Since Madrid’s major queer film festival awards a huge list of prizes, I’m going to cheat and do a copy-paste here.
AUDIENCE AWARDS
• Best Feature Film: “You Should Meet My Son!” by Keith Hartman.
• Best Documentary: “365 Without 377” by Adele Tulli.
• Best Short Film: “Muy Mujer” by Luis Escobar.
• Best Spanish Film: “Muy Mujer” by Luis Escobar.
JURY AWARDS
DOCUMENTARY
• Best Documentary Short: Ex aequo for “XY: Anatomy of a Boy” of Mette Carla Albrechtsen. and “Vera, Lara (and Visas)” of Xiana García Freire.
• Best Documentary Director: Rachid B for “Le Ciel en Bataille”.
• Best Documentary Feature: “Le Ciel en Bataille”.
FICTION
• Best Screenplay: Paula Milne for “The Night Watch”.
• Best Actor: Roberto Farias and Hector Morales “My Last Round”.
• Best Actress: Anna Maxwell Martin for “The Night Watch”.
• Best Director: Andrew Haigh for “Weekend”.
• Best Feature Film – Leopoldo Alas Prize: “Weekend” by Andrew Haigh.
• Best Short Film: “The Colonel’s Outing” by Christopher Banks, “for its excellent photography, exceptional performance, freshness and warmth of the subject”.
• Best Animated Short Film: “Yulia” of Antoine Arditti, to show that the world is not only of the strong but also of the weak ones.
• Best Video Art “Treviano e la luna” of Clark Nikolai, by his daring, acid criticism and humor.
SPANISH SECTION
• Best Spanish Director: Maria Popova for “Vides transexualls.”
• Best Spanish Documentary: “Vides transexualls” Maria Popova.
• Best Spanish Short Film: “Sígueme” by Alejandro Duran, for the quality of the script, the understanding for an entire society but be decided in respect of individual freedom.
• Best Spanish Film: “Vides transexualls” Maria Popova.