The 12th edition of the Festival Abycine comes to its end. A festival that has turned into the whole new modal for the lovers of the emergent cinema. Abycine continues being a meeting point of the new cinematographic and digital creation. And with an offer as firm as that they support in every edition.
French director Sophie Letourneur’s first movie, "Chicks", has raised with the First Prize of the International Section in Abycine, prize endowed with 10.000 €. The juror, composed by Léo Soesanto, journalist and Cannes Film Festival collaborator; Eulália Iglesias, critique in the magazine Cahiers du Cinema and Público, and Mercedes Martínez – Abarca, Rotterdam Film Festival Programmer; together with the Abycine director, José Manuel Zamora, they have thought that it treats itself of "a movie that, placing in the border between the documentary and the fiction, it offers a fresh and faithful portrait of certain sector of the western youth. Protagonists emphasize also the high quality of the work of all the actresses and actors ".
"Chicks" [La Vie Au Ranch], portrays the lives of two twenty years old students, Pam [Sarah Jane Sauvegrain] and Manon [Mahaut Mollaret], whose apartment is known as "the Ranch". Trough his unconcerned approach, more occupied in the daily details than in the plot, this film is done of unrestrained little talks and agile movements of camera The director chose to work with a group of young women without cinematographic experience but that already were friends between them.
The prize in the section Abycine Digital has relapsed into "Ingrid", by Eduard Cortés. A juror composed by 100 young people has decided to grant 6.000 € the last work of Cortés who already obtained the Young Movie Award in 2003 with his former film "La vida de nadie”.
In Abycine Short Films section, the Award to the best Short film, endowed with 6000 €, is for "Las 5 muertes de Ibrahim Gonsáles " by Paul Araües. An agile comedy rolled in stop sign - motion that counts in less than six minutes the history of a character that suffers a domestic accident, happens a clinical dead minute and discovers that this it has been the best moment of his life.
Besides, the juror composed by Antonio Naharro, cinema director; Rogelio Abraldes, audio – visual producer; and Isabel Pascual, cultural journalist; it has rewarded to: “Pase de patos” by Koldo Amandoz [Second award]; "Notes on the other" by Sergio Oskman [Third award]; " 5 Recuerdos" by Alejandra Marquez [Special Mention to the originality of the offer]; and the Special Mention to the Individual Work was to Luis Zahera for its work in “Marina”.
In Videocreación Ab Section, the prizes selected by the juror composed by Andrés García Cerdán, writer; Jose Callado, painter; and Manuela Torres, culture technitian, has been: First award, “La escalera " by Fernando Davia; Second award, " Vejado en el tiempo " by Raúl Navarro; Third award, “Ni la muerte " by Antonio Rodríguez and Manuel Vayá; Special Mention to “Mejor sin cubitos” by Antonio Pablo Molina and Special Mention to the Individual Work to Pablo Alfaro by "El hombre de arena".
These awards were given in the closing ceremony of this edition of the Abycine International Film Festival, with the performance by Rosenvinge accompanied by a band who includes Raül Fernandez [Refree]. Rosenvinge, fan of the French cinema, played music to a selection of scenes of the film “Mouchette” by Robert Bresson [1967], the classic one of worship not exempt of hardness. "It is a beautiful, and very risky project, which arose 10 years ago and which thanks to the adventurous spirit of the festival Abycine I could have materialized ", Christina declared in the press conference.
