An Argentinian film and two Mexican films, awarded at the Berlin Film Festival

The 73rd edition of Berlin International Film Festival ends this weekend and the award-winning films have already started to be released. This Saturday the awards presented by the independent juries following the Berlinale, before the festival officials: Argentinian film jellyfish faceDirected by Melisa Liebenthal; and Mexican productions Totemof Lila Aviles and Adolfoof Sophie Auzahave been recognized.

jellyfish face he won the first CICA of the Artistic Cinema Association. Totem (which also participates in the Official Competition) obtained the ecumenical award; there Adolfo moved back crystal bear of the section Generation 14Plus.

The Argentinian director’s film Melisa Liebenthal was screened in the section Forum, aiming at new cinematographic languages. She questions the image and questions what happens when we look at ourselves and do not recognize ourselves and how the face becomes an integral part of our identity. We will see how Marina, its protagonist, wakes up one day and realizes that her face has ceased to be what it was. You have to remember that he had won the prize for “best achievement” at the last Mar del Plata International Film Festival.

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Totemof Lila Aviles was rewarded for the values ​​conveyed by the family portrait presented around a terminally ill young man, and the birthday party organized by his relatives. It is a drama with comic overtones that unfolds throughout a day when the birthday party of Tona, a young thirty-year-old suffering from terminal cancer, is being prepared and takes place. The film is told from the point of view of Sol, her seven-year-old daughter.

Adolfoof Sophie Auza, received the prize in the young audience section. It centers on the story of a boy who loses his father and must find a new home for a cactus named Adolfo. He captivated the Génération jury “for his sense of humor” and his “philosophical poetic” dialogue, according to the price argument.

the spanish movie 20,000 species of beesof Styliz Urresolawho received the award Guild artistic and theatrical cinema and also received the newspaper readers award Berlin Morning Post, who valued the “authentic and strong message” that this production sends on society in the face of infantile transsexuality. This film is also one of the 19 candidates for the official section of the Berlinale.

Also, the French film Orlando, my political biographyof the Spanish philosopher Paul B. Preciouswon the prize for the best documentary of the teddyintended for the LGTBI collective, as well as the price of the readers of the newspaper DailyMirror. It is an adaptation of Orlando of Virginia Woolf published in 1928 which chronicles the life of an English nobleman who changes sex over four centuries.

The announcement of these prices precedes the gala this Saturday during which the official prices of the Berlinaleaccording to the verdict of the jury chaired by the American actress Kristen Stewart and with the Spanish director Carla Simon among its members, who attends the festival after winning gold in 2022 with Alcarras.

Source: EFE

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