Spanish movie ‘As Bestas’ (Monsters, 2022), Madrid director Rodrigo Sorogoyen, Awarded the Belgian Film Press Association Grand Prix (UPCB) for the best feature film of 2022.
Ribbon draws attention “extraordinary staging that showcases both brutality and human compassion” According to Moustique magazine, by a hundred French- and Dutch-speaking film critics and journalists who thought the feature film “reaffirms the power of European cinema.”
Sorogoyen’s film, which won the award on Thursday night, took over Kelly Reichardt’s ‘First Caw’ and Bong Joon-hoo’s ‘Parasites’, which was named the best film of 2021 after ‘1917’ by Sam Mendes in 2020. , in 2019.
Award-winning thriller In its 37th edition, seventeen nominees are big favourites. Goya Awards This SaturdaySet in a remote town in Galicia, it shows the friction between a local resident and a French couple who move there to set up a farm.
‘As Bestas’ competed with the Americans ‘Everything is everywhere at once’by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert; South Korea ‘Decision to Leave’by Park Chan Wook; American ‘Licorice Pizza’by Paul Thomas Anderson and ‘triangle of sadness’By Swedish Ruben Östlund.
The Humanum Award, a category dedicated to a film that serves as an advocacy for the harmonious lives of different people, was awarded to Belgian Thierry Michel’s documentary ‘L’Empire du Silence’ denouncing the silence on earth. The massacre of civilians in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Danish director Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s animated documentary ‘Flee’ about Afghanistan, refugees and homosexuality.