Overview

• Joachim Lafosse won the Silver Shell for Best Director for Six jours ce printemps-là.
• José Ramón Soroiz and Zhao Xiaohong shared the festival’s lead acting prize for Maspalomas and Jianyu Laide Mama.
• The triumph extends a three-year run of Spanish winners of the Golden Shell.
• Los Domingos follows a 17-year‑old weighing a religious vocation, exploring family tensions around faith and autonomy.
• Pro‑Palestinian activism was highly visible at the gala, with Palestinian flags, “Genozidioa Stop” buttons and a mass march after The Voice of Hind Rajab.