Iván Castiñeiras wins the award in the Galician Competition, while Pierre Creton and Vincent Barré triumph in the International Competition. Special mentions went to Un dragón de cien cabezas, by Helena Girón and Samuel M. Delgado, and La chambre d’ombres, by Camilo Restrepo.
The 21st edition of the Play-Doc International Film Festival in Tui has announced its official awards. 7 promenades avec Mark Brown (7 Walks with Mark Brown), by Pierre Creton and Vincent Barré, received the top prize in the International Competition.
The international jury, composed of filmmaker C.W. Winter, distributor Pascale Ramonda, and producer-distributor Pierre-Emmanuel Finzi, awarded the film “For its lightness of touch, its gentle elegance, its approachable refinement. For its learnedness and its poetics. A modernist counterfactual to these times. A film that knows that robustness emerges from complexity and that complexity emerges from simplicity. A film that one can wish to live in and lie in and roll around in. A gift to cinema and to the audience.”
The jury also gave a Special Mention to La chambre d’ombres (The Room of Shadows), by Camilo Restrepo, for being “A filmmaker who knows that a film is image, sound, cuts, construction, and emotional resonance. This is a film that works due to the maker’s command of the building blocks of cinema. A lesson in adeptness at tensions. A filmmakers’ filmmaker delivering work of a true craftsman.”
In the Galician competition, the jury—made up of visual artist Ana Domínguez, filmmaker and graphic designer Michael Wahrmann, and producer Silvia Fuentes—awarded Deuses de pedra, by Iván Castiñeiras, for “a sensitive work that breaks formal and symbolic boundaries to portray the orphanhood of a territory in the process of uprooting. And the cinematic persistence in his first feature.”
The Galician jury also granted a Special Mention to Un dragón de cien cabezas, by Helena Girón and Samuel M. Delgado, highlighting that “through the plasticity of the images and the inversion of protagonism, the filmmakers achieve an irreverent view on myth and cinema.”
The awards of this year’s festival are made possible through the collaboration of the Galician Agency for Cultural Industries (AGADIC)