The 29th Sonoma International Film Festival wraps its 29th edition tonight after awarding prizes in multiple categories earlier today.
Maspalomas, directed by Jose Mari Goenaga and Aitor Arregi, won the Grand Jury Award for Best Narrative Feature. The film, described as a “bold, emotionally charged portrait of identity, aging, and resilience,” tells the story of a septuagenarian gay man who moves into a conservative nursing home after suffering a stroke, and “finds himself slipping back into the closet.”
Maspalomas star Jose Ramon Soroiz won the Silver Shell for Best Leading Performance at the San Sebastián International Film Festival in Spain, where the film premiered.
The jury, comprised of Gregory Ellwood (The Playlist), Max Geschwind (CAA), and Kirsten Schaffer (Women in Film), wrote, “For an authentic and rare depiction of an elder man confronting personal and physical crisis at the onset of the COVID pandemic, we award the
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