FIRST PRIZE | IBEROAMERICAN DANZANTE AWARD*, of €5.000 (five thousand euros) and a trophy goes to the short film KUN BI -CUTTING FIREWOOD- (Colombia) by AGAMENÓN QUINTERO and JORGE ELIÉCER ALFARO, an extraordinary story that breaks the prejudice of western look on indigenous peoples.
*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 HARTA (Spain) by JULIA DE PAZ SOLVAS, it masterfully uses the narrative tools from thriller to put them at the disposal of a heartbreaking social story.
‘ALBERTO SÁNCHEZ’ DEBUT IBEROAMERICAN DANZANTE AWARD, of €1.000 (one thousand euros) and a diploma, goes to the short film VIENTOS DE PRIMAVERA (Spain) by CARMEN PEDRERO, because in a sea of stories about teenage self acceptance it finds the way to tell oneself.
FIRST PRIZE | INTERNATIONAL DANZANTE AWARD*, of €5.000 (five thousand euros) and a trophy goes to the short film SOLARIUM (France) by JONATHAN KOULAVSKY, for a deeply and truly shown relationship between a boy and an animal where responsibilty over personal ambitions wins.
*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, goes to the short film MIRACASAS (Switzerland, France) by RAPHAELLE STOLZ, for its vitality when talking about the subject of death and its original way of narrating and its beautiful images.
INTERNATIONAL DEBUT DANZANTE given by Anselmo Pié Sopena Foundation, of €1.000 (one thousand euros) and a diploma, to the short film DUO LI (China, Hong Kong, Singapore) by ZOU JING, for showing the harsh reality of a woman with intimism and essential narrative resources.
‘FRANCISCO GARCÍA DE PASO’ HUMAN VALUES MENTION, a diploma to the short film which best highlights human values, goes to the short film DIE UNSICHTBARE GRENZE -INVISIBLE BORDER- (Austria) by MARK GERSTORFER. A heart breaking portrait about how cruel reality could be when applying rules on inmigrants, told with amazing rythm, direction and performances.
SPECIAL MENTION to the short film TIERRA (México) by GUSTAVO GAMERO, for the importance of a topic wich should shake the whole international community and the subtility its narrated with, and for the balanced performance of the protagonist.
FIRST PRIZE | DOCUMENTARY DANZANTE AWARD* of €5000 (five thousand euros) and a trophy goes to the documentary short film YOU CAN’T AUTOMATE ME (Netherlands, Slovenia) by KATARINA JAZBEC, for reflecting in a very original way the mental part of physical work and for the treatment of atmosphere and tempo in an absorbing manner.
*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 documentary short film A PLENA VISTA (Mexico, Thailand) by LUIS PALOMINO BENÍTEZ, for showing a generational portrait done in first person with freshness, honesty, and formal coherence.
SPECIAL MENTION to the short film MILÝ TATI -LOVE, DAD– (Czech Republic, Slovakia) by DIANA CAM VAN NGUYENV, for being capable to go from personal to social and for its original aesthetics.
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 ENTRETERRESTRES (Spain) by LUCAS PARRA.
BEST SCRIP AWARD, of €800 (eight hundred euros) and a diploma, awarded by the Anselmo Pié Sopena Foundation and the Huesca Booksellers Association, goes to the short film LA LOCA Y EL FEMINISTA (Spain) by SANDRA GALLEGO with script by PILAR GÓMEZ, for its agile dialogs and a great final touch.