The film 'The Horn' by Jaione Camborda wins the Concha de Oro at the 71st San Sebastián Film Festival

SAN SEBASTIÁN, September 30 (EUROPA PRESS) -

The film 'O corno' by Jaione Camborda has been the film awarded the Golden Shell at the 71st edition of the San Sebastián Festival, Zinemaldia's highest award, in an edition in which Argentine cinema and culture have been vindicated.

The closing gala of the 71st edition of the San Sebastián Festival, as well as the opening gala and the Donostia Award for Víctor Erice, were directed by the actress, director and screenwriter Mireia Gabilondo and scripted by the writer and critic Bob Pop The actresses Eva Hache and Loreto Mauleón presented the closing event that took place at the Kursaal Conference Center in San Sebastián from 9:00 p.m.

Camborda from San Sebastián thanked those who financed the film since "it is not easy to finance an author's project" and remembered the "references, those who paved the way." "Diversity enriches us and makes us freer," she said, after which she shared the award with "all those filmmakers who are yet to come and will be references for the following ones."

The Special Jury Prize went to 'Kalak' by the Swedish Isabella Eklöf. The category for best performer has been 'ex aequo' for the Japanese actor Tatsuya Fuji for his role in the film 'Great absence' by Kei Chika-Ura and for Marcelo Subiotto for his role in 'Puan', by María Alché and Benjamín Naishtat .

Fuji has given "thanks" to cinema in Japanese, English, Spanish and Basque. Subiotto could not come to collect the award as he was filming, but he read a text of gratitude from Alché.

While Taiwanese filmmakers Wang Ping-Wen and Yu Yi-Hsun have been awarded the Silver Shell for Best Director for 'Chung xing/ A journey in spring'. Ping-Wen has pointed out that this film has been made "for those who love cinema." Furthermore, she has dedicated the award to her family and Taiwan for helping her grow up. Yi-Hsun thanked the San Sebastián festival for opening "its doors to this debut film that brings together the efforts of many people and reflects a place in the world."

The Silver Shell, awarded for Best Supporting Performance, went to Hovik Keuchkerian for his role in 'Un amor' by Isabel Coixet. The actor has valued teamwork and has pointed out that this award includes everything from 'Un amor'. "Every team needs a coach to lean on, to ask, to take refuge in, and that coach is Coixet," he noted, then highlighting his "bravery," his "courage" and "energy." . "You seem like an absolute crack to me," he added.

The film has won the special jury prize. The award for Best Screenplay went to 'Puan' by María Alché. He thanked all those who make cinema possible, which "is a collective art" and Benjamín Naishtat, who pointed out that "no other place in the world gives as much love as Donosti". Furthermore, both have dedicated the film "to the teachers who taught us to write and think about public education in Argentina."

The award for Best Cinematography went to Nadim Carlsen for 'Kalak' by director Isabella Eklöf. To the awards already counted, those from Horizontes Latinos have been added for 'El Castillo', by Argentinian Martin Benchimol who has warned of the "threat of neo-fascism" in Argentina, with "people who believe that everything can be a business, even the sale "We are going to give everything so that this does not happen, Argentina holds on," he said.

The Kutxabank New Directors award went to me Kutxabank-New Directors went to 'Bahadur the brave' by Diwa Shah who did not come to collect the award.

The Zabaltegui-Tabakalera award went to the film 'The Rise of the Human 3' by Eduardo Williams, who also dedicated the award to "Argentinians who are putting their heart and shoulders into making visible the problem of culture and cinema in Argentina." . The TVE/Otra Mirada Award went to 'The real hotel' by Kitty Green.

The Eusko Label Award for best micro-short film went to 'Latxa', about herding Latxa sheep in Euskadi, by Mikel Urretabizkaia, and the Europe-Latin America Co-production Forum Awards Award

The Culinary Zinema Award was received by Tran Ahn Hung for 'La passion de Dodin Bouffant / The Pot au Feu (A slow fire)'. The Irizar Award for Basque Cinema went to Isabel Herguera from San Sebastian for the animated film 'The Sultana's Dream', based on the Bengali story of the same name by Begum Rokeya, who dedicated it "to all women."

As for the City of Donostia Audience Award worth 50,000 euros, the film with the highest score was 'The Snow Society' by Juan Antonio Bayona, which will represent Spain at the Oscars.

The filmmaker has indicated that it is a "pleasure" to receive an audience award for the first time and to do so in San Sebastián. In addition, he has indicated that the award will go to the association Our Children's Library, founded by mothers who lost their children in the plane crash in the Andes in 1972 and on which his film is based. The Award for Best Film European has been for the film 'Io capitano/ I'm capitain' ('I, captain') by Matteo Garrone.

The TCM Youth Award went to 'La Estrella Azul/The Blue Star' by Javier Macipe; while 'Bâtiment 5/Les indésirables' ('The Undesirables') by Ledj Ly has won the Agenda 2030 Euskadi Basque Country Award. The Dunia Ayaso Award went to 'Creatura' by Elena Martín Gimeno. This award had a special mention for 'While you're still you/ Mentre siguis tu/ While you're still you' by Claudia Pinto.

The Spanish Cooperation Award went to 'La Estrella Azul' by Javier Macipe. The Fipresci Award went to 'Fingernails' ('This is going to hurt') by Christos Nikou and the Basque Association of Screenwriters Euskal Gidoigileen Elkartea Award went to Isabel Herguera and Gianmarco Serra for 'El Sueño de la Sultana/ Sultana's dream'.

The 2023 Sebastiane Prize has gone to the Basque film '20,000 species of bees/ 20,000 species of bees' by Estíbaliz Urresola, with special mention for the Swedish film 'Gabi: between ages 8 and 13' years') by Engeli Broberg.

The Greenpeace Lurra Award went to the Japanese film 'Aku wa sonzai shinai/ Evil does not exist' by Ryusuke Hamaguchi. Finally, the Signis Award went to the American film 'All dirt roads taste of salt ' by Raven Jackson and 'Un amor' by Isabel Coixet have won the Feroz Zinemaldia Award.

The jury of the Official Section - which awards the Golden Shell, the three Silver Shells and the awards for best script and photography - was chaired by Claire Denis, who was accompanied by the Chinese actress Fan Bingbing; the Colombian producer, director and writer Cristina Gallego; the French photographer Brigitte Lacombe; Hungarian producer Robert Lantos; the Spanish actress Vicky Luengo and the German director Christian Petzold.

The awards that have been presented tonight are in addition to the honorary recognitions of this edition: the Donostia Prize, which in this edition has been received by the filmmakers Hayao Miyazaki, who could not come to collect the award in person, and Víctor Erice. Joining them is actor Javier Bardem, who was scheduled to receive a third Donostia Award, which he will collect next year due to the Hollywood actors' strike.

In fact, the break has been noticeable in the scarce presence of Hollywood stars in this 71st edition of the festival, which, however, has been able to count on Jessica Chastain.

After the closing gala, attendees enjoyed the screening of 'Dance first', a film by British director James Marsh about the playwright Samuel Beckett starring Gabriel Byrne, Aidan Gillen, Sandrine Bonnaire, Maxine Peake and Fionn O'Shea.