Barcelona-born actor Eduard Fernández acquired the 2025 Nationwide Cinematography Award Sept. 20 from the Minister of Tradition, Ernest Urtasun, on the 73rd San Sebastián Movie Pageant. The prize, granted by the Tradition Ministry’s Institute of Cinematography and Audiovisual Arts (ICAA), carries a money award of €30,000 ($35,100).
The award ceremony was attended by numerous cultural figures and institutional representatives, together with El Deseo producer Esther García who had acquired the Donostia Profession Achievement award on the pageant’s opening ceremony the night time earlier than.
After briefly reflecting on his early days in cinema, a visibly moved Fernández ended his speech by whipping out a keffiyeh scarf to wrap round his shoulders, saying: “The atrocity that’s occurring in Palestine, the savagery of arguing over a phrase– genocide or not – is irrelevant, despite the fact that it’s legally necessary. Permitting kids to starve to dying is barbaric, whatever the time period you utilize,” he acknowledged, studying out the names of youngsters below the age of two who had died on account of the struggle.
He repeated a cry that started on the San Sebastian’s opening night time the place protesters bearing Palestinian flags disrupted the pink carpet proceedings exterior the pageant venue, the Kursaal, and the place Pedro Almodóvar, after handing the award to García on the ceremony, additionally known as for an finish to the struggle. “Cease it now!” García exclaimed in her acceptance speech.
“They wish to kill all of them in probably the most merciless and brutal method,” Fernández continued, including that “those that should not moved by the atrocities we see each day on tv have a deep drawback with their humanity.”
“Gaza is a mirror wherein all of us seem, whether or not we prefer it or not,” he declared.
The jury of the 2025 Nationwide Cinematography Award unanimously chosen Fernández “for being probably the most excellent actors in our cinema and for having had an distinctive 2024 with two outstanding performances in two utterly totally different movies: the noble man who fights for the frequent good in ‘The 47’ (‘El 47’), and the function for which he received the Goya for greatest actor for, ‘Marco,’ the place he transforms into the complicated and contradictory determine of Enric Marco.”
He had additionally made his directorial debut together with his quick movie “El otro,” they famous.
The coveted award acknowledges probably the most excellent contributions to Spanish cinema. The award, which is normally introduced by the Minister of Tradition in the course of the pageant, acknowledged “Alcarràs” producer María Zamora in its earlier version, becoming a member of an inventory of luminaries in Spanish cinema, together with Penélope Cruz, José Sacristán, Isabel Coixet, Antonio Banderas, Fernando Trueba, Carla Simón and plenty of others.
Eduard Fernández (l) and Spain’s Minister of Tradition Ernest Urtasun, Courtesy of the Ministry of Tradition
