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Official Awards
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
Astor Piazzolla Award for Best Feature Length Film
Saudade fez morada aqui dentro by Haroldo Borges
Jury Statement:
“For its ability to beautifully and truthfully portray a dramatic story that shows us that when people care about each other, there is hope.”
Astor Piazzolla Special Jury Award
Tres hermanos by Francisco J. Paparella
Jury Statement:
“For its powerful use of cinematographic tools (photography, sound design, acting and music) to portray its universe with rawness and authenticity.”
Honorable Mention
Cambio cambio by Lautaro García Candela
Jury Statement:
“For its promising cast and crew.”
Honorable Mention
Cast of Saudade fez morada aqui dentro by Haroldo Borges
Jury Statement:
“For the choral work of the community of this film.”
Astor Piazzolla Award for the Best Directing
Ana García Blaya for La uruguaya and Melisa Liebenthal for El rostro de la medusa (tie)
Jury Statement:
“For representing with mastery and originality two different fronts of contemporary cinema.”
Astor Piazzolla Award for Best Acting
Sonia Parada in Los de abajo by Alejandro Quiroga
Jury Statement:
“Because through the weight of her presence on screen she elevates the narrative with sensitivity.”
Astor Piazzolla Award for the Best Script
Andrew Bujalski for There There
Jury Statement:
“For its innovative structure, the contemporaneity of its dialogues, and its amazing simplicity.”
LATIN AMERICAN COMPETITION
Astor Piazzolla to the Best Feature Length Film
Trenque Lauquen by Laura Citarella
Jury Statement:
“For its particular plot, humor, performances and mise-en-scene that transports us to the center of our love and enthusiasm for cinema. We celebrate the freedom of its characters, its formalistic game and its feminine point of view. “
Special Jury Award
Mato seco em chamas by Joana Pimenta and Adirley Queirós
Jury Statement:
“For being a unique film due to its political nature, for its mise-en-scene that combines elements rigorously and freely, and because it is moving due to its ability to generate a concrete effect on the reality it describes.”
Honorable Mention
Anhell69 by Theo Montoya
Jury Statement:
“For being a unique film in the filmography of Colombia, portraying the tragic fate of a young community seen through the eyes of a promising young director.”
Astor Piazzolla Award for Best Short Film
Ánima by Manuel Matías Gómez
Jury Statement:
“The manner in which the film reveals the violent relationship between man and animals. It does so in a way that is both subtle and powerful.”
Honorable Mention
El silencio de los niños by Sofía Quirós Ubeda
Jury Statement:
“Through the mise-en-sceje and directing of actors, it manages to address a sensitive issue in a very precise and delicate way.”
ARGENTINE COMPETITION
Astor Piazzolla Award for Best Feature Length Film
Sobre las nubes by María Aparicio
Jury Statement:
“For proposing an epic of small things, constructing a story about how ordinary people do not give up in moments of crisis. And for looking at small gestures of solidarity and empathy without avoiding risky narrative decisions.”
José Martínez Suárez Award for Best Directing
Leandro Listorti by Herbaria
Jury Statement:
“Because the work of direction achieves a precise goal, putting images of different matrices in dialogue with each other and mysteriously framing scenes that follow and focus on the relationship between filmic and organic material.”
Astor Piazzolla Award for Best Short Film
Carne de Dios by Patricio Plaza
Jury Statement:
“For creating a story of great plasticity, which travels from the telluric to the lysergic, demolishing oppressive institutions to connect with a free and wild mystique.”
ALTERED STATES COMPETITION
Astor Piazzolla Award to the Best Film
Geographies of Solitude by Jacquelyn Mills
Jury Statement:
“A film that through the material that it works with and its cinematographic form in which science and sensitivity converge, generates a closeness between its protagonist, the earth and the viewers.”
Honorable Mention
The Newest Olds by Pablo Mazzolo
Jury Statement:
“For representing the spirit of the Altered States section, dialoguing from a tradition with the contemporary.”
Honorable Mention
Filme particular by Janaína Nagata
Jury Statement:
“For being a film that plays formally and structurally in order to reveal the violence that any image can hide.”
EN TRÁNSITO / WORK IN PROGRESS COMPETITION
Astor Piazzolla Award to the Best Project
Plata o mierda by Toia Bonino and Marcos Joubert
Jury Statement:
“A future film that sweetly and without solemnity portrays the bond between a male director and a female director through the depth of the voice and the shots.”
Honorable Mention
Punku by Juan Daniel Fernández Molero
Jury Statement:
“A film that invites us into an intimate and collective universe, whose stories expand together with a very free use of the possibilities of cinema.”
Honorable Mention
Sombra grande by Maximiliano Schonfeld
Jury Statement:
“A film that allows us to delve into a cinematic existential poetry where language and cinematographic language are enhanced.”
AWARDS GIVEN BY SPONSORS
EN TRÁNSITO / WORK IN PROGRESS COMPETITION
Banco Nación, Cinecolor and Cono del Silencio Award to the Best EN TRÁNSITO project
Plata o mierda by Toia Bonino y Marcos Joubert
LATIN AMERICAN COMPETITION
Banco Nación and Alta Definición Argentina Award to the Best Film in the Latin American Competition
Trenque Lauquen by Laura Citarella
ARGENTINA FEATURE LENGTH COMPETITION
Banco Nación, Lahaye Media, Pomeranec Sonido and Riivi Award to the Best Argentine Feature Film
Sobre las nubes by María Aparicio
ARGENTINE SHORT FILM COMPETITION
Banco Nación, Lahaye Media and Pomeranec Sonido Award to the Best Argentine Short Film
Carne de Dios by Patricio Plaza
ALTERED STATES COMPETITION
MUBI Award to the Best Film
Geographies of Solitude by Jacquelyn Mills