The 55th edition of the Sitges Film Festival, the first fantastic film festival in the world, closes with a big winner: ‘Sisu’ by Jalmari Helander, a director who repeats his feat 12 years after doing it with ‘Rare export: A thug Christmas story’. Helander thus enters history by becoming the first director to win the top prize twice. The Finn’s work was done with awards for best film, best male performance, best music and best photography, although this time he missed the award for best director. ‘Sisu’ is a war action story set in the desert of Lapland in the 1940s, where a former soldier discovers a treasure, a generous buttercup, and tries to take it to the city through some lands occupied by Nazi German troops.
The jury composed of William Lustig, Mariana Enríquez, Christophe Mercier, Susanne Wuest and Heidy Honeycut chose Ti West as Best Director for ‘Pearl’, prequel to ‘X’, released in theaters this year, and its protagonist, Mia Goth as best actress (with a special mention for Natalia Germani and Eva Mores for ‘Nightsiren’). Quentin Dupieux has been awarded twice with “Fumer fait tousser” and “Incroyable mais vrai”.
The Spaniard ‘Irati’ was awarded for the best special effects ex-aequo with ‘Ego’ e also with the Audience Grand Prix for best film. The parallel sections have also awarded titles such as ‘Jerk’ (Best feature film by Noves Visions), ‘Nightsiren’ (Silver Méliès Award), ‘La Otra Forma’ (Best animated film), ‘H4Z4RD’ (Best film of the Òrbita) , ‘Jurassic punk’ (best Sitges Documenta film), ‘You will not be alone’ (Carnet Jove Award for best feature film in the official section) or Ariadna Pastor’s ‘Tornar a casa’, which won the SGAE awards for authorship della nova in the best direction and best screenplay.
This year, as announced by Mònica García i Massagué, director of the Foundation, the attendance figure increased by 10.3% and by 6.3% more than in 2019, the last pre-pandemic year.
Complete record
OFFICIAL COMPETITION SECTION
-Best Film: ‘Sisu’ by Jalmari Helander.
– Special Jury Prize: ‘Wolf Hunting Project’ by Kim Hong-sun.
– Best female performance: Mia Goth for ‘Pearl’ e special mention for Natalia Germani and Eva Mores for ‘Nightsiren’.
– Best address: Ti West for ‘Pearl’, special mention for: Tereza Nvotova for ‘Night Siren’.
– Best Male Performance: Jorma Tommila for ‘Sisu’.
– Best screenplay ex-aequo: Quentin Dupieux for ‘Fumer fait tousser’ and for ‘Incroyable mais vrai’.
– The best special, visual or makeup effects Ex-aequo: ‘Irati’ and ‘Ego (hatching)’. Special mention for: “Wolf Hunt Project”.
– The best music: Juri Seppä & Tuomas Wäinölä for ‘Sisu’.
– best photography: Kjell Lagerroos for ‘Sisu’.
NEW VISIONS
– Best Film: “Coglione” by Gisèle Vienne.
– best address : Martika Ramirez Escobar for “Leonor will never die”.
– Best Short Film: “Flashback before death” by Rii Ishihara and Hiroyuki Onogawa.
SILVER AWARDS MÉLIÈS
– Best Fantasy Film: ‘Night Siren’ by Tereza Nvotova.
– Best European Fantasy Short Film: ‘La machine d’Alex’ by Mael Le Mée.
CRITICAL JURY
– best short film: ‘The Newt Congress’ by Matthias Sahli and Immanuel Esser.
– José Luis Guarner Critics Award for Best Film: “Something in the Dirt” by Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson.
– Citizen Kane Award for Best New Director: Michelle Garza for ‘Huesera’
ANIMA’T
– Best Animated Feature Film: ‘The other way’ by Diego Guzmán.
– Best Animated Short Film: ‘Ecorchee’ by Joachim Hérissé.
ORBIT
– Best film of the Òrbita section: “H4Z4RD” by Jonas Govaerts.
WINDOW OF BLOOD
– Blood Window Award for Best Film: ‘Huesera’ by Michelle Garza.
BRIGADOON AWARDS
– Brigadoon Paul Naschy Award for Best Short Film: ‘El semblante’ by Raúl Cerezo and Carlos Moriana.
JURY OF THE YOUTH CHARTER
– Best Film: “You will not be alone” by Goran Stolevski.
– Best Sitges Documenta Film: The Jurassic Punk by Scott Leberecht.
SGAE NOVA AUTHORIZATION
– Best direction-realization: Ariadna Pastor for ‘Going home’.
– Best Screenplay: Ariadna Pastor for ‘Going home’.
– best original music: Valentin Cremona for ‘Sweet Side’.
AUDIENCE AWARDS
– Audience Grand Prize for Best Film: “Irati” by Paul Urkijo Alijo.
– Fantastic Panorama Audience Award: ‘Deadstream’ by Joseph Winter and Vanessa Winter.
– Focus Asia Audience Award: “The Roundup” by Lee Sang-yong.
– Midnight X-treme Audience Award: ‘Sissy’ by Kane Senes and Hannah Barlow.
Source: E Cartelera
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