Havana.- Chilean film "El Club," by prestigious director Pablo Larrain, won the Best Fiction Film Coral Prize at the International Festival of the New Latin American Cinema, another record of his privileged career. Meanwhile, the film "Desde alla," by Venezuelan Lorenzo Viga, won the Best First Work Coral Prize, and "El Clan," by Argentine Pablo Trapero, won the Popularity Coral Prize, conferred by moviegoers.
One of the multi-awarded films of the Festival, which concluded yesterday night, was Mexican-German movie "Te prometo anarquia": Julio Hernandez won the Best Screenplay Coral Prize, and actors Diego Calva and Eduardo Eliseo Martinez, received the Best Male Performance Coral Prize in Leading role category.
Meanwhile, the Best Female Performance Coral Prize went to Mexican actress Jana Raluy, for her role in the film "Un monstruo de mil cabezas."
"La luz incidente" (Argentina, France, Uruguay) won the Best Photography Coral Prize for Guillermo Nieto, and the Best Art Direction Coral Prize for Aili Chen.
"El abrazo de la serpiente" (Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina) also won a couple of Coral prizes: Best Edition category for Etienne Boussac and Best Original Music category for Nascuy Linares.
Another double winner was the film "Campo Grande" (Brazil, France), which got the Best Direction Coral Prize for Sandra Kogut and the Signis Prize, delivered by the World Catholic Association for Communication.
According to the president of the Havana cinema festival, Ivan Giroud, this year's jury was in "big trouble" due to the high quality of the proposals.
Famous actress, Geraldine Chaplin, leading the jury in the fiction films category, also stressed how difficult was to decide a winner among so many good films.
Source: PL
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