Jaione Camborda, first Spanish director to achieve the Concha de Oro in San Sebastián

'O corno', a Galician rural drama by Jaione Camborda set on the island of Arousa in the summer of 1971, has achieved maximum recognition at the 71st edition of the San Sebastián Film Festival, which celebrated its closing ceremony this Saturday .

Camborda, the fourth woman to win the Golden Shell consecutively, has highlighted the importance of “the leaders who paved the way” in cinema and has shared the award with “the filmmakers who are yet to come.”

Produced by Miramemira, Elastica Films, Bando à Parte and Bulletproof Cupid, the film focuses on the life of María (Janet Novás), a 'marisqueira' from the Ilha de Arousa in Franco's Spain in the early 1970s. At the same time, she works as a midwife helping women in the area bring the world to their children, although it also helps to terminate unwanted pregnancies. One day, she is forced to flee the country.

The second film by Guipuzcoan Jaione Camborda, who has been living in Galicia for years, has convinced the jury of the San Sebastián Festival chaired by Claire Denis.

He Special Jury Prize has been for Inverse, a drama about child abuse by Swedish screenwriter and director Isabella Eklöf, which also won the award for best cinematography, a work by Nadim Carlsen (The Last of Us, Hoy Spider, Border…)

The Silver Shell for the best address It has also been for two women, the Taiwanese Peng Tzu-Hui y Wang Ping-Wen for his debut film shot in analogue, A trip in spring.

Recognition for the best film in the section New Directors, has been for Bahadur the brave, of Diwa Shah. The rise of the human 3, for its part, by Eduardo Williams, has been the winner in the section Zabaltegi, while The Judgment has had a special mention.

Finally, the Audience Award went to the film The Snow Society, leaves. Bayonne,

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