BarcelonaPhotographer Leopoldo Pomis (1931-2019) He was considered a hedonist. He is also a caring man and a lover of simple, sophisticated and sensual
Jo Sol (discovered in competition at Tallinn). With screenwriter Alicia Luna as its president, the jury underlined the force and originality of two films with similar qualities: the radical primacy of the images over the dialogue, a sumptuous cinematography which made us all regret the fact that we could not discover these films on the big screen, the vibrant and infinitely touching presence of nature, and in particular of the animal world. One in the genre of the horror film poetically revisited (
Baby), rich in sumptuous colours; the other (
Armugan), a philosophical and profoundly humane fable, in a black and white just as sumptuous.”
Jo Sol (discovered in competition at Tallinn). With screenwriter Alicia Luna as its president, the jury underlined the force and originality of two films with similar qualities: the radical primacy of the images over the dialogue, a sumptuous cinematography which made us all regret the fact that we could not discover these films on the big screen, the vibrant and infinitely touching presence of nature, and in particular of the animal world. One in the genre of the horror film poetically revisited (
Baby), rich in sumptuous colours; the other (
Armugan), a philosophical and profoundly humane fable, in a black and white just as sumptuous.”