Woman Without Piano crowned at Cinespaña
Javier Rebollo emerged victorious at the close of the 15th Cinespaña Festival in Toulouse, where the director (see video interview) won the Golden Violet for Best Film with Woman Without Piano [+see also:
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The event also honoured Laura Mana’s Life Begins Today [+see also:
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Best Actor went to Guillermo Toledo for his performance in Alberto Rodrigues’s After [+see also:
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Meanwhile, Best Screenplay and Best Score went to Alvaro Brechner’s Bad Day to Go Fishing [+see also:
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Finally, the documentary competition crowned Manuel Menchon’s Malta Radio with a special mention going to Lluis Miñarro’s Familystrip [+see also:
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film profile]. The short film jury lauded Juan Francisco Viruega’s Estocolmo.
(Translated from French)
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