Overview
- Valladolid’s festival announced the palmarés on Saturday with the top prize going ex aequo to Magallanes and Mastermind.
- Silent Friend took the Silver Spike, Best Direction went to Argentina’s La noche está marchándose ya, and Best Screenplay honored Subsuelo by Fernando Franco and Begoña Arostegui.
- Eva Víctor won Best Actress for Sorry, Baby and Harry Melling won Best Actor for Pillion.
- French filmmaker Mia Hansen-Løve received an Honorary Spike and used her speech to describe a three‑year struggle to finance an ambitious period epic with a female lead.
- A significant police presence discouraged threatened pro‑Palestine protests over Nadav Lapid’s Yes at Cines Broadway.