Second prize, the film directed by filmmakers Isaki Lacuesta and Pol Rodríguez, which is inspired by the Granada indie-rock band Los Planetas, has won the Biznaga de Oro for best Spanish feature film at the 27th Malaga Festival. The duo also won the award for best director.
The film, which invites the viewer to travel to the late 90s, mixes fantasy with reality and recreates a few months that turned out to be decisive for the band, as the bassist leaves the group and the guitarist enters a dangerous spiral of self-destruction. Beyond telling what happened, the film tries to organize the memories of each of the members, who have their own version of past events.
The other winner of the contest is the Mexican production Radical, by Christopher Zalla. Crowned as the best Ibero-American feature film, the film is based on a true story that focuses on a teacher in a Mexican border city full of abandonment, corruption and violence. The teacher tries to fight the reality of his environment and the multiple stigmas that his students will end up facing and tries a radical new method to unlock the curiosity and potential of the youngest students.
The jury has awarded its special prize to the film Little Loves, by Celia Rico, which shows the deepest recesses of the relationship between Teresa and her mother after the latter suffers a small accident. The forced coexistence between both women will stir more than expected.
The best actress in the official section has been the Cuban Lola Amores for her work in the film The Wild Woman, by Alán González, and the award for best actor has gone ‘ex aequo’ to Luis Zahera, for Pájaros -by Pau Durà- , and for the Argentine Joaquín Furriel, for Rest in Peace -by Sebastián Borensztein-.
