San Sebastian Industry Awards: ’The Two Landscapes,’ ‘A Loose End,’ ‘Blue Marks’ Win Big
variety.comJohn Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Argentine Francisco Lezama “The Two Landscapes,” Uruguayan Daniel Handler’s “A Loose End” and “Blue Marks,” from German director Sara Miro Fischer triumphed at the San Sebastián Festival’s Industry Awards ceremony Wednesday, unveiling awards for its most major competitions, the Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum, and two pix-in-post strands, the WIP Latam and WIP Europa. “Dear Bastiano,” from Spain’s Maria Elorza, took the Ikusmira Berriak Award, a best project prize at the prestigious San Sebastián development program.
Lezama two wins at the Forum marks his second prize scoop tis year after walking off with a a 2024 best short Berlin Golden Bear for “Un movimiento extraño.” Produced by Argentina’s Pionera Cine, developing projects from Lezama and Ignacio Ceroi, the “melancholic comedy” about religious and family tensions, as Lezama puts it, is set during an institutional crisis within the Catholic Church due to Catholics converting to Evangelism.
Mercedes, a devout sixty-year-old Catholic, is obliged to host the late tenant’s girlfriend and unrecognized daughter in her home.
The film, currently in development, turns on the attempts of a Eucharistic Minister to maintain certain rituals of traditional Catholicism in a town where conversions to Evangelism are gradually changing traditions,” Lezama told Variety.
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