‘Five Lobitos’ and ‘Utama’, Gold Biznagas of the 25th Malaga Festival

The Malaga Film Festival closure its 25th edition, possibly the most ambitious and international, recognizing Five Little Wolves and Predominant With gold biznagas.

The Malaga Film Festival He has put the gold flour Fiorella Faltoyano. From the Cervantes Theater, the actress has taken stock of the event while solidarity with the Ukrainian people: "The only thing that has been able with the magic of fiction is the cruelty of this war," he said.

The main protagonists of the night have been the award -winning teams of all the sections that make up the Festival. Lark Ruiz de Azua, director of Five Little Wolves has collected the Gold Biznaga for Best Spanish Film. She has been very excited "on one of the most special nights of his life" and greatly grateful to both the jury and his team. He has assured that he was not aware of how far he could go with this feature film, which has also received the biznagas to the Best female interpretation Former Aequo for the interpretive work of his actresses Laia Costa and Susi Sánchez, the Biznaga for the best script and the Public Special Prize.

On the other hand, producers Marcos Loayza, Santiago Loayza and Federico Moreira They have collected the Gold Biznaga for Best Ibero -American Film and the Silver Biznaga at best address granted to Alejandro Loayza Grisi by Predominant, its prima opera, which recounts the struggle for the survival of a Quechuas elderly couple who are dedicated to separate by the consequences of climate change. The film has also taken the biznaga to the Best music.

Actor Nicolás Poblete has made the Silver Biznaga for Best Distributed Actor, who has been excited to remember the social dimension of his role in Private messages, while the Best female cast interpretation Maria da Silva has been taken by Debora by The mother (The mother). The silver biznaga completes the palmarés to the Best photography, who has gone to Nicolás Wong Díaz by The Gigantes; Silver Biznaga to Better assembly, for Rodrigo Sachel by Private messages; And the Silver Biznaga to the Best male interpretation It has been for Leonardo Sbaraglia, for its interpretation in Almost in Love (Ámame).

Tributes of the 25th Malaga Festival

The Biznaga of Honor has been granted to the director Carlos Remains, one of the great talents that Spain has given not only from the cinematographic perspective, but also from literary or theatrical. He has also been recognized with his own gold biznaga to the director and film critic Fernando Méndez-Leite, in recognition of his work at the Malaga Festival. Other awards awarded during the Festival are the Malaga - South Prize, for the Spanish cinema team represented by the Film Academy; the retrospective prize - Malaga today, for the Argentine actress Mercedes Morán; Malaga Talent - La Opinion de Málaga Award, for Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo; the Ricardo Franco - Film Academy Award, dedicated to the Cine Trades, for the Director of Production Sol Carnicero; or the Biznaga City of Paradise, for the essentials of Spanish cinema, which will be given to actor Miguel Fillán.

The gold film of the 25 Festival of Malaga has been The wolf forest, a 1970 classic by Pedro Olea that will serve as a tribute to actor José Luis López Vázquez in the centenary of his birth.

Industry at Festival de Málaga

Another axes of this Malaga Festival has been the area Mafiz industry, constituted by events that promote the financing, co -production, distribution and sale of Spanish cinema, all from the support and impulse to the new Ibero -American audiovisual talent in its consideration of a transversal objective for this wide industrial area.

After two online editions, he has returned in face -to -face mode Málaga Work in Progress and Maffe (Málaga Festival Fund & Coproduction Event), centrado en los fondos internacionales que aportan financiación al cine latinoamericano, junto a Hack Málaga, un nuevo evento dedicado al talento emergente en las nuevas plataformas y redes sociales. También ha destacado el mercado audiovisual Spanish Screenings, which in this edition has presented a renewed impulse thanks to the budgetary endowment framed in the recovery, transformation and resilience plan to reinforce the role of Spain as an audiovisual of Europe. Thus, with the Ministry of Culture and Sports through the ICAA, and the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation through Icex, this event has adopted a new format to become Spanish Screenings XXL, an international market for Spanish audiovisual production.

Palmarés de short films and other awards

Official SECTION OF DOCUMENTARY short films

• Best documentary short film - Victoria, by Eloisa Díez
• Special Jury Mention - Fe, by Maider Fernández; A wind touches your door, by Jorge Castrillo, and Pablo Paloma; The day the mountain flew, of Alba Bresolí.
• Public Prize - Documentary Short Film - All Sundays, by Alberto Dexeus

Official Fiction Short Film Section

• Best fiction short film - Breakwater, from Eloy Domínguez
• Best address - Rafael Martínez, for Raw
• Best female interpretation - Anna Caponnetto, for Assets
• Special Mention of the Jury - Verónica Andrés, by Thoroughbred
• Best male interpretation - Julián Villagrán, by Assets
• Special Mention of the Jury - Emilio Pacheco and Jaime Crespo, by The kennel
• Public Prize - Assets, by Julia de Paz.

Official section of short films Animazine

• Best animation short film - Loop, by Pablo Polledri
• Public Prize (Animation) - Loop, by Pablo Polledri

Official Short Film Section Malaga

• Best fiction short film - Masaru, from Rubén Navarro
• Best documentary short film, animation or experimentation - Romeo, by Sara G. Cortijo
• Public Prize - Moron, by Roberto Cano.

Other awards

• Film school award for the best feature film in Zonazine - Isosceles, by Ignacio Nacho
• Young Jury Award from the UMA to the best feature film of the Oificial Section - Five lobitos, Alauda Ruíz de Azúa
• Asecan Opera Prima Award of the Oification Section of Feature Film - Five lobitos, Alauda Ruíz de Azúa
• FEROZ PUERTA DARK 2022 Award for the best official section feature - Five lobitos, Alauda Ruíz de Azúa
• Premium standards - Five lobitos, Alauda Ruíz de Azúa

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