Last night, film director Carla Simón received the Venus of Honor at the 49th edition of the Filmets Badalona Film Festival, during the inaugural session of the short film festival.
In front of a packed Zorrilla Theater, Simón received the award from Francisco Vargas, director of the Audiovisual Area of the Catalan Institute of Cultural Enterprises of the Generalitat (ICEC) and expressed his gratitude for an award that links him even more to that city, in which He lived until he was six years old and where part of his family resides.
Simón, who this year received the National Cinematography Prize awarded by the Ministry of Culture and who last year was awarded the Golden Bear at the Berlin Festival for Alcarràs, highlighted that "despite the awards I think that everything has just start for me, and that in this crazy world in which we have had to live, short films are a refuge.
Carla Simón's relationship with Filmets dates back to 2015, when she was not yet a well-known director and won the Venus for Best Short for The Little Things.
In 2019 he presented the short film After too and in 2020 the festival raised the curtain with Correspondència, a film co-directed with Dominga Sotomayor in which Simón's direct relatives who live in Badalona appeared.
Last night, the film that opened the opening session was An Irish Goodbye, Oscar 2023 for best short film and British BAFTA award for best short fiction.
It was the first of the 205 short films that the festival will screen until the 29th, of which 184 will enter the competition.
The festival has a total of 21 official competitive sessions spread across three official venues: the historic headquarters of the festival, the Zorrilla Theater in Badalona (18 sessions, including the Inaugural Session), the French Institute of Barcelona (two sessions) and the Can Castellet cinemas in Sant Boi de Llobregat (one session).
