WINNERS LIST 2021

49TH HUESCA INTERNATIONAL FILM FEST

International Short Films Contest
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IBEROAMERICAN CONTEST

FIRST PRIZE | IBEROAMERICAN DANZANTE AWARD, of €5.000 (five thousand euros) and a trophy goes to the short film INEFABLE (Spain) by GERARD OMS, because of its technical and artistic coherence gets to imbue the public into the protagonist’s conflict and universe.

*Directly classified to the pre-selection of the next Hollywood Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Short Film Award.


‘CACHO PALLERO’ IBEROAMERICAN DANZANTE AWARD of €2.000 (two thousand euros) and a diploma, goes to the short film LOS PÁJAROS VUELAN DE A DOS (Colombia) by JUAN FELIPE GRISALES, which shows in a simple way, through two teenagers, escaping from the stereotyped differences between men and women, the sum and commitment, opening a window of hope out of the hackneyed conflict that separates the two sexes.


ALBERTO SÁNCHEZ DEBUT IBEROAMERICAN DANZANTE AWARD, of €1.000 (one thousand euros) and a diploma, goes to the short film FORASTERA (Spain) by LUCÍA ALEÑAR, for telling us how previous generations mark the construction of our identity trough an aesthetic and a photography which connect with the spectator.


Special Mention to the short film O BARCO E O RIO (Brazil) by BERNANDO ALE ABINADER, due to the power of its cinematographic discourse at the same time testimonial and empathetic, which subtly narrates the passage of a caregiver woman from sacrifice to freedom.

INTERNATIONAL CONTEST

FIRST PRIZE | INTERNATIONAL DANZANTE AWARD of €5000 (five thousand euros) and a trophy, goes to the short film I AM AFRAID TO FORGET YOUR FACE (Egypt – France) by SAMEH ALAA because, if the territory of Shortfilm is contundence, I Am Afraid to Forget Your Face gets to yield the indelible.

*Directly classified to the pre-selection of the next Hollywood Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Short Film Award.


‘JINETE IBÉRICO’ ANIMATION INTERNATIONAL AWARD given by Instituto de Estudios Altoaragoneses, of €2.000 (two thousand euros) and a trophy, PRECIOUS (France) by PAUL MAS, in which the rudness of stop motion technique contrasts with the innocence in a story about the loss of empathy and collective assimilation.


INTERNATIONAL DEBUT DANZANTE given by Anselmo Pié Sopena Foundation, of €1.000 (one thousand euros) and a diploma, to the short film UN CŒUR D’OR (UN CORAZÓN DE ORO) (France) by FILLIOT SIMON, a contemporary fable about greed and sacrifice told through a work near to goldsmithing with great attention to detail.


‘FRANCISCO GARCÍA DE PASO’ HUMAN VALUES MENTION, a diploma to the short film which best highlights human values, goes to the short film CHERUPKI (Bulgaria) de SLAVA DOYTCHEVA because, with symbolism and a poetic staging, this story stands out for its courage in speaking about sexual diversity in a repressive social context.


Special Mention to the short film AL-SIT (Sudan) by SUZANNAH MIRGHANI, which confronts tradition and modernity by freeing the lead character from both thanks to her corageous choice.

DOCUMENTARY CONTEST

FIRST PRIZE | DOCUMENTARY DANZANTE AWARD of €5000 (five thousand euros) and a trophy goes to the documental short film THE FANTASTIC (Finland) by MAIJA BLÅFIELD, a magnetic reflection on the power of image that brings us to other ways of interpreting the world.

*Directly classified to the pre-selection of the next Hollywood Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Documentary Short Film Award.


‘JOSÉ MANUEL PORQUET’ IBEROAMERICAN DOCUMENTARY DANZANTE, of  €2.000 (two thousand euros) and diploma, goes to the documental short film 25 (Spain) by ROBERTA NIKITA & LAURA PUT, for showing a generational portrait done in first person with freshness, honesty and formal coherence.


Special Mention to the short-documentary A CAMBIO DE TU VIDA (Spain) by OLATZ OVEJERO ALFONSO, CLARA LÓPEZ, AURORA BÁEZ, SEBASTIAN RAMÍREZ, for the brave inmersion in an ignored social reality.

AUDIENCE AWARD

ARAGÓN TELEVISIÓN AUDIENCE AWARD consisting of the purchase of the diffusion rights of the short film by Aragón Televisión for an amount of €900, including its promotion, goes to the short film NUR Y ABIR (Spain) by MANU GÓMEZ.

BEST SCRIPT

BEST SCRIP AWARD, of €800 (eight hundred euros) and a diploma goes to the short film AL-SIT (Sudan – Qatar) by SUZANNAH MIRGHANI, for showing a female main character who is capable of breaking with an imposed tradition and reassuring herself in the right to freely choose her future despite of living in an environement in which women don’t have their own options.