“Argentina, 1985”, favorite for the Ibero-American Goya among 5 recognized films

The five contenders for best Ibero-American film at this year’s Goya Awards have a high level, recognized in different competitions, but it is “Argentina, 1985”, by Santiago Mitre, which has received the most relevant awards and distinctions to date, including a Oscar nomination.

The film, starring Ricardo Darín, is will face the Chilean “1976”, by Manuela Martelli; the Colombian “The pack”by Andrés Ramírez Pulido; the Mexican “Noche de fuego”, by Tatiana Huezo, and the Bolivian “Utama”, by Alejandro Loayza Grisi, at the gala held this Saturday in the Spanish city of Seville (south).

ARGENTINA

The multi-award-winning film about the trial against General Videla and the rest of the heads of the last Argentine dictatorship (1976-1983) won a Golden Globe, considered the prelude to the Hollywood awards, and had its world premiere at the Festival International Film Festival of Venice, where won the Fipresci from international critics for best film.

It also won the audience award at the 70th edition of the San Sebastian International Film Festival.

The film, which stars, in addition to Darín, Peter Lanzani, Alejandra Flechner and Norman Briskirecounts the real case of the work of the prosecutor Julio César Strassera and his team in the famous trial of the Argentine Military Juntas that they had installed a state terrorism regime with thousands of disappeared and tortured people.

CHILI

In “1976”, Manuela Martelli’s debut feature, a frustrated bourgeois housewife begins to find meaning in her days when a priest asks her to help a young man wounded in hidingin one of the darkest years of the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship and the title of this enveloping intrigue film.

The protagonist, Aline Küppenheim, won the Best Actress award at the Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) in the role of Carmen, a mother of a wealthy family who decides to venture into uncharted territories, for “a mixture between a Samaritan impulse and the fantasy of being something else, of having another life”.

COLOMBIA

The debut feature of Colombian Andrés Ramírez Pulido is about a group of young delinquents confined in an experimental therapy center in the middle of the jungle, where meditation is mixed with forced labor.

The film stars a group of non-professional actors -Jhojan Stiven Jiménez, Maicol Andrés Jiménez, Carlos Steven Blanco, Ricardo Alberto Parra- along with their tortured therapist, played by Miguel Viera.

“La jauría” was selected in Films in Progress 2022 (Toulouse, France) and competed in the Cannes Critics’ Week, where it received the Grand Prix and the SACD award, and in the “Horizons” section of the San Sebastian Festival.

MEXICO

“Night of Fire” is the first fiction feature by Tatiana Huezo, a story about the childhood and motherhood in the face of violence in the context of Mexico rural, which won the “Un Certain Regard” award at the Cannes Film Festival and the Ariel Award for best film from the Mexican Film Academy.

Based on the book “Prayers of the stolen” (2012), by the writer Jennifer Clement, the film tells the story of three girls who live in the mountains of the state of Guerrero and learn to survive and become invisible to avoid the side effects of the war on drugs.

BOLIVIA

The Bolivian “Utama” (“our home” in Aymara), directed by Alejandro Loayza, is filmed in Quechua and Spanish and narrates the Drought coping efforts of an indigenous elderly coupleplayed by José Calcina and Luisa Quispe, married in real life and without any previous experience in front of the cameras.

The film has garnered international awards at the Sundance (USA) -Grand Jury Prize-, Malaga (Spain) and Guadalajara (Mexico) festivals, among others. In total, he has accumulated 36 awards, which has opened doors to movie theaters in 23 countries, including the United States.

Source-listindiario.com