The
Festival Grand Prize:
Tren de Sombras, by José Luis Guerín (Spain)
Audience's
Award:
Decaf, by Greg Huson (USA)
Special
Jury Mention:
Winterblume, by Kadir Sözen (Germany/Turkey)
TRIBUTES
A
TRIBUTE TO ANTONIO CASAL
Born
in Santiago de Compostela in 1910, Antonio Casal was one
of the most charismatic filmmakers of the fourties and
fifties Spanish cinematographic comedy, becoming an original,
specific role whose origin is closely linked to the texts
of other Galician, the writer Wenceslao Fernández
Flórez.
The International Film Festival of Ourense second edition
honoured the main character of El hombre que quiso matar
or Huella de Luz by means of the publication of the book
Antonio Casal, comicidad y melancolía, that includes
many articles about his work and a huge study of the films
which he was involved in; a round table where his daughter
María Casal and the historians José Coira,
Juan Miguel Company and José Luis Castro took part;
and the screening of one of his most interesting titles,
the bizarre La Torre de los siete jorobados, directed
in 1944 by Edgar Neville.
