For the third yr in a row, a woman-directed characteristic has taken house San Sebastian Movie Competition’s high honor, the Golden Shell. Deadline studies that Colombian filmmaker Laura Mora topped the principle competitors on the seventieth version of the fest with “The Kings of the World” (“Los reyes del mundo”). Alina Grigore’s “Blue Moon” acquired the Golden Shell in 2021, and Dea Kulumbegashvili’s “Starting” gained the award in 2020.
“The Kings of the World” marks Mora’s follow-up to 2017’s “Killing Jesus.” The drama tells the story of “5 boys dwelling on the streets of Medellín who set out on a journey in the hunt for the promised land,” and is described as a “subversive story of disobedience, friendship, and dignity.”
Movies from ladies administrators additionally took house essentially the most prestigious prizes from Venice Movie Competition and the Berlinale this yr. “All of the Magnificence and the Bloodshed,” Laura Poitras’ doc about artist Nan Goldin and her struggle to carry the Sackler household accountable for his or her position within the opioid epidemic, gained Venice’s Golden Lion, and Carla Simón’s “Alcarràs,” a drama a few household of peach farmers in Catalonia, landed Berlinale’s Golden Bear. Spain just lately chosen “Alcarràs” as its decide within the 2023 worldwide characteristic Oscar race.
