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The Espiello Prize this year goes to a woman who dedicated the award to the brave women who fight for human rights in her country, Iran. Sudabeh Morzai has filmed a deep, difficult and sometimes funny documentary on temporary marriages. The Special Prize of the festival has been given to a Sahara a feminist and pro independency activist: Mariem Hassan, and many awards were to gender orientated topics (the Best Research was for Tommy Mendel for “Bunong birth practices” and the one of the Young Prizes for a documentary on women on the border of Galicia and Portugal, by Diana Gonçalvez).

Espiello has celebrated its ninth edition, being the only ethnographic film festival in Spain. Since its first edition Espiello is a great window to South American documentaries but in Espiello competition have been projected films from all over the world.

Espiello takes place every spring and a big part of Sobrarbe´s small community gets involved to make this festival a very special event for all the participants. We are also proud of the collaboration established with world top authorities in Visual Anthropology (Dr. Paul Henley from Manchester University, Dr. Bernt Schnettler from Bayreuth University or Dr. José Carmelo Lisón from Universidad Complutense have presided last editions juries) and with one of the most relevant broadcasters in our country: Eugenio Monesma.

For many years anthropologists came to Sobrarbe´s villages, set in beautiful and isolated mountains, to study Pyrenean culture. They wrote, draw, took pictures and filmed us. Now we are aware that being able to tell our own history is important and that being able to listen to others, too. Espiello (that is mirror in Aragonese) has become a place for reflection and communication in these Pyrenees that we understand not as a border but as a cultural causeway.

HONOUR PRIZE 2011: MARIEM HASSAN

Besides the contest awards, Espiello gives an Honour Prize to artists with an outstanding career related with the defence of cultures: well known photographers, ethnographers, filmmakers… have been distinguished with a special mirror sculpture. This year this Honour Prize is for Mariem Hassan, the voice of the desert, a Sahara singer that has strengthened her culture in the hardest conditions: living in a refugee’s camp. Mariem sung in Boltaña and received her prize from the Culture and Education authority in the government of Aragon: MªVictoria Broto. Mariem Hassan has ever sung to freedom her people and she received the prize with the cry: “Sahara libre”.

2011 ESPIELLO AWARDS

-Best Documentary (Espiello Prize, 1500 euros and trophy): “In the Bazar of Sexes”, Sudabeh Mortezai (Austria)

-Best Documentary by a young under 30 (Espiello Choben, 800 euros and trophy): “Baltazar Ushka, el tiempo congelado” by José Antonio and Igor Guayasamín (Ecuador). Accesits (worth 400 euros and trophy) for “Boteros” by Martin Turnes (Argentina) y “Mulleres Da Raia” by Diana Gonçalvez (Galicia, España)

-Best Documentary on the Pyrenees (Espiello Pirineos): not given.

-AESIC “Guillermo Zúñiga” Prize: “Pueblos Originarios III: Pilagá Bañado la estrella” by Ulises Rosell (Argentina)

-Best Research Work (Espiello Rechira, 800 euros and trophy): “Bunong Guu Oh- Bunong’s birth Practices”, by Tommi Mendel (Suiza-Camboya)

Best documentary chosen by the public (500 euros and trophy: "Contact", by Bentley Dean and Martin Butler.

-Best School Project for making an ethnographic documentary for “Rastros” (600 euros in audiovisual equipment): CEIP Santa María (Madrid).

ABOUT THE BAZAR OF SEXES

A lonesome middle-aged bachelor, a divorced single mother, and a jovial young mullah (a priest) are the protagonists of this intimate account of gender relations in Iran. Their stories revolve around the institution of temporary marriage, also called lust-marriage, a Shia practice that allows a man and a woman to legally marry for a fixed period of time ranging from one hour to 99 years. Religiously sanctified prostitution or a loophole for couples to have a relationship within the rigid Islamic laws? Religious dogma meets macho sentimentality meets female realities. A relentlessly honest, eye-opening, and sometimes funny account of Islamic sexual and gender politics.

ESPIELLO: THE ONLY ETHNOGRAPHIC DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL IN SPAIN CLOSES THE NINTH EDITION WITH A FEMINIST POINT OF VIEW

The Espiello Prize this year goes to a woman who dedicated the award to the brave women who fight for human rights in her country, Iran. Sudabeh Morzai has filmed a deep, difficult and sometimes funny documentary on temporary marriages. The Special Prize of the festival has been given to a Sahara a feminist and pro independency activist: Mariem Hassan, and many awards were to gender orientated topics (the Best Research was for Tommy Mendel for “Bunong birth practices” and the one of the Young Prizes for a documentary on women on the border of Galicia and Portugal, by Diana Gonçalvez).

Espiello has celebrated its ninth edition, being the only ethnographic film festival in Spain. Since its first edition Espiello is a great window to South American documentaries but in Espiello competition have been projected films from all over the world.

Espiello takes place every spring and a big part of Sobrarbe´s small community gets involved to make this festival a very special event for all the participants. We are also proud of the collaboration established with world top authorities in Visual Anthropology (Dr. Paul Henley from Manchester University, Dr. Bernt Schnettler from Bayreuth University or Dr. José Carmelo Lisón from Universidad Complutense have presided last editions juries) and with one of the most relevant broadcasters in our country: Eugenio Monesma.

For many years anthropologists came to Sobrarbe´s villages, set in beautiful and isolated mountains, to study Pyrenean culture. They wrote, draw, took pictures and filmed us. Now we are aware that being able to tell our own history is important and that being able to listen to others, too. Espiello (that is mirror in Aragonese) has become a place for reflection and communication in these Pyrenees that we understand not as a border but as a cultural causeway.

HONOUR PRIZE 2011: MARIEM HASSAN

Besides the contest awards, Espiello gives an Honour Prize to artists with an outstanding career related with the defence of cultures: well known photographers, ethnographers, filmmakers… have been distinguished with a special mirror sculpture. This year this Honour Prize is for Mariem Hassan, the voice of the desert, a Sahara singer that has strengthened her culture in the hardest conditions: living in a refugee’s camp. Mariem sung in Boltaña and received her prize from the Culture and Education authority in the government of Aragon: MªVictoria Broto. Mariem Hassan has ever sung to freedom her people and she received the prize with the cry: “Sahara libre”.

2011 ESPIELLO AWARDS

-Best Documentary (Espiello Prize, 1500 euros and trophy): “In the Bazar of Sexes”, Sudabeh Mortezai (Austria)

-Best Documentary by a young under 30 (Espiello Choben, 800 euros and trophy): “Baltazar Ushka, el tiempo congelado” by José Antonio and Igor Guayasamín (Ecuador). Accesits (worth 400 euros and trophy) for “Boteros” by Martin Turnes (Argentina) y “Mulleres Da Raia” by Diana Gonçalvez (Galicia, España)

-Best Documentary on the Pyrenees (Espiello Pirineos): not given.

-AESIC “Guillermo Zúñiga” Prize: “Pueblos Originarios III: Pilagá Bañado la estrella” by Ulises Rosell (Argentina)

-Best Research Work (Espiello Rechira, 800 euros and trophy): “Bunong Guu Oh- Bunong’s birth Practices”, by Tommi Mendel (Suiza-Camboya)

Best documentary chosen by the public (500 euros and trophy: "Contact", by Bentley Dean and Martin Butler.

-Best School Project for making an ethnographic documentary for “Rastros” (600 euros in audiovisual equipment): CEIP Santa María (Madrid).

ABOUT THE BAZAR OF SEXES

A lonesome middle-aged bachelor, a divorced single mother, and a jovial young mullah (a priest) are the protagonists of this intimate account of gender relations in Iran. Their stories revolve around the institution of temporary marriage, also called lust-marriage, a Shia practice that allows a man and a woman to legally marry for a fixed period of time ranging from one hour to 99 years. Religiously sanctified prostitution or a loophole for couples to have a relationship within the rigid Islamic laws? Religious dogma meets macho sentimentality meets female realities. A relentlessly honest, eye-opening, and sometimes funny account of Islamic sexual and gender politics.

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