Erice becomes the first Basque to receive a Donostia Award a few steps from where he saw his first film
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Victor Erice He is already the first Basque and the first San Sebastián native to receive the honorary award from the San Sebastián Film Festival. From the hand of Ana Torrent50 years after being awarded the Golden Shell for their film, has raised the Donostia Award in his city, shy in front of the Victoria Eugenia audience.
The director born in Karrantza (Bizkaia) as a child imagined a better world, a world without awards, but “what cannot be, cannot be and is also impossible, so here I am receiving one.”
Erice, who presents his latest film at the gala, Close the eyeshas remembered his first years in the capital of Gipuzkoa, when, holding the hand of his sister, he saw his first film at the Kursaal casino cinema, “one afternoon in the winter of 1946.”
In the city of Zinemaldia he grew up “in every sense, also as a film spectator,” and saw the birth and growth of the Film Festival, always monitored by Franco’s censorship and “victim of its prohibitions.” “If I close my eyes, I see myself as a child in one of those seats enjoying movies that I will never forget,” he said.
Through those first “extraordinary images” seen on the big screen, engraved in his heart, any filmmaker tries to navigate that “long walk through the domains of the art of making films,” as Erice has revealed to us.
Erice has reminded us that, just like the festival since its inception, cinema is also an open window to the world. The public at the Victoria Eugenia was able to remember the passage of the train through The spirit of the hivethe pasodoble of The South and the contemplation of Antonio López in The quince sunand has also been able to see his fourth feature film, with the presence of, in addition to Torrent, Jose Coronadothe screenwriter Michel Gaztambide and the rest of the team.
The director remembered and thanked his parents, who gave him the opportunity to go to Madrid and study film professionally: “I will never stop thanking everything they did for me.”
On his visit to his first city, Erice stressed that he is far from retiring from cinema, “a means of knowledge.” “Hence, learning from her, for me, never ends.”
Source: Eitb
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