The Buñuel Calanda International Festival, in Teruel, has held this Friday, July 18, the closing ceremony of its twentieth edition. Finally, the French film “In style”, directed by Emmanuel Coucol, has won the public prize for the best feature film.
The film, the greatest success of the year in France and the film best valued by the public in the history of the San Sebastián Festival, tells the story of a very respectful orchestra director who, by coincidences of the destination he discovers that he is adopted and that he has a biological brother, who turns out to be a musical genius. He is a friendly and emotional fraternal love story.
In the category of documentary film, the public prize has been for the feature film of chance, a space; the San Pablo de Teruel Minor College and a time, the end of the 60s; that had a capital impact on the creation of the Aragonesist feeling of the following decades.
Best documentary short film
The prize for the best documentary short film has been for the Croatian “The man who could not remain silent”, by Nebojša Slijepčević. In this work, in the middle of winter, a passenger train is arrested by paramilitary forces; While they stop innocent civilians, only a man between 500 dares to plant them. This is the true story of a man who could not remain silent.
The award he grants Aragon TV, endowed with 900 euros, has been for the Mexican film “About the waves”, directed by Horacio Alcalá, also awarded in the previous edition of the Guadalajara International Film Festival in which, on the fictional island of Magdala, the voices of the Earth resonate with the emotions of its inhabitants. In the film, Gloria Zamora, consumed by an excessive ambition, undertakes a dangerous transformation that drags her family and community towards an inevitable and parallel destination, Rocío Aldama, an actress who seeks to embody Sara Montiel, arrives on the island and is caught in her unique atmosphere, where music and voices confuse the boundaries between the real and unreal.
A tribute to Chema Prado
The XX edition of the Buñuel Calanda International Film Festival has paid tribute at its closing gala to Chema Prado, one of the most prominent personalities of the Spanish film industry and international reference and who as director of the Spanish film library, acquired for the Spanish State the Legacy Buñuel, a collection of letters, photographs, books, objects and awards between which the portrait that Dalí painted Dalí and It is now exhibited at the Reina Sofia Museum. A archive of enormous importance for Buñuel’s study, his work and the historical context in which he lived.
In its stage at the head of this institution, it achieved the creation of the Spanish film library and restoration center, fundamental for the adequate conservation of the film heritage of our country, in addition to turning the Doré cinema into the permanent room of projections, in which large film cycles are programmed, on many occasions, by personalities of the history of cinema.
The contest has fired its twenty -edition as never before it has been seen: the Kingdom orchestra of Aragon has played a program inspired by the films “An Andalusian dog” and “The Golden Age”, accompanied by live music mixed with Calanda drums, all led by Colombian composer Alejandro Ramírez Rojas.
BCIFF is organized by the City Council of Calanda and Tolocha Producciones, and has financing of Icaa, Aragon Government, Teruel Provincial Council, Region of Bajo Aragón, Banco Santander and the support of Aragon TV and Channel 22 of Mexico. The program has been in charge of Javier Espada, director of the BCIFF and Vania Rojas de Casa de México in Madrid.
