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Belén’ Wins Miami Film Festival Gems Audience Award

The awards-season entry recounts a 2014 miscarriage prosecution that became a touchstone in Argentina’s reproductive-rights fight.

Overview

  • Festival organizers said the Amazon MGM Studios drama topped audience voting at Miami Film Festival Gems, which ran Oct. 29–Nov. 5.
  • Actor-filmmaker Dolores Fonzi directs and plays attorney Soledad Deza, who takes on the controversial case at the story’s center.
  • The film dramatizes the ordeal of Julieta, dubbed Belén, who is portrayed as being charged after a miscarriage and restrained in a hospital.
  • Its international premiere took place at San Sebastián, where Camila Pláate earned the supporting performance prize.
  • Variety reports the film is Argentina’s submission for the Academy Award for Best International Feature and has global distribution via Amazon Prime Video.