Celebrated Spanish film Director Carlos Saura has been honoured with the prestigious Satyajit Ray Lifetime Achievement award at the gala opening ceremony of 53rd edition of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Goa .
The Spanish Director is being honoured with the award as a befitting accolade for his immense contribution towards the international cinema. His daughter Anna Saura accepted the award on behalf of the eminent filmmaker at the opening ceremony IFFI 53. The acclaimed film maker, through a video message expressed his deepest gratitude and love towards festival organisers for bestowing him with the honour.
At IFFI 53, a retrospective of Carlos Saura’s legacy is being showcased through screening some of the auteur’s celebrated award-winning films.
Carlos Saura, is considered to be one of Spain’s most renowned filmmakers. He has a long and prolific career that spans over half a century. He has received the Golden Bear for Best Director at the Berlin International Film Festival for Deprisa Deprisa, along with two Silver Bears for La caza and Peppermint Frappe, a BAFTA for Carmen and three awards at Cannes, among several others.
With a long and prolific career spanning over half a century, Saura’s films are sophisticated expressions of time and space fusing reality with fantasy, past with present, and memory with hallucination. His noted works include , Cousin Angélica, Mama Cumple 100 Años, the Flamenco trilogy Blood Wedding , Carmen, and Love the Magician among others.
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