The Cerdanya Film Festival lowers the curtain on its 14th edition this Sunday with a record number of 7,000 spectators, double the number of the last edition, throughout the 150 screenings of the event. The figure rises to 14,000 people if we also add the number of participants to the activities that complement the festival, such as the Cross-border Audiovisual Congress of the Pyrenees, those attending the Laboratory and the Campus, as well as the workshops in rural schools and exhibitions.
The director of the Cerdanya Film Festival, Jordi Forcada, assured that he was “very happy” and highlighted the “necessary” work of the event as the “only screen in rural areas” given the closure of cinemas.
This Saturday the awards ceremony was held at the Casino Ceretà de Puigcerdà. The event was attended by the winners and public representatives headed by the mayor of Puigcerdà, Jordi Gassió, who stressed that “it is an honor to have festivals of this type at a cultural level”.
As for the list of winners of the 14th edition, the prize for the best Spanish Fiction Short Film Vila de Puigcerdà went to ‘El tren de la alegría’ by Jordi Boquet, the prize for the best International Fiction and Animation Short Film Vila de Puigcerdà went to ‘Fortissimo’ by Víctor Cesca, and the prize for best Spanish documentary short film Villa de Puigcerdá went to ‘Ava’ by Mabel Lozano.
The festival is a collaborator with the Goya Awards of the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Spain, with which the winning projections in the fiction short film and documentary sections of the Ceretano festival are classified directly for the selection of these recognized awards .
The jury has also awarded ‘Takbir’, by Jordi Calvet, with the Talent Emergent award, which also won the Best Choral Performance award. ‘Lobos’, by Javi Coca, has won the award for Best Editing; ‘París 70’, by Dani Freixas, has been awarded the prize for best original screenplay; ‘Urraca, Cazador de rojos’, by Pedro de Echave and Felip Solé, has won the Memory prize; and ‘Carpetas Azules’, by Ander Iriarte, has been the winner of the Mirada Social award. The award for best director has been ex aequo for Pablo Quijano for ‘Rubio Cobrizo’, and Ona Jané for ‘De nit, while the acting award has gone to Alain Hernández for his role in’ París 70′.
