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Nagore Aranburu with the Feroz award for Best Actress in a Drama Series for 'Querer'. EP
The Feroz Awards Honour 'Querer' by Alauda Ruiz de Azúa and Nagore Aranburu

The Feroz Awards Honour 'Querer' by Alauda Ruiz de Azúa and Nagore Aranburu

'Salve Maria' and 'Casa en llamas' are the best films in a widely distributed awards ceremony, also recognising 'Celeste' by Diego San José

Oskar Belategui

Bilbao

Domingo, 26 de enero 2025, 01:35

Until the Goya Awards open up to series, the most prestigious awards recognising fiction productions are the Feroz Awards, granted by film journalists, which celebrated their twelfth edition this Saturday in Pontevedra. There was no doubt. 'Querer', directed by Alauda Ruiz de Azúa from Barakaldo, is the series of the year: best drama, leading actress, and screenplay. Nagore Aranburu accepted the statuette for her role as a bourgeois woman from Bilbao with two children who, after thirty years of marriage, accuses her husband of continuous rape in a Movistar Plus series that tackles issues such as consent, toxic masculinity, and family legacies.

'Querer' is a series that speaks about the difficulty of speaking out. We live in a world where women do not feel legitimised to report sexual violence. If we are not able to accept this with honesty and radicality, we will not be able to change things," proclaimed Ruiz de Azúa with the Feroz for best screenplay in hand.

The 48-year-old actress from Azpeitia conveys the fear of a woman who decides to rebel against years of oppression and face the turmoil her accusation causes in her family and social environment. Aranburu, who has appeared in significant titles such as 'Loreak' and the series 'Patria', is experiencing her best professional moment. She is set to star in the new film by the directors of 'Handia', 'Maspalomas', as well as 'Karmele', by Asier Altuna. Alauda Ruiz de Azúa has also recruited her for her new feature film, 'Los domingos'.

Director Alauda Ruiz de Azúa between Eduard Sola and Júlia de Paz, screenwriters of the series 'Querer'. Efe

'Celeste', another series created by a Basque, screenwriter and director Diego San José, triumphed in the comedy category, although the investigation of an upright tax inspector played by Carmen Machi does not elicit many laughs and moves in a melancholic and somber register. The awards of the lively gala presented by La Dani, with constant political claims, were widely distributed and surprised in the film category. It is assumed that the journalists and critics of the Feroz are supposed to highlight more transgressive and daring films than those that end up at the Goya Awards.

And so it was. 'Salve Maria', the return of Mar Coll fourteen years after 'Tres días con la familia', won the Feroz for best dramatic film. A novel by Katixa Agirre inspires this drama that dares to tackle the taboo of regretful mothers and describes the trauma of a writer overwhelmed by her baby, who fantasises about infanticide, as if it were a horror film. Released on October 31, the film triumphed in Locarno and Valladolid but went almost unnoticed in theatres.

Pedro Almodóvar was the best director for 'La habitación de al lado'. Efe

The same did not happen with 'Casa en llamas', best comedy at the Feroz Awards. Dani de la Orden locks a well-to-do Barcelona family in their mansion on the Costa Brava to have them throw things at each other. The most successful Catalan-language film in history stayed in theatres for months and has surpassed half a million viewers and 3 million euros in revenue.

Eduard Fernández, best actor for 'Marco'. EP

Since Pedro Almodóvar travelled by train to Galicia, the organisers were not going to snub him by leaving him without an award. The best director of the year for 'La habitación de al lado', who remembered the late Marisa Paredes, will be able to take the award in the same category at the Goya Awards, where his first English-language feature competes in ten categories, though not for best film. The Feroz for best leading actress went to Emma Vilarasau, the divorced mother who longs for a perfect weekend in 'Casa en llamas'. As expected, the best leading actor award went to Eduard Fernández for 'Marco', by Aitor Arregi and Jon Garaño, in which he transforms into the unionist Enric Marco, who invented a past as a survivor of Nazi concentration camps.

Fernández is also wonderful in 'El 47', another critical and public phenomenon that earned Clara Segura, the wife of the bus driver protagonist, the supporting Feroz award. In the male category, the award goes to a little-known actor, Óscar de la Fuente, prodigiously natural in that beautiful adaptation of Paco Roca's graphic novel 'La casa'.

The Donostian Alberto Iglesias deserved the Feroz for the music of 'La habitación de al lado', while another Barakaldo native, Javi Giner's series 'Yo adicto', rewarded its actors Oriol Pla and Nora Navas. The one who truly left Pontevedra happy was Eduard Sola, who amassed two statuettes for the screenplays of 'Casa en llamas' and 'Querer'. Let's see who can succeed in the same year in both film and television.

FEROZ AWARDS 2025

Cinema

Dramatic Film: 'Salve Maria', by Mar Coll.

Comedy Film: 'Casa en llamas', by Dani de la Orden.

Direction: Pedro Almodóvar, for 'La habitación de al lado'.

Leading Actress: Emma Vilarasau, for 'Casa en llamas'. Leading Actor: Eduard Fernández, for 'Marco'.

Supporting Actress: Clara Segura, for 'El 47'.

Supporting Actor: Óscar de la Fuente, for 'La casa'.

Screenplay: Eduard Sola, for 'Casa en llamas'. Music: Alberto Iglesias, for 'La habitación de al lado'. Trailer: 'Polvo serán'.

Poster: 'Salve Maria'

Feroz Arrebato de ficción: 'Polvo serán', by Carlos Marques-Marcet.

Arrebato de no ficción: 'The Human Hibernation', by Anna Cornudella.

Television

Drama Series: 'Querer', by Alauda Ruiz de Azúa.

Comedy Series: 'Celeste', by Diego San José.

Leading Actress: Nagore Aranburu, for 'Querer'.

Leading Actor: Oriol Pla, for 'Yo, adicto'.

Supporting Actress: Nora Navas, for 'Yo, adicto'.

Supporting Actor: Pol López, for 'Nos vemos en otra vida'.

Screenplay: 'Querer'.

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