The 2024 version of the Valladolid Worldwide Movie Week, often known as SEMINCI, wrapped on Saturday (October 26), giving its high award, the Golden Spike, to Misericordia by Alain Guiraudie.
Misericordia tells the story of a person who returns to his hometown for the funeral of his former boss, the village baker, and decides to remain for just a few days with the person’s widow, getting concerned in a sequence of sudden occasions.
Guiraudie additionally received the most effective screenplay award.
The members of the Valladolid jury, Greek director Sofía Exarchou; Spanish actress Aida Folch; American critic Devika Girish; Spanish filmmaker Luis López Carrasco and German producer Ingmar Trost, praised the movie’s “complicated steadiness of genres and tone in a rural thriller-comedy that hides a profound reflection on how want and guilt make us each predictable and incomprehensible to one another.”
Misericordia is a France, Portugal manufacturing by CG Cinema, Scala Movies, Arte France Cinema, Rosa Filmes and Spain’s Albert Serra’s and Montse Triola’s Andergraun Movies.
Starring Félix Kysyl, Catherine Frot, Jean-Baptiste Durand, Jacques Develay, Misericordia first premiered within the Cannes Premiere sidebar. Will probably be distributed in Spain by Karma Movies and worldwide gross sales are dealt with by Les Movies Du Losange.
The second high award at this yr’s SEMINCI was shared by Yeo Siew Hua’s first characteristic Stranger Eyes, a thriller drama a couple of baby who vanishes, and the musical drama They Will Be Mud by Spanish director Carlos Marques-Marcet a couple of couple going through end-of-life selections. The latter, that had already received the Platform award at Toronto, additionally bought a particular point out for actors Ángela Molina and Alfredo Castro in Valladolid.
The Ribera del Duero greatest director award and greatest cinematography prize went to Guan Hu’s Black Canine.
Greatest actress went to Laura Weissmahr for nightmarish motherhood drama Salve Maria, a Spanish manufacturing directed by Mar Coll. Greatest actor to Norwegian actors Jan Gunnar Røise and Thorbjørn Harr for Intercourse by Dag Johan Haugerud.
Spanish darkish comedy The Occasion’s Over earned first time characteristic director Elena Manrique the Pilar Miró award for greatest Spanish director.
The viewers award went to Tracie Laymon’s Bob Trevino Likes It; and the Fipresci award was received by Tyler Taormina’s Christmas Eve in Miller’s Level. The Fipresci jury praised Taormina as “a brand new voice, younger and stuffed with promise, not solely in American cinema but additionally worldwide that’s looking for avoiding clichés and of discovering new methods to inform tales and painting feelings”.
Assembly Level, the principle sidebar part of Valladolid, awarded its high prize to Louise Courvoisier’s Holy Cow, which additionally received the part’s viewers award.
The closing ceremony included a posthumous homage to filmmaker Patricia Ferreira and actress Concha Velasco, a celebrated Spanish star born in Valladolid, who each died in December 2023.
Valladolid 2024 winners
Official competitors
Golden Spike
Misericordia (France/Spain/Portugal)
Dir: Alain Guiraudie
Silver Spike
Stranger Eyes (Singapore/Taiwan/France/US)
Dir: Yeo Siew Hua
Ex-aequo
They Will Be Mud (Spain/Switzerland/Italy)
Dir: Carlos Marques-Marcet
Ribera del Duero Award for greatest course
Guan Hu
Black Canine (China)
Pilar Miró Award for greatest Spanish director
Elena Manrique
The Occasion’s Over (Spain/Belgium)
Greatest actress
Laura Weissmahr
Salve Maria (Spain)
Greatest actor
Jan Gunnar Røise
Intercourse (Norway)
Ex-aequo
Thorbjørn Harr
Intercourse (Norway)
Particular point out
Ángela Molina, Alfredo Castro
They Will Be Mud (Spain/Switzerland/Italy)
Greatest cinematography
Gao Wiezhe
Black Canine (China)
Miguel Delibes award for greatest screenplay
Misericordia (France/Spain/Portugal)
Dir: Alain Guiraudie
José Salcedo Award for greatest edit
Telmo Churro, Pedro Filipe Marques
Grand Tour (Portugal/Italy/France)
Golden Spike for greatest quick
Baldilocks (Belgium)
Dir. Marthe Peters
Silver Spike for greatest quick
Punter (Southafrica/US)
Dir. Jason Adam Maselle
Younger jury award
Armand (Norway/Netherlands/Sweden/Germany)
Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel
Fipresci award
Christmas Eve in Miller’s Level (US)
Dir: Tyler Taormina
Viewers award
Bob Trevino Likes It (US)
Dir: Tracie Laymon
Assembly Level
Greatest characteristic
Holy Cow (France)
Dir: Louise Courvoisier
Particular Fundos prize
Acquainted Contact (US)
Dir: Sarah Friedland
Viewers award
Holy Cow (France)
Dir: Louise Courvoisier
Time of historical past
Grand Prix
Youth (Laborious Occasions) (France/Luxemburg/Netherlands)
Dir: Wang Bing
Particular award
Henry Fonda For President (Austria/Germany)
Dir: Alexander Horwath
Particular point out
Savanna and the Mountains (Portugal/Uruguay)
Dir: Paulo Carneiro
