Celebrating Success: The 15th Annual Toledo Film and Word Festival Wraps Up

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Success for one more year, and it is already 15, of the Toledo Film and Word Festival, the Cibra, which this Sunday celebrated its final gala with the presence of numerous faces from cinema, sports and literature of our country on the carpet red installed in the ‘El Greco’ Congress Palace. Among this year’s winners, Fernando Tejero, Carolina Yuste, Víctor Manuel, Javier Cercas or the journalist Paloma del Río, ‘Alice Guy’ award along with Emma Suárez and Lola Herrera.

Over the course of two weeks, Cibra has screened 19 films, 9 of them previews. A festival that this year has opened new spaces and has had more than 30 activities, such as the MiniCibra, which more than 9,000 students have attended. The Minister of Education, Culture and Sports, Amador Pastor, took advantage of the event to announce the publication this Monday of the subsidies to cultural accelerators in Castilla-La Mancha, financed with 750,000 euros of Next Generation funds.

The mayor of Toledo, Carlos Velázquez, has committed the City Council’s support to the festival, which will also be a key piece in Toledo’s candidacy for European capital of culture. The Cibra, he said, has established itself “as one of the most important film festivals in all of Spain.” An appointment that the mayor has highlighted for the use of various heritage sites in the city and for the important space that he reserves for literature.

One of the moments of the final gala of the Cibra / Toledo City Council

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This year’s gala was attended by Fernando Tejero, honorary ‘Toledo de Cine’ award, Carolina Yuste, ‘Orden de Toledo’ award and Javier Cercas, ‘El viento de la luna’ literary award. Arantxa Echevarría has collected the ‘Carlos Blanco’ award for her film ‘Chinas’ and Susi Sánchez, the ‘Cinema and Education’ award. The awards for best actress and best actor went to Malena Alterio and Hovik Keuchkearian. The award for best film went to ‘Teresa’, by Paula Ortiz.

At the ceremony, the ‘Alice Guy’ awards were also presented to the journalist Paloma del Río and the actress Enma Suárez, an award that Lola Herrera has also received. The ‘Toledo de Cine’ award went to the director and cast of the film ‘Days of Football’, while the special audience award went to ‘The Master Who Promised the Sea’. The list of winners closes with Víctor Manuel, recognized with the ‘Adaptation to a Life’ award for his song ‘I only think of you’.

2023-11-13 07:27:30
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