Brazilian Film Festival of Gramado awards Uruguayan and Argentinean films

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The film “La teoría de los vidrios rotos”, directed by Uruguayan Diego Fernández Pujol, won the “Kikito” award in the category of a best foreign feature film at the Brazilian Festival of Gramado, which ended on Sunday.

In the festival’s international section, the film “Planta Permanente” by Argentine Ezequiel Radusky also received the “Kikitos” award given by a group of film critics and the special jury prize.

“La teoría de los vidrios rotos” tells the story of an insurance specialist who, in the interior of Uruguay, finds himself having to shed light on a series of attacks against automobiles, strange and alien to the tranquility of the small town of the place.

In the case of “Permanent Plant”, the plot revolves around two female employees of a public agency who earn their salaries from a clandestine restaurant, a story that director Radusky defined as a “contemporary Argentine tragedy”.

In the national cinema category, “Carro Rei” by Renata Pinheiro won the best film award and the “Kikito” award in the music, art direction, and sound categories.

According to Pinheiro, “Carro Rei” is “almost an X-ray of Brazil today”, with a story that deals with the impact of technology in a society bombarded by false news and “threatened by fascist movements”.

This forty-ninth edition of the Gramado Film Festival, the main cinematographic event in Brazil, was held virtually, like last year, due to the Covad pandemic.

Both the public and the jury watched the films on television and the Internet. There was only one face-to-face event when the awards were announced, which concluded early this morning with a few people in attendance.

The festival has been held since 1973 in the city of Gramado, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, and is the most important in the Brazilian film industry. However, in recent years it has lost ground in the international calendar.