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Bafici 2025: Laura Casabe’s Sundance Hit ‘The Virgin of the Quarry Lake’ Takes Top Honors as Bafici Wraps 26th Edition
Bafici also honored producer Lita Stantic, behind films by Marisa Luisa Bemberg and Lucrecia Martel.
Narratives further tackled mortality with Manuela Irene’s nostalgic “The Monster of Xibalba” and Karni Haneman’s droll roadtrip feature “Tom’s 2nd Suicide” while making room for searing social satire through Radu Jude’s condemnation of capital rot, “Kontinental 25” and Julie Delpy’s affecting refugee comedy “Les Barbares” and showcasing a bit of fantasy, as seen in Locarno Open Doors alum Yashira Jordan’s (“Diamond”) latest short “Dragón,” which screened to a heaving crowd—offering a cinematically textured glimpse of quotidian Bolivia, the backdrop to a story centering on vigilante justice and adolescent distraction. Another buzz title, “Heads or Fails,” an over-the-top Belgian comedy of errors from Lenny and Harpo Guit, (“Aimer perdre”), earned burgeoning theater-turned-film actor Maria Cavalier-Bazan the best international performance plaudit for her depiction of the film’s boundless, crass and magnetic anti-heroine, Armande Pigeon. Screenwriter-director Bebe Kamin (“The Children of the War”) and resilient producer Lita Stantic, behind Lucrecia Martel’s “La Ciénaga,” both received Lifetime Achievement Awards this year, imparting dogged wisdom to creatives whammied by tumultuous audiovisual change.
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