Mar del Plata International Film Festival

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The Mar del Plata International Film Festival (Spanish: Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata) is a prestigious international film festival that takes place every year, during the month of March in the city of Mar del Plata, Argentina. It is a 'Category A' festival as recognized by the FIAPF.

History

Created in 1954, it was not considered to be a competitive festival, it was more of a display of selected international movies; during this stage the event was named Festival Cinematográfico Internacional (International Cinematographic Festival).

During the early years, famous international guests concurred to the event, such as Gina Lollobrigida and Errol Flynn.

The festival continued until 1959 when the Asociación de Cronistas Cinmetograficos took charge of running it, and during this time the festival was approved and recognized by FIAPF.

In 1964 the festival took a temporary move to Buenos Aires and the name was changed to Festival Cinematográfico Internacional de la República Argentina (International Cinematographic Festival of the Argentine Republic). In the year 1966 a coup occurred in Argentina, and in the years 1968 and 1970 the Instituto de Cine took charge of the festival.

During 1967 - 1969 the festival was cancelled because other festivals occurred in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

During the 1960s several well-known guests appeared, including: Paul Newman, Alberto Sordi, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Vittorio Gassman, Toshiro Mifune, François Truffaut, Karel Reisz, Catherine Deneuve, Juan Antonio Bardem, Anthony Perkins, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Maria Callas, Cantinflas, Andrzej Wajda, Jacques Tati, Lee Strasberg, George Hamilton, and others.

After 1970 the festival was cancelled, yet there were some attempts to reactivate it, but this did not happened until 1996 when the festival returned after 25 years with new renovations.

Since then there's been several changes. In the first years the event was not conducted during the month of March, but in 2001 it returned to its traditional date. Also during this new stage, the festival was granted a 'Category A,' the highest class assigned by FIAPF.

Awards

Originally the awards were called Ombú, until 2004, when the name was changed to Ástor in honour to Ástor Piazzolla.

Currently, awards are given to: Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Actor, Best Script, Best Iberoamerican Film and the judge's special award.

List of winners

Year	Winners
2007	Best Film: Ficció, by Cesc Gay (Spain) Jury’s Special Award: Gardens in Autumn, by Otar Iosseliani (France-Italy-Russia) Best Director: ex aequo to Marina Spada, for As the Shadow (Italy) and Hong Sang-soo for Woman on the Beach (South Korea) Best Actress: Sandra Hüller, for Madonnas (Germany-Switzerland-Belgium) Best Actor: Carlos Resta, for A Wrecked Filmmaker (Argentina) Best Script: Zaza Rusadze and Dito Tsintsadze, for The Man from the Embassy (Germany) Special Mention: The Greatest Love in the World, by Carlos Diegues (Brazil)
2006	Best Film: Noticias lejanas, by Ricardo Benet (Mexico) Best Director: Marco Martins, for Alice (Portugal) Best Actress: Justine Clark, for Look Both Ways (Australia) Best Actor: William Macy, for Edmond (United States) Best Script: Sarah Watt, for Look Both Ways (Australia) Best Iberoamerican Film: Cinema, Aspirinas e Urubus, by Marcelo Gómez (Brazil) and Derecho de familia, by Daniel Burman (Argentina) Special Mention: Be with Me, by Eric Khoo (Singapore) Special Mention: Café Transit, by Kambozia Partovi (France/Iran)
2005	Best Film: Le grand voyage, by Ismaël Ferroukhi (France/Morocco) Best Director: Yasmine Kassari, for L'Enfant Endormi (Morocco/Belgium) Best Actress: Emmanuelle Devos, for La Femme de Gilles (Belgium) and Laura Linney, for P.S. (United States) Best Actor: Mohamed Majd, for Le grand voyage (France/Morocco) Best Script: Bernd Eichinger, for Der Untergang, by Oliver Hirschbiegel (Germany/Italy) Best Iberoamerican Film: Quase Dois Irmaos, by Lucía Murat (Brazil) Special Judge's Award: Jab-e Talj, by Mohsen Amiryoussefi (Iran)
2004	Best Film: Buena Vida Delivery, by Leonardo Di Cesare (Argentina) Best Director: Benedek Fliegauf, for Dealer (Hungary) Best Actress: Nicoletta Braschi, for Mi piace lavorare (Italy) Best Actor: Luis Tosar, for El lápiz del carpintero (Spain) and Alejandro Urdapilleta, for Adiós querida luna (Argentina) Best Script: Leonardo Di Cesare and Hans Garrino, for Buena Vida Delivery (Argentina) Best Iberoamerican Film: O outro lado da rúa, by Marcos Bernstein (Brazil) Special Judge's Award: Mi piace lavorare, by Francesca Comencini (Italy) Special Mention: Dealer, by Benedek Fliegauf (Hungary) Special Mention: Touching the Void, by Kevin Macdonald (Great Britain)
2003	Best Film: Separaçoes, by Domingos de Oliveira (Brazil) Best Director: Antonio Chavarrías, for Volverás (Spain) Best Actress: Zooey Deschanel, for All the Real Girls (United States) Best Actor: Domingos de Oliveira, for Separaçoes (Brazil) Best Script: David Ofek/Yossi Madmon/Lior Shefer, for Hamangalistim (Israel) Best Iberoamerican Film: El Fondo del Mar, by Damián Szifron (Argentina) Special Judge's Award: Valentín, by Alejandro Agresti (Argentina) Special Mention: At kende sandheden, by Nils Malmros (Denmark) Special Mention: Tristán Ulloa, for his work in Volverás (Spain)
2002	Best Film: Bolívar soy yo, by Jorge Alí Triana (Colombia) Best Director: István Szabó, for Taking Sides (Germany/Hungary) Best Actress: Kirsten Dunst, for The Cat's Meow (United States) Best Actor: Stellan Skarsgård for Taking Sides and Libero de Rienzo, for Santa Maradona (Italy) Best Script: Caryl Phillips, for The Mystic Masseur (United Kingdom/India) Best Iberoamerican Film: Bolívar soy yo, by Jorge Alí Triana (Colombia) Special Judge's Award: Caja Negra, by Luis Ortega (Argentina) Special Mention: Annas Sommer, by Jeanine Meerapfel (Germany) Special Mention: Revolution nº 9, by Tim McCann (United States)
2001	Best Film: Ta Ja, Zlodziej, by Jacek Bromski (Poland) Best Director: Jean-Pierre Denis, for Les Blessures Assassines (France) Best Actress: Julie-Marie Parmentier, for Les Blessures Assassines (France) Best Actor: Ulises Dumont and Federico Luppi, for Rosarigasinos (Argentina) Best Script: Ta Ja, Zlodziej, by Jacek Bromski (Poland) Best Iberoamerican Film: Anita no pierde el tren, by Ventura Pons (Spain) Special Judge's Award: Shahr-E Zanan, by Ataollah Hayati Special Mention: for the work of Rosa María Sardá, for Anita no pierde el tren (Spain)
1999	Best Film: As bodas de Deus, by Joao Cesar Monteiro (Portugal) Best Director: Giuseppe Bertolucci, for Il dolce rumore della vita (Italy) Best Actress: Reddy Gibbs, for Crossing Fields (United States) Best Actor: Matthew Lillard, for SLC Punk (United States) Best Script: Pablo Nisenson and José Pablo Feinmann, for Angel, la diva y yo (Argentina) Best Iberoamerican Film: Ángel, la diva y yo (Argentina) Special Judge's Award: Sokkotansi, by Matti Ijas (Finland) Special Mention: El mar de Lucas, by Víctor Laplace (Argentina)
1998	Best Film: Abr-O Aftaab, by Mahmoud Kabari (Iran) Best Director: Paolo y Vittorio Taviani, for Tu Ridi (Italy) Best Actress: Yelda Reynaud for Yara (Germany/Turkey) Best Actor: Regis Royer for Lautrec (France) / Paschalis Tsarouchas for Vassiliki (Greece) Best Script: Pablo Torre, for La Cara del Ángel (Argentina) Best Iberoamerican Film: Amor y Cia. by Helvecio Ratton (Brazil) Special Judge's Award: Inquietude de Manoel de Oliveira (Portugal) Special Mention: Mala Época by Mariano De Rosa, Rodrigo Moreno, Salvador Roselli and Nicolás Saad (Argentina) Special Mention: La Primera Noche de mi Vida by Miguel Albaladejo (Spain)
1997	Best Film: The Tango Lesson, by Sally Potter (United Kingdom) Best Director: Ricardo Franco, for La Buena Estrella (Spain) Best Actress: Geno Lechner, for Gesches Gift (Germany) Best Actor: Antonio Resines / Jordi Molla for La Buena Estrella (Spain) Best Script: Thom Fitzgerald, for The Hanging Garden (Canada) Best Iberoamerican Film: Plaza de Almas, by Fernando Diaz (Argentina) Premio Special Judge's Award: Mrs. Brown, by John Madden (United Kingdom) Special Mention: Star Maps, by Miguel Arteta (United States)
1996	Best Film: El Perro del Hortelano, by Pilar Miró (Spain) Best Director: Zhang Yuan, for East Palace, West Palace (China) Best Actress: Renée Zellweger for The Whole Wide World (United States) Best Actor: Silvio Orlando, for La Mia Generazione (Italy) Best Script: Zhang Yuan and Wang Xiaobo for East Palace, West Palace (China) Best Iberoamerican Film: Buenos Aires Vice Versa, by Alejandro Agresti (Argentina) Special Judge's Award: Kriegelbilder by Heiner Stadler (Germany) Special Mention: Zhang Jian, for the photography of East Palace, West Palace (China) Special Mention: Pierre Louis Thevenet, for the Arts Direccion of Tranvía a la Malvarrosa
1970	Best Film: Macunaíma, by Joaquim Pedro de Andrade (Brazil) Best Director: Frank Perry, for The Last Summer (United States) Best Actor: Ugo Tognazzi, for Il Commissario Pepe (Italy) Best Actress: Liza Minnelli, for The Sterile Cuckoo (United States) Best Spanish Film: Juan Lamaglia y Sra., by Raúl de la Torre (Argentina)
1968	Best Film: Bonnie and Clyde, by Arthur Penn (United States) Best Director: Gyorgy Révész, for Egy Szerelem Három Éjszakája (Hungary) Best Actor: Tony Musante, for The Incident (United States) Best Actress: Annie Girardot, for Vivre pour vivre (France)
1966	Best Film: ¡At' Zije Republika!, by Karel Kachyňa (Czechoslovakia) Best Director: Antonio Pietrangeli, for Io la conoscevo bene (Italy) Best Actor: Yevgueni Lebdenev, for Posledniy Mesyats Osenj (Soviet Union) Best Actress: Mireille Darc, for Galia (France)
1965	Best Film: Gli Indifferenti, by Francesco Maselli (Italy) Best Director: Claude Lelouch, for Une Fille et des fusils (France) Best Actor: Martin Held, for Die Festung (Germany) Best Actress: Nuria Torray, for Diálogos de la Paz (Spain)
1964	Best Film: I compagni, by Mario Monicelli (Italy) Best Director: Karel Kachyňa, for Nadeje (Czechoslovakia) Best Actor: Vittorio Gassman / Ugo Tognazzi, for I Mostri (Italy) Best Actress: Natalie Wood, for Love with the Proper Stranger (United States) Best Spanish Film: El Demonio en la Sangre, by René Múgica (Argentina)
1963	Best Film: Az Angyalok Földje, by Gyorgy Révész (Hungary) Best Director: Dino Risi, for Il Sorpasso (Italy) Best Actor: Tom Courtenay, for The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (United Kingdom) Best Actress: Wanda Luczycka, for Gloz z Tamtego Swiata (Poland)
1962	Best Film: I Giorni Contati, by Elio Petri (Italy) Best Director: François Truffaut, for Jules et Jim (France) Best Actor: Paul Newman, for The Hustler (United States) Best Actress: Nadezha Rumiántseva, for Devchata (Soviet Union)
1961	Best Film: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, by Karel Reisz (United Kingdom) Best Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot, for La Verité (France) Best Actor: Albert Finney, for Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (United Kingdom) Best Actress: Susan Strasberg, for Kapò (Italy) Best Spanish Film: Shunko, by Lautaro Murua (Argentina)
1960	Best Film: Die Brücke, by Bernhard Wicki (Germany) Best Director: Pietro Germi, for Un maledetto imbroglio (Italy) Best Actor: Paul Muni, for The Last Angry Man (United States) Best Actress: Eleonora Rossi Drago, for Estate Violenta (Italy)
1959	Best Film: Smultronstället, by Ingmar Bergman (Sweden) Best Director: Rolf Thiele, for Das Madchen Rosemarie (Germany) Best Actor: Victor Sjostrom, for Smultronstället (Sweden) Best Actress: Susan Hayward, for I Want to Live! (United States) Best Spanish Film: El Jefe, by Fernando Ayala (Argentina)
1954	No awards given out

External links

• Official Website.
• Cartelera de cine www.cinecartelera.com.ar