The Swedish short 'Alive', the Spanish 'Ni oblit ni perdó' and the Chilean 'Julieta y la luna', Danzante Awards at the Huesca Festival

The three works go directly to the Oscar Awards preselection thanks to the Alto Aragonese competition that closes an “extraordinary” edition, being the first in Europe to reopen the theaters to the public after confinement.

The Dancer Awards 48th Huesca International Film Festival have ended up in the Swedish short film Alive by Jimmy Olsson (International Competition), the Spanish Neither forget nor forgive by Jordi Boquet Claramunt (Ibero-American Competition) and the Chilean Juliet and the moon by Milena Castro (Documentary Competition). The three works go directly to the preselection for the Oscar Awards thanks to the Alto Aragonese competition.

The film event, which distributes more than 24,000 euros in prizes, closes an “extraordinary” edition, being the first in Europe to reopen theaters to the public after confinement. The in-person screenings at the Teatro Olimpia have been one of the three backbones along with a free online version with more than 100 short films and a drive-in cinema for nearly 200 cars.

The Swedish short film Alive, the Spanish Ni oblit ni perdó and the Chilean Juliet and the moon are the winning works of the Danzante Awards of the 48th edition of the Huesca International Film Festival in its international, Ibero-American and documentary competitions respectively. These three productions are thus directly classified for the preselection of the Hollywood Oscar Awards thanks to the recognition of the Huesca event, a contest where a total of 80 works from 30 different countries have competed.

The Danzante Prize of the international competition has gone to the short film Alive. A Swedish production directed by experienced filmmaker Jimmy Olsson that the jury compared to a “punch in the face” and stands out for “showing a different complaint from a poetic and humorous approach to talking about human rights.” For its part, the International Dancer “Jinete Ibérico”, which recognizes the best work of animation, has gone to the Russian On ne mozhet zhit bez kosmosa by Konstantin Bronzit; a short film capable of “getting rid of everything superfluous to tell a story of great depth”, a balance between style, drama and technique.

He international jury composed of the Mexican director Celso García, the Spanish producer and filmmaker Chelo Loureiro and the director of the Italian Concorto festival, Claudia Praolini, has awarded the Human Values ​​Mention “Francisco García de Paso” to the short film from France: Odol Gorri; In it, its director Charlène Favier manages to expose in a “powerful and honest” way the situation in juvenile centers, raising its importance worldwide.

In the section Iberomericano, the Catalan filmmaker Jordi Boquet Claramunt wins the Danzante Prize with his debut film Neither forget nor forgive. This short film, inspired by the posthumous story of Guillem Agulló, has been awarded for its ability to “give visibility to a story that is still topical as well as for its ability to excite and generate debate.” The second prize in this contest called “Cacho Pallero” went to the Colombian production Carmen by Raúl Gutiérrez, for “the mastery of cinematographic language at the service of a story in which violence is terribly everyday,” in the words of the jury members: the director of the Cinespaña contest Alba Paz and the performers Itziar Miranda and Nacho Rubio.

The third of the contests, the documentary, has distinguished the work of the Chilean Milena Castro, Juliet and the moon. The work takes the Danzante Prize for its “delicate approach to dealing with family secrets,” as well as for the creation of “a mysterious and ghostly atmosphere.” The jury composed of the Spanish Marian Diaz (Instituto Cervantes), the Polish Witold Kon and the Goya-winning Brazilian director Sergio Oskman, has awarded Carne by the Brazilian Camila Kater, the “José Manuel Porquet” award; “her honest look at the personal history of five women, her openness in talking about her relationship with her bodies and her creative use of different animation techniques to create an impressive portrait of being a woman” make her worthy of this recognition.

Regarding the first works, the young jury of the festival made up of Luis Montull, Manuela Roig, Paola Bolea and Raquel Ibáñez, wanted to award two works: the Serbian Poslednja slika o ocu by Stefan Djordjevic in the international section and the Brazilian Amanhã by Aline Flores and Alexandre Cristófaro in the Ibero-American section.

Lastly, the Award for Best Screenplay, discerned by Pablo Parra Cavagna and Selma Escalona, ​​has been for To the Face (Spain) by Javier Marco Rico. The Audience Award, sponsored by Aragón Televisión and for which all the works in the competition are eligible, has gone to the Spanish short Ferrotipos by Nüll García.

The winners of the 48th edition put an end to an “extraordinary” festival. The Alto Aragonese film event has thus become the first European event that held sessions in theaters for the public, one of its three axes that, together with the online version and the drive-in cinema, have recovered the spirit of a “film festival” both for the city and for the thousands of followers internationally. “The response from the public, the industry and the media allows us to put on a big smile, a historic edition in every sense,” concludes Rubén Moreno, director of the Festival.