Mention Feature Film Mexico: Pl\u00e1stico<\/b> (dir. Ricardo Soto, Mexico)<\/p>\n
The way in which the architecture of the story is constructed completely through very specific feelings and in which the virtuous use of camera and sound let us dive into the disturbing perception of its characters.<\/i><\/p>\n
Film Info<\/a><\/p>\n Best International Feature Film: H.<\/b> ((dirs. Rania Attieh y Daniel Garc\u00eda; Argentina, USA)<\/p>\n For its originality and its skill in conjuring up existential dread.<\/i><\/p>\n Film Info<\/a> Mention for Acting: Robin Bartlett in \u201cH.<\/b>\u201d (dirs. Rania Attieh y Daniel Garc\u00eda; Argentina, Estados Unidos)<\/p>\n The especially touching central performance by the great Robin Bartlett.<\/i><\/p>\n Film Info<\/a><\/p>\n Mention International Feature Film: Juventud de corbata \/ Necktie Youth<\/b> (dir. Sibs Shongwe-La Mer; South Africa, Netherlands)<\/p>\n For its unique and fierce combination of aesthetics and language<\/i><\/p>\n Film Info<\/a><\/p>\n Mention International Feature Film: Mustang: belleza salvaje \/ Mustang<\/b> (dir. Deniz Gamze Erg\u00fcven; Turkey, France, Germany, Qatar)<\/p>\n For the handling, at the same time delicate and strong, of its ensemble cast.<\/i><\/p>\n Film Info<\/a><\/p>\n Best International Short Fiction: Oh, Lucy!<\/b> (dir. Atsuko Hirayanagi; Japan, Singapore, USA)<\/p>\n By means of simple and basic narrative elements, the film portrays, in a profound way, the cultural and social context in which the story unfolds, thereby allowing us, moreover, to intimately close in on the protagonist and through her on the universal nature of the story.<\/i><\/p>\n Film Info<\/a> Best Short Film Mexico: La ausencia<\/b> (dir. Arturo Baltazar, Mexico)<\/p>\n For the intimate portrait of divine loneliness, the film delicately observes of a paradoxical existence of an ‘abuela’ who maintains her dignity and joy.<\/i><\/p>\n Film Info<\/a><\/p>\n Best Short Film Mexico: Ausencias<\/b> (dir. Tatiana Huezo, Mexico)<\/p>\n Having\u00a0 a very political topic with a very humanistic and emotional approach, the film takes us to a very painful journey for a better understanding and feeling the redemption.<\/i><\/p>\n Film Info<\/a><\/p>\n Best International Documentary Feature: Aquellos que sienten el fuego arder \/ Those Who Feel the Fire Burning<\/b> (dir. Morgan Knibbe, Netherlands)<\/p>\n Those Who Feel the Fire Burning sheds a compassionate light on one of Europe\u2019s most pressing subjects. This film puts a face on the immigrant experience in a Europe that keeps the tragedies of immigration in the realm of an abstract evening news story. The director\u2019s subjective camera illustrates the disorientation and feelings of dislocation of the immigrant who is surviving in a land where they are as anonymous as the European landscape itself, all while creating an unprecedented intimacy with its subjects. We commend the filmmaker on this original approach.<\/i><\/p>\n SEE THE MESSAGE FROM THE FILMMAKER HERE <\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Film Info<\/a><\/p>\n Mention International Documentary Feature: A German Youth<\/b> \/ Un Jeunesse Allemande<\/b> (dir. Jean Gabriel Periot; France, Switzerland, Germany)<\/p>\n Un Jeunesse Allemande is a remarkable found-footage film about the repressive political atmosphere of 60s and 70s Germany. The film\u2019s importance lies in the alternative perspective that it provides on the official historical point of view on a group of people who are known to the broader public as leftist terrorists. Besides its historical importance, it is a very prescient film about the manipulative power of mass media, then and today, when re-telling history.<\/i><\/p>\n Film Info<\/a><\/p>\n Best International Short Documentary: Paulina<\/b> (dir. Ricardo Le\u00f3n, Peru)<\/p>\n Paulina delivers an immediacy to a desperate situation in a community few of us have ever entered into. The closeness with which the filmmaker brings us to these events reveals a humanity that remains in a society that is living even in the most horrible conditions.<\/i><\/p>\n Film Info<\/a> Mention Short Documentary International: Giovanni y el ballet acu\u00e1tico<\/b> \/ Giovanni and the Water Ballet <\/b>(dir. Astrid Bussink, Netherlands)<\/p>\n Giovanni and the Water Ballet gives us a fresh and uplifting perspective on the usual gender politics films. Fun, sweet and entertaining, this film leaves you with a smile on your face and heart that is full.<\/i><\/p>\n Film Info<\/a><\/p>\n Best Documentary Mexico: Made in Bangkok<\/b> (dir. Flavio Florencio; Mexico, Germany)<\/p>\n For the extraordinary journey of someone who is trapped in society, but refuses to suffer and fights for who she is with kindness and determination<\/i><\/p>\n Film Info<\/a><\/p>\n Mention Documentary Mexico: Tiempo suspendido<\/b> (dir. Natalia Bruschten, Mexico)<\/p>\n This incredible story of a concrete person goes universal while dealing with historical amnesia. The film successfully remembers the past in order to project hopes for the future<\/i><\/p>\n Film Info<\/a><\/p>\n Best Experimental Short: Planet \u2211<\/b> (dir. Momoko Seto; France, Japan)<\/p>\n For the sensibility in each detail of the images, as if it were visual poetry.<\/i><\/p>\n Film Info<\/a><\/p>\n Best\u00a0 Short Animation: Edmond<\/b> (dir. Nina Gantz, UK)<\/p>\n For its artistic and aesthetic values, the quality of the production and for the development of an original argument.<\/i><\/p>\n Film Info<\/a> Mention Short Animation: Envuelto \/ Wrapped<\/b> (dirs. Roman K\u00e4lin, Florian Wittman y Falko Paeper; Germany)<\/p>\n Had an interesting aesthetic with impressive animation and visual quality. The clash of technology with the natural environment made the thematic ideas of constant change relevant to our modern world.<\/i><\/p>\n Film Info<\/a><\/p>\n Best Short Film Guanajuato: El regreso<\/b> (dir. Nadia Islas, Mexico)<\/p>\n For the craft of its animation, art, sound design and script; in this story where ancient myths dialogue with loneliness and hopes of a brave and tenacious character to brilliantly reveal there struggle to show a personal and social path of redemption.<\/i><\/p>\n Film Info<\/a><\/p>\n Women in Film and Television Award: Oh, Lucy!<\/b> (dir. Atsuko Hirayanagi; Japan, Singapore, USA)<\/p>\n Film Info<\/a> SIGNIS Award Mexico: Koshk<\/b> (dir. Abdulla Al Kaabi, United Arab Emirates)<\/p>\n An elderly woman walks in the hope of reuniting with her son while carrying firewood on their shoulders; in a story whose simplicity evokes the depth of a delicate parable about compassion and mercy.<\/i><\/p>\n Film Info<\/a><\/p>\n SIGNIS Mention Mexico: Abderrahman<\/b> (dir. El\u00edas Sfaxi, France)<\/p>\n A tailor, soon to retire, meets a childhood friend. With a fine thread and successful stitches, we are told a story about forgiveness and restoration.<\/i><\/p>\n Film Info<\/a><\/p>\n Best Short Film Collegiate Rally: La Ribera<\/b><\/p>\n Audience Award Collegiate Rally: Suerte para la pr\u00f3xima<\/b><\/p>\n First Place \u201cIdentity & Belonging\u201d Student Documentary Contest: “Music from Every Corner” (“La m\u00fasica desde un rinc\u00f3n”, dir. Luis \u00c1ngel Salda\u00f1a Ram\u00edrez, Guanajuato)<\/p>\n Film Info<\/a><\/p>\n Second Place \u201cIdentity & Belonging\u201d Student Documentary Contest: “Beneath the Embers” (“Bajo las brasas”, dir. Ver\u00f3nica Jessamyn L\u00f3pez Sainz, Guanajuato)<\/p>\n
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