The film won three awards: Best Screenplay, Best Fiction Feature Film and Best Artistic Direction
HAVANA TIMES – The Mexican film ‘Tótem’, by Lila Aviles, was the big winner at the awards gala of the International Festival of New Latin American Cinema in Havana after winning three awards this Friday.
The film won the Coral for Best Screenplay, Best Fiction Feature Film and Best Artistic Direction on the awards night of the 44th edition of the festival. The Argentine film ‘Los criminales’, (The Delinquents) by Rodrigo Moreno, also won three awards: Best direction, Best photography and Best editing.
The award ceremony, held at the Charles Chaplin cinema, was the culmination of the festival, which since December 8 screened hundreds of films in the Cuban capital and which will officially ends on Sunday.
Among other recognitions, ‘El mundo de Nelsito’ won the best poster category, by Cuban Vladimir Perez. Likewise, in the second edition of the Arrecife award, for the work that best reflects the reality of the LGBTIQ+ community, the award went to the Franco-Colombian production Transfariana, by Joris Lachaise.
With the slogan “Green Light: Action!”, the event featured 199 films selected in competition from a total of 19 countries – the most represented were those from Mexico, Argentina, Brazil and Chile – in categories such as fiction short films, operas
