“Sundays,” a teen-centered drama by Spanish director Alauda Ruiz de Azúa, has taken the coveted Golden Shell at the closing night of the San Sebastián Film Festival. Belgian auteur Joachim Lafosse was a multiple prizewinner, taking Best Director and Best Screenplay for his family portrait “Six Days in Spring,” while recent Venice sensation “The Voice of Hind Rajab” won the festival’s Audience Award.
Full report to follow. Full list of award winners below:
OFFICIAL SELECTION AWARDS
Golden Shell for Best Film: “Sundays,” Alauda Ruiz de Azúa
Special Jury Prize: “Good Valley Stories,” José Luis Guerin
Silver Shell for Best Director: “Six Days in Spring,” Joachim Lafosse
Silver Shell for Best Leading Performance: (ex aequo) “Her Hearts Beats in Its Cage,” Zhao Xiaohong; “Maspalomas,” Jose Ramon Soroiz
Silver Shell for Best Supporting Performance: “Belén,” Camila Plaate
Jury Prize for Best Cinematography: “Los Tigres,” Pau Esteve
Jury Prize for Best Screenplay: “Six Days in Spring,” Joachim Lafosse, Chloé Duponchelle, Paul Ismaël
OTHER OFFICIAL AWARDS
New Directors Award: “Weightless,” Emilie Thalund
Special Mention: “Aro Berria,” Irati Gorostidi Agirretxe
Horizontes Latinos Award: “A Poet,” Simón Mesa Soto
Special Mention: “The Ivy,” Ana Cristina Barragán; “A Loose End,” Daniel Hendler
Zabaltegi-Tabakalera Award: “The Ice Tower,” Lucile Hadžihalilović
Special Mention: “Two Times João Liberada,” Paula Tomás Marques; “Blue Heron,” Sophy Romvari
Audience Award for Best Film: “The Voice of Hind Rajab,” Kaouther Ben Hania
Audience Award for Best European Film: “Little Amélie,” Maïlys Valladeania
Irizar Basque Film Award: “Sundays,” Alauda Ruiz de Azúa
Culinary Zinema Award: “Mam,” Nan Feix
RTVE Another Look Award: “The Currents,” Milagros Mumenthaler
Special Mention: “Belén,” Dolores Fonzi
Spanish Cooperation Award: “Good Valley Stories,” José Luis Guerin
PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED AWARDS
Nest the Mediapro Studio Award: “How to Listen to Fountains,” Eva Sajanová
Special Mention: “The Old Bull Knows, or Once Knew,” Milan Kumar
Movistar Plus+ Award for Best Short Film: “The Loneliness of Lizards,” Inês Nunes
Tabakalera Short Film Award: “Life is Like That and Not Otherwise,” Lenia Friedrich
Euskadi Basque Country 2030 Agenda Award: “The Voice of Hind Rajab,” Kaouther Ben Hania
Zinemaldia Startup Challenge Best Spanish Project: Quickets, Felipe Ortiz
Zinemaldia Startup Challenge Best European Project: Novel Fire Masks Engineered With 3D Technology, Raoul Peltier
Zinemaldia Startup Challenge Special Mention for Entrepreneurship: Quickets, Felipe Ortiz
WIP Latam Industry Award: “Flies,” Fernando Eimbcke
Egeda Platino Industria Award For The Best WIP Latam: “We Were No Longer Five,” Esteban Hoyos Garcia, Juan Miguel Gelacio Ramirez
WIP Europa Industry Award: “February, Seven Days,” Tatjana Moutchnik
WIP Europa Award: “February, Seven Days,” Tatjana Moutchnik
XIII Europe-Latin America Co-production Forum Best Project Award: “Do Not Let Me Die Alone,” Francisco Rodriguez Teare
DALE! Award: “What Follows Is My Death,” Laura Baumeister
Artekino International Award: “La Piel del Léon,” Alvaro Brechner
Ikusmira Berriak Award: “La Koreana, Un Poema Ferromagnética de Luz y Memoria,” Joana Moya Blanco
Casa Wabi-ESCINE Award: “Do Not Let Me Die Alone,” Francisco Rodriguez Teare
QCinema Award: “What Follows Is My Death,” Laura Baumeister
Music Library & SFX Award: “Mariana X BHP,” Renan Flumian
Euroregional Documentary Award: “Altxaliliak,” Maia Iribarne Olhagarai
Epe-Ibaia-Elkargi Award: “La Increíble Historia de Una Película Que No Hemos VistoBarrabas,” Claudia Chávez Levano, Christine Mladic Janney
Eusko Label Micro Short Film Award: “Hatsa,” Josu Ozaita Azpiroz
Runner-up: “Gatz Harana,” Saioa Miguel