The jury found in Day Tripper by Chen Yanqi a wonderful chronicle of contemporary China, a country bristling with modernity yet paralysed by its past. With his irony-laced, deliciously cynical debut feature, situated between the universe of a Jacques Tati or a Roy Andersson, young Chinese director Chen Yanqi has, in our opinion, the makings of a great film auteur.

Cuadrilatero a magnificent social, philosophical and political satire for us. We loved its minimal writing and visual language, making every single detail both expressive and accurate. The story is developed with finesse, style and humanity, including the worst aspects of it! Thank you to all the crew for this beautiful living artwork.

The film we have chosen to award is a work that gives women their say. Behind closed doors, it explores the material and symbolic conflicts of an unusual family freely and without resorting to fatalism. We were struck by its honest style, which, far from confining its characters to roles of victims and perpetrators, successfully broadens the perspective.

We wanted to give a special mention to a raw and pared-down film, in which life pushes back and against everything in a place where death dominates. It shows the conditions of an oppressed community, with little coverage, and does so at the level and pace of its characters.