25/11/2013 - The Asturian event gave out a variety of prizes to the film by Pawel Pawlikoski based on wounds from the past, filmed in his native Poland with two women as main characters

Patrice Leconte, whose latest film Une promesse [+see also:
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film profile] as this year’s film to be recognised. The film, a Danish Polish production, was screened at the beginning of the festival and won over the entire jury immediately - to the extent that the jury’s decision was unanimous. The film received four awards from the jury: best film, best actress (Agata Kulesza), best screenplay (to the director and his fellow screenwriter Rebecca Lenkiewicz) and the Gil Parrondo prize for best cinematography (Katarzyna Sobanska and Marcel Slanwinski). The four awards were completed with a final one: the young jury award, given out by young members of the audience between the ages of 17 and 25. This last award was also handed out to short Italian film La prima legge di Newton by Piero Messina.

The rest of the candidates’ presence was slightly eclipsed by the triumph of Pawlikowski’s sixth film, who already received an award in Gijon in 2000 for The Last Resort and who was given a retrospective homage at the 45^th edition of the Asturian festival. Best actor went to Alexandre Landry for his role in Canadian Gabrielle, while best director went to North American Jeremy Saulnier for his talented narrative take in violent Blue Ruin.

The special jury prize went to intimate Mexican film Los insólitos peces gato [+see also:
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The jury for short films gave their best film award to two films jointly, Swiss Pavaneh by Talkhon Hamzavi and French Cargo cult by Bastien Dubois. In this category, the award for best director went to Danish Kira Richards Hansen for Fucking Tos, best screenplay went to Luminita del portoghese by André Marqués. Gijon has always paid particular attention to young talented individuals destined to transition towards official competitions.

(Translated from Spanish)