San Sebastian Industry Awards: German Flick ‘Blue Marks’ & Argentine Drama ‘The Two Landscapes’ Dominate
Blue Marks by German filmmaker Sarah Miro Fischer and Argentinian director Francisco Lezama’s The Two Landscapes have both landed two prizes in San Sebastian’s industry competition sidebar.
The industry competition winners were announced this evening in San Sebastian.
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Blue Marks landed the WIP Europa Industry Award and the WIP Europa Award. The film’s synopsis reads: After going through a breakup, Rose moves in with her older brother Sam to his tiny flat in Berlin. The siblings share a close bond. One day, Rose learns of rape allegations against Sam. At first, she is unable to see her brother as a possible perpetrator. When she finally understands that the accusations are true, she is caught in a loyalty conflict, torn between her role as a sister and her identity as a woman. In the end, she must find a way to deal with Sam’s guilt and its consequences.
The cast attached to the pic includes Marie Bloching, Anton Weil, Proschat Madani, Laura Balzer, Jane Chriwa, David Vormweg, and Aram Tafreshian.
The Two Landscapes landed the Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum Best Project Award and the Dale! Award for Latin American-European development. The film is an Argentinian-Brazilian co-production. The film follows Mercedes, an upper-middle-class woman who officiates in the church as Minister of the Holy Communion in a town where conversions to Evangelism are changing deeply rooted customs and rituals. When her landlord dies, Mercedes is forced to stay with Cecilia, the dead man’s girlfriend, in her home deep in the mountains of Córdoba. The arrival of Brenda, the late man’s unrecognized daughter, will upset the lives of both women.
The synopsis reads: Between Catholicism in crisis, Mercedes’ renewed faith, and family secrets, The Two Landscapes explores the social and religious tensions of a contemporary Argentine town.
Check out the full list of winners below.
San Sebastian runs until September 28.
WIP Latam Awards
WIP LATAM INDUSTRY AWARD
Un cabo suelto / A Loose End
Daniel Hendler (Uruguay)
Country(ies) of production: Uruguay – Argentina
Cast: Sergio Prina, Pilar Gamboa, Alberto Wolf, Néstor Guzzini
Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum 2023
Santiago, an Argentinian police constable, crosses the border to Uruguay on the run from the other police officers on his trail. Putting his uniform to good use, he inspects regional food stalls, testing milk products and cold cuts to survive, while trying to go unnoticed among the locals. With neither money nor a place to stay, but with kindness and wit, he starts to carve out a new life for himself, receiving help from the local characters who cross his path, and even meeting the person he believes could be the love of his life.
EGEDA PLATINO INDUSTRIA AWARD FOR THE BEST WIP LATAM
Cuerpo celeste
Nayra Ilic (Chile)
Country(ies) of production: Chile – Italy
Cast: Helen Mrugalski, Daniela Ramírez, Nicolás Contreras, Néstor Cantillana, Mariana Loyola
Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum 2021
Celeste is only 15 years old when her life changes unexpectedly. Not only is the young girl faced with painful mourning, but she also has to cope with a family in crisis. The desert that once embraced her has now become a foreign place. In a world of adults, Celeste works through her changes while the country rocks between the dictatorship and the return to democracy.
WIP Europa Awards
WIP EUROPA INDUSTRY AWARD
Blaue Flecken (AT) / Blue Marks (WT)
Sarah Miro Fischer (Germany)
Country(ies) of production: Germany
Cast: Marie Bloching, Anton Weil, Proschat Madani, Laura Balzer, Jane Chriwa, David Vormweg, Aram Tafreshian
After going through a break up, Rose moves in with her older brother Sam to his tiny flat in Berlin. The siblings share a close bond. One day, Rose learns of rape allegations against Sam. At first, she is unable to see her brother as a possible perpetrator. When she finally understands that the accusations are true, she is caught in a loyalty conflict, torn between her role as a sister and her identity as a woman. In the end, she must find a way to deal with Sam’s guilt and its consequences. Blue Marks (WT) is a story about independence, belonging, and the intersection of the political and the personal.
WIP EUROPA AWARD
Blaue Flecken (AT) / Blue Marks (WT)
Sarah Miro Fischer (Germany)
Country(ies) of production: Germany
Cast: Marie Bloching, Anton Weil, Proschat Madani, Laura Balzer, Jane Chriwa, David Vormweg, Aram Tafreshian
After going through a break up, Rose moves in with her older brother Sam to his tiny flat in Berlin. The siblings share a close bond. One day, Rose learns of rape allegations against Sam. At first, she is unable to see her brother as a possible perpetrator. When she finally understands that the accusations are true, she is caught in a loyalty conflict, torn between her role as a sister and her identity as a woman. In the end, she must find a way to deal with Sam’s guilt and its consequences. Blue Marks (WT) is a story about independence, belonging, and the intersection of the political and the personal.
XIII Europe-Latin America Co-production Forum Awards
XIII EUROPE-LATIN AMERICA CO-PRODUCTION FORUM BEST PROJECT AWARD
Los Dos Paisajes / The Two Landscapes
Francisco Lezama (Argentina)
Country(ies) of production: Argentina – Brazil
Mercedes (65) is an upper-middle-class woman who officiates in the church as Minister of the Holy Communion in a town where conversions to Evangelism are changing deeply rooted customs and rituals. When her landlord dies, Mercedes is forced to stay with Cecilia (43), the dead man’s girlfriend, in her home deep in the mountains of Córdoba. The arrival of Brenda (30), the late man’s unrecognised daughter, will upset the lives of both women. Between Catholicism in crisis, Mercedes’ renewed faith and family secrets, The Two Landscapes explores the social and religious tensions of a contemporary Argentine town.
DALE! AWARD (DEVELOPMENT LATIN AMERICA-EUROPE)
Los Dos Paisajes / The Two Landscapes
Francisco Lezama (Argentina)
Country(ies) of production: Argentina – Brazil
Mercedes (65) is an upper-middle-class woman who officiates in the church as Minister of the Holy Communion in a town where conversions to Evangelism are changing deeply rooted customs and rituals. When her landlord dies, Mercedes is forced to stay with Cecilia (43), the dead man’s girlfriend, in her home deep in the mountains of Córdoba. The arrival of Brenda (30), the late man’s unrecognised daughter, will upset the lives of both women. Between Catholicism in crisis, Mercedes’ renewed faith and family secrets, The Two Landscapes explores the social and religious tensions of a contemporary Argentine town.
ARTEKINO INTERNATIONAL AWARD
Mar de leva
Mariana Saffon (Colombia)
Country(ies) of production: Colombia – France
Elena travels to a remote beach on the Chocó coast to try to sell the family home to pay off her ailing father’s debts. There a woman offers to hand over her 3-year-old son, so that she can take him away with her and give him a better life. Deeply affected by the proposal, Elena urgently returns to Bogotá, where she has to deal with her father’s imminent death and the consequences of the divorce of her lover, who is losing the custody of his children because of his affair with her. In the middle of this crisis, Elena must deal with a desire she never thought she had: that of being a mother.
Ikusmira Berriak Award
SIDERAL AWARD
CARO BASTIANO / DEAR BASTIANO
MARIA ELORZA DEIAS (Spain)
Country(ies) of production: Spain
Hamburg, 1945: a young German girl and an emaciated foreigner meet in secret.
Donostia, 2022: a family investigates and speculates about a love letter discovered in the family home. Meanwhile, the sparrows flit around the city.
Casa Wabi-ESCINE Award
Senda
Mikele Landa Eiguren (Spain)
Country(ies) of production: Spain
On a road without pavements there is room for three worlds. There are Bakary, Oihana and Agustina looking at each other. The experience of one belies the truth of the other; but they have decided to come closer together and set out to find a cure. In this way, they will learn to look through each other’s ears and listen with their skin. The smell of wet asphalt, the weeds growing on the shore, the wounds on the gums, the old songs, the figs, the sweat, the saltpeter and the silences will be the ingredients of the ointment that will cure the illness.
XX Lau Haizetara Documentary Co-Production Forum Awards
MUSIC LIBRARY AWARD
LA NOCHE DE LA INFANCIA – Xixi Sofía Ye Chen
Produced by: Lacima Producciones – The South Project – La Fábrica Nocturna
(Spain)
DOGWOOF AWARD
BARRABáS – Daniel Martínez-Quintanilla
Produced by: Muyuna, SUICAfilms, Associated Press
(Spain – Peru)
EPE-IBAIA-ELKARGI AWARD
BARRABáS – Daniel Martínez-Quintanilla
Produced by: Muyuna, SUICAfilms, Associated Press
(Spain – Peru)
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