48 Lekeitio. The Basque Film Festival has announced the Golden and Silver Geese Awards
Eneko Muruzabal Elezcano's "For the Planet" has won the Best Film Award for "Round and Playful Film," while Aitzol Saratxaga has won the Best Direction Award for his work on "Hunting." Mikel Balerdi and Deñe García-Bravo's "They Took It."
The48 Basque Film Meeting of Lekeitio has announced the winners of its Official Section Contest, in which 20 short films have competed and have been seen in the Showroom from 16 to 18 October. Mikel Balerdi eta Deñe Garcia-Bravohas won theaward EITB Viewer
Eneko Muruzabal Elezcano's "For the Planet"has won the\u00A0 Award for Best Film for "Making a Round and Playful Film. He has the ability to take a bat theme that we currently have in full swing, an ecological crisis, and treat it with courage and humor." So for him
Aitzol Saratxaga, for his part, has beenawarded the Best Direction for his work in the film "Hunting". The judges stress that" As a coral work, the director has shown the ability to connect everything. Because it is animation and unanimated fiction, it is perfectly combined in an original way. For the virtuosity he has shown to tell a legend and the careful rhythm of the story. "
The film "Azkena"by Ana Ines Landeta and Lorea Lyonshas won the Best Screenplay Award (1,600 euros and the Silver Goose), as it raises the theme of motherhood "in a very original way" to the table.
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