‘Enxaneta’ and ‘La Mujer del Eternauta’, Jury Prize and Audience Prize at the II Online Film Festival

For the first time in the world, a festival has taken place whose films have been able to be seen simultaneously on all platforms from which films can be consumed: theaters, the internet, mobile devices (mobile phones/tablets) and TV.

For 3 weeks, from July 9 to 29, the public has been able to enjoy it for free, without restrictions and streaming through the website www.festivalcineonline.com, on Orange TV or at Cineteca de Matadero (for Madrid viewers), from a selection of 6 unreleased films in Spain, in the second edition of this initiative of Fimotech.com with the support of Ámbito Cultural of El Corte Inglés.

For the first time in the world, a festival has taken place whose films have been able to be seen simultaneously on all platforms from which films can be consumed: theaters, the internet, mobile devices (mobile phones/tablets) and TV. A commitment aimed at increasingly expanding public access to the titles participating in the contest.

The jury, made up of film journalists Gregorio Belinchón, Jesús Gª Calero, Jaume Figueres, Luis Martínez and Juan Zavala, film director Max Lemcke and journalist and director of Ámbito Cultural Ramón Pernas, has awarded this year the Best Film Award, endowed with 2,500 euros and the broadcast of the film on TCM's Canal Autor, to “Enxaneta”, directed and written by Alfonso Amador.

Enchanted is a romantic drama that uses the metaphor of the enxaneta, the boy or girl who completes a castell, to tell us about those moments that happen once in a lifetime, that define you as a person and in whose memory you take refuge when things do not go the desired way: you can only be an enxaneta during a brief period of your childhood. This childhood memory stimulates the protagonist's desire to rediscover herself and, in some way, feel at the top again.

On the other hand, the Audience Award for Best Film, chosen by viewers through the festival's Facebook application, went to “The Woman of the Eternaluta” by Adán Aliaga.

The Eternaluta's Wife is an original documentary in which the filmmaker interviews Elsa Sánchez, widow of the author of the famous Argentine comic The Eternaut. Through conversation and symbolic and evocative images, the figure of Héctor Oesterheld, the creator of the comic, is 'drawn', the past of a country is remembered and reflection is made on creation, ideals and the refusal to get rid of them.