Chosen to inaugurate the film event, which will conclude next Sunday, Los Colonos, by Felipe Gálvez, won the Glauber Rocha Prize, awarded by the foreign press accredited to the festival and sponsored by Prensa Latina, while it won a special mention from the Pangea Award, from the Agrarian University of Havana.

Chilean filmography was also felt in the run-up to the Choral awards, the event’s highest award, with the work Malqueridas, by Tania Gilbert, which won the Caminos Award from the Martin Luther King Center and the Feisal (Federation of Schools and Image and Sound of Latin America).

But without a doubt, the biggest winner of collateral awards in this edition was the Cuban The Wild Woman, by Alán González, which received the Mégano Award, from the National Federation of Cinema Clubs of Cuba, the Cine Plaza Award, from the culture circle from the Union of Journalists of Cuba and the Súmate Award for a life without violence.

At the ceremony, held in the Taganana room of the Hotel Nacional, Eureka, by Argentine Lisandro Alonso (Cuban Association of the Film Press Award), and Extraño Camino, by Guto Parente (Brazil), were also winners.

This year the Cibervote, which is given by Internet users from the festival portal, went to several works, among which are Tótem, by Lila Avilés (Mexico, Denmark and France), The cutest and funniest animals in the world, by Renato Sircilli (Brazil), and Infinite Memory, by Maite Alberdi (Chile).

Below is the list of collateral awards of the 44th Havana Film Festival:

-Glauber Rocha Award: The Colonists, by Felipe Gálvez (Chile)

Special mention to the film A Night on the Rolling Stones, by Patricia Ramos (Cuba)

-Mégano Award from the National Federation of Cinema Clubs of Cuba: The Wild Woman, by Alán González (Cuba)

-Cine Plaza Award, from the Plaza de la Revolución cultural district: The Wild Woman, by Alán González (Cuba) -Cuban Association of the Cinematographic Press Award: Eureka, by Lisandro Alonso (Argentina)

-Culture Circle Award from the Union of Journalists of Cuba (UPEC): The Wild Woman, by Alán González (Cuba)

– Súmate Award for a life without violence: The Wild Woman, by Alán González (Cuba)

-Senobio Faget Documentary Award (Cubavisión Internacional): At the End of the Road by Ariadna Fajardo (Cuba)

-Paths Award from the Martin Luther King Center: Malqueridas, by Tania Gilbert (Chile)

-Feisal Award (Federation of Schools and Image and Sound of Latin America): Malqueridas, by Tania Gilbert (Chile)

-House of the Americas Award: Strange Path, by Guto Parente (Brazil)

-Pangea Prize from the Agrarian University of Havana: The oceans are the true continents, by Tommaso Santambrogio (Italy-Cuba)

Mentions to Levante, by Lila Halle (Brazil)

The Colonists, Felipe Gálvez (Chile)

-Roque Dalton Award (Radio Habana Cuba): More than love, frenzy, by Ernesto Segovia (Venezuela)

-Cybervote Award:

Totem, by Lila Avilés (Mexico, Denmark and France)

The cutest and funniest animals in the world, by Renato Sircilli (Brazil)

The Wild Woman, by Alán González (Cuba)

Infinite memory, by Maite Alberdi (Chile)

At the end of the road, by Ariadna Fajardo (Cuba)

Fernanda and the strange case of the message to Figueroa, by Mario Rivas (Cuba)

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