15/10/2018 - Arantxa Echevarría’s feature debut has taken home the Golden Violet for Best Film, the Best Actor Award and the Audience Award

Arantxa Echevarría picking up her Golden Violet for Best Film for Carmen & Lola (© Cinespaña)

Carmen & Lola [+see also:
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interview: Arantxa Echevarría
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The fiction feature competition also singled out Sunday’s Illness [+see also:
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interview: Diana Toucedo
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In the competitive New Directors section at this 23^rd edition of Cinespaña, victory was claimed by Formentera Lady [+see also:
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Here is the complete list of winners:

Fiction feature competition

Golden Violet for Best Film
Carmen & Lola [+see also:
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interview: Arantxa Echevarría
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Best Director Award
Sergi Portabella - Jean-François and the Meaning of Life [+see also:
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film profile] (Spain/France)

Best Actress Award
Bárbara Lennie and Susi Sánchez – Sunday’s Illness [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Ramón Salazar
film profile] (Spain)

Best Actor Award
Moreno Borja - Carmen & Lola

Best Screenplay Award
Ramón Salazar – Sunday’s Illness

Best Score Award 
Gerard Pastor - Jean-François and the Meaning of Life

Best Cinematography Award 
Lara Vilanova – Thirty Souls [+see also:
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interview: Diana Toucedo
film profile] (Spain)

New Directors competition

Best New Director Award 
Pau Durà - Formentera Lady [+see also:
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Special Mention 
Andrea Jaurrieta - Ana by Day [+see also:
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trailer
film profile] (Spain/France)

Documentary competition

Best Documentary Award
Alberto García-Alix. La línea de sombra [+see also:
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interview: Nicolás Combarro
film profile] - Nicolás Combarro (Spain)

Special Mention
Lo que dirán - Nila Núñez Urgell (Spain)

Other awards

Audience Award 
Carmen & Lola - Arantxa Echevarría

(Translated from French)