Palmarès 2021
The TERRA GOLLUT film festival celebrated its closing session at the Diagonal Theater in Campdevànol, yesterday, Tuesday, October 12. Although the contest continues with itinerant sessions in venues and headquarters during the months of October and November, so far counting the Cinema with Values sessions that have brought committed, humanitarian cinema and photojournalism to vulnerable towns and groups a total of 1,750 in-person viewers and 9,000 online viewers through the Filmin.cat channel. Once the month of December ends, the contest will reach twenty-six localities.
TERRA GOLLUT Award for the best feature film
The jury values the high level of the selected documentaries and, especially, the commitment to reporting problems that affect invisible groups. That is why the jury has decided that the first prize was shared between There is still someone in the forest - by Teresa Turiera-Puigbò and Erol Lleri Llordella- and Non dago Mikel - by Amaia Merino and Miguel Ángel Llamas - to denounce the still invisible drama of the thousands of women who were victims of rape as a weapon of war in the Balkan conflict and all wars, and the murder without Mikel Zabalza's justice and the impact of non-reparation on the following generations.
Special mention of the feature film jury
The mention goes to Descendents - by Judit Aranda Moreno and Carlos Collazos Rodríguez - for making visible the discrimination and racial and gender violence suffered by thousands of Catalans because of their origin and a non-normative aspect.
TERRA GOLLUT Award for the best short film
In the Iranian film The whimper and the existence by Hossein Allahyari, because it is like a symphony of the reconstruction of a town after an earthquake.
Special mention of the short film jury
In the Spanish production film El botón by Adolfo Peña, because portrays a disobedient doctor out of respect for human rights, a vindictive and mysterious doctor who pulls her out of her depressive isolation: a quantum crossover full of poetry.
TERRA GOLLUT Award from Concordia Hospital de Campdevànol
In the film produced between the Dominican Republic and Catalonia, 15 Horas by Judith Collell, because the film shows with extreme realism the daily life and suffering of one more person from the village, with the obstacles they have to face every day face in all areas of life, it is necessary to highlight the crudeness with which the film exposes reality.
TERRA GOLLUT award for young people
In the film Adolfo Peña's button, because it has brought us to a point of connection with the protagonist, which transmits faith to us. Values such as faith are a fundamental thing in our lives, without it there would be no progress, dreaming, having goals and hope... And this has made us remember the faith that all those people who have helped us have had throughout our lives and of course how they have believed in us for coming this far and being able to share this day with everyone.