‘The Kings of the World’ Wins Golden Shell – Deadline

Colombian filmmaker Laura Mora has clinched the Golden Shell in the primary competitors of the seventieth San Sebastian Movie Competition along with her newest function The Kings of the World (Los reyes del mundo).

Billed as a subversive story of disobedience, friendship, and dignity, the movie follows 5 boys dwelling on the streets of Medellín who set out on a journey in the hunt for the promised land. The movie is a Colombian co-production with Luxembourg, France, Mexico, and Norway.

That is the third yr operating {that a} movie helmed by a lady has taken dwelling the Golden Shell following Dea Kulumbegashvili’s Starting in 2020 and Alina Grigore’s Blue Moon final yr. That is additionally the primary time a Colombian manufacturing has picked up San Sebastian’s high prize within the competition’s seven a long time.

In different fundamental competitors awards, Japanese author Genki Kawamura picked up the Silver Shell for Greatest Director with A Hundred Flowers (Hyakka). The animated function is Kawamura’s function debut and relies on his 2019 novel of the identical title. The Greatest Screenplay Award was handed to Dong Yun Zhou and Wang Chao for his or her work on A Girl (Kong Xiu).

The competition’s two gender-neutral appearing awards went to Carla Quílez for La Maternal, directed by Pilar Palomero, and Paul Kircher for Winter Boy, directed by Christophe Honoré. Renata Lerman received the Greatest Supporting award for Diego Lerman’s The Substitute (El suplente).

This yr’s official competitors jury was headed by Argentinian producer Matías Mosteirín. Glenn Shut was initially set to guide the jury however pulled out because of a household emergency. The jury was rounded out by French casting director and filmmaker Antoinette Boulat, Danish filmmaker Tea Lindeburg, Spanish author Rosa Montero, Lesotho filmmaker Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese and Icelandic director Hlynur Pálmason.

San Sebastian’s closing night time awards gala concluded with the world premiere of Marlowe, the most recent film by Neil Jordan, starring Liam Neeson and Diane Kruger. All three had been in attendance.