Alain Guiraudie has seduced the international jury of the 69th edition of the Seminci - Valladolid International Film Week –made up of Greek director Sofia Exarchou, Spanish actress Aida Folch, critic and editor Devika Girish, German producer Ingmar Trost and Murcian director and writer Luis López Carrasco- with his latest film, Misericordia [+leggi anche:
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The verdict, revealed last Saturday, highlighted the intelligence of this film, as well as the fact that “its lightness conceals a complex balance of genres and tones, under whose appearance of provincial thriller-comedy hides a profound meditation on how desire and guilt make us predictable and incomprehensible to each other”. It is worth remembering that this French filmmaker was also triumphant at the 10th edition of Seville Film Festival, then directed by José Luis Cienfuegos, the current head of the Seminci, with Stranger by the Lake [+leggi anche:
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The jury has also decided to award the Silver Spike to two titles: the musical They Will Be Dust [+leggi anche:
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The award for Best Director went to Chinese director Guan Hu, for Black Dog, the big winner of Un Certain Regard last May in Cannes. The award for Best Cinematography went to Weizhe Gao for the same film.

The award-winning performers share, in terms of the characters they play, the questioning of traditional male and female roles. For a “fierce authenticity embodying the multiple contradictions of one of society's most complex figures - a reluctant and troubled mother - using empathy and a defiant commitment to nuance,” Laura Weissmahr, the protagonist of Mar Coll's Salve María [+leggi anche:
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For defending editing as a central creative principle in film, Telmo Churro and Pedro Filipe Marques have been recognised with the award for Best Editing in Grand Tour [+leggi anche:
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In the most daring section of the festival, the Alchemies section, the jury, made up of Brazilian filmmaker Gabe Klinger, Spanish writer, screenwriter and director Álex Mendíbil and German artist and filmmaker Helena Wittmann, has awarded The Rim [+leggi anche:
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Finally, the Meeting Point jury (filmmaker Bridgett M. Davis, Brazilian director and screenwriter Sérgio Tréfaut, and Spanish actress and musician Julia de Castro) has awarded the top prize in this section to Holy Cow [+leggi anche:
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The complete list of awards:

Feature Film Competition

Golden Spike
Misericordia [+leggi anche:
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Silver Spike
They Will Be Dust [+leggi anche:
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Stranger Eyes [+leggi anche:
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Ribera de Duero Best Director Award
Guan Hu - Black Dog (China)

Best Actor Award
Jan Gunnar Roise and Thorbjorn Harr – Sex [+leggi anche:
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Best Actress Award
María Laura Weissmahr – Salve María [+leggi anche:
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Special Mention
Ángela Molina and Alfredo Castro – They Will Be Dust

Miguel Delibes Award for Best Script
Alain Guiraudie - Misericordia

Best Cinematography
Weizhe Gao – Black Dog

José Salcedo Award for Best Editing
Telmo Churro and Pedro Filipe Marques - Grand Tour [+leggi anche:
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Short Film Competition

Golden Spike for Best Short Film
Baldilocks – Marthe Peters (Belgium)

Silver Spike
Punter – Jason Adam Maselle (USA/South Africa)
Lluna de Sal – Mariona Martínez (Spain)

Best European Short Film
O – Rúnar Rúnarson (Iceland/Sweden)

“The Night of the Spanish Short Film” Award
El príncep – Álex Sardá
Special Mention
De sucre – Clàudia Cedó

Short Film from Castile & Leon Award
Sólo los muertos se quedan – Alejandro Renedo

Alchemies

Grand Prize
The Rim [+leggi anche:
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Special Mention
Bluish [+leggi anche:
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Meeting Point

Meeting Point Award
Holy Cow [+leggi anche:
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“Fundos” Award
Familiar Touch – Sarah Friedland (USA)

Time of History

Time of History Grand Prize
Youth (Hard Times) [+leggi anche:
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Time of History Special Award
Henry Fonda for President [+leggi anche:
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Special Mention
Savanna and the Mountain [+leggi anche:
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Other Awards

Official Section Audience Award
Bob Trevino Likes It – Tracie Laymon (USA)

Meeting Point Audience Award
Holy Cow – Louise Courvoisier

“Pilar Miró” Award to the Best New Director
Elena Manrique – The Party's Over [+leggi anche:
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DOC Award. Spain
Resistance Reels – Concha Barquero and Alejandro Alvarado (Spain/Portugal)

Seminci Youth Award
Hija del volcán – Jenifer de la Rosa (Spain/Mexico)

Youth Jury Prize Official Selection
Armand [+leggi anche:
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Rainbow Spike Award
Three Kilometres to the End of the World [+leggi anche:
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Green Spike Award
Caught by the Tides – Jia Zhang-ke (China)

FIPRESCI Award
Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point – Tyler Taormina (USA)