On this occasion, Cuban actor Jorge Martínez was awarded the Lucía Award for Male Performance. Photo: Juan Pablo Carreras/ACN
With the award ceremony Lucy in several categories and the call for the next edition in 2023, the XVI Gibara International Film Festival ended this Saturday night, after four intense days that included a wide multicultural program, where the audiovisual had prevalence.
The fiction jury, made up of the Cuban director Arturo Sotto, as president, along with the director Laura Cazador (Switzerland) and the festival director Tito Cañadas (Spain), awarded the Lucía in the category of Best Fiction Feature Film to Papicha , by Mounia Meddour (Algeria-France-Belgium-Qatar).
It was also awarded The Dead Son, by Maysel Bello (Cuba), for Best Fiction Short Film; and The Criminals, by Serhat Karaaslan (France-Romania-Turkey), was awarded a Special Jury Prize, while The Campaign, by Eduardo del Llano (Cuba) was recognized with a special mention.
In the Documentary and Animation section, evaluated by the Cuban filmmaker Belkis Vega, as president, the Spanish cultural manager Francisco Jiménez and the Mexican director Amaranta Díaz Carnero, decided to award the Best Documentary Feature Film Award to Ophir, by Alexandre Berman and Oliver Pollet (France-United Kingdom).
With a varied multicultural program, with an emphasis on audiovisuals, this event took place over four days. Photo: Juan Pablo Carreras/ACN
In turn, La comunion de mi prima Andrea, by Brandán Cerviño (Spain), received the award for Best Documentary Short Film and Calamity, and La childhood de Martha Jane Cannary, by Remi Chayé (France) was awarded for Best Animation.
For its part, the animated documentary Mata, by Ingrid Fadnes and Fabio Nascimento (Norway-Brazil), received a special mention from this jury.
While the press jury, chaired by Rafael Grillo, together with Yudiannis González and Rubén Padrón Astorga, awarded Libertad, by Clara Roquet (Spain) and the fictional short film La Campana, by Eduardo del Llano (Cuba).
The campaign, by Eduardo del Llano (Cuba) was recognized with a special mention. Photo: Juan Pablo Carreras/ACN
In addition, collateral prizes were awarded by the Federation of Cinema Clubs of Cuba and a Young Jury, established on this occasion at the Festival.
in a special way On this occasion, Cuban actor Jorge Martínez was awarded the Lucía Award for Male Performance, mErected at this event in 2018 for his work on the film Last Days in Havana, by Fernando Pérez, as well as the imprint of the contemporary dance company Codanza for its 30 years of existence.
With a varied multicultural program, with an emphasis on the audiovisual, this event took place over four days, which especially remembered Nelson Rodríguez (1938-2020), National Film Award 2007, editor of the work of Solás and important films of the Cuban and Latin American cinematography.
Conceived as a meeting that brings together different artistic manifestations around the cinema, the event also featured scenic, musical, literary and theoretical events that reached squares, parks, communities and cultural centers of the city of Gibara.
Founded in 2003 by the renowned Cuban filmmaker Humberto Solás, with the idea of betting on a cinema that is poor in resources, but rich in aesthetic proposals, in its current international dimension, the Gibara Festival constitutes a commitment to the democratization of the audiovisual with the use of the new technologies.
(With information from ACN)