Awards 2019
The jury of the contest, made up of 33 people in 7 different categories as follows: the jury of feature films made up of Ariadna Pujol, Jordi Coromina and Judit Aranda, the jury of short films and Miquel Porter Moix Award; Àlex Portolés, Pablo Sancho and Jordi Díaz, the jury of environment made up of; Àlex Medrano, Miquel Nieto and Jordi Fàbregas, the jury of mountain films made up of; David Verge, Ramon Musach and Lluís Dietrich, the jury of photgraphy made up for; Joan Guerrero, Jordi Play and Carles Costa, the jury of the concord made up of; Alejandra Brito, Harold Cuéllar, Fàtima el Bejjaji, Sílvia Gallart and Elisabeth Ortega, and the young jury made of for; Khalil Hnich, Mohamed Amine, Youssef Ouiro, Yassir Selmouni, Ismail Oulghazi, Mohamed Touarsi, Abdessamad Karim, Ibrahima Sorry Soumah, Bilal Terak, Marc Ramilo, Fiona Serra Méndez and Mireia Cosp and Arwen Sara Roca,
They have awarded the following prizes:
- Gollut Award for Best Feature Film the documentary film Catalan The writer of a country without libraries, because director Marc Serena writer through Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel this documentary helps people visualize fighters, working, sensitive and creative Equatorial Guinea, a former Spanish colony. Breaking the Eurocentric and victimizing gaze towards Africa, it builds a genuine cinematic story that penetrates the spectator in a geographically and culturally practically unexplored territory.
The same film has received the second Gollut Award, the public Gollut Prize. The vote of the public is made by the votes of the spectators of the contest in all the venues of the festival.
The Jury of feature films has decided to award Special Mention to the Macedonian fiction film The year of the monkey, by director Vladimir Blaževski, this film questions whether it is crazier to release a monkey from the zoo or that people endanger ours Place of work and monetary gains for values such as companionship, solidarity or collective struggle. A brave reflection through the acid humor of a declining world, which allows us to discover a filmmaker so far unpublished in Catalonia.
- Gollut Award for Best Short film in the Turkish fiction film The heavy burden, by Yilmaz Özdil, because it is a work that empathizes with the public showing a very harsh reality, that of Kurdistan, without abusing dramatic effects. And because it shows the cruelness of survival, labor and also vital, in an environment marked by the warlike confrontation between peoples.
- Gollut Award for the Best Mountain Film to the Serbian documentary film Speleonauta, under the stone of the sky, because its history is stuck with the human adventure it represents and as an experience of life underground. It is also a credit to have shot in such extreme and very difficult conditions.
- Gollut Award for Best Environmental Film Vall de Núria to the Catalan documentary film Wanamey, por una tierra Linda , it is a film that shows not only environmental values, but has given us a life lesson, personal improvement, and a message of struggle for the preservation of the natural environment, culture and social integration.
- Gollut Award for the Best Photojournalism Reportage DATECUENTA to the work Aulas peligrosas. Enseñar el Corán o morir of photographer Antonio Aragón. This Jury underlines the aesthetic quality, color treatment, sharp frames, light domain and respectful approach to the subject, which result in a high quality photographic work.
- Gollut Award of the Concord for the Catalan documentary Negre de Merda, directed by Manel Serrat because it deals with an issue of absolute news that reflects the identity crisis that many of our young people suffer. The analysis, reflection and personal work of the protagonist raises us a hopeful scenario for the improvement of coexistence. The jury adds recognition to the film's technical work.
- Gollut Award of the young for the fiction film Foreigner, de Carlos Violadé, the jury composed of unaccompanied migrant youth and pupils from ESO SES Joan Triadú the chosen one because the events that happened to them have happened in their own skin. The film shows how the vital risk of people migrating through the sea could be that of any person.
- Miquel Porter i Moix Award for the Galician short film Arredor do día. Retratos na Terra de Montes. The authors are 6th grade boys and girls who have managed to make an anthropological portrait on their land, showing a way of living thanks to the learning of cinematographic language. And also because a young new generation values the discovery of trades typical of the rural environment that tend to disappear. The film is from the pedagogical initiative Cinema in progress, where professional filmmakers provide support and tools to schoolchildren and teachers to develop their ideas in an audiovisual way, Cinema in progress is an initiative of the cultural association A Bao A Qu.
The Gollut dels Amics del cinema de la Vall de Ribes Festival has awarded the following honorary prizes:
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Gollut Prize for the communication and audiovisual career, at Ventura Pons, director, screenwriter, producer, exhibitor and distributor of cinema, and also Catalan theater director. The most internationally recognized Catalan filmmaker with more than 34 retrospectives and 800 shows at international festivals. After a decade as a theater director in which he directed a score of shows, he shot his first film in 1977, Ocaña, an intermittent portrait, for which he was officially selected for the Cannes Film Festival in 1978. After 32 films, Most of them produced with his company Los Films de la Rambla founded in 1985, has become one of the best known directors in Catalonia, Spain and internationally recognized. His work is continuously scheduled in the best festivals in the world. As a transversal axis, his films tell stories of commitment, vital and portraying the human being from all its aspects. He is one of the directors who has most adapted works by Catalan authors on the big screen.
- Gollut Award to the photographic career, to Joan Guerrero. He is considered one of the best representatives of the social photography of the country, in fact, one of the main concerns of Joan Guerrero is immigration. He has worked in El Periódico de Catalunya, Diario de Barcelona, El Observador and El País. In 2009 he was awarded the Gold Medal for Artistic Merit by the Barcelona City Council. He has published numerous books: Santa Coloma in the heart; Image and Word; Santa Coloma, between life and life; The park; and, in collaboration with Pere Casaldàliga, Els ulls dels pobres (exhibition at the Casal dels Avis de Ribes de Freser). In 2014, a documentary was directed by David Airob, The Box of matches, which includes the testimony of Joan Guerrero as a photojournalist.