Argentinian director María Aparicio’s Sometimes Sadness, Sometimes Rebellion (A Veces Me Entra Tristeza, Otras Veces Rebelión) has won the GdA Director’s Award in Venice’s Giornate degli Autori sidebar.
The film, which centres on a woman passing through an unfamiliar Madrid who meets an Argentinian historian at the city’s Reina Sofía Museum, was selected out of ten competing in the Giornate sidebar.
The GDA Director’s award comes with a cash prize of €20,000 to be split between the director and the international distributor of the film.
The jury was headed by headed by the Spanish filmmaker Carla Simón, Italian director and editor Sara Fgaier and Hania Mroué, director of Beruit’s Metropolis arthouse cinema.
In a statement, the jury said: “A woman. A man. Encounters and missed encounters. A possible love story. Two great actors. A film that portrays the solitude of the present, holding together an intimate dimension and a political charge, inviting us to think about labor, immigration and privilege through a delicate mise en scène built on small gestures rather than big events.”
Meanwhile, the Europa Cinemas label prize in the Giornate section went to Une Femme Aujourd’hui by French filmmaker Robert Guediguian, about a high-powered female executive whose world falls apart when she is assaulted at a company event, and then sets out on a new path to bring meaning to her life. The film will receive the support from exhibition network Europa Cinemas in promoting the film and distributing it more widely.
The Europa Cinemas jury comprised Maria Gesuato of Italy’s Cinema Teatro Giardino, Vít Janeček of Prague’s Atlas Cinema, Aisling Kane of Dublin’s Light House Cinema and Daniel Tollefsen Altamirano of Folkets Bio Umeå in Umeå, Sweden.
The GdA’s People’s Choice Award went to Balcanica by Italian director Nicola Sorcinelli, receiving 76% of the audience votes, about an Afghan orchestra conductor and his tuba-playing son who are forced to leave everything behind.
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