D’A reaches its final weekend and, as every year, it’s time to take stock. It has been ten intense days of independent cinema, discoveries, and full theatres, and this Saturday, March 28, the festival bids farewell with its closing gala, where the awards will be presented before the screening of La buena hija, by Júlia de Paz. And yes, we already have the winners.
The Talents D’A 2026 Award has gone to Kingdom, by Michał Ciechomski. A proposal as hypnotic as it is unsettling, which delves without concessions into the dynamics of nationalism, violence, and the construction of contemporary imaginaries. The jury, composed of Pepa Blanes, Eduard Sola and Pol Guasch, highlighted the fruitful dialogue it establishes between war, masculinity, and sexuality, approached through exhaustive analysis and a genuine perspective that does not merely recover existing images but redefines them through innovative and impactful creation, without concessions to the viewer or to uncritical perspectives. The Talents x ESCAC award is endowed with €15,000.
Meanwhile, El vol de la cigonya, by Soumaya Hidalgo Djahdou and Berta Vicente Salas, has won over the Un Impulso Colectivo x DAMA jury with a film that moves between the intimate and the identity-based, exploring with honesty (and also humor) the feeling of living between two worlds. The jury, made up of Andrea Stavenhagen, Annamaria Scaramella and Laura Fernández, praised this first-person portrait, a round-trip journey toward a part of oneself that is not fully recognized, yet impossible not to love. The Un Impulso Colectivo x DAMA award is endowed with €5,000.
In the same section, Anoche conquisté Tebas, by Gabriel Azorín, receives a special mention: a delicate piece with suspended tempo that revisits male friendship from an unusual perspective.
Mauricio Freyre and his film Estados generales have received double recognition: the Talents Verd Award and also the FIPRESCI International Critics’ Prize. A work that combines political perspective and cinematic sensitivity to revisit different forms of colonialism through an approach that is both didactic and suggestive. The international critics’ jury, composed of Dimitra Bouras, Javier Parra and Luis Vélez, awards the FIPRESCI Prize at the festival for the first time. The Talents Verd jury included the casting vote of Natàlia Ejarque.
In the short film category, Llenya, by Manel Raga, wins the Un Impulso Colectivo award: a work shaped by memory that functions almost as an intimate farewell gesture. The Un Impulso Colectivo – Short Films jury was composed of Cordelia Alegre, Emilio Hupe and Javier Pascual, and the award is endowed with €1,000.
The D’A Film Lab Barcelona has awarded Taranta, by Samuel Nacar, a project with clear growth potential: a vivid social portrait with characters that feel authentic and a perspective that connects the local with universal issues. The award is endowed with €20,000, which will go toward the post-production of the winning film. The jury was composed of Isona Admetlla (Torino Film Lab), Víctor Lamadrid (director of the Cantabria Film Commission and secretary general of the Spain Film Commission), and Conxa Orea (executive producer of fiction and film at 3Cat).
Finally, the Youth Jury has highlighted Barrio triste, by Stillz, a powerful and highly musical debut that takes us to the margins of Medellín with radical and thoroughly contemporary energy. The Youth Jury consisted of 15 people aged between 18 and 25 who watched a total of eleven films selected especially for them.
The festival audience demonstrates, as always, an exquisite taste! The Audience Award x Campari for Best Feature Film went to the Lebanese film Un mundo frágil y maravilloso, by Cyril Aris, which confirms the connection that his film creates with the viewer, because it had just won the same award at Giornati degli Autori at the Venice Film Festival and at Seminci. Congratulations! And the Audience Award for Best Short Film went to Dalia by Águeda Sfer, a very fine comedy starring Nao Albet and Irene Escolar.