After six days of intense activities aimed squarely at film buffs, the Teatro Principal in Pontevedra brought the curtain down on the sixth edition of the Novos Cinemas Festival (14-19 December). The event, which was marked by a relative return to normality after last year’s half-physical, half-online edition, was kicked off with the experimental documentary A virxe roxa [+leggi anche:
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The jury of the Official Section, made up of filmmaker Álvaro Gago, programmer Inês de Lima and musician-actress Cora Velasco, handed the Novos Cinemas Award for Best Film to They Carry Death [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Helena Girón and Samuel M Delgado. The jury underlined the film’s “demand for a revisionist stance on a glorified colonialist past, in a present that’s in danger of glorifying it once again”. The Special Mention in this section was bestowed upon Actual People by Kit Zauhar, for being “a film that risks making a fool of itself to regale us with an extremely honest portrait of people coming of age”.

In the Latexos section, the jury, comprising Iria Silvosa, Carla Blanco Miraz, Manuel Asín, Víctor Paz and Javier Pachón, opted to reward 918 Nights [+leggi anche:
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The awards list was topped off by the verdict of the Youth Jury, made up of students from the University of Vigo Raquel Álvarez Méndez, Manuel Lucas Mariño, Andrea Varla Jambrina, Cristina Vera Aurioles and Alejandro López Mera, who granted the Award for Best Director in the Official Section to Nathalie Álvarez Mesén, for Clara Sola [+leggi anche:
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Here is the full list of winners:

Best Film at Novos Cinemas
They Carry Death [+leggi anche:
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Special Mention
Actual People – Kit Zauhar (USA)

Best Film in Latexos
918 Nights [+leggi anche:
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Critics’ Award
The Tale of King Crab [+leggi anche:
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Special Mention
There Are Not Thirty-six Ways of Showing a Man Getting on a Horse – Nicolás Zukerfeld (Argentina)

Youth Jury Award for Best Director in the Official Section
Nathalie Álvarez Messen – Clara Sola [+leggi anche:
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Special Mention
Rendir los machos [+leggi anche:
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Audience Award
Rendir los machos – David Pantaleón