“Under the Sky”, by Chilean Diego Acosta, won the Play-Doc 2023 award.

under the cover of heavenChilean director Diego Acostawon the international competition part of the 19th edition of the Tui International Film Festival, play while.

International jury, composed of a Portuguese director Rita Azevedo Gomesa filmmaker Shivendra Singh Dungarpur and Hayet Benkaraan expert in the industry and international co-production markets, decided to award the prize to Diego Acosta’s film because it is a film “constructed in the dark space that exists between life and representation, for images of deep black through which the light of the primordial fire with which man passes through the ages of life breaks through.

The members of the jury decided to give special praise Mourir à Ibiza (film en trois étes), French directors Anton Balekdjian, Léo Couture and Mattéo Eustachon for the portrait “at the same time tender and sad, like the melodies that run through it, like the end of summer of a group of young people, friends who are wandering, both in life and in feelings, as well as in the shooting of this first film, which nevertheless dares to take risks with a unique cinematic proposals. Mourir à Ibiza is a film made hand in hand, with a promising future.”

The official list of Play-Doc awards is completed with an award from the Galician competition section. The jury is made up of French artists and filmmakers Josephine Derobefilm critic and developer Filmoteca de Galicia, Jaime Pena and by the manufacturer Andrea Queralt, decided to reward devotions, from Angel Montero and Maria Serna “To explore the limits of the sensory on both a plastic and sonic level and to present healing rituals in a corporeal and subtle way.”

In the Galician competition, the jury also wanted to give special praise to the film balance sheets, from Raul Capdevila “For an honest and sincere portrait of the family and the intergenerational reality of the Aragonese rural world”.