Madrid, Dec 13 (EFE).- ‘Los Domingos’ won this Saturday the award for best fiction feature film and ‘Anatomy of an Instant’ for best series at the Forqué Awards, considered the prelude to the Goya, in a gala that was dedicated to Héctor Alterio, who died a few hours earlier.
In addition to winning the award for best fiction feature film, Alauda Ruiz de Azua’s film about a young woman who lives a religious vocation has added the award for best female performance to Patricia López Arnaiz, who has dedicated the award to the director for her “genuine vocation to investigate what happens to us and what we hide.” “Thanks to you I have been able to conceive and experience the thrill,” he said.
An award that José Ramón Soroiz has won in its male category for ‘Maspalomas’, a film about homosexuality in older people that the actor has also dedicated to the directors of a “beautiful film with a wonderful script”, Jose Mari Goenaga and Aitor Arregui.
The 31st edition of these awards granted by audiovisual producers organized in Egeda, a non-profit entity chaired by Enrique Cerezo, has also served to award a gold medal to the producer Emma Lustres.
“We independent producers cannot be in unequal conditions as we are in the market. The market is wonderful, but we must regulate it,” said the founder along with Borja Pena of Vaca Films (‘Hasta el cielo’ or ‘Celda 211’), who added that she does not understand that “a cultural industry that represents this country so well does not have greater support from our institutions and our governments, whether right-wing or left-wing.”
The acting categories for series have given Javier Cámara his third Forqué for his role as a former Olympic badminton player in ‘Jakarta’ – which he has dedicated to “the losers and failures”, like his character, in addition to his co-star, the young Carla Quílez.
Esperanza Pedreño, who was not present, received the best actress award for the comical portrait of a couple from ‘Poquita Fe T2’, the only award for the series that started as a favorite with three nominations.
But the award for best series, which the previous one was also up for, went to ‘Anatomía de un momento’, based on the book by Javier Cercas about the coup d’état of 23-F, and directed by Alberto Rodríguez. “Really, life wasn’t better with Franco,” remarked its producer, also actor José Manuel Lorenzo.
This edition of the Forqué has also served to give the award for best documentary to ‘Flores para Antonio’ (Isaki Lacuesta and Elena Molina). Its producer and protagonist, Alba Flores, has collected the award. “Thank you, dad,” were his first words.
‘Sorda’, by Eva Libertad, which started out as the most nominated, took the award for cinema and education in values of the four for which it was nominated. ‘Decorado’ (Alberto Vázquez) was awarded in the animation category, and ‘El Cautivo’, by Alejandro Amenábar, won the audience award.
‘Belén’, by Dolores Fonzi, has been chosen Latin American film of the year. The best short film was ‘Ángulo Muerto’, by Cristian Beteta, where an ex-couple meets to investigate an attack on their common son.
Neither ‘Sirat’, by Óliver Laxe, chosen by the Film Academy to represent Spain at the Oscars, nor ‘Tardes de Soledad’, by Albert Serra, winner of the Golden Shell at the 2024 San Sebastián Festival, have managed to be distinguished in their respective categories (fiction film and documentary, respectively).
At the gala presented by Cayetana Guillén Cuervo and Daniel Guzmán, accompanied by the comical artificial intelligence character ‘tía’, the musical performances were interpretations of important songs in the history of Spanish cinema such as ‘Ojos Verdes’, sung by Ruth Lorenzo; ‘Porque te vas’, which Jeanette has sung with Chloé Bird; or ‘Nothing at all’, by Amaral and Mafalda Cardenal.
Chanel and Nil Moliner have performed ‘Toda una vida’; Shaila Dúrcal has paid tribute to her mother with ‘Más Bonita Que Nada’ and Marwán has done a duet with Cayetana Guillén Cuervo in ‘Quisiera ser’, by the Dúo Dinático, in tribute to Manuel de la Calva, who died last August. EFE
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