The Cinélatino festival in Toulouse, one of the biggest meetings of Latin American cinema in Europe, awarded its grand prize on Saturday April 2 to the film Mis hermanos sueñan despiertos by the Chilean director of Mapuche origin Claudia Huaiquimilla.
Inspired by real events, the film tells the story of two teenage brothers, Angel and Pulga, detained in prison for minors and whose daily life is marked by prison violence.
With this film, Claudia Huaiquimilla also won the Audience Award, a distinction she had already won in 2016 with her first feature film, Mala junta.
The jury of this 34th edition of Cinélatino awarded two special mentions to Eamia co-production directed by Paraguayan director Paz Encina and Camila saldrá esta noche from Argentina Inés María Barrionuevo.
Calmed her down, by Argentinian Mariano Cócolo, won the Critics’ Prize.
In the documentary section, Cantos que inundan el río by Colombian Germán Arango was awarded.
Created in 1989, Cinélatino resumed online in 2021, after being canceled in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Some 80 directors were invited to this festival which presented in Toulouse and its region more than 130 fictions or documentaries.
This 2022 edition paid tribute to the Chilean Patricio Guzman, 80, who built a dense work centered on the popular memory of the regime of the socialist Salvador Allende, which the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990) had tried to erase. But the director, who has health problems, could not go to Toulouse.
The festival also honored the singular view of the Argentinian Matias Pineiro, 39, whose work is marked by the theater, and more particularly by William Shakespeare.