H wins the CICAE and AC/E Award for best Spanish film direction at the 19th Festival de Sevilla • CICAE

The jury, formed by Joan Parsons (Queen's Film Theatre, Belfast, UK), Frédéric Cornet (Cinéma Galeries, Brussels, Belgium) and Dina Pokrajay (Dokukino KIC, Zagreb, Croatia) stated as following:

"We want to celebrate this film for the way it explores grief through multiple narratives, bringing us into cinematic trance through repetition and disorientation. The sense of losing individuality through a primal collective experience, a visceral piece of art."

In the 1969 running of the bulls in San Fermín, a bull killed a man with a goring to the heart. Only one initial to identify him, H., and a thousand questions about what happened in his last hours alive. In the San Fermin festival of today, Carlos Pardo Ros (also producer and co-founder of the collective lacasinegra) stages the drift of H.: millions of people who merge into a single desiring entity, a handful of ghosts who walk between the pleasure and death drive of the fiesta, of all those nights that we wish would never end. A film that is "an impossible cross between the nihilism of Gaspar Noé and the transcendentalism of Terrence Malick", according to critic Manu Yáñez.

Directed by: Carlos Pardo Ros

Written by: Pablo Gisbert & Carlos Pardo Ros

Cinematographer: Gabriel Azorín, Teo Guillem, Óscar Vincentelli & María Antón Cabot

Editing: María Antón Cabot

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The CICAE Arthouse Cinema Award was conceived as an impetus for a film to have a wider recognition as a work of art and to stand as a mark of quality for cinema-goers and cinephiles.