Spanish Film Took Major Prize at Low-Budget Movie Festival

HAVANA, Cuba, April 20 (acn) The Spanish film “Querida Bamako” by Omer Oke and Txari Llorente got the Grand Prize to the Best Full-Footage Film granted by the Humberto Solas Low-Budget Cinema Festival, held in the eastern Cuban city of Gibara.

During the closing ceremony of the 7th Festival the jury awarded the Spanish film the outstanding prize for its good narration, which combines fiction and documentary techniques to reveal the crude reality of migration.

Cuban actress Eslinda Nuñes, Spanish Margarita Magueregui and Colombian actor Lisandro Duque were the juries of the highly acclaimed prize of the event.

The film tells the story of a young man in Burkina Faso, who lives with his wife in the countryside and he decides to migrate to Europe, forced by the need to help his family.

The jury gave its special prize to the best short footage fiction film to the move “Viaje a Bangkok” (Trip to Bangkok) by Dionisio Perez, while the distinction Poverty Zero was given to “Domingo”, by Cuban Enrique Alvarez.

The Seventh International Law-Budget Film Festival wound up on Sunday in Gibara, and for the first time it was held without the presence of its creator, departed Cuban film maker Humberto Solas (1941-2008).

(Un filme español se llevó el mayor premio del Cine Pobre)