This Friday night, with the screening of ‘pig’a film starring Nicolas Cage, concludes the sixth edition of the BCN Film Fest. The jury made up of José Luis Rebordinos, director of the San Sebastián festival, actress Aina Clotet and writer Ignacio Martínez de Pisón, has awarded the prize for best film to the German production ‘The Conference’, directed by Matti Gershonek. The conference referred to in the title was held on January 20, 1942 in a villa in Berlin-Wannsee, and in it the Nazi high command decided on the final solution for the mass murder of millions of Jews. The film accurately documents those meetings based on the minutes it kept. Adolf Eichmanone of the disastrous architects of the Holocaust.
‘The accused’which follows the judicial process against a young man accused of rape, has taken the prizes to Best Direction (Yvan Attal) and Screenplay (Attal and Yaël Langmann). Charlotte Gainsbourg and Ben Attal, one of the couple’s children.
acting awards
The award for best actor has been distributed exaequo between the French Olivier Gourmetstarring in a new adaptation of Balzac’s ‘Eugenia Grandet’, directed by Marc Dugain, and Venezuelan Gabriel Agüero for ‘Jezebel’, a psychological thriller by Hernán Jabes set in today’s convulsive Venezuela.
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In the category of best actress, the award went to the French fashion interpreter, Lea Seydoux, for his work on ‘Deception’, a sentimental drama by Arnaud Desplechin that will premiere in Spain under the title ‘Fantasías de unwriter’. Desplechin’s film has also been recognized with the ACCEC critics award.
With 16,000 spectators in this edition, the festival increases public attendance by 45% compared to the previous year.