Official Awards

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION:

Astor Piazzolla Award for Best Feature Length Film
Kinra by Marco Panatonic
Jury Statement:
“For the way in which its tells a powerful story through a potent mise en scene that allows us to observe the humanity of the characters. A true discovery.”

Astor Piazzolla Special Jury Award
Partió de mí un barco llevándome by Cecilia Kang
Jury Statement:
“For the construction of a powerful link between a search for identity, a family history and violence against women in Korea during the Japanese war.”

Astor Piazzolla Award for Best Directing
Laura Basombrío for Las almas
Jury Statement:
“For the unique way in which the director decides to tell, through a hypnotic voice and poetic images, a story that rises up towards the fantastic.”

Astor Piazzolla Award for Best Acting
Sara Summa for Arthur & Diana
Jury Statement:
“For her magnetic and honest performance, her relationship with the camera, and her stage presence which build a mysterious and complex character.”

Astor Piazzolla Award for Best Script
Shane Atkinson for LaRoy
Jury Statement:
“For the orchestration of an interweaving of tension, wonderful dialogues, and the dynamics between developed and deep characters in an entertaining and unpredictable way.”

Audience Award
Partió de mí un barco llevándome by Cecilia Kang

 

LATIN AMERICAN COMPETITION

Astor Piazzolla Award for Best Feature Length Film
Otro sol by Francisco Rodríguez Teare
Jury Statement:
“For its formal risk that transgresses the very cinematographic tradition of which it is a part, guiding us through a rarely visited geography, with hypnotic characters.”

Honorable Mention
O dia que te conheci by André Novais Oliveira
Jury Statement:
“For portraying peripheral territories not only in the physical sense, but also in the emotional as well as for its daring, its humor and its narrative commitment.”

Astor Piazzolla Award for Best Short Film
La noche del minotauro by Juliana Zuluaga Montoya
Jury Statement:
“For her authorial work with the archive and her insurrectionary spirit, which makes us discover an invisible past.”

Honorable Mention
Nueva esperanza by Carlos Rentería
Jury Statement:
“For its dreamlike texture for portraying everyday landscapes immersed in the contingency of the pandemic with a sensitive and unconventional gaze.”


ARGENTINE COMPETITION

Astor Piazzolla Award for the Best Feature Length Film
Adentro mío estoy bailando by Leandro Koch and Paloma Schachmann
Jury Statement:
“For making us travel towards the roots that branch out into characters and music that resist the passage of time and postmodernity, valuing identity, tradition, art and culture. For the playful way of addressing generational changes in connections and narrative forms, with a mise en scène that is surprising and simple at the same time.”

José Martínez Suárez Award for Best Direction
Romina Tamburello and Federico Actis for Vera y el placer de los otros
Jury Statement:
“For their compelling vision, their work with the actors, their commitment to the subject and their courage to remain in uncomfortable situations, sustaining the narrative pulse to the very end.”

Astor Piazzolla Award for the Best Short Film
Especies de compañía by Juan Renau
Jury Statement:
“With great simplicity, the film approaches its characters in a moving way. Use our ties to pets to reveal our own ties to loneliness, fears, and grief. In these relationships, trust in others and in humanity is gently illuminated.”

Honorable Mention
Corrientes mercuriales by Carolina Fusilier
Jury Statement:
“For its audiovisual richness in addressing the economic-energy forces that affect our lives in society.”

Honorable Mention
La necesidad de un testigo by Mariana Sanguinetti and Renzo Cozza
Jury Statement:
“For his personality for telling a story of contemporary loneliness, mixing humor and mystery. Because of his sharp gaze, funny and sad at the same time.”


ALTERED STATES COMPETITION

Astor Piazzolla Award for the Best Film
Malqueridas by Tana Gilbert
Jury Statement:
“For rescuing images that are considered disposable, just like the lives she portrays, with a provocative look that emphasizes the power and liberating quality of bonds.”

Honorable Mention
Orlando, ma biographie politique by Paul B. Preciado
Jury Statement:
“For his love and humor in rethinking what an adaptation and an autobiography can be, sustaining the desire with both a revolutionary and joyful spirit.”

Honorable Mention
Mast-del by Maryam Tafakory
Jury Statement:
“For giving voice to the daily desperation that is gone through by the most dangerous people in Iran: women who desire.”


EN TRANSITO / WORK IN PROGRESS COMPETITION

Astor Piazzolla Award to the Best Project
Todo documento de civilización by Tatiana Mazú González
Jury Statement:
“For the courage to reveal the violence of an oppressive system through a dynamic management of multiple narrative resources, with a strong authorial voice.”



AWARDS GIVEN BY SPONSORS


INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
Sendfiles Award to the Best Feature Lenght Film
Kinra by Marco Panatonic

LATIN AMERICAN COMPETITION
Banco Nación, Alta Definición Argentina and Sendfiles Award to the Best Feature Lenght Film
Otro sol by Francisco Rodríguez Teare

ARGENTINE FEATURE LENGHT FILM COMPETITION
Banco Nación, Lahaye Media, Pomeranec Música & Sonido and Sendfiles Award to the Best Argentine Feature Lenght Film
Adentro mío estoy bailando by Leandro Koch and Paloma Schachmann

ARGENTINE SHORT FILMS COMPETITION
Banco Nación, Lahaye Media and Pomeranec Música & Sonido to the Best Argentine Short Film
Especies de compañía by Juan Renau

ALTERED STATES COMPETITION
MUBI and Sendfiles Awards to the Best Film
Malqueridas by Tana Gilbert

EN TRÁNSITO / WORK IN PROGRESS COMPETITION
Banco Nación, Cinecolor and Cono del Silencio Award to the Best Project
Todo documento de civilización by Tatiana Mazú González