Basque cinema arrives at the Goya with the potential for prominence
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“20,000 species of bees” with fifteen nominations, more than any other film, “Close your eyes” with eleven, “Robot dreams” with four… Basque cinema is emerging as one of the great references at the awards ceremony. Goya, which the Spanish Film Academy will celebrate this Saturday, February 10, in Valladolid.
This is the 38th edition of these awards, which throughout their history have already awarded Alfredo Landa, Ana Díez, Montxo Armendariz, Juanma Bajo Ulloa, Julio Medem, Alberto Iglesias (eleven busts of Goya to the credit of the San Sebastian musician ), Antonio Mercero, Imanol Uribe, Álex de la Iglesia, Javier Aguirresarobe, Andoni Erburu, Pablo Malo, Félix Viscarret, Enrique Urbizu, Karmele Soler, Pablo Berger, Karra Elejalde, Fernando Velázquez, Eneko Sagardoy, Patricia López Arnaiz, Jone Laspiur, Urko Olazabal, María Cerezuela, Telmo Irureta, Alauda Ruiz de Azúa…
“20,000 species of bees” and “Close your eyes”
“20,000 species of bees” and “Close your eyes” are this year the main arguments to emulate the successful path through the Goya of “Handia” (10 awards in 2018), “Snow White” (as many in 2013) and “Days counted ” (eight goyas in 1995).
Estibaliz Urresola’s first feature film, about the sexual identity and transition of Lucía and her entire environment, is presented in Valladolid with no less than fifteen nominations, including best film, best new director, best original script and best performances. female lead (Patricia López Arnaiz), supporting male (Martxelo Rubio) and supporting female (Ane Gabarain and Itziar Lazkano).
‘20,000 species of bees’
“20,000 species of bees”: honey and stings
“20,000 species of bees” was premiered in the Official Section of the Berlinale, where its protagonist, the young Basaurian Sofía Otero, was awarded the Silver Bear for best lead performance. Otero will not be able to revalidate her award at the Goya, since all people under 16 years of age are prohibited from being awarded. However, she will present one of the busts at Saturday’s ceremony.
Another of the year’s cinematographic phenomena, the return of director Víctor Erice with “Close the eyes” It is also reflected in the list of nominations for the Goya, in eleven sections including best film, best direction and best original screenplay (Erice and Michel Gaztambide). The Basque filmmaker’s return to directing a feature film alone, an ode to cinema as an art and a mode of expression, comes thirty years after his previous solo feature film, and in recent days he has received the Forqué and Feroz awards. best film.
46 Basque nominations
It also appears on the list of Goya nominees. “Robot dreams”, by Bilbao director Pablo Berger, also nominated for the Oscar for best animated film that will be awarded in March. Berger’s animated film, which won ten Spanish Academy Awards in 2013 with “Snow White”, is up for the awards for best animated film, best adapted screenplay (Pablo Berger), best original score (Alfonso de Vilallonga) and best editing (Fernando Franco).
Four other prizes could be won on Saturday “Chinese”the film by Bilbao director Arantxa Echevarría, which is up for the awards for best original song (Marina Herlop), best new actor (Julio Hu Chen) and, twice, best new actress (Xinyi Ye and Yeju Ji).
“Upon entry”an interesting film directed by Venezuelans Alejandro Rojas and Juan Sebastián Vásquez and produced by the production company Basque Films, will fight to bring the busts of the Spanish painter that reward the best new direction, the best original script and the best leading actor (Alberto Amman).
The justification, by the way, for the film awards to be named after a painter is that “Goya, apart from being a world-known painter and representative of Spanish culture, is a short name similar to those of the Oscars or Césars.” “explains the Academy. The artistic director Ramiro Gómez adds that “Goya had a pictorial concept close to cinema and several of his most representative works had an almost sequential treatment.” He seems a bit taken with tweezers, but let’s continue with the review.
Nominations distributed
The Basque films nominated in one section are “The Sultana’s Dream” (best animated film), “The hermitage” (best special effects), “The girls are fine” (best new director for Itsaso Arana), “Or as” (best new actress) “To bird or not to bird” (best animated short film), “Txotxongiloa” (best animated short film) and “A not so simple life” (best original screenplay).
For their part, Mariano García Marty and Jon Serrano are nominated for the special effects of the film “Tin & Tina” and production director Leire Aurrekoetxea for her work on the film “Valley of Shadows.”
EITB participates in six of the films nominated for these Goya awards: “20,000 species of bees”, “Close your eyes”, “Chinas”, “A life not so simple”, “The sultana’s dream” and “The hermitage” .
The delivery gala will be held this Saturday, February 10, starting at 10:00 p.m. at the Valladolid Fair. You can follow its development and everything that comes from it on the web, ETB, Radio Euskadi and Euskadi Irratia.
Source: Eitb
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