Albert Serra achieved the undisputed Golden Shell with his particular documentary on bullfighting

From the first bars of the San Sebastian festival, A lonely afternoon became the most popular movie controversy of this issue, even PACMA protested against the removal of this documentary work from the official section of the competition because for them ‘romanticized’ animal suffering through violence practiced k bull fight in runs.

However, despite the controversies that, on the other hand, always tend to accompany Albert Serra, Whether thanks to his films or his statements, it was clear from the first screening that we are facing a work that transcends any type of ethical considerations and is set within art in its purest form.

This is what the jury of the 72nd Zinemaldia, which he chaired, expressed Jaione Cambord (Golden Shell last year thanks About Horn) and composed by an Argentinian writer and journalist Leila Guerrieroactor Fran KranzGreek director Christos Nikou (author nails), French manufacturer Carole Scott (founder Haut et Court) and Austrian filmmaker Ulrich Seidl which moves precisely on the same slippery ground as Albert Serra’s cinema.

He Special Jury Prize or, what is the same, the second importance went to The last showgirlthird feature film Gia Coppolagranddaughter Francis Ford Coppola in which save Pamela Anderson talk about the breakdown of the american dream in a decadent scenario vegas from the perspective of a woman who practiced the profession ‘driving patrol’ for thirty years and that after the final closure of the program he participated in, he must reevaluate his life.

Exceptionally, the work of the entire castled by Anderson who remembered all his teammates.

The Silver Shell for Best Director It was ex-aequo, for a film in a social key When fallingproduced by Ken Loach fronting Laura Carreirawho makes his feature directorial debut with this powerful work social complaint around immigration and labor exploitation and for another feature debut such as Cryinscribed in the horror genre, which recognized the emerging talent of its director Pedro Martin-Calero with this shared award, which was responsible forchampion new voices within the cinematic panorama, even if it is from completely different perspectives.

It hasn’t existed for several years gender distinction within acting awards. So, in the category of protagonists, he became the winner Patricia Lopez Arnaiz for their very gentle participation Those sparksnew movie Pilar Palomero which talks about how to accompany in sickness and death.

The cast’s performance led to one of the festival’s big revelations, Pierre Lotin according to When autumn fallsfrom Françoise Ozonwhich also achieved Award for Best Screenplay thanks to the almost domestic intrigues that refer to the cinematography of Claude Chabrol, in which two elderly women, after a turbulent past, deal with various problems with their children.

We say that Pierre Lotin has become an unexpected surprise because he is also the hero of the film that fell in love in the Perlak section and won Audience Award. It’s about All the way up and it is a beautiful story about the reconciliation of two separated brothers after the loss of their mother, in which music plays a vital role. Moreover, the end of existence is also part of its backbone, it becomes death in one of the themes that was intertwined with a large part of the films shown during the festival, among them of course Another roomfrom the recent Donostia prize Pedro Almodoyear