Elche Film Awards

THE Elche International Independent Film Festival (FICIE), organised by Fundación Mediterráneo, came to the end of its 46th edition with a closing gala on Saturday, July 22, in which the Canadian production ‘The Gold Teeth’, directed by the Iranian­Canadian Alireza Kazemipour, won the award for best short film and ‘Matar Cangrejos’, by the Canarian director Omar A Razzak was awarded best feature film.

‘The Gold Teeth’, tells the story of Sahra, an Afghan refugee in Canada, who comes to the doorstep of former Iranian dentist, Hamed, seeking help to extract her late father’s gold teeth before he is buried.

The other big winner was ‘Matar cangrejos’, winner of the Fundación Mediterráneo Award for Best Feature Film at the Elche Film Festival, in which five Spanish films competed among the 62 that were submitted to the competition.

The film takes us to Tenerife in the 90s, where Rayco, an eight­year­old boy, and his 14year­old sister Paula, kill time while they anxiously await the arrival of Michel Jackson. But his mother has become pregnant by a foreigner, and their lives could change before the singer reaches the island.