As bestas is already the film of the year. His director, Rodrigo Sorogoyen, has received the Goya Award for Best Director for this rural film in which a French man settles with his wife in a Galician village and has to face his neighbors, the dangerous Anta brothers.
The director took advantage of his speech upon receiving the Goya for Best Director to congratulate his opponents for the "great films that have been made in Spain". "This 2022 we have made great movies, we have to continue like this so that the public returns to theaters," said the director, who already had another Goya as director for El reino (2019).
In addition, Sorogoyen has thanked his Goya to "the people of Bierzo" where he filmed As bestas, and "to the non-professional actors who worked on the film". And he has related that "the wild horses that appear in the film have lived for years in freedom. The people of Sabucedo have taught us to live with nature and now they are planning a wind farm there that can put an end to all that. Wind energy yes, But not this way".
