• The short 'Mañana volveré', by Hugo de la Riva, won the award in its category, and Gala Espín the best photojournalism reportage for 'Nascentía'
• The public award for popular voting was for 'La voz de Thais' by David Casals-Roma, while the short film 'La salud naufraga en la frontera sur', won the Premio de the Young

09/10/2021.- Indestructibles  by Xavier Aldekoa, Alfons Rodríguez and José Bautista won the Best Award Feature film of the TERRA GOLLUT Film Festival 2022, at the closing gala held tonight. The film, which narrates five different stories of young people from Africa, has been chosen by the jury "to draw a sensitive, emotional and far from victimhood collage, of a group of young protagonists of lives marked by effort and overcoming". Pico Reja. La verdad que la tierra esconde has received a special mention from the jury in this same category. It is the story of the common grave in the municipal cemetery of Seville, which bears the same number as the film, where more than 2,000 Francoist reprisals could have been buried.

The rest of the prizes have been the following: in the category of short films, Mañana volveré, by Hugo de la Riva, which in just eleven minutes explains how difficult a farewell can be, has took the award. The Public Prize, chosen by popular vote, went to La voz de Thais by David Casals-Roma. In this case, it is the biographical reconstruction of Elena Jordi, considered the first female film director in Spain. The short film about immigration The shipwrecked health on the southern border by Alba Villén and Ignacio Marín, has been unanimously chosen by the young jury made up of tuteled young migrants, who have ensured that they have felt identified. Finally, the Premio a la Concordia has been awarded to the short film Alfons ya no vive aquí, by Dani Planas and Alejandro Fabbri, which tells the story of a homeless man evicted in the midst of a pandemic. In the category of best photographic report, the work of the young photographer Gala Espín was awarded for Nascentía, about the pregnancy of a young woman.

Although the contest continues with itinerant sessions in spaces and venues during the months of October and November, so far counting the sessions of TERRA GOLLUT and Cinema Transhumant that have brought committed, humanitarian cinema and photojournalism to vulnerable towns and groups in in total, 3,200 on-site spectators have joined in a total of 62 activities. Online, through the Filmin.cat channel, 12,000 viewers have been reached. These figures are the highest recorded in the history of the festival.

As for the recognitions that have been made throughout this edition, which began on September 23, the journalist Josep Cabayol has received the TERRA GOLLUT Prize for audiovisual and communication career posthumously, while that the photojournalist Emilio Morenatti, obtained the TERRA GOLLUT Award for his photographic career, an award that was presented to him during the second Day of Committed Photography held in the old spa of Montagut (Vall de Ribes).

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PALMARÉS TERRA GOLLUT FILM FESTIVAL 2022

AWARD FOR THE BEST FEATURE FILM

Indestructibles, by Xavier Aldekoa, Alfons Rodríguez and José Bautista

"If necessary, we will die for him". With only 12 years, the two child soldiers, Rodrigue and Gloire, serve as personal guards of General Mbura, head of a rebel group in the jungle of the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Both dream of escaping. Heritier, 16 years old, has been without dreams for a while: only nightmares. After being part of the same militia for five years, he ran away from that life of combat, death and abuse and is now trying to free himself from the evil spirits that haunt him.

SPECIAL MENTION JURY LARGOMETRAJES

Pica Roja. La verdad que la tierra esconde, by Remedios Malvarez and Arturo Andújar

The Spanish Civil War and the Franco regime left behind a landscape of terror with tens of thousands of civilians killed, buried without number and