After the twelve awards at the Goya, La sociedad de la nieve once again showed that it had no rival at the Platino. The awards that recognize the best of the Ibero-American audiovisual field had a great Spanish accent in the XI edition held at the Tlachco Parque Xcaret theater, in the extraordinary enclave of the Riviera Maya, with the triumph also of 20,000 species of bees, Robot dreams and The Messiah. The moving story about the 1972 Andes air tragedy directed by Juan Antonio Bayona started as a favorite with seven nominations and won six: film, direction, editing, sound, cinematography and best actor for the Uruguayan Enzo Vogrincic, praised as a youth idol after the success of the film both in cinemas and on Netflix.
Without counting Vogrincic, Spain prevailed in a total of 16 of the 23 categories of Platino awards also sprinkled with numerous moments of dance and music, with a beautiful tribute from Ana Mena to Rocío Dúrcal and the performances of Ana Guerra and David Bisbal. The one in Almeria, a hurricane on stage that unfolded a mix of his best-known songs, put an end to an evening presented by the actresses Esmeralda Pimentel and Májida Issa who served as a speaker in support of Argentine cinema . Bayona charged against the dismantling of the culture of the far-right president Milei: “To be against the cinema is to be against your own country. Argentina, we are here. You are not alone!”.
And the actress Cecilia Roth, who received the Platino d’Honor award from Enrique Cerezo, said that “there is only one cinema, the one that speaks in Spanish and Portuguese, but it is only one cinema. one country When one has problems, you have to be attentive, help him”, she mentioned in a speech in which she recalled her beginnings as an actress when she was playing with her brother Ariel as a child. The veteran Argentine performer added: “In our country the problem is serious because not only is it not heard, but it may cease to exist. Let’s be attentive, resist and, like when I was little, let’s turn this struggle, this resistance and these dreams we have for this cinema we make into reality.”
It was an exciting night for Estibaliz Urresola and his 20,000 species of bees. The sensitive story about trans childhood was crowned with the Platino for best first opera, screenplay, education in values ??and supporting actress for Ane Gabarain. The Basque filmmaker spoke “in favor of diversity” and remembered Ekai, the young trans man who took his own life and whose story inspired this film, which began its journey at the Berlinale.
Laia Costa won as best film actress for Un amor, by Isabel Coixet. He couldn’t come, just like José Coronado, best supporting actor for Cerrar los ojos – the only statuette that won Víctor Erice’s ode to cinema -. Nor was Carmen Machi, best female performer in a miniseries cast for La Mesías, present. Yes, her partner in the series Lola Dueñas took to the stage happy and excited when she was named best actress and dedicated the Platino to Los Javis, “my two jewels”. Pablo Berger and Alfonso Vilallonga won for best animated film and original music for Robot dreams. And Isabel Díaz Ayuso, dressed in fuchsia, strutted like a star when she collected in Mexico the certificate of the Platino Awards, which will return in 2025 to Madrid: “We are waiting for them next year in the house of freedom”.
