Biarritz Film Festival

Biarritz Film Festival
LocationBiarritz, France
Founded1979
Websitehttp://www.festivaldebiarritz.com/

The Biarritz Festival Latin America (French: Festival Biarritz Amérique Latine) is an international film festival held annually in the French city of Biarritz, since 1979[1] to promote the Latin American cinema and culture with the French people and offer opportunities to distribution or coproductions to Latin American films.

Description

The Biarritz Festival of Latin American Cinema offer competitions of unreleased films in long films, short films and documentaries (in partnership with Latin Union). Furthermore, the films in competicion each year, festival presents annually homages and retrospectives around different themes. The festival also offer discover the Latin American culture in other forms with literary meetings, expositions of fotographies and academic conferences. The famous Village festival of conviviality and exchange located oceanfront, allows to attend exhibitions, lectures and evening concerts for free.

Awards

Award winners

2023

Feature Films

Documentary Films

Short Films

  • Best Short Film: Takanakuy by Gustavo Bockos ( Brazil,  Peru)
  • Special Mention: Antes de Madrid by Nicolás Botana and Ilén Juambeltz  Uruguay)

BAL-LAB

  • BAL-LAB Award for Best Documentary Film: El Tiempo Después by Fede Pintos ( Argentina)
  • BAL-LAB Award for Best Fiction Film: Bajo de Agua by Itzel Sacnité Garcia ( Mexico)
  • Crystal Publishing Award: Siempre Vuelven by Sergio de León ( Germany)
  • L'Alhambra Studios Award: La Luz de Masao Nakagawa by Hideki Nakazaki ( Peru,  Mexico)

2022

Feature Films

Documentary Films

Short Films

BAL-LAB

  • BAL-LAB Award for Best Documentary Film: Cuando Todos se Vayan by Felipe Rodríguez Cerda ( Chile)
  • BAL-LAB Award for Best Fiction Film: Todo Esto Eran Mangas by Daniela Abad ( Colombia)
  • CNC Development Assistance Grant Recipient: Los Pájaros by Fabián Hernández ( Colombia)
  • Crystal Publishing Award: Fantasma Neon [pt] by Leonardo Martinelli [pt] ( Brazil)
  • Alhambra Studios Award: La Primavera de los Anacoretas by Andrés Kaiser ( Mexico)
  • Lily Post Prod-Etalonage Award: Esencia Habana by Luis Ernesto Doñas ( Cuba)

2021

Feature Films

Documentary Films

  • Best Documentary Film: Qué Será del Verano by Ignacio Ceroi ( Argentina)
  • Special Mention: Vaychiletik by Juan Javier Pérez ( Mexico)
  • IHEAL Student Jury Award: Edna by Eryk Rocha ( Brazil)
  • Audience Award: Cantos de Represión by Marianne Hougen-Moraga and Estephan Wagner ( Chile,  Denmark,  Netherlands)

Short Films

  • Best Short Film: Entre Ellas by Roxane Florin ( Mexico)
  • Special Mention: La Luz de Masao Nakagawa by Hideki Nakazaki ( Peru,  Mexico)

BAL-LAB

  • BAL-LAB Award for Best Documentary Film: Bea VII by Natalia Garayalde ( Argentina)
  • BAL-LAB Award for Best Fiction Film: Godspeed Satan by José Pablo Escamilla ( Mexico)
  • Jury Special Mention: What's in the Air by Laura Santullo [es] and Rodrigo Plá ( Mexico)
  • CNC Development Assistance Grant Recipient: On Top of the Cliff by Enrica Pérez ( Peru)

2020

Feature Films

Documentary Films

  • Best Documentary Film: El Otro by Francisco Bermejo ( Chile)
  • IHEAL Student Jury Award: O Índio Cor de Rosa Contra a Fera Invisível by Tiago Carvalho ( Brazil)
  • Audience Award: O Índio Cor de Rosa Contra a Fera Invisível by Tiago Carvalho ( Brazil)

Short Films

  • Best Short Film: Teoría Social Numérica by Paola Michaels ( Colombia)

BAL-LAB

  • BAL-LAB Award for Best Documentary Film: Es Mentira Que Debes Obedecer by Bruno Santamaría ( Mexico)
  • BAL-LAB Award for Best Fiction Film: La Casa del Perro by Federico Borgia [es] ( Uruguay)
  • CNC Development Assistance Grant Recipient: Morir de Pie by María Paz González ( Chile)

2019

Feature Films

Documentary Films

Short Films

  • Best Short Film: O Mistério da Carne by Rafaela Camelo ( Brazil)
  • Special Mention: Hogar by Gerardo Minutti ( Uruguay)

BAL-LAB

  • BAL-LAB Award for Best Documentary Film: Ceci Bon by Rodrigo John ( Brazil)
  • BAL-LAB Award for Best Fiction Film: Sangue Do Meu Sangue by Rafaela Camelo ( Brazil)

2018

Feature Films

Documentary Films

  • Best Documentary Film: Tranny Fag (Bixa Travesty) by Claudia Priscilla and Kiko Goifman ( Brazil)
  • Special Mention: Modelo Estéreo by Colectivo Mario Grande ( Colombia)
  • Audience Award: Locura al Aire by Alicia Cano and Leticia Cuba ( Uruguay,  Mexico)

Short Films

Project Lizières

2017

Feature Films

Short Films

Documentary Films

Project Lizières

  • Lizières Award: A Dupla Naturaleza da Luz by Marcia Mansur and Marina Thomé ( Brazil)

2016

Feature Films

Short Films

  • HUG Award for Best Short Film: El Edén by Andrés Ramírez Pulido ( Colombia)
  • Special Mention: Rosinha by Gui Campos ( Brazil)
  • TV5 Monde Award: Caminho dos gigantes by Alois Di Leo ( Brazil)

Project Lizières

  • Lizières Award: El Edén by Andrés Ramírez Pulido ( Colombia)

Documentary Films

2015

Feature Films

Short Films

  • HUG Award for Best Short Film: O Bom Comportamento by Eva Randolph ( Brazil)
  • Special Mention: Domingo by Raúl López Echeverría ( Mexico)
  • TV5 Monde Award: Las Cosas Simples by Álvaro Anguita ( Chile)
  • Young Jury Award for Best Short Film: Echo Chamber by Guillermo Moncayo ( Colombia)

Project Lizières

Documentary Films

2014

Feature Films

Short Films

  • HUG Award for Best Short Film: Padre by Santiago Bou Grasso ( Argentina)
  • Deuxième Best Short Film: El Sonámbulo by Lenz Mauricio Claure ( Mexico)

Documentary Films

  • HUG Award for Best Documentary Film: Café by Hatuey Viveros Lavielle ( Mexico)
  • Special Mention: Poder e Impotencia, un Drama en Tres Actos d'Anna Recalde Miranda ( Paraguay)
  • Audience Award: Mercedes Sosa, la Voz de Latinoamérica by Rodrigo H. Vila ( Argentina)

Lizières Award

2013

Feature Films

Short Films

Documentary Films

  • HUG Award for Best Documentary Film: El Impenetrable by Daniele Incalcaterra ( Argentina)
  • Special Mention: Madera by Daniel Kvitko ( Cuba)
  • Audience Award: Ensayo de una Nación by Alexis Roitman ( Argentina)

2012

Feature Films

Short Films

  • HUG Award for Best Short Film: Temporada Seca by Diego Rivera-Kohn ( Mexico)
  • Deuxième Best Short Film: Qual Queijo Vocé Quer by Cíntia Domit Bittar ( Brazil)
  • Special Mention: A Galinha Que Burlou o Sistema by Quico Mereilles ( Brazil)

Documentary Films

  • HUG Award for Best Documentary Film: El Etnógrafo by Ulises Rosell ( Argentina)
  • Special Mention: Uno al Otro by Milena Almira ( Cuba)
  • Audience Award: La Máquina Loca by Emilio Maillé [es] ( Mexico)

2011

Feature Films

Short Films

Documentary Films

2010

Feature Films

Short Films

Documentary Films

2009

Feature Films

Short Films

Documentary Films

Biarritz Young Directors

2008

Feature Films

Short Films

  • HUG Award for Best Short Film: El Deseo by Marie Benito ( Mexico)
  • Special Mention: Ofelia by Humberto Gutierrez Montero ( Peru)
  • European Young Jury Award: Ahendu nde sapukai by Pablo Lamar ( Paraguay)
  • ENS Louis Lumière School Award: Ahendu nde sapukai by Pablo Lamar ( Paraguay)
  • Numéricable Award: Cuilos by Paz Fábrega ( Costa Rica)

Documentary Films

Biarritz Young Directors

2007

Feature Films

Short Films

  • HUG Award for Best Short Film: Temporal by Paz Fábrega ( Costa Rica)
  • ENS Louis Lumière School Award: El Secreto de la Sangre by María Victoria Andino ( Argentina)
  • European Young Jury Award: Tiene la Tarde Ojos by Carlos Sama ( Mexico)

Documentary Films

Biarritz Young Directors

  • Biarritz Young Directors Award: 1994 by Jean-Marc Rousseau ( Mexico)

2006

Feature Films

Short Films

Documentary Films

  • Latin Union Award for Best Documentary Film: Hartos Evos Aqui Hay by Héctor Ulloque Franco and Manuel Montealegre ( Colombia)
  • Special Mention: La Palomilla Salvaje by Gustavo Gamou ( Mexico)

Biarritz Young Directors

  • Biarritz Young Directors Award: Hombre de Pieza by Celso R. García ( Mexico)

2005

Feature Films

Documentary Films

Short Films

  • HUG Award for Best Short Film: El Pasajero by Matias Meyer ( Mexico) and El Tesoro de los Caracoles by Cristián Jiménez ( Chile)
  • ENS Louis Lumière School Award: La Vida y Obra de John H by Lourdes Rebora ( Mexico)
  • Cinécourts by Cinécinema Award: El Tesoro de los Caracoles by Cristián Jiménez ( Chile)

2004

Feature Films

Short Films

2003

Feature Films

Documentary Films

Short Films

  • Soleil d'Or for Best Short Film: Como se morre no cinema by Luelane Loiola Corrêa ( Brazil)

2002

Feature Films

Short Films

Documentary Films

  • Latin Union Award for Best Documentary Film: The Island of the Lost Children (La isla de los niños perdidos) by Florence Jaugey  Nicaragua

2001

Feature Films

Short Films

Documentary Films

2000

Feature Films

Short Films

Documentary Films

  • Latin Union Award for Best Documentary Film: The Day that You Love Me (El día que me quieras) by Florence Jaugey  Nicaragua

1999

Feature Films

Documentary Films

  • Latin Union Award for Best Documentary Film: Fé by Ricardo Dias ( Brazil)

Short Films

1998

Feature Films

Short Films

  • Soleil d'Or for Best Short Film: En es Espejo del Cielo by Carlos Salces ( Mexico)

1997

Feature Films

Short Films

  • Soleil d'Or for Best Short Film: Ratas by Dieguillo Fernández and Diego Sabanés ( Argentina)

1996

Feature Films

Short Films

1995

Feature Films

Short Films

1994

Feature Films

Short Films

1993

Feature Films

1992

Feature Films

See also

References

  1. ^ Unsain, José Maria (1985). "Festival de Biarritz. Cinémas et Cultures d' Amérique Latine". aunamendi.eusko-ikaskuntza.eus. Retrieved May 29, 2020.

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