Maspalomas: Spanish Queer Drama Wins Sonoma Film Fest Award

‘Maspalomas’ Wins Top Prize at Sonoma Film Fest; Soderbergh’s ‘The Christophers’ Gets Audience Award

Maspalomas
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The 29th Sonma Film Fest wrapped March 29 with Spanish film Maspalomas winning the Grand Jury Award for best narrative feature.

Directors Aitor Arregi and Jose Mari Goenaga’s movinmg queer film is an authentic depiction of an elder man confronting personal and physical crisis at the onset of the COVID pandemic.

Over five days, SIFF presented 104 films from 37 countries, mixed with filmmaker talks, panels, and culinary pop-ups in the picturesque Northern California town.

Filmmaker and artist Julian Schnabel accepted the Sonoma Film Fest Visionary Artist Award with screening of his film In the Hand of Dante, with special guest Tom Waits.

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