“Los Domingos”, acclaimed by critics and the public, won the Forqué Awards during the 31st edition for best feature film and best actress for Patricia Lopez Arnaiz, for his role in the same film. Arnaiz plays Maite, Ainara’s aunt, a woman … progressive and skeptical who, after the death of her niece’s mother, becomes her main emotional support and her family’s critical voice over the young woman’s decision to enter a cloistered convent.
Jose Ramon Soroiz wins the Forqué for best performance for “Maspalomas”, playing Vicente, a 76-year-old man who, after decades of living openly gay, must return to San Sebastián after an accident and face the pressure to hide his orientation in a retirement home. In his moving speech, Soroiz looks to the sky and exclaims: “Antonio, my friend, he is coming to get you.” For its part, “Sorda”, by Eva Libertad, received the Film and Values Education prize.
On television, it was “Anatomy of a Moment” (Movistar Plus+) which won the Forqué. Esperanza Pedreño won the award for best female performance in a series for her role in the second season of “Poquita fe” (Movistar Plus+), while Javier Camara He won the male prize of “Jakarta” (Movistar Plus+), devoting his victory “to failures and losers”.
The Forqué awards are the first to take the pulse of Spanish cinema and generally function as the first tiles of Goya’s road. This year, they revealed obvious constants: increasingly recognizable authorial views and a coexistence – not always peaceful – between commercially oriented cinema and the most risky. All of this has shaped a prolific season, where the thermometer measures creative obsessions, industrial tensions and the state of mind of a sector that grows with each filmed second. In this edition, the Forqué Awards received a total of 124 Spanish films, as well as 31 Latin American productions, 83 feature-length documentaries, 70 short films, 40 series and 9 animated films, reflecting the diversity and vitality of the Hispanic audiovisual industry in all its forms and formats.
Ruth Lorenzo begins the ceremony with her own version of “Ojos Verdes” by Conchita Piquer, immediately giving way to the gala presenters, the actor and screenwriter Daniel Guzman and actress and journalist Cayetana Guillén Cuervo. Accompanied by an AI designed for awards, not yet fully perfected and prone to errors, the animators reflect on how cinema manages to transform the world into “a kinder place”. Guillén Cuervo made a special mention of his mother, Gemma Cuervo, who established herself as “Grandmother of Spain” and who looked after her daughter from home.
In the rest of the cinematographic categories, the surprise factor was accentuated by the excellence of the works which failed to impose themselves; “Flores para Antonio” (Movistar Plus+) receives the award for best feature documentary; “Blind spot” best cinematic short film; ‘Decorated’ best animated feature film; The audience prize went to “El cuativo”, by Alejandro Amenabar, and the Argentinian “Belén”, by Dolores Fonzi, won the prize for best Latin American feature film.
The entity’s gold medal for its production work was awarded to Emma Lustres, who couldn’t help but get excited when he was given the Forqué. Under his leadership, emblematic titles such as ‘Celda 211’, “One Hundred Years of Forgiveness”, “El Niño”, “Hasta el cielo” either “He who kills with iron”, which not only made a mark at the domestic box office, but also enjoyed international travel and critical recognition. In addition to his contribution to feature films, Lustres has promoted television projects such as “The Mess You Leave” and “Unity”. In his speech, Lustres emphasizes that “the market is wonderful, but it must be regulated and improved so that independent producers become an integral part of an industry”, affirming that it is the independent producers who bet on new talents and give a nod to the Galician audiovisual world.
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