The Icelandic 'Hrútar', by Grímur Hákonarson, Espiga de Oro of the 60th Seminci

'Mustang', by Deniz Gamze Ergüven, achieves six trophies: Espiga de Plata, Premio 'Pilar Miró', Fipresci, Seminci Joven, Sociograph Award and the Audience Award.

the movie Hrútar (Rams. The Valley of the Rams), by Grímur Hákonarson, has won the Golden Spike at the 60th Valladolid International Film Week (Seminci) and the 'Pilar Miró' award for best New Director, an award that he shared, ex aequo with the Turkish director Deniz Gamze Ergüven, whose film Mustang He has, in turn, achieved five other trophies: Espiga de Plata, Fipresci Award, Audience Award, Seminci Young Award and Sociograph Award 2015.

The International Jury, composed of Lola Garcia Rodriguez, Pirjo Honkasalo, Niki Karimi, Fernando Lara, Luciano Sovena and Hebe Tabachnik, in addition to the president, Goran Paskaljevic, has considered that Hrútar (Rams. The Valley of the Rams), by Grímur Hákonarson (Iceland) is worthy of the highest award from the Seminci because “in these times of uprooting, the film reminds us, with a captivating and emotional cinematographic language, the vital role of human relationships and of man with nature.”

In turn, the choice of Mustang (co-production of Turkey, France, Germany and Qatar) as Silver Spike lies, according to the International Jury, in “the energy and freshness with which its director has managed to reflect a young generation that seeks to break the taboos of a patriarchal society to freely choose its future.” It so happens that Aries It has been the film selected by Iceland to attend the Oscars, while Mustang will also represent France in these awards.

The International Jury has awarded the Best Director Award to the Japanese Naomi Kawase, for An (A pastry shop in Tokyo) (France, Japan, Germany); Best Actress went to the British Charlotte Rampling for 45 Years, by Andrew Haigh (United Kingdom); while the Icelandic Gunnar Jónsson has been awarded Best Actor for Willing, de Dagur Kári (Islandia, Dinamarca).

Feature films have also been distinguished Tikkun, by Avishai Sivan (Israel), who won the award for Best Cinematography for Shai Goldman, and Rodrigo Sepúlveda, who received the 'Miguel Delibes' award for Best Screenplay for his film Aurora (Chile).

Short films

The International Jury has awarded the Golden Spike for Short Film to The goodbye, by Clara Roquet (Spain), “for the sensitivity and precision with which it portrays class differences and for its determined commitment to dignity.”

Roquet's work has also won the award for Best European Short Film -EFA Short Film Nominee Valladolid 2015-, so that El adiós is automatically selected as one of the finalists for the European Film Academy's annual award.

The Silver Spike for Short Film has been, exaequo, for Cold coffee (Café frío), by Stéphanie Lansaque and François Leroy (France), and Tank, de Raoul Servais (Bélgica).

Mustang, Audience Award and Fipresci

The Fipresci jury, which awards the International Critics' Prize among the films participating in the Official Section, has decided to award its award to Mustang. The jury, made up of film journalists Margarita Chapatte (Spain), Živa Emeršič (Slovenia) and Antti Selkokari (Finland), "appreciates and rewards the strength and sincerity of the film, which shows us in a delicate way the position of young women in modern Turkey. Under the surface of secular society there is a strong tradition of female submission. The existence of five sisters locked in a house that is anything but a home reveals the principle “universal freedom of choice, which must be a universal right.”

The Public Prize, which Seminci organizes in collaboration with the newspaper El Norte de Castilla, has also gone to Mustang, which has obtained an average score of 4,537 points out of 5, ahead of Hug, by Dagur Kári (Iceland, Denmark), with 4,443 points, y A crazy story, by Robert Guédiguian (France, Lebanon), with 4,256 points. This award is awarded to the feature film that has received the most votes from viewers who have attended the screenings of the Official Section, who in this 60th edition have cast a total of 6,295 votes.

Meeting Point

The jury of the 'Meeting Point' section, made up of the former general director of Flanders Image and former coordinator of Media Desk Belgium, Rita Goegebeur, and the Spanish directors Laura Mañá and Felipe Vega, has awarded the award for Best Feature Film to 2 yöttäa amuun (Two nights until morning), by the Finnish Mikko Kuparinen (Finland, Lithuania), “for its modernity in describing, with intensity and balance, the always complex world of human relationships.”

The short films awarded in this section have been Nkosi coiffure, by Frederike Migon (Belgium) as Best Foreign Short Film, “for being an open door to the encounter of cultures, which live closer to each other than they themselves believe.” on the roof, by Damià Serra (Spain), has received the 'The Night of the Spanish Short' award for "its humor and delicacy in addressing the sometimes surprising discoveries of adolescence."

Finally, the movie 3000 Layla (3,000 nights), by Mai Masri (Palestine, Lebanon, France) has won the Audience Award, which, as in the Official Section, is organized by the newspaper El Norte de Castilla. The winner obtained an average score of 4,297 points out of 5. In second place, viewers have chosen Julia's Decision, by Norberto López Amado (Spain), with 4,284 points, and Héctor, by Jake Gavin (United Kingdom), with 4,223 points. In this section, the public has cast a total of 2,695 votes.

History and Doc Spain Time

Carles Bosch, Alejandra Islas and Juan Antonio Pérez-Millán, members of the jury of the 'Tiempo de Historia' section dedicated to documentary film, have awarded the first prize to La Granja de Pas, by Silvia Munt (Spain), "for the expressive sobriety and narrative quality with which it manages to transmit notable information with a high emotional content, on a topic of such importance as the problem of evictions."

The second prize went to I am the people, by Anna Roussillon (France), for “her ability to combine two trends rarely compatible in documentary film, such as the contemplative style and the informative style, in order to narrate the chronology of the Egyptian spring.”

For its part, the 'Doc España' jury made up of Spanish producers, scriptwriters and filmmakers Arantxa Aguirre, Roberto Lozano Bruna and Belén Santos has awarded the prize in this section to Philosophy to the prisoner, by Gilbert Arroyo and Marc Parramon (Spain), “for managing to turn a debate of ideas into a story full of emotion.”

In addition, it has awarded two special mentions. one to Frankenstein 04155, by Aitor Rei, “for investigating with great rigor the causes of the Alvia 04155 train accident. Documentary film shows here its ability to denounce the fracture and distance between civil society and institutions.” The second has been for The inflated jungle, by Alejandro Naranjo, “for bringing us closer to the lesser-known reality of an indigenous American population, through a personal and talented perspective.”

Castilla y León in Short

The jury of the 'Castilla y León en Corto' section was made up of the actress Ana Otero; the general coordinator of the Aguilar de Campoo Short Film Festival, Jorge Sanz Pulido, and the director Jorge Villa. This jury has awarded the prize for Best Short Film to The Fisherman, by Alejandro Suárez Lozano (Spain).

Young Seminci

Mustang has also been liked by the younger audience at Seminci. The film has won the prize in the 'Seminci Joven' section, awarded by popular vote to students between 12 and 18 years old. The Seminci has submitted eight films taken from the different cycles and sections of the 60th Week for evaluation, of which Mustang has been the favorite.