The Film and Human Rights Festival will award "Sucia" and "Black water"
The 23rd edition of the San Sebastian Film and Human Rights Festival ends today, Thursday, with a gala starting at 8:00 p.m. The Palmaris has previously been announced at a press conference in the morning.
The documentary Sucia will receive the Audience Award for the Best Feature Film, an autobiographical film directed by Bàrbara Mestanza and Marc Pujolar that narrates the trauma experienced by actor Mestanza after suffering a sexual assault during a massage.
On the other hand, the latest work by Navarro Natxo Leuza, Black water, will be awarded the Amnesty International Prize, which, showing the situation in Bangladesh, deals with the forced displacement of the population affected by climate change, possibly the "greatest mass migration of humanity."
On the other hand, the Young Jury has awarded ex aequothe short films La Barrière and La première marche , and the EITB award for the best Basque short film has been for the work of Ultramarino Maren Zubeldia and Silvina Guglielmotti.
The awards will be presented tonight at a gala starting at 8:00 p.m., and filmmaker Imanol Uribe will receive the festival's honorary award at the same event.
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