SIGNIS awarded awards at the 35th Mar del Plata International Film Festival

 

The SIGNIS international jury, which worked on the twelve films of the International Competition, was made up of Graciela Falabella, from Argentina, Father Hugo Ara, from Bolivia, and Carlos Minondo Verón, from Spain, who presented a Grand Prize and a Mention honorary.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The year of discovery

(Spain, 2020),

DOCUMENTARY FILM

directed by

Luis López Carrasco,

 

Grand Prize of the SIGNIS jury,

 

Because it puts us before a mirror and shows us what was not wanted to see in its day or today, the children of a country suffering and its consequences. The festivities covered the reality of working people and 28 years later the cinema shows it to us so that we reflect and hope that they achieve justice.

Likewise, the jury wants to highlight the audacity of the director to use the same workers decades later to star in what was left of that year of discovery, that is, people, humanity, and not the fireworks and ephemeral inaugurations.

 

Seize printemps

(France, 2020)

starring and directed by

Suzanne Lindon ,

 

Honorable mention is SIGNIS.

 

Because in this first film we can appreciate the filmic prowess with a narration from a young, subtle and dreamy point of view.

Another reality is possible in a pragmatic world without romance, a hurried world without time to let love rest and grow and with a staging that tunes man and woman in a relationship that becomes art, poetry and song, justified the members of the jury of the World Catholic Association for Communication.

 

MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FESTIVAL: https://www.signisargentina.org/novedades-institucionales/signis-premio-en-la-35-edicion-del-festival-internacional-de-cine-de-mar-del-plata- .htm