Surda (deafSpanish drama Eva Libertad, about a deaf woman expecting a child with her hearing partner, has won the European Parliament’s LUX Audience Award, beating out Oscar-winner Joachim Trier. Emotional value And the winner of the Cannes Film Festival, directed by Jaafar Panahi It was just an accident.
Brendan Canty’s Irish drama was also nominated for a LUX Audience Award Christyand the French advantage I love giving Directed by Anna Cazeneuve Campet.
The LUX Prize, voted on by the European public and members of the European Parliament, was awarded on Tuesday night in Brussels.
“Director Eva Libertad gives us an unforgettable window into the life of a deaf woman navigating a world that was not built for her,” Sabine Verheyen, Vice President of the European Parliament, said in a statement. “Led by a stunning performance by deaf actress Myriam Jarlo, the film challenges us to listen differently and build a Europe where no one is left unheard.”
Libertad said she hopes the LUX Prize will help “focus the deaf community, the diversity of people in Europe, and promote inclusion policies that improve their living conditions.” She said she is confident that society is “changing its view of diversity,” considering it not a “problem” but a source of “human wealth.”
Irish producer Mike Downey, who served as honorary chair of the award’s selection committee, said there was a strong sense of “social and political responsibility” between the committee, the European Parliament and the European film industry to use great European cinema “as a means of spreading truths about democracy and the world we live in. Long live European cinema.”
It is the second big award for the audience SurdaWhich won the Audience Panorama Award for Best Feature Film at the Berlin Film Festival last year. Produced by Distinto Films, Nexus CreaFilms and A Contracorriente Films. Surda It is sold worldwide by Madrid-based Latido Films.
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