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...

Independent Awards

Ministry of Women, Gender Policies and Diversity of the Province of Buenos Aires Best Argentine director whose feature film stands out for gender perspective in the Argentine, Latin American and International Competitions The...

Astor Piazzolla Award for Best Feature Length Film - «Saudade fez morada aqui dentro» de 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.”  

Audience Award

  FILMS TOTAL OVERALL     Saudade fez morada aqui dentro 8.68 Cambio cambio............................ 8.67 La uruguaya................................. 8.58 Los...

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.”  

Astor Piazzolla Award for Best Direction - 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»

Jury Statement: “Because through the weight of her presence on screen she elevates the narrative with sensitivity.”  

Astor Piazzolla Award for Best Screenplay - Andrew Bujalski for «There There»

Jury Statement: “For its innovative structure, the contemporaneity of its dialogues, and its amazing simplicity.”  

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.”

Audience Award - «Saudade fez morada aqui dentro»

Astor Piazzolla Award for 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...

Special Jury Prize - «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...

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-scene and directing of actors, it manages to address a sensitive issue in a very precise and delicate way.”  

José Martínez Suárez Award for Best Direction - Leandro Listorti for «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...

Astor Piazzolla Award for Best Feature Length Film - «Sobre las nubes» de 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...

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.”  

Astor Piazzolla Award for the Best Feature Length 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.”

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.”