Morelia Film Festival Prizes: ‘Six Months in a Pink and Blue Building,’ an ‘Expression of Pure, Unbound Beauty,’ Wins Top ‘Ojo’ Award
Bruno Santamaría Razo’s debut feature, “Six Months in a Pink and Blue Building”, won the top Ojo award at the 24th Morelia Film Festival. The coming-of-age drama draws on the director’s childhood and was praised by the international jury for turning painful memories into beauty; it also won the fiction audience award.
The film was the first Mexican feature in 20 years to compete in Cannes Critics’ Week. Other prizes went to “The Garden We Dreamed”, which received a special mention and best cinematography, and “Everything Else Is Noise”, whose director Nicolas Pereda and actor Teresa Sánchez won awards. The festival said its next edition will move to the week before the Day of the Dead and mark its 25th anniversary.
In short
- “Six Months in a Pink and Blue Building” won Morelia’s top Ojo award.
- The film also received the fiction audience award.
- Morelia’s next edition will celebrate its 25th anniversary.
Explained simply
The Morelia Film Festival is an annual film event held in the Mexican state of Michoacán. Its main competition recognises films made in Mexico, while audience prizes and festival jury awards reflect different kinds of response to the work.
Bruno Santamaría Razo is a Mexican filmmaker whose first feature film draws on his childhood. Its selection for Cannes Critics’ Week, a programme for emerging filmmakers held alongside the Cannes Film Festival, brought it attention beyond Mexico. The other named films and awards show the range of work recognised at Morelia.