“Argentina, 1985”a national film about the Trial of the Juntas, directed by Santiago Miter and starring Ricardo Darin and Peter Lanzaniwon this Saturday the Goya Award for Best Ibero-American Film at the Spanish Film Gala which takes place in Seville, thus adding a new international award towards the Oscars.
Within the framework of the 37th ceremony organized by the Spanish Film Academy at the FIBES Palace of Congresses and Exhibitions in Seville, the plot that assumes a historical event in fictional mode surpassed the Chilean “1976”, by Manuela Martelli: the Colombian “La jauría”, by Andrés Ramírez Pulido; the Mexican “Night of Fire” by Tatiana Huezo; and the Bolivian “Utama”, by Alejandro Loayza Grisi.
The award for Mitre’s film, the 18th Goya that Argentine cinema has achieved in Spain, was received by Peter Lanzani who on the tape assumes the role of Luis Moreno Ocampoafter the announcement by Cecilia Suarez (known for her role in “La casa de las flores” and the Argentine Alberto AmmannGoya for Best New Actor for ‘Cell 211’ in 2010).
“We saw how such an Argentine story, seen by different audiences, who go through such particular situations and are so different at the same time and so similar, because those same wounds unite us all, the only way to fight against that is with justice “, he said on the Sevillian stage Santiago Carabantemember of the production team of “Argentina, 1985”.
The ceremony began after 10 p.m. (Spanish time) with a collective version of “Cantares” (on a poem by Antonio Machado with music by Joan Manoel Serrat) to honor the filmmaker Carlos Saura (who was going to receive a Goya of Honor but died yesterday at 91 years old) and about an hour and a half later the Ibero-American title and the triumph of “Argentina, 1985” were unveiled.
Premiered at the Venice Festival last year (where it won the Fipresci prize) the film He also won the Golden Globe for the best foreign film of the 80th edition of the awards given by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
In this laureate journey (with the Audience Award at the San Sebastian Festival and acclaimed steps at the London BFI Film Festival and the Rio International Film Festival, among others) he added nominations at the British Film Bafta and the Critics ‘Choice Awards.
Locally, and in addition to its premiere on the Prime Video platform, it premiered in local theaters on September 29 and, according to data from the Ultracine consultancy, sold more than one million tickets, making it the highest-grossing national production. of 2022 and the only one to exceed one million viewers since the start of the pandemic.
The National Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts (INCAA) announced that it is reprogramming it in the Leonardo Favio room of the Buenos Aires Gaumont Cinema with daily functions at 2:30 p.m. and 7:15 p.m., with seats at affordable prices.
While as it has been reporting 0221.com.arthe Cultural Institute of the Province of Buenos Aires will screen the film next Tuesday 14 at 7:30 p.m. at the Provincial Center of the Arts Teatro Argentino de La Plata, with free admission.
