The San Sebastián Festival announced multiple award recipients across its industry programs, honoring projects in development and post-production from established and emerging directors across Europe and Latin America.
In the WIP Latam competition, Colombian director Juan Sebastián Mesa won recognition for “Lovers Go Home!,” a multi-country co-production shot in Canada and Colombia that explores the relationship between a webcam performer in Medellín and a disabled war veteran through virtual conversations. Mexican filmmaker Tatiana Huezo, known for documentary and fiction work including previous selections at Cannes and Berlin, received an award for “Galerna,” produced by Pimienta and Elastica Films, which follows casting directors searching rural Mexico for natural actors on a science fiction production.
The Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum distributed three awards among projects in early development stages. Felipe Solari Yrigoyen’s “The Amateurs,” produced by Chile’s Quijote Films and Argentina’s Gentil Cine, won the top award for a feature debut centered on an eccentric film character convention where an artifact disappears. “The Illusions” by Ingrid Pokropek received another forum award; the project centers on three Buenos Aires strangers experiencing a cosmic mix-up after wishing upon a shooting star and has secured co-production support and participation in several industry programs. Michel Franco’s Teorema label backed “Mourning Sound,” Selma Cervantes’ debut feature about a woman returning to Mexico after her mother’s death.
The WIP Europa program awarded Val Jashari’s “In a Manner of Speaking,” a Kosovo-Montenegro co-production following an Albanian-American fugitive in Prishtina who encounters another woman with her own reasons for hiding. Two projects won recognition through the Ikusmira Berriak development program: Ekain Albite’s “Akira,” a Spain-Georgia-France co-production depicting a nighttime journey through borderlands, and Portuguese filmmaker Inês Nunes’ “The Spirit Healer Is Away for the Weekend,” about an unsuccessful actress in an Algarve town where her image has become an object of local worship.
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