The Málaga Movie Pageant held the closing ceremony for its MAFIZ trade part on Friday night. Business-accredited representatives attended, celebrating the end result of 5 days of intense networking and pitching.
The large winner from this 12 months’s MAFIZ Work in Progress part was Carlos Saiz’s “Lionel,” produced by Bluconic Movies, Blur and Icónica in Spain and Promenade Movies in France. The movie received the Cine y Tele, Sideral, Yagán and REC Pageant prizes.
“‘Lionel’ is a narrative of reconciliation between a father and son after 20 years aside. By way of an intimate highway journey, the movie explores the complexity of household bonds and the lasting scars of Lionel’s paternal absence,” Saiz defined to Selection forward of this 12 months’s MAFIZ. “Impressed by the real-life story of my buddy Lionel and his household—who painting themselves within the movie—this mission originated from a journey he as soon as recounted to me. Now, we’ve remodeled it right into a highway film between Spain and France that questions the very essence of what it means to be household.”
Álvaro Samper, worldwide gross sales at Sideral, which awarded “Lionel” a €10,000 distribution prize, mentioned of the movie: “‘Lionel’ is a type of uncommon tales that touches the guts. A ravishing and shifting journey of reconnection between a father and son that speaks to common feelings in a method we haven’t seen earlier than. From the primary second we spoke with director Carlos Saiz and the producers [Blur, Iconica], we knew it was an ideal match, and now we’re excited to share it with the world.”
Carlos Sánchez Giraldo’s “No Journey With out Return,” produced by Peru’s Rima Rima Cine, received the Málaga Pageant prize for an Ibero-American WIP, the Chemistry Prize and the Yagán Prize. The function follows Amito, a person drawn by the decision of his goals, satisfied he should return to his origins. Lizandro, a younger cameraman, follows him, wanting to study. However as their journey unfolds, Amito discovers he’s not who he thought he was, whereas Lizandro is pressured to confront himself for the primary time.
The Málaga Pageant prize for a Spanish WIP went to Santiago Esteves’ “The Reborn,” about two estranged brothers and a darkish enterprise: serving to individuals pretend their very own loss of life. “A posh operation places their lives at stake and forces them to outline the future of their household’s legacy,” reads the movie’s synopsis. Argentina’s Le Tiro, Spain’s Zabriskie Movies and Chile’s El Otro Movie produce the movie, which additionally scored MAFIZ’s Rio Bravo Award.
Honors had been break up broadly throughout this 12 months’s MAFF part, with “The Queers Riot,” “Tenants” and “Goodbye Berta” every scoring two prizes.
Directed by Wincy Oyarce, a Chilean LGBT pioneer celebrated for 2008’s “Empaná de pino” and 2022 breakout doc-feature “Tan Inmunda y Tan Feliz,” this fiction story options documentary components to chart the primary recorded gay demonstration in Santiago, Chile, organized in April 1973 by a gaggle of younger boy intercourse employees. Creas Movies is producing.
One in all two MAFF titles from María Paz Barragán, this time as co-writer, director and producer, “Tenants” is an immigration horror function exploring class, racism and xenophobia however via style, constructing to what seems to be like a chilling finale. Appreciated at Iberseries Platino Industria and Ventana Sur’s Proyecta, it’s produced by Batiak Movies, behind Berlinale Fipresci winner “The Human Hibernation,” Last Abierto and Elora Submit Home co-produce.
Produced by Galicia’s Kraken Media, Tornasol Media and Abano Producións, Fernando Tato’s “Goodbye, Berta” is an growth of Tato’s 17-minute wanting the identical identify. Within the function, when sister Berta is thrown out of her rehab heart, sister Alicia, who has solid a cushty life within the Galician capital of Santiago de Compostela, feels obliged to return to Pobra do Caramiñal, the place she was born. “This reunion marks the start of an emotional journey for the 2 sisters, the place love and resentment intertwine, and the previous turns into a burden too heavy to overlook,” the logline ends.
The ceremony concluded with emcee Annabelle Aramburu asserting that Panama would be the visitor of honor on the twenty ninth version of the Pageant, within the presence of Panama’s Deputy Minister of Tradition, Arianne Benedetti, and the Ambassador to Spain, Héctor Infante de Seda.
MAFIZ AWARDS
MÁLAGA WORK IN PROGRESS
Málaga Pageant Prize (Spain)
“The Reborn,” (“Los Renacidos,” Santiago Esteves, Spain, Argentina, Chile)
Málaga Pageant Prize (Ibero-America)
“No Journey With out Return,” (“No hay ida sin retorno,” Carlos Sánchez Giraldo, Peru)
Arcane Digital Cinema Prize
“Caro nanni,” (Pablo Maqueda, Spain)
Chemistry Prize
“No Journey With out Return,” (“No hay ida sin retornom,” Carlos Sánchez Giraldo, Peru)
Cine y Tele Prize
“Lionel,” (Carlos Saiz, Spain, France)
E-28 Prize
“Water By no means Harm,” (“El agua nunca dolió,” Ana Clara Bustelo, Uruguay, Argentina)
Latamcinema.com Prize
“Loss of life and Life Madalena,” (“Morte e Vida Madalena,” Guto Parente, Brazil, Portugal)
Music Library Prize (Spain)
“Future Fog,” (“Futura, La niebla,” María Abenia, Spain)
Music Library Prize (Ibero-America)
“Tropical Fragance,” (“Fragancia tropical,” Alexander Viola, Dominican Republic)
Rio Bravo Award
“The Reborn,” (“Los Renacidos,” Santiago Esteves, Spain, Argentina, Chile)
Sideral
“Lionel,” (Carlos Saiz, Spain, France)
Yagán Prize (Spain)
“Lionel,” (Carlos Saiz, Spain, France)
Yagán Prize (Ibero-America)
“No Journey With out Return,” (“No hay ida sin retorno,” Carlos Sánchez Giraldo, Peru)
Abycine Lanza Participation
“Future Fog,” (“Futura, La niebla,” María Abenia, Spain)
FIDBA Doc Participation
“The Voice of God,” (“A voz de Deus,” Miguel Antunes Ramos, Brazil)
REC Pageant Participation
“Lionel,” (Carlos Saiz, Spain, France)
SANFIC Participation
“The Night time is a Farce,” (“A noite é uma farsa,” Lucas Weglinski, Brazil)
MÁLAGA FESTIVAL FUND CO-PRODUCTION EVENT (MAFF)
Music Library (Ibro-American)
“Goodbye Berta,” (“Adeus, Berta,” Fernando Tato, Spain)
Music Library (Latin America)
“The Queers Riot,” (“La Rebelión de las Raras,” Wincy Oyarce, Creas Movies, Chile)
Music Library Girls Display Business
“I’m Not Common,” (“No Soy Common,” Celia de Molina, Spain)
Bolivia Lab. Participation
“Three Summer time Days,” (“Tres días de verano,” Álvaro López Alba, Spain)
Cántico Producciones First Prize
“A Decorous Girl,” (“Una Señorita de Buena Presencia,” Natalia Luque, Chile, France)
Cántico Producciones Second Prize
“Forest Stroll,” (“A Estirada,” Sérgio de Carvalho, Pedro von Krüger, Brazil)
ECAM Discussion board Prize
“A Decorous Girl,” (“Una Señorita de Buena Presencia,” Natalia Luque, Chile, France)
FIDBA Participation
“The Queers Riot,” (“La Rebelión de las Raras,” Wincy Oyarce, Creas Movies, Chile)
SANFIC Participation
“Anoche creí que nadaba,” (Catalina Torres, Eugenia Olascuaga)
Sideral Prize
“Tenants,” (“Se buscan inquilinos,” María Paz Barragán, Peru, Spain)
Térrea Prize
“Claros de bosque,” (Alejandro Salgado e Irene Hens)
“Tenants,” (“Se buscan inquilinos,” María Paz Barragán, Peru, Spain)
MÁLAGA SHORTS CORNER
Festhome Greatest Brief
“La sangre,” (Joaquín León)
Sarajevo Brief Undertaking Prize
“Mi casa en una maleta,” (Andrea Torres Sánchez)
“Mar a noite,” (Pablo Garví)
Festivalito Prize
“De Madrid al cielo,” (Pablo Pérez)
“Ya están viniendo,” (Miguel Guindos, Mario Alejandro Arias)
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