2024-02-11 03:03:28
– #MeToo at the heart of the annual Spanish cinema ceremony
Marked by the sexual scandal affecting Spanish cinema, the 38th Goya ceremony gave pride of place to the film “The Circle of Snows”.
Published today at 4:03 a.m.
Spanish director Juan Antonio Bayona, at the Goya ceremony, Saturday February 10, 2024 in Valladolid.
AFP
The Goya ceremony, the annual high mass of Spanish cinema, dedicated the film “The Circle of Snows” on Saturday, at a time when the sector is shaken by accusations of sexual violence once morest a figure of independent cinema.
Directed by Juan Antonio Bayona (“Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom”, “The Impossible”), the feature film, which received the prize for best film and best director, traces the odyssey of the young players of a team of Uruguayan amateur rugby player, whose plane crashed in the Andes mountain range in 1972 while traveling to Chile.
The ceremony, which also awarded the prize for best European film to the French film “Anatomy of a Fall” and an honorary award to the American actress Sigourney Weaver, was marked by the sex scandal affecting Spain.
#It’s over
“It is urgent that we all demand guarantees of equality, and this requires the condemnation of all abuses and sexual violence,” declared at the opening the actress and singer Ana Belén who presented this event, organized this year in Valladolid (northwest).
“Here too at the cinema, it’s over,” she proclaimed in a nod to the slogan #SeAcabo (“it’s over”) which marked support for footballer Jenni Hermoso following the forced kiss of the former boss of Spanish football, Luis Rubiales.
“Sexual violence and abuse of power have no place in the world of cinema and in Spanish society,” insisted the Spanish Cinema Academy, which put this subject at the center of the gala. Assuring the victims of her “solidarity”, she also promised to establish a “protocol” to prevent this violence.
“The commitment of all”
“We must be aware that we are talking regarding structural violence which requires the commitment of all,” underlined Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, on the red carpet of the ceremony.
On the eve of the gala, during which Pedro Almodovar and Penélope Cruz presented some of the prizes, the Minister of Culture Ernest Urtasun announced the creation of a unit specialized in the care of victims of sexist violence in the cultural sector.
This #MeToo of Spanish cinema broke out at the end of January with the publication of an investigation by the daily “El País” in which three women accused the filmmaker Carlos Vermut of sexual violence.
Wave of indignation
Figure of independent cinema, Carlos Vermut, whose real name is Carlos López del Rey, won the most prestigious prize at the San Sebastian festival in 2014, a major event for Spanish-speaking cinema, for his second feature film, “Magical Girl” (“La niña de fuego”), critically acclaimed.
The accusations once morest him caused a wave of indignation in Spain, a country at the forefront in the fight once morest gender violence. Vermut affirmed in “El País” that he was not “aware of having carried out sexual violence on a woman”, but admitted to having “strangled people but in a consensual manner”.
In the wake of this affair, another Spanish director, Armando Ravelo, was accused by an artist of having “incited” her to have sexual relations when she was only 14 years old.
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