Overview
- Seminci’s Espiga de Oro was awarded ex aequo to Lav Diaz’s Magallanes and Kelly Reichardt’s The Mastermind.
- Ildikó Enyedi’s Silent Friend took the Espiga de Plata, and Best Direction went to Ezequiel Salinas and Ramiro Sonzini for La noche está marchándose ya.
- Acting honors went to Eva Victor for Sorry, Baby and Harry Melling for Pillion, with Best Screenplay to Fernando Franco and Begoña Arostegui for Subsuelo and Best Cinematography to Christopher Blauvelt for The Mastermind.
- The jury praised Magallanes for a critical re-reading of colonial history and recognized The Mastermind for its intimate, genre-deconstructing approach.
- Five shorts selected in Valladolid advance as local nominees for the 2026 European Short Film–Prix Vimeo, part of a roughly 30-festival pipeline culminating in European Film Academy voting.