Rodrigo Sorogoyen swept nine Goya awards

Seville (EFE) the films of Rodrigo Sorogoyen, with 9 goyas, and Alberto Rodríguez, with 5.
Indisputable awards for “As bestas” and “Modelo 77” and impeccable the three that “Cinco lobitos” took away, by the newcomer Alauda Ruiz de Azúa, who leaves with her title of best new director and with two ‘bigheads’ for her two female interpreters, Laia Costa, protagonist, and Susi Sánchez, supporting cast.

A “loser” (if closing last year with a stupendous box office for a film as small and immense as “Alcarrás” or winning the Golden Bear at the Berlinale can be called losing), it has been Carla Simón, who started with eleven nominations and has been left without stepping on the stage.
Sorogoyen, who concluded his night with an ecological claim – “the forest is part of the cinema,” he said – has supported an initiative by the town of Saucedo (Pontevedra) to stop the construction of four wind farms in the mountains where wild horses now live that appear in his film: «Wind energy yes, but not like that».

Constant memory of the honoree Carlos Saura

It was a gala so charged with emotion that tears had to be held back from the first minutes to be able to accompany Carlos Saura’s family – the spectacular sober image of his last wife, the actress Eulalia Ramón, who sent him a beautiful kiss from the stage- flanked by her children Antonio, the eldest, and Anna, the youngest.
Carmen Maura, who would have given the Goya de Honor to her director in “Ay, Carmela”, regretted not having gotten to tell her how important it had been to her: “I had no idea of ​​the mark it had left on me forever », he asserted.
He spoke of an “unexpected Saura” whom he met on that shoot, a “wonderful director” and “a tender, affectionate and understanding person” and also a bit of a “gossip”.
Lali Ramón read a letter that Saura left written before he died, yesterday Friday at his home in Madrid, in which he said he felt “happy” to have inspired today’s “brilliant” generation of filmmakers and claimed to see himself “like a star wandering in the immensity of the cosmos.

A special edition that also had refreshing surprises on the red carpet, such as when Blanca Paloma, the representative of Spain in the next Eurovision Song Contest, was singing bits of “Eaea” for the journalists who asked her, so naturally, that there were who asked him to go up to sing if the speeches were prolonged.

“The short is cinema”

Many flaps wore badges with a claim message of support for the short film sector, “The short is cinema”, a claim that even the president of the Academy, Fernando Méndez Leite, supported at the end of his speech.

And Lola Flores also had her tribute on the centenary of her birth, with a brilliant performance by her daughter Lolita of her very famous song “Pena, penita, pena”: “In heaven is Carlos Saura and my mother is already dancing sevillanas for him” , said the eldest of the Pharaoh’s daughters.

The presenters, Antonio de la Torre and Clara Lago, remembered the earthquake in Turkey and Syria, and the war in Ukraine. “Damn all the wars and the scoundrels who make them,” De la Torre quoted the politician Julio Anguita, who lost a journalist son in the Gulf War.

The defense of public health came up several times; even Jordi Évole supported him, recalling that this Sunday at noon there is a demonstration in Madrid.
Mental health and a determined position against bullying and abuse were also part of the monologue with which Clara Lago ushered in the last stretch of the gala, but not before thanking Penélope Cruz for having “turned on the lights” for the who come behind, to merge with her in a hug.

By the way, the entire Andalucía Auditorium was littered with indicative posters on how to act in the event of some type of sexual abuse.
Feminist and anti-war, the beautiful “Unicorn Wars” won the award for best animated film; It was her producer, the Galician Chelo Loureiro, who called for “the end of a war that is going to celebrate one year.”

By Alicia G. Arribas.