The co-production of Bolivia and Uruguay utama was awarded this Saturday as the best Ibero-American film in the Malaga Film Festival (Spain), which recognized its director, the Bolivian Alejandro Loayza Grisi, as best director and as best actor to the Argentine Leonardo Sbaraglia.
The best actor award went to Sbaraglia for Love meby Leonardo Brzezicki, while for best actress it was ex aequo (equally) for Laia Costa and Susi Sanchezfor five wolves.
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The film five wolves, directed by Alauda Ruiz de Azúa, also won the Golden Biznaga for the best Spanish film, and the jury’s special prize went to my emptiness and medirected by Adrián Silvestre, according to the winners of the contest whose 2022 edition concluded this Saturday in Malaga (south).
The first feature film by the Bolivian, son of director Marcos Loayza, stars an elderly Quechua couple herding llamas and portrays a way of life in danger of extinction in the Bolivian highlands, due, among other factors, to climate change and the pressure from the city.
After having won the grand jury prize at the Sundance Festival in the United States, in Malaga it has also been recognized with the prizes for best direction, for best music, for Cergio Prudencio, and for critics.
In Love me, a co-production with the participation of Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Holland, Leonardo Sbaraglia plays a homosexual, in a role with strong emotional intensity for the Argentine actor, who at the Malaga Film Festival already won two awards in 2017, the Malaga Award and the Biznaga de Plata for best actor in the other brother.
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The jury of the official feature film section awarded its special prize to my emptiness and me, second feature film by Spanish filmmaker Adrián Silvestre, and awarded a special mention to The Giantsdirected by the also Spanish Beatriz Sanchís, a co-production of Mexico and the United States that also won the award for best photography, for Nicolás Wong Díaz.
The Biznaga de Plata for the best supporting male performance corresponded to the Chilean Nicolás Poblete for his role in Private messagesby Matías Bize, a feature film that also won the award for best editing, for Rodrigo Saquel.
The official list of winners was completed with the award for best supporting female performance for Debora Maria da Silva, social activist and founder of the Mothers of May movement in Brazil, for her work on the Brazilian film to motherdirected by Cristiano Burlan.
In the Zonazine section, the best Ibero-American feature film went to the Mexican production Mostro, by José Pablo Escamilla. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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