Paris Latin American Film Festival Winners

A Chilean and a Brazilian Film Winners at the Paris Latin American Film Festival
Paris, April 6 (EFE) – The Chilean film "When the Clouds Hide the Shadow," by José Luis Torres Leiva, and the Brazilian film "Greice," by Leonardo Mouramateus, jointly won the top prize at the third edition of the Paris Latin American Film Festival (CLaP), the organizers announced Sunday.

The CLaP jury also awarded a special mention to the film "Bad Reputation," by Marta García and Sol Infante, for its theme of defending the rights of sex workers in Uruguay.

"When the Clouds Hide the Shadow" was praised for its "delicate nuances" in a film that speaks to the relationship the protagonist, María, develops with the inhabitants of the Chilean island of Navarino, the southernmost point in the world.

'Greice,' meanwhile, received the jury's honors for being "a fiery tale of globalized youth" about a protagonist named Greice, who travels across the ocean, from Brazil to Portugal.

Espace Saint-Michel, a legendary venue in the heart of Paris founded in 1911, hosted this year's 21 films from nine different countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, Panama, Paraguay, and Uruguay).

The festival, whose goal is "to build a solid bridge between arthouse creation in Latin America and the world capital of cinema, Paris," according to its director Carlos Tello, evaluated a total of 382 films during this year's edition, three times more than last year.

In France, the CLaP follows the tradition of events like the Cinélatino in Toulouse, which has a similar mission, but until its creation in 2023, Paris only had festivals dedicated to specific Latin American cinemas, such as Peruvian or Colombian. EFE
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