Awards
A bold new voice whose film is immersive, textural, and deeply sensorial. It carries us into another realm with a surprising, poetic command of image and atmosphere. In its courage, its form, and its devotion to cinematic exploration, it embodies the very spirit of this festival.
A film that brings us to the emotional heart of the atrocities and ongoing genocide in Palestine through the objective and ingenious use of surveillance, video games, and ancient technologies. It is through its nuanced non subjectivity we understand the very core of this unthinkable violence.
Because in these turbulent times it is essential to know where we come from in order to understand where we are and where we want to go. Because of the perseverance of its director, who carried out her research despite resistance, closed doors, and silence, upholding the belief that cinema remains a pedagogical and scientific tool capable of teaching, revealing, and transforming. For turning a family search into a mirror that exposes the void in our historical memory. For recovering the figure of Guillermo Fernández-Zúñiga and placing his work where it truly belongs. For the poetry of its images, which accompanies, restores, and brings to bloom what once seemed lost.
For a boundary-breaking formal proposal that disrupts codes and expands the limits of what a short film can be.
For addressing, through comedy, urgent themes such as precariousness and feminism, unafraid of contradiction or vulnerability.
For portraying a generation that creates with what it has, turning scarcity into language and minimal resources into a powerful tool of expression.
And for the overwhelming charisma of its director, capable of transforming an intimate experience into a gesture of freedom, irreverence, and truth.
For turning comedy and class-based irony into a relentless mirror, where the grotesque is not an exaggeration but the most sincere way to portray who we are.
For reclaiming horror as a space of creative freedom, where the absurd, the grotesque, and the pop become critical tools.
For offering a fierce portrait of a society that, overwhelmed by crises —ecological, social, economic— has learned to look the other way, as if indifference were a survival strategy.
And for pointing out, without solemnity but with painful clarity, the lack of critical thinking that surrounds us, that collective inability to see danger even when it stands right before us.
For drawing an intimate and courageous family portrait, without subjecting its characters to conventional narrative molds. For looking closely, at eye level, and enduring the silence until the wounds open. And for offering a father who is as unpredictable as he is real, allowing the film to breathe with his own pulse: unexpected and full of life.
