Lola Amores, Cuban actress, wins three awards with "La mujer salvaje" at Ceará Film Festival

December 4, 2023

The lead actress, Cuban Lola Amores, celebrated on her social networks the film's triumph in the categories Best Film, Best Lead Performance, and Best Sound.

The Cuban film La mujer salvaje, by debut director Alan González, which premiered last September at the Toronto International Film Festival, won three awards at the 33rd edition of the Ceará Film Festival, which took place in Brazil between November 25 and December 1.

The lead actress, Cuban Lola Amores, celebrated on her social networks the film's triumph in the categories Best Film, Best Lead Performance, and Best Sound.

This is the film that also won the second call of the Cuban Film Promotion Fund (FFCC), produced by Cacha Films, a company founded and led by Claudia Calviño.

The film is entirely Cuban-made, co-written by its director and Nuri Duarte. It tells the story of a mother struggling for her son's love. Starring Amores, it marks the debut of child actor Jean Marcos Fraga. Also participating are Isora Morales, Grisell Monzón, Yaité Ruiz, Leandro Sen, Afrodreak, Yailín Coppola, and Jorge Perrugorría.

The feature film is González's directorial debut (1987), a graduate of the University of the Arts with a degree in Audiovisual Communication and with a specialty in screenwriting from the International School of Film and Television of San Antonio de los Baños.

Last August, when the film's participation in the Toronto International Film Festival was announced, the director stated that he was curious to see the possible reactions of the audience to the story of Yolanda and to the experience of letting themselves be carried away by it.

"I would like La mujer salvaje to tell the audience things it sees all the time, even if sometimes it doesn't know or doesn't want to listen," he added at that time.

According to Latam Cinema, the Ceará Film Festival included the Cuban feature among six that were seen for the first time in Brazil. In addition to La mujer salvaje, the following were screened: Sou amor, by André Amparo and Cris Azzi; El castigo, by Chilean Matías Bize; the Peruvian-French feature Cielo abierto, by Felipe Esparza; the Argentine-Spanish Alemania, by María Zanetti, and the co-production between Spain, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands Ahora la luz cae vertical, by Efthymia Zymvragaki.

The outlet adds that this selection was made from more than 300 films that applied. Cited by Latam Cinema, the curatorial team highlights that the six selected works "reflect the sum of feelings, concerns, and aspirations of each of the directors who will present their works to a demanding audience."