‘Dia en la nieve’
‘The Visit and a Secret Garden’, by Irene M. Borrego, won the Best Feature Film Award this Saturday in the official section of the twelfth edition of the Murcia International Film Festival (IBAFF). Trained in film directing at the San Antonio de los Baños International Film and TV School (Cuba) and at The London Film School, Borrego won the prize – endowed with 10,000 euros – with a film about memory and oblivion, about art and the female creative process.
The jury unanimously concluded “because of the way the filmmaker explores, through a living and transformative working process that structures the film, the way two women of different generations approach their relationship with artistic creation, through a rich shift from the biographical to the autobiographical It shows the tense balance of the relationship between the filmmaker and an unknown relative, and also raises the question, essential in documentary film, of the relationship between the protagonists and their creators».
The jury of experts – consisting of Cloe Masotta, Miguel Zozaya and Andreu Adam Rubiralta – awarded a special mention to the dystopian world of ‘Medusa’ by Brazilian director Anita Rocha da Silveira. The audience award for feature films went to Lars Edman and William Johansson Kalen’s ‘Arica’: a documentary that chronicles the investigation into the illegal dumping of toxic waste in the Chilean city of Arica and its consequences.
As for short films, the Award for Best Short Film in the Official Section -with an amount of 6,000 euros- went to ‘Day in the Snow’ by Paolo Natale from Murcia. The professional short film jury, composed of Eva Llorach, Didac Palou and Raúl Liarte, found that the film deserved the award “for understanding cinema as a tool to interpret and interpret the imperfect and sometimes painful experience of surviving and being a family”. confront. Special mention was also given to ‘We love life’, by Hana Vojackova, and the audience award went to ‘Virtual Voice’, by Suzannah Mirghani.
‘Karim’, by Gonzalo Ballester, was awarded in the official IBAFF Murcia Panorama Section. The Movibeta platform, an employee of the IBAFF, awarded a distribution award to ’82 Things I Have’, by Pedro Manuel García. In addition, the Young IBAFF Award went to ‘Farrucas’, by Ian de la Rosa.
On the other hand, the second Arrebato Prize – the first was awarded in March to singer Toni Menguiano – was awarded to Ángel Cruz, director of the Francisco Rabal Regional Film Library, for his daily work to make other audiovisual proposals accessible.
Source: La Verdad
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