SundaysAlauda Ruiz de Azúa’s film about a young woman who wants to become a nun, and Anatomy of a momentthe series by Alberto Rodríguez on 23-F based on the book of the same name by Javier Cercas, obtained the main prizes in the 31st edition of the Forqué Awards, awarded annually by Spanish producers and which kick off the awards season in our country.
Ruiz de Azúa’s film won Sirat, Deaf And Maspalomas. When presenting the award, the director said her film aims to “honor critical thinking and defend the autonomy of the viewer.” against indoctrination or dogma“, because the film explores precisely “how religious indoctrination can distort your perception or your feelings”.
In conclusion, he thanked the 600,000 spectators who went to see the film and who were open to reflection and debate “because it can only make us more human and less obedient”.
Sundays It also won Best Actress for Patricia López Arnaiz.who celebrated it with his colleagues also competing for the prize (Ángela Cervantes for The fury, Miriam Garlo by Deaf and Nora Navas for My friend Eva), which he called “brown beasts” of interpretation.
He also dedicated the award to the film’s “dream cast”, producers, technical crew and director. “Alauda has a real vocation to want to talk about what is human, to want to investigate, to shed light on relationships, connections, what happens to us, what moves us,” he declared.
In the field of series, the main prize was awarded to Anatomy of a momentwho conquered Animal, Puberty and the second season of little faith. Upon receiving the award, producer José Manuel Lorenzo first dedicated the award to Cercas for letting him adapt the series; also to the rest of the producers involved, to the actors and especially to Alberto Rodríguez, for his “magnificent view” of the book.
He also addressed young people in his speech, inviting them to realize, by watching the series, “how difficult it was to access the freedoms that we have” and to fight to preserve them. “Really, life was not better with Franco”highlighted at a time when surveys reveal that new generations of Spaniards justify and even sympathize more than ever with dictatorship and the far right.
The prize for best documentary was awarded to Flowers for Antoniothe film in which Alba Flores follows in her father’s footstepssinger Antonio Flores, who died in 1995 when she was a child.
“Thank you dad.”the actress said as she approached the lectern with the award in hand, while the film’s directors, Isaki Lacuesta and Elena Molina, and other crew members looked on in the background. In her speech, which began with “we are all Gaza” and ended with “long live the music”, she particularly thanked the film’s producers (including her mother and herself) because “it takes a lot of courage to support a family project that has become a catharsis.”
José Ramón Soroiz won the Forqué for best film actoreven though he put his hands on his head because he didn’t believe it. He achieved this through his role in Maspalomasa “beautiful film” about homosexual love in old age. “Adolfo, my friend, he is coming for you,” he said in memory of the actor Adolfo Fernández, who died this Friday.
The best female performance in the field of the series was, according to the voting results, that of Esperanza Pedreño (who did not attend the gala) for his magnificent work in little faith like a woman drowned in routine, a character to whom she imprints resignation, pathos, tenderness and a touch of involuntary humor.
The male version of the same prize was awarded to Javier Cámara for Jakartaa series that “pays homage to failure and losers,” as he emphasized in his speech. He plays a scruffy gym teacher who, in his spare time, works as a badminton coach.
The actor, who also directed certain episodes of the series, wanted to symbolically share his prize with the co-star of the series, Carla Quílez, “an incredible actress who is still 17 years old.” He also dedicated it to the producer of the series, Javi Méndez, and to the director of the series, Elena Trapé.
The price for Best Animated Feature Film went to Decorateddirected by the Galician filmmaker and designer Alberto Vázquez, a fable dystopian and existential about a world that functions as a gigantic fake stage, featuring an anthropomorphic mouse.
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