“Argentina, 1985”, directed by Santiago Mitre, won this Saturday the Goya for best Ibero-American film in the 2023 edition of these film awards.
The film starring Ricardo Darín, Peter Lanzani, Alejandra Felchner and Norman Briski, is the nineteenth Argentine production to win in this category since the creation of the Spanish Film Academy Award.
The vote of the members of the Spanish Film Academy favored “Argentina, 1985” over its rivals in that category: Noche de fuego, by the Mexican of Salvadoran origin Tatiana Huezo; La jauría, by Colombian Andrés Ramírez Pulido; Utama, by Bolivian Alejandro Loayza Grisi, and 1976, by Chilean Manuela Martelli.
Thus, the multi-awarded film about the trial against General Videla and the rest of the heads of the last Argentine dictatorship (1976-1983) adds a new award to its record and continues its career towards the Oscars, where it is nominated for best foreign film.
On behalf of the team, the award was collected by its producers. “We saw how such an Argentine story, seen by different audiences, that go through such particular situations and are so different at the same time and so similar, because those same wounds bring us all together, the only way to fight against that is with justice,” said Santiago Carabante.
“I want to thank Leo Messi,” joked, for his part, Federico Posternak, who along with Agustina Llambí was part of the group that has taken the stage.
The film won a Golden Globe, considered the prelude to the Hollywood awards, and had its world premiere at the Venice International Film Festival, where it won the Fipresci International Critics Award for Best Film.
It also won the Audience Award at the seventieth edition of the San Sebastian International Film Festival.
It recounts the real case of the work of prosecutor Julio César Strassera and his team in the famous trial of the Military Juntas that had installed a regime of State terrorism with thousands of disappeared and tortured.
Since the creation of the Goya Awards, the Best Ibero-American Film category has historically been dominated by trans-Andean productions. Thus, of the 37 statuettes awarded between 1987 and 2023, 19 were for an Argentine film.
According to Página 12, in strict chronological order, the winning films are: La película del rey (1987), by Carlos Sorín; Un lugar en el mundo (1993), by Adolfo Aristarain; Gatica, el Mono (1994), by Leonardo Favio; Sol de otoño (1997), de Eduardo Mignogna; Ashes of Paradise (1998), by Marcelo Piñeyro; The Lighthouse (1999), also by Mignogna; Plata quemada (2001), also by Piñeyro; La fuga (2002), for the third time by Mignogna; Historias mínimas (2004), Sorín’s second Goya; Illuminated by Fire (2006), by Tristan Bauer; Las manos (2007), by Alejandro Doria; XXY (2008), by Lucía Puenzo; El secreto de sus ojos (2020), de Juan José Campanella; A Chinese Tale (2012), by Sebastián Borensztein; Wild Tales (2015), by Damián Szifrón; El clan (2016), by Pablo Trapero; The illustrious citizen (2017), by Gastón Duprat and Mariano Cohn; The Odyssey of the Giles (2020), second Goya for Sebastián Borensztein; and now Argentina, 1985, by Santiago Mitre.
It is worth mentioning that 8 of these 19 films were starred by Darín, of enormous great popularity in Spain.
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