The Spanish 'Los Pasos Doubles' wins the Golden Shell in San Sebastián

La atrevida película de Isaki Lacuesta filmada en Mali obtiene el principal galardón en el Festival de cine de San Sebastián. La mejor fotografía ha recaído en el sueco Ulf Brantås por su labor detrás de la cámara en ‘Happy End’, un dura cinta sobre los malos tratos.

Con actores, en su mayoría no profesionales, Isaki Lacuesta ha conseguido con su nueva, y atrevida película, The double steps, put the jury of the San Sebastián Film Festival in the public's pocket, which awarded him the Golden Shell on Saturday night.

This production, halfway between the documentary in which the artist Miquel Barceló Lacuesta has collaborated, evokes the figure of the unknown François Augiéras, a painter and writer with an intense life who, supposedly, left his best frescoes buried in a bunker under the desert.

The double steps has marked the return to the Official Section of the Festival of Isaki Lacuesta, who already competed in 2009 with his film The condemned.

Isaki Lacuesta (Girona, 1975) has become one of the most restless and unique voices in current Spanish cinema thanks to films such as Cravan vs. Cravan (2002), The legend of time (2006) o The night that never ends (2010).

The Special Jury Prize went to the autobiographical film The Skylab by the French Julie Delpy. The Silver Shell for best director went to Filippos Tsitos for the black comedy Unfair world.

María León, as the protagonist of the new film by Benito Zambrano, The sleeping voice, and the Greek Antonis Kafetzopoulos, for his role in Unfair World, have received the main acting awards.

The best photography went to Ulf Brantås for his work behind the camera in the Swedish Happy End, a tough film about abuse.

Hirokazu Kore-eda por Kiseki (Milagro), which started as the favorite film, has had to settle for the award for best screenplay.

The jury of the official section of the 59th edition of the San Sebastián Festival has been chaired by the actress Frances McDormand. The other members are Guillermo Arriaga (writer, screenwriter and film director), Álex de la Iglesia (film director), Bent Hamer (film director), Bai Ling (actress), Sophie Maintigneux (director of photography) and Sophie Okonedo (actress).

Other awards

The Kutxa New Directors Award went to Jan Zabeil for The river used to be a man. The Horizons Award has gone to Argentina The acacias by Pablo Giorgelli. The film presents the relationship established between a truck driver and a woman and her baby whom he has to take with him in his cabin.

The European Public Prize has gone to the Lebanese Nadine Labaki And now, whether or not?. Juan Carlos Maneglia and Tana Schémbori, with their film 7 Boxes They have won the Cinema in Construction Award.