"The Domingos" has achieved glory by winning the Golden Shell

The jury has also made special mention ofthefilm  Histories of the Good Valley  by Jose Luis Guerin who, in Bayona's words, "looks at faces and landscapes that are rarely filmed." 

Jose Ramon Soroiz, foaming with joy

For veteran legorreta actor Jose Ramon Soroiz the Silver Shell has been for the best performance, ex aequo with Chinese actor Zhao Xiaohong. The official jury has thus highlighted Soroiz's gigantic work in the film directed by Maspalomas Aitor Arregi and Jose Mari Goenaga, as well as Xiaohong's work in the film that mixes fiction and reality Her heart beats in its cage.

On the other hand, in the Moriarti film Soroiz Vicente da Maspalomas , a 76-year-old gay man who, after breaking up with his partner, begins to make the kind of life he likes in that town of Gran Canaria. An accident will force him to return to San Sebastian, where he will have to meet his long-abandoned daughter.

Soroiz has 50 years of career behind him, especially on television and on the stage of the theatres, and the directors did not hesitate to dedicate the role to him. Soroiz, however, had to reflect before giving his assent, because the film has very explicit sex scenes.

Soroiz finally accepted the proposal, fortunately, and the public's approval and today's award confirm that decision. "I have emptied myself," he said at the film presentation press conference, "it was the toughest and most wonderful two months I've ever lived in 50 years."

At the time of the award, Soroiz has received the close support of the public and has thanked Aitor Arregi and Jose Mari Goenaga, " thegreatest prize they have ever given me in 50 years "Maspalomas. Soroiz has also thanked the entire film team, the family, the people of Legorreta and the public, and has called for an end to the genocide and all the wars in Palestine.

The rest of the official prizes

The Silver Shell for the Best Director has been awarded to Belgian director Joachim Lafosse for his film Six jours ce printemps-là, and the Silver Shell for the Best Supporting Actress has been awarded to Camila Plaate Bethlehem .

Pau Esteve has also won the award for the best photography for his work in the Basque co-production The Tigers, and for the best screenplay by Joachim Lafoss himself, along with Chloé Duponchelle and Paul Ismaël for Six jours ce printemps-là .

Outside the official section, according to the jury's ruling, the best film in the Kutxabank New Directors section has been the Danish Weightless (Emilie Thalund), the Latin Horizons poet Un (Simón Mesa Soto) and the Zabaltegi Tabakalera section La tour de glace   (Lucile Hadzihalilovic).

In addition, in the New Directors section, the New Age film by Irati Gorostidi has received special mention.