Madrid’s ECAM Forum wrapped its third edition Thursday, June 11, with María Aparicio’s “Undefined Things II” (“Las cosas indefinidas II”) taking the Last Push Award and Pauline Julier and Nicolas Chapoulier’s “The Indies” (“Les Indes”) scoring a special jury mention, closing a three-day event that again positioned the Spanish capital as a strategic meeting point for indie cinema in Europe and Latin America.
The prizes confirmed the forum’s role as a showcase for projects already carrying strong auteur and international credentials. Aparicio returns to the world of her award-winning “Undefined Things,” now following Eva through Madrid, the Reina Sofía Museum and a story that opens onto questions of labor, memory and displacement. “The Indies,” produced by Switzerland’s Alina Film with Spain’s Lastor Media, brought one of the more ambitious European co-production packages in Last Push: a 17th-century historical drama moving between France and Spain as an old order collapses and another struggles to emerge.
“Undefined Things II”
Films to Come spread its awards across projects with strong festival and industry potential. Víctor Diago’s queer fantasy-horror “The Unmoving Hands” (“Las manos quietas”) won the Filmin Award, Ángel Filguera’s “Handen” took the IFFR Rotterdam Award and Víctor Iriarte’s Spain-France sci-fi drama “Snow Country” received the Screen International Award. Enrique Buleo’s “Palomita Errante,” a tragicomedy about a character unable to find her place in a world full of prefabricated answers, emerged as the section’s most awarded title, winning both the Madrid Film Office and Equipo SOPA prizes.
