Culture · Film Festivals
Key Facts
—Historic win: Argentine director Federico Luis won the Palme d’Or for Best Short Film at the 79th Festival de Cannes closing ceremony on Saturday May 23, the first Argentine cinema figure to receive a Palme d’Or in the festival’s 79-year history.
—The film: Para los contrincantes (For the Opponents) is a 15-minute fiction-documentary hybrid filmed on 16mm in Tepito, the Mexico City neighbourhood, following 10-year-old amateur boxer Damián López through a real youth tournament fight.
—Production structure: The short is a four-country coproduction between Mexico, Chile, France and Argentina, with Mexican producers Elena Fortes and Fernanda de la Peza anchoring the Mexico City shoot and Argentine financing completing the package.
