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International Competition
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.”
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Latin American Competition
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...
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Latin American Competition
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...
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Latin American Competition Short Films Competition
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.”
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Argentine Competition
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...
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Argentine Competition
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...
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Argentine Competition
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.”
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Altered States Competition
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”.
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In Transit Competition / WIP
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.”
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