According to  centercinemapress  , quoted by Variety, this year thirteen films were in the competitive section of the “San Sebastián” festival awards, but apparently there was no serious competition. In a different move, the film “Aghaz”, which is the first work of the Georgian writer and director Dia Kolombashvili, won four of the seven awards of the jury, including the best screenplay, the best director, the best actress for the star of the film, Aya Sukhitashvili, and the Golden Oyster Award for the best film. take over the year

This is an exemplary achievement for a different avant-garde film that has managed to surprise all critics in the autumn season of festivals. This movie won the Toronto Critics’ Choice Award last week

“Aghaz”, a joint production of France and Georgia, revolves around a religious group in a remote rural area in Georgia and portrays the growing psychological torment of the wife of the group’s leader, played by Sukhitashvili, after an extremist attack on their place of worship

This challenging film has caused critics to compare it with the works of Chantal Akerman and Michelle Haneke

“Aghaz” will be screened virtually at the New York Film Festival and eager international buyers are already waiting for it

Among the films competing for the rest of the San Sebastian awards, British director Julian Temple’s music documentary “Cattle of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane McGowan” won the Special Jury Prize, the festival’s second most important award

This film is a different story of the frontman of the Irish punk rock band The Pogues. Johnny Depp has a brief appearance in this film and is its producer

Dutch star Mads Mikkelsen was also able to win the best actor award for his role in Thomas Vinterberg’s “Another Round.

But this year San Sebastián was a place of victory for women filmmakers, because in addition to the victory of Columbgashvili with the film “The Beginning”, women won the main awards in the competitive sections of “New Directors”, “Latin Horizons” and “Zabaltagi-Tabacaleri”

The New Directors Award went to Isabelle Lamberti from Germany for “The Last Days of Spring”, the Latin Horizons Award went to Fernanda Valadez from Mexico for “Identify Indicators” and Catarina Vasconcelos from Portugal won the prize with her first film “The Metamorphosis of Birds”. In the Zabaltagi-Tabakaleri department

Finally, the audience’s choice awards also went to the selected films of the Sundance Festival, and Florian Zeller won the main prize in this section with the film “Father” starring Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman. Mattei Alberdi’s documentary entitled “Infiltration” also won the award for the best European film

The 68th San Sebastian International Film Festival was held from September 18 to 26 (September 28 to October 5)