The documentary The Padilla caseby Cuban filmmaker Pavel Giroud, won this Saturday the award of that genre at the 2023 Platino Awards.
The film, which deals with the infamous self-incrimination of the Cuban poet Heberto Padilla in 1971, was considered the best documentary of Ibero-American cinema in the tenth edition of these awards, whose delivery gala was held in Madrid and had the fiction feature film Argentina, 1985 as the big winner of the night.
The images of the self-incrimination of Padilla, author of the collection of poems Offsidedue to their lack of commitment to the revolutionary process on the island, are interspersed with testimonies from figures such as Gabriel García Márquez, Julio Cortázar, Mario Vargas Llosa, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jorge Edwards, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Carlos Fuentes and Fidel Castro, among other.
“I destructured the chronology so that the film would evolve with dramatic characters,” explained Giroud, who lives in Spain, in an interview months ago with the agency EFE.
So, the filmmaker like The age of the peseta He said that he sought to “expose a fact and for the viewer to draw their own conclusions”, in addition to inquiring into the causes and consequences of that event, in which they used Padilla to “give a lesson”, according to his thesis.
For his part, Argentina, 1985Santiago Miter’s film about the historic trial of the leadership of the last Argentine military dictatorship, was the great winner of the 2023 Platino Awards, with five awards, including the best Ibero-American film, according to an EFE review.
He also won best actor awards, for Ricardo Darín for his role as prosecutor Julio Strassera, best script, art direction and education in values, at the great Ibero-American film and television gala held at the IFEMA Palace in Madrid.
It was closely followed, with a total of four awards, by the Spanish as beastsa rural thriller that reflects on violence: best director for Rodrigo Sorogoyen, best supporting actor, for Luis Zahera, best editing and best sound.
Another Spanish, five little wolvesthe first film by Alauda Ruiz de Azúa that talks about motherhood, has won two awards: best leading actress, for Laia Costa, and supporting actress, Susi Sánchez, according to the newspaper.
The award for best Ibero-American comedy went to official competitiona satire on egos in the world of cinema directed by Argentines Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat and starring Spaniards Penélope Cruz and Antonio Banderas and Argentine Oscar Martínez.
the bolivian utamaAlejandro Loayza’s first film that reflects on climate change and was awarded at Sundance, and a finalist for the Goya and the Oscars, added the Platinum awards for best photography and best music to its list of winners.
and the chilean 1976a drama with hints of a thriller set in the darkest years of the dictatorship and directed by the also actress Manuela Martelli, was established as best first film.
The Platinum for best animated film went to “Águila y Jaguar, los guerreros legendarias”, from Mexico, a post-apocalyptic story directed by Mike R. Ortiz, while on television the award for best miniseries or television series was received News of a kidnappingwhich won another three awards.
EFE / OnCuba
