Actress Nathalie Poza regrets that “the world is quite lost”

This Friday, actress Nathalie Poza raised her ‘Almería, land of cinema’ award with which she was honored during the opening gala of the XXII Almería International Film Festival (Fical), which will be held until November 25, in recognition of his acting work in films such as ‘I don’t know how to say goodbye’ –for which he obtained his first Goya– and the series ‘Unit. Kabul’both filmed in Almería.

“We are living in very difficult times, the world is quite lost and I, I don’t know about you, I have a desperate hunger for culture, cinema, increasingly larger screens and with stories that, at least, make us feel more connected, more human and that we can dream of transforming something. So, please, go to the theaters,” said the interpreter when collecting her award.

The actress has recalled her beginnings with the director Manuel Martin Cuencawho, immersed in a trip, has sent her an emotional message through the networks: “You are a wonderful actress and Almería has a light now with you,” the filmmaker has conveyed to her in a video in which he has shown his admiration and has recognized her as “one of the best actresses in the history of this country.”

Nathalie Poza has pointed out that the director of ‘La flqueza del bolshevik’ gave her her first opportunity in cinema “when she was nobody”, which gave way to an intense career that brought her, years ago, to the Almeria festival to collect another award for the film ‘I don’t know how to say goodbye’ with “the maestro Juan Diego, who will molecularly be here,” he said.

The honoree has expressed the importance of “be very present in the here and now” to “be attentive to what is happening” and “to be aware” of what is happening. “It is dangerous for us to look back,” she added.

With this, the actress has valued Almería as an eminently cinematic land “because of its magic, because it invites you to dream”, which makes “everyone want to come here to film.” “I would come here to live,” she added before praising the sea, the light, the “silence” and the “mystery” of the Andalusian city where in a few days she will also present the film ‘Honeymoon’.

The also winner of the Goya for her role in ‘Rosa’s Wedding’ has lifted the audience from a packed Maestro Padilla Municipal Auditorium, to which actresses, filmmakers, producers and screenwriters such as Mabel Lozano, Rosario Pardo have arrived on its turquoise carpet. , Carmen Garrido, Eduardo Campoy, Ana Camacho or Lina Badenes.

Nathalie Poza, who discovered a star with her name on the Almería Walk of Fame during the day, has received the award that in this edition she shares with the actor Álvaro Morte from the president of the Provincial Council of Almería, Javier Aureliano García, the which has already highlighted Almería’s “close link” with cinema with this new edition.

Tribute to Antonio Saura

The inaugural event, hosted by presenter Elena Sánchez, has also served to pay a posthumous tribute to the filmmaker, photographer and writer Carlos Saura, who filmed in Almería the intense intimate drama ‘Stress es tres tres’, for which the Actress Geraldine Chaplin received the ‘Almería Award, land of cinema’.

One of his sons, Antonio Saura, has recalled the legacy that his father left after passing away at the age of 91, as well as his connection with Almería, where “he had the privilege of filming a lot” and finishing the drama within the quinqui cinema ‘Deprisa, deprisa ‘, with which he won the Golden Bear in Berlin.

“It was a personal investigation that he did about the suburban world and it is the only time he worked with natural actors,” he recalled when recalling that story in which a trip to the sea is made. “Almería was a symbol that, in some way, they were looking for a land of freedom,” she said before highlighting mythical spaces such as the Tabernas desert.

Tribute was also paid to Saura during this Friday afternoon with a round table in his honor in which Antonio Saura himself was present as well as Ana Torrent, Assumpta Serna and Ingrid Rubio, who also attended the gala. .

“It is a true luxury to come here, where so many ideas and so many visual spectacles have been generated by directors from all over the world and, in this case, it inspired my father to give freedom to the eyes of his protagonists,” he added. Antonio Saura.

Premiere of “Andrea’s Love”

The gala, which was also attended by the mayor of Almería, María del Mar Vázquez, and the Minister of Agriculture of the Junta de Andalucía, Carmen Crespo, and the delegate of the Junta in Almería, Aránzazu Martín, concluded with the preview of the latest film by Almeria filmmaker Manuel Martín Cuenca, ‘El amor de Andrea’, presented by actress Lupe Mateo.

The singer-songwriter Depedro has provided the soundtrack to a gala that begins an intense week of cinema, series and audiovisuals with more than one hundred activities and several competitive sections, including the national feature film competition ‘Opera Prima’, in in which 13 films participate, or the International Short Film Contest ‘Almería en Corto’, with 30 productions in competition selected from the more than 1,900 received by the organization.

However, during this edition it has been decided to give special prominence to television serieswith a competitive section in which around thirty of them compete in various categories, a tribute to the fiction ‘La que se cerca’ and honorary awards to the actors José Mota and William Levy at the closing.

The spotlight has also illuminated the out-of-competition productions that are shown this year at Fical: ‘Robot Dreams’, ‘Andrea’s Love’, ‘Christmas in Her Hands’ and the world premiere of ‘The Man with the Nose’ , which will be shown this Saturday at the Yelmo Cinemas in the Torrecárdenas Shopping Center with free admission starting at 5:00 p.m. The film’s producers have indicated that the film’s director, Abigail Schaaff, will attend the event.

Among other recognitions, during Fical week the Filming Almería Award for the best series filmed in the province will be given to ‘Entre tierras’, while the award from the Association of Audiovisual Festivals of Andalusia (Asfaan) will go to Nuria Vargas. The Canal Sur Award, for his part, will go to Juan Francisco Viruega for his first feature film ‘Amanece’, with which he is also competing in ‘First Film’.