‘As bestas’ and ‘Cinco lobitos’ shine equally at the Feroz Awards

Zaragoza (EFE).- The film ‘As bestas’, directed by Rodrigo Sorogoyen, and ‘Cinco lobitos’, by Alauda Ruíz de Azúa, have been the winners of the tenth edition of the Feroz Awards, each winning three statuettes in a very close gala in which the series ‘La ruta’ and ‘No me gusta conducir’ also shone, each with three awards.

This edition, held again in Zaragoza, has been marked by the large female presence and by the tribute with the Feroz de Honor Award to international filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar, who has made twenty-two feature films, two short films, two Oscars, one Ariel and one in his career. numerous Goyas.

Julieta Serrano, Rossy de Palma, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Bibiana Fernández, Leonor Watling and Milena Smit have taken the stage to take a trip down memory lane and the work of the La Mancha director due to his “wise, demanding and mischievous look”.

“In these awards one feels in two ways, and one of them is very fragile. My filmography has been marked by having a mother from La Mancha with a culture based on survival and a lack of prejudice when it comes to taking initiatives”, she shared in her speech, in which she was moved and admitted that “cinema many times it is the best therapy and the best reflection of your future”.

Allegation of Pedro Almodóvar

Pedro Almodóvar also wanted to make a plea in defense of public health in Spain: “The health problems of Spaniards affect us all regardless of whether some of us have the opportunity to go to private health. This applause is for the toilets we applauded during the pandemic. What they are experiencing endangers one of our pillars of our society”.

The president of the Association of Cinematographic Informants of Spain (AICE),

María Guerra, has vindicated the “quinqui” side of the awards and has recalled that the critics who award them only accompany the journey that involves telling the public about the works: films and series that are “truly transformative”.