Furada Negra by Berio Molina and Crías by Xiana do Teixeiro received the Galicia Competition Award ex aequo
The 22nd edition of the Tui International Film Festival, Play-Doc, has announced its official awards. Amílcar, directed by Miguel Eek, won the prize for the International Competition. The international jury, composed of film advisor Hayet Benkara, film historian and critic Jay Weissberg, and executive producer of piauí magazine Raquel Freire Zangrandi, decided to award Amílcar “for portraying, in a highly original way, the personal history of a revolutionary man, using his emotional life to highlight the importance of his humanity in the causes he fought for, while rigorously integrating archival material to illuminate the political context of the independence struggles in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde.”
The jury also awarded a Special Mention to Remake by Ross McElwee “for being a deeply moving and personal work that addresses the complexity of the father-son relationship through an intimate perspective without offering definitive answers.”
In the Galicia Competition, the jury—composed of professor, researcher and programmer Daniel Ribas; filmmaker Eloy Enciso; and producer Leire Apellaniz—decided to award ex aequo Furada Negra by Berio Molina and Crías by Xiana do Teixeiro.
In the case of Berio Molina’s film, the jury highlighted it “for creating an atlas of the telluric that, starting from Galician territory, reveals its history through caves, rock formations and underground myths. A film with multiple trajectories whose delicate yet fertile use of sound, visual and literary archives deeply fascinated us.”
In the case of Crías by Xiana do Teixeiro, the jury awarded it “for being an extensive and dedicated work of research into materials of everyday use that have historically remained undervalued or in the shadows. By illuminating both the most intimate content and the materiality of the diaries of dozens of women, the film proves particularly lucid in showing how a collective of female voices rebels against the space socially imposed upon them, demonstrating that behind any hidden document lies the violence of the system that perpetuates it.”