Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo, known as Los Javis, have won the award for best direction at the 79th edition of the Cannes Film Festival for ‘The Black Ball’. The award was ex aequo with ‘Fatherland’, by Pawel Pawlikowski.
While accepting the award, the authors of works such as ‘The Messiah’ or ‘Veneno’ assured that they needed “a second to digest it” since “it is a very powerful award.” Javi Calvo added that this “serves as words of encouragement from the festival, which tells us that we are doing well and to follow our voice.”
At its premiere, ‘The Black Ball’ received a 20-minute ovation. This tells the story of three people throughout three different eras and in which the figure of Federico García Lorca is the center of everything: “When directing this film, I realized that the only way to honor the suffering, the silence, the death of the LGTBIQ people who preceded us, is by ensuring that the following generations have more freedom,” said Ambrossi.
A few days ago, in a conversation with the media, he himself explained that Lorca is not “an idea”, but “a person”: “Federico García Lorca was murdered for being a faggot,” he denounced. The Javis have already announced that their next project will be “in English and Spanish” and that the script will be “much better.”
