I will not die of love Marta Matute’s first work above dramatic impact of dementiaelevated this Saturday with Biznaga de Oro to the best Spanish film of the Málaga festival, which was honored in all its awards for Ibero-American films.
This dramatic and naturalistic film by a Madrid director based on my own experience with my motherit also won Best Actress for Júlia Mascort and Actor in the Department for Tomás del Estal for Jurado directed by filmmaker Jaione Camborda (Oh, the corner).
As El Cultural critic Enric Albero said, Marty Matute’s film “is conscientious in processing the point of view of Claudia (Júlia Mascort)”, the youngest daughter of a family marked by her mother’s mental illness. His father – a convincing Tomás del Estal -, a retired soldier, seems unable to handle the guilt and fragility that gnaw at him, while the mayor (Laura Weissmahr), installed in Barcelona, tries to compensate for the distance by transforming herself into a more rigid and kind ruling class.
Filmmaker Marta Matute in the middle and actors Tomás del Estal, Julia Mascort, Sonia Almarcha and Laura Weissmahr at the screening of “Yo no moriré de amor” in Málaga. Photo: EFE/ Jorge Zapata
From this mirada adolescenta, directora constructe the relationship of interrupted learning and forced learning. Matute remains committed to her protagonist, handling silences, ellipses and pent-up emotions with a precision that avoids any trace of melodrama.
Adamas, Ivan & Hadoumthe first film of the Andalusian director Ian de la Rosa, achieved special prize jurado and Biznaga for Best Actor, while its protagonist, trans actor Silver Chicón, gave a special mention to the jurado for Best Male Performance. This story of difficult loves and spiritual conflicts in the Almeria winter came to you with the Berlinale award.
The rest of the Biznags were rewarded Ibero-American workers. There were ten titles of those who chose the film as the best Mexican film The garden we dream ofa drama about immigration and tree production directed by Joaquín del Paso, also up for Best Director and Best Cinematography for Gökhan Tiryaki.
The award for the best male interpretation of the festival went to Chilean Nicolás Zárate por Red hangara film by Juan Pablo Sallat about the repression of the soldiers after the Pinochet coup.

The strip also picked up the Best Editing Award, for Valeria Hernández and Sebastián Bram, the Critics Award and one of the Audience Awards (the other was awarded for the Spanish Pioneers. Only querian jugarde Marta Díaz de Lope Díaz).
A special mention goes to the best female interpretation of the film by the young actress Ángeles Pradal for his paper Ángeles (Mexico and Argentina), film by Paula Markovitch.
Also, Best Actress in the department went to María Magdalena Sanizo, a Quechua actress who plays the paper in the Bolivia-Peru-Uruguay co-production. La Hija condor, de Álvaro Olmos Torrico. This film also introduced Biznaga to the best music, thanks to the work of Cergio Prudencia and Marcelo Guerrero.
Of all these prizes, Gold Biznagas has an economic subsidy of 8,000 euros each for the best Spanish and Ibero-American film.
The festival announced these awards of the official section in the competition of its 20th year, in which two great Spanish and Spanish-American films competed, among the new days of Spanish cinema that began on March 6, and tonight it will present its Biznagas in the closing gala.
Jaione Camborda was accompanied in the jury by the director of the Morelia International Film Festival, Daniela Michel; writer and actor Santiago Roncagliolo; actress Loreto Mauleón; director Belén Funes; actor and director Gastón Pauls and writer Rosa Montero.
In the official section of largometers, there was a competition, and a public prize was chosen every day Gonzaga Manso starring the legendary actor Saturnino García, who at the age of 91 made one of the festival’s comebacks.
The documentary competition awarded the Spanish-Uruguayan co-production with a platinum award Map on papera work on motherhood by Mercedes Afonso.
The festival also gave special recognition to the Spanish Suciaactress and creator Bàrbara Mestanza about the personal, artistic and judicial process that led to the suffering of sexual aggression. He also won the audience award.
The best director was Maria Molina Peiró por Like all mortals – in a co-production of the Low Countries and Spain – and the Special Jury Prize was saved In the voice of God (Brazil and Spain) by Miguel Antunes Ramos.

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