Winner of the Silver Bear Award for Outstanding Artistic Achievement at the Berlin Film Festival, the Best Film Award at the Morelia Film Festival, and four Ariel Awards including for Best Film and Best First Film, Paula Markovitch’s debut feature The Prize is set during the years of Argentine dictatorship and its notorious Dirty War (1975–83). The film tells the story of an anxious young mother and her precocious daughter who flee Buenos Aires for the temporary seclusion of a ramshackle cottage on a remote beach. What begins as a childhood idyll is soon contaminated by the larger political crisis. Markovitch draws on his own experiences to capture the lacunae of childhood’s social and psychological worlds in this exquisitely acted and atmospheric drama about innocence in tumultuous times.
EL PREMIO / THE PRIZE
A film by Paula Markovitch
(Mexico/Argentina, 2011, 99 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)
Now streaming on Tubi, Vudu and Amazon Prime.
