Colectivo Silencio makes itself heard at Punto de Vista
- El polvo ya no nubla nuestros ojos has won the Grand Prize for Best Film in Pamplona, while the Jean Vigo Prize for Best Director was bestowed upon the Belgian production Notre village
On Saturday 1 April, the 17th edition of Punto de Vista - International Documentary Film Festival of Navarre closed in Pamplona, with the usual ceremony. On that evening, the Official Selection Jury, made up of the Galician filmmaker Ángel Santos Touza, the Japanese programmer Hama Haruka and the Madrid journalist Marcos Uzal, announced its verdict: the Punto de Vista Grand Prize for Best Film, worth €10,000, went to the Peruvian short film El polvo ya no nubla nuestros ojos, directed by Colectivo Silencio, for being "a film that unites past and present, in its cinematographic form as well as in its political rage".
The Jean Vigo Prize for Best Director, worth €5,000, went to the Belgian production Notre village, by Comes Chahbazian, for being, according to the same jury, "a surprising feature film in how it changes shape along the way, tackling the story while finding time for poetry, with an incredible softness in its evocation of violence, and a rare sense of framing and editing".
The Prize for Best Short (€3,000) went to Sharon Lockhart's American film Eventide: "A single 30-minute shot, as sublime as it is mysterious, where the beauty of nature (sky, sea, land, vegetation, etc.) and the fundamentals of cinema: light and dark, time and space", according to the judges.
The Audience's Special Prize for Best Film (€1,650) went to The River Is Not a Border [+see also:
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In the X Films section, the jury - Gloria Vilches, Marian Fernández Pascal and Ramiro Ledo - praised the value and originality of the three projects presented by Daniela Delgado Viteri, Ilan Serruya and Anna López Luna. The jury finally chose TRÁNSITOS, by the visual artist López Luna (Barcelona, 1983), "for its critical and socially committed perspective on a place, a tradition and a series of myths rooted in our culture, which is both plastic and affective".
The festival closed with the screening -with sounds from director Ibon RG- of La Montagne infidèle, a silent film by Jean Epstein about the eruption of Mount Etna in June 1923, rescued by the Filmoteca de Cataluña.
The prizes:
Official Prizes
Punto de Vista Grand Prize for Best Feature Film
El polvo ya no nubla nuestros ojos - Colectivo Silencio (Peru, short film)
Jean Vigo Prize for Best Director
Notre village - Comes Chahbazian (Belgium)
Prize for Best Short
Eventide - Sharon Lockhart (USA)
Special Prizes
Audience's Special Prize for Best Film
The River Is Not a Border [+see also:
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Youth Prize for Best Film
Leading Lights [+see also:
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Special Jury Commendation (in the category of Best Film)
Apocalipsis 20 21 22 - Julius Richard Tamayo (Spain)
X Films
TRÁNSITOS - Anna Lopez Luna
(Translated from Spanish by Vicky York)
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