This year there were 198 short films competing at this festival. 50 of them were selected as finalists and screened at the Escuela de Nautica of the University of Cantabria from 2nd to 9th February. However, as a famous film quotation observes, only one can win, and the jury awarded the Cantabria University and City of Santander prize, with 3000 euros, to La Culpa del Otro, by Ivan Ruiz Flores. This short, premiered on 12th December at the Cervantes Institute, has in its short life already won seven awards, including the Best Fictional Short Film Award from the Arte Joven 2008 festival of the Madrid Region.
The members of the jury admired the work not only because of the difficulty of the plot but also the way it was told; a black and white piece, without dialogue or off narrator. The director, in turn, praised the jury for not distinguishing between traditional film and digital format.
The short film La Culpa del Otro has also just been selected for the 16th San Diego Latino Film Festival (USA) and it is one of the six finalist shorts competing for the Audience Award at the 1st Mostra Xarrades en Curt (Valencia).
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