International Competition Award: FUCK THE POLIS by Rita Azevedo Gomes

Georges de Beauregard International Award: FRÍO METAL by Clemente Castor

Special mention of the International Competition Jury: COBRE by Nicolás Pereda

French Competition Award: BONNE JOURNÉE by Pauline Bastard

Georges de Beauregard National Award: HORS-CHAMP, LES OMBRES by Anna Dubosc, Gustavo de Mattos Jahn

Cnap (National Centre for Visual Arts) Award: DES MILLÉNAIRES D’ABSENCE by Philippe Rouy

Special mention of the Cnap (National Centre for Visual Arts) Jury: L’AMOUR SUR LE CHEMIN DES RONCETTES by Sophie Roger

First Film Award: FANTAISIE by Isabel Pagliai

Special mention of the First Film Competition Jury: LOS CRUCES by Julián Galay

Special mention of the First Film Competition Jury: SI NOUS HABITONS UN ÉCLAIR by Louise Chevillotte

Claudia Cardinale Foundation Award: FERNLICHT by Johanna Schorn Kalinsky

Cine+ Distribution support Award in partnership with GNCR: MORTE E VIDA MADALENA by Guto Parente

Flash Competition Award: گل‌های شب ِدریا by Maryam Tafakory

Special mention of the Flash Competition Jury: A PRELUDE by Wendelien van Oldenborgh

Special mention of the Flash Competition Jury: CONTROL ANATOMY by Mahmoud Alhaj

Special mention of the Flash Competition Jury: LENGUA MUERTA by José Jiménez

Alice Guy Award: ABORTION PARTY by Julia Mellen

Renaud Victor Award: BULAKNA by Leonor Noivo

Special mention of the Renaud Victor Jury: SI NOUS HABITONS UN ÉCLAIR by Louise Chevillotte

High School Award: NEXT LIFE by Tenzin Phuntsog

Special mention of the High School Jury: MIRACULOUS ACCIDENT by Assaf Gruber

The Second Chance School Award: NEXT LIFE by Tenzin Phuntsog

Special mention of the Second Chance School Jury: JACOB’S HOUSE by Lucas Kane

Audience Award: LA JUVENTUD ES UNA ISLA by Louise Ernandez

International Competition Award: FUCK THE POLIS by Rita Azevedo Gomes

Georges de Beauregard International Award: FRÍO METAL by Clemente Castor

Special mention of the International Competition Jury: COBRE by Nicolás Pereda

French Competition Award: BONNE JOURNÉE by Pauline Bastard

Georges de Beauregard National Award: HORS-CHAMP, LES OMBRES by Anna Dubosc, Gustavo de Mattos Jahn

Cnap (National Centre for Visual Arts) Award: DES MILLÉNAIRES D’ABSENCE by Philippe Rouy

Special mention of the Cnap (National Centre for Visual Arts) Jury: L’AMOUR SUR LE CHEMIN DES RONCETTES by Sophie Roger

First Film Award: FANTAISIE by Isabel Pagliai

Special mention of the First Film Competition Jury: LOS CRUCES by Julián Galay

Special mention of the First Film Competition Jury: SI NOUS HABITONS UN ÉCLAIR by Louise Chevillotte

Claudia Cardinale Foundation Award: FERNLICHT by Johanna Schorn Kalinsky

Cine+ Distribution support Award in partnership with GNCR: MORTE E VIDA MADALENA by Guto Parente

Flash Competition Award: گل‌های شب ِدریا by Maryam Tafakory

Special mention of the Flash Competition Jury: A PRELUDE by Wendelien van Oldenborgh

Special mention of the Flash Competition Jury: CONTROL ANATOMY by Mahmoud Alhaj

Special mention of the Flash Competition Jury: LENGUA MUERTA by José Jiménez

Alice Guy Award: ABORTION PARTY by Julia Mellen

Renaud Victor Award: BULAKNA by Leonor Noivo

Special mention of the Renaud Victor Jury: SI NOUS HABITONS UN ÉCLAIR by Louise Chevillotte

High School Award: NEXT LIFE by Tenzin Phuntsog

Special mention of the High School Jury: MIRACULOUS ACCIDENT by Assaf Gruber

The Second Chance School Award: NEXT LIFE by Tenzin Phuntsog

Special mention of the Second Chance School Jury: JACOB’S HOUSE by Lucas Kane

Audience Award: LA JUVENTUD ES UNA ISLA by Louise Ernandez

MARCELA, MARCELA

Salka Tiziana

90’

In the early 17th-century novel ‘Don Quixote’, MARCELA, a young woman who leads an independent life as a shepherd, defends herself after being blamed for the suicide of a man who fell in love with her. Four centuries later, a shepherd with the same name and age embarks on a journey on foot from rural Spain to the heart of its capital, claiming the right to self-sufficiency, in resistance to capitalist food production. Shifting from a playful gaze on historical fiction to a poetic docu-fictional lens, the film explores the links between two recurrent forms of female self-determination and questions the diachrony of autonomous modes of existence and independent forms of economic activity. Time travel, road movie and character study at once, MARCELA offers a healing perspective on a fragile world on the verge of disappearance, in which a young woman fearlessly embarks on a new path.

Director’s Statement

With Marcela I want to explore the inspiring departure of an individual to consciously choose a different way of life than the one dictated by the families and systems we were born into. Taking a close look at Marcela’s monologue of self-empowerment in Cervantes’ Don Quixote I will question the possibilities of this self-determination today. The literary figure becomes an emancipatory role model, embodied by a contemporary shepherd, who is allowed to be much more complex than the traditional figure of a defiant, rebellious and misunderstood outsider. My last film led to a close collaboration and friendship with a poet and shepherd, who later introduced me to Cervantes’ Marcela. Both women carry knowledge that, in times of factory farming, exploitative monoculture plantations and radical climate change, needs to be cultivated if we are not to lose self-determination in matters of nutrition and health. But other than Marcela, my friend’s desires were never limited to a life in the countryside, reaching to the bowels of the city, full of ambivalence and supposed contradictions. The transhumance connects these two realities and offers the context an dramatic axis, by transcending man-made boundaries and highlighting the urgency for taking care of the grounds we walk on.

Technical sheet

  • Production:
    FAUST (Hannah Schwarz, Tom Otte, Salka Tiziana : info@fffaust.com)
  • Budget:
    260 538 €
  • Acquired budget:
    10 000 €
  • Funds:
    Berlin Senate Stipend for Moving Image Artists
  • Shooting country:
    Spain