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Rye Horn takes top award in San Sebastian

Local director Jaione Camborda's period drama wins Golden Shell

by Amber Wilkinson

Janet Novás in The Rye Horn Photo: Courtesy of San Sebastian Film Festival

Jaione Camborda's The Rye Horn took the top award of the Golden Shell as San Sebastian Film Festival drew to a close last night. The San Sebastian-born director's second film is set in 1970s Galicia and relates the struggles of a woman who finds herself forced to flee on a smugglers' route between Spain and Portugal.

The Best Director Silver Shell went to to Tzu-Hui Peng and Ping-Wen Wang for Taiwanese film A Journey In Spring and the Silver Shell for Best Screenplay went to María Alché and Benjamín Naishtat for Argentinian comedy Puan. Its star Marcelo Subiotto also won a Silver Shell for his portrayal of the hapless philosophy professor at the film's heart, which he shared, ex-aequo, with Tatsuya Fuji for his role in Japanese dementia drama Great Absence.

Jaione Camborda with her Golden Shell for Rye Horn Photo: Courtesy of San Sebastian Film Festival

In an unusual move in festival terms these days all of the gender neutral acting awards went to male performances with the jury, led by French director Claire Denis, giving the Best Supporting gong to Hovik Keuchkerian for his bear-like performance in Isabel Coixet's Un Amor. Certainly there was no shortage of great female performances, including Laia Costa, who plays a woman who has retreated to the countryside in the same film and Emmanuelle Devos's wife-in-denial in A Silence.

It was also a good night for Greenland-set Kalak, which took home awards a Special Jury Prize for Isabella Eklöf and the cinematography prize for Nadim Carlsen.

The full list of awards is below:

Golden Shell for Best Film: The Rye Horn, dir, Jaione Camborda
Special Jury Prize: Kalak, dir, Isabella Eklöf
Silver Shell for Best Director: A Journey in Spring, dir, Peng Tzu-Hui, Wang Ping-Wen
Silver Shell for Best Leading Performance (ex-aequo): Marcelo Subiotto for Puan and Tatsuya Fuji for “-Great Absence
Silver Shell For Best Supporting Performance: Hovik Keuchkerian for Un Amor
Jury Prize For Best Screenplay: María Alché, Benjamín Naishtat for Puan
Jury Prize For Best Cinematography: Nadim Carlsen for Kalak
Kutxabank-New Directors Award - Bahadur The Brave, dir, Diwa Shah
Horizontes Award: The Castle, dir, Martin Benchimol
Zabaltegi-Tabakalera Award: The Human Surge 3, dir, Eduardo Williams
Nest Award: Amma Ki Katha, dir, Nehal Vyas
Special mention: Entre les autres, dir, Marie Falys
San Sebastián Audience Award: Society Of The Snow, dir JA Bayona
San Sebastián Audience Award for European Films: Io Capitano, dir, Matteo Garrone
Irizar Basque Film Award: Sultana’s Dream, dir, Isabel Herguera
TCM Youth Award: The Blue Star, dir, Javier Macipe
Fipresci Award: Fingernails, dir, Christos Nikou
Agenda 2030 Euskadi Basque Country Award: The Undesirables, dir, Ladj Li
Dunia Ayaso Award: Creatura, dir, Elena Martin Gimeno
Special Mention: While You’re Still You (The Yellow Ceiling), dir, Claudia Pinto
Eusko Label First Prize: Latxa, dir, Mikel Urretabizkaia
Eusko Label Second Prize: Soroborda, dir, Paolo Tizón
DALE! Award: Little War, dir Barbara Sarasola-Day
Artekino International Prize: The Days Off, dir, Lucila Mariani
XII Europe-Latin America Co-production Forum Best Project Award: These Were All Fields, dir Daniela Abad Lombana
WIP Latam Industry Award: Most People Die on Sunday, dir Iair Said
Egeda Platino Industria Award For The Best WIP Latam: Most People Die on Sunday, dir Iair Said
WIP Europa Industry Award: Mannequins, dir, Michael Fetter Nathansky
WIP Europa Award: Mannequins, dir, Michael Fetter Nathansky
Ikusmira Berriak Award: After the Night, the Night, d.ir Naomi Pacifique
Zinemaldia Startup Challenge Best Spanish Project: WitScript
Zinemaldia Startup Challenge Best European Project: Hyperate.io
RTVE Another Look Award: The Royal Hotel, dir Kitty Green
RTVE Another Look Award (Special Mention): All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt, dir, Raven Jackson