The 21st Seville European Film Festival (held in the Andalusian city from 8 to 16 November) announced last Saturday that And Their Children After Them [+leggi anche:
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Latvian filmmaker Gints Zilbalodis, meanwhile,  won the Grand Jury Prize for his silent, animated film Flow [+leggi anche:
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This years’ festival has awarded the Puerta América Award for the first time, for films from the different sections of the festival that represent their respective countries in the candidacy for the next Oscar for best international film, which was also won by Flow: "because it moves us without words, with gestures and images, capable of transmitting hope in dark times," stated the jury.

The Flame of a Candle [+leggi anche:
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Aitor Echeverría, who competed in the Official Selection with his debut feature film Dismantling an Elephant [+leggi anche:
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The jury of the Rampa section, another of this year’s novelties, recognised Drowning Dry [+leggi anche:
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A final new addition is the Alumbramiento section, in which the FIPRESCI jury decided to award Lads [+leggi anche:
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The CampUS Jury Prize for Best Director in the Rampa section went to Moroccan-French film maker Saïd Hamich Benlarbi for La mer au loin [+leggi anche:
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The award winners:

Competition

Giraldillo de Oro for the best film
And Their Children After Them [+leggi anche:
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Grand Jury Prize
Flow [+leggi anche:
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Best Director Award
Magnus von Horn - The Girl with the Needle [+leggi anche:
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Best Screenplay Award
Sandhya Suri - Santosh [+leggi anche:
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Best Actress Award
Trine Dyrholm - The Girl with the Needle

Best Actor Award
Paul Kircher – And Their Children After Them

Best Editing
Gints Zilbalodis - Flow

Best Photography
Michał Dymek - The Girl with the Needle

Best Art Director
Jagna Dobesz - The Girl with the Needle

New Waves

Best Film Award
The Flame of a Candle [+leggi anche:
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Special Mention
I'd Rather Be Condemned [+leggi anche:
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Rampa

Best Film Award
Drowning Dry [+leggi anche:
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CampUS Jury Prize for Best Direction
Saïd Hamich Benlarbi - Across the Sea [+leggi anche:
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Special Mention
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi - Somewhere in Love (France/Belgium)

Alumbramiento

Best Film Award
Lads [+leggi anche:
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Special Mention
The Fortunate Ones [+leggi anche:
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Puerta America

Puerta América Award
Flow - Gints Zilbalodis

Andalusian Panorama

Juan Antonio Bermúdez Award for Best Film
The Trail Left by Time [+leggi anche:
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Special Mention
Resistance Reels - Concha Barquero Artés and Alejandro Alvarado Jódar

Rosario Valpuesta Award for Best Short Film
Tumbas vecinas - José Antonio Gutiérrez Bustos

Rosario Valpuesta Special Prize for artistic contribution
El cambio de rueda- Begoña Arostegui

Other Awards

AC/E Award for Best Director of a Spanish Film
Aitor Echeverría - Dismantling an Elephant [+leggi anche:
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AAMMA Women in Focus Award
This Life of Mine [+leggi anche:
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Queer Ocaña Freedom Award
Un Hombre Libre [+leggi anche:
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Future Film Lovers’ Award
Young Hearts [+leggi anche:
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Europe Junior Prize
Dunia and the Echo of the Drum - Marya Zarif and André Kadi (France/Canada) (medium-length film)

17th University of Seville European Film-Screenplay Award in the fiction category - First prize
Y ahora que duermes - Beatriz Hohenleiter Márquez and Mario Lerma

17th University of Seville European Film-Screenplay Award in the fiction category - Second prize
Madre puesta - Álvaro del Moral Otero