'Esquirlas' has been chosen as the best film of the eleventh edition of the Lanzarote Film Festival. The jury valued the capacity of 'Esquirlas' "to unite in a single film: memory, elegy and denunciation. 'Esquirlas' is an emotional return to the images of lost childhood happiness; it is a painful elegy for the death of two loved ones; and it is a tense but contained denunciation of the concrete impact of national political corruption on the life of an Argentine middle-class family. Esquirlas is the film of a life; a film necessary for its author but also for its viewers, for alerting us to the possible faces of political lies."
The special mention this year went to 'A night of knowing nothing', by Payal Kapadla, since in the words of the jury, "if the Lanzarote Film Festival is characterized by its love of cinema, its love of the island of Lanzarote, of people and the care of details, this film is a lesson in the possibilities of love and human fraternity to build a captivating invitation to assume the challenges of our present time, whatever the context and beyond the need for permanent revolution."
Regarding the assessment of the Canarian short film 'Heuterbise', the members of the jury highlighted that "it carries with it the dimensions and sensations of which an entire life and its cycle are composed. Simple, frank and poetic like the wind, and like it, it resonates. With force."
The jury that made this decision in public deliberation is made up of Eva Sangiorgi, the artistic director of Viennale, the Vienna International Film Festival, Guillermo G. Peydró, a filmmaker whose films have been screened in museums such as the Louvre or the Reina Sofía and in festivals around the world, and Jairo López, one of the founders of the Microclima Association of Filmmakers of the Canary Islands, of which he was president. He is currently the manager of the Audiovisual Cluster of the Canary Islands.
The decision, argued this Saturday before the spectators in an open and transparent manner, is already a hallmark of the Lanzarote Film Festival.