The Argentine production De martes a martes by Gustavo Triviño was the winner of the Best Film award at the 21st edition of the Latin American Film Festival of Biarritz which took place September 24-30 in France. The Cuban film Juan de los Muertos / Juan of the Dead by Alejandro Brugués was awarded the Special Jury Prize while the Argentine film El etnógrafo by Ulises Rosell won the prize for Best Documentary Film.
Other awards announced at the festival were the prize for Best Actress for Roxana Blanco in the Mexican-Uruguayan co-production La Demora by Rodrigo Plá; the prize for Best Actor for Luis Tosar in the Colombian-Spanish co-production Operación E by Miguel Courtois Paternina; the French Critics Award to Pablo Larraín's No (Chile); and the Audience Award prizes to the Feature Fiction Film Sofía y el terco by Andrés Burgos Vallejo (Colombia) and the Documentary Film La máquina loca by Emilio Maillé.
