Tonight the Spanish Academy of Film Arts and Sciences presented the Goya Awards to the best of Spanish cinema and the Argentinean film Un cuento chino / A Chinese Tale by Sebastián Borensztein won the prize for Best Hispanic-American Film. Actors Angie Cepeda and Ricardo Darín, the protagonists of the winning film, were the ones that presented the award at a ceremony in Madrid.
Un cuento chino, which was the highest grossing local film in Argentina in 2011, tells the story revolving the encounter between Roberto (played by Darín) and a young Chinese boy. The other films nominated in the same category were Gerardo Naranjo's Miss Bala (Mexico); Andrés Wood's Violeta Went to Heaven / Violeta se fue a los cielos by Andrés Wood (Chile) and Gerardo Chijona's Boleto al paraíso / Ticket to Paradise (Cuba).