As long as it is you, the here and now by Carme Elías has managed to win the best documentary feature film. The Valencia-based director Claudia Pinto and the Valencian production company Nakamuru Films have won this statuette by telling how Alzheimer’s is experienced in the first person.
During the award collection, director Claudia Pinto pointed out that “I didn’t know that you could be so sad and so happy at the same time.” The director acknowledges that the recording has allowed her to “learn to celebrate life.” Furthermore, she wanted to remind the protagonist that she could not be at the delivery. Therefore, she has asked that recognition and applause be directed to her for her “generosity, courage and affection.”
900,000 affected
During his claim, he wanted to remember the “900,000 people who suffer in silence from Alzheimer’s and other dementias” and, consequently, “all the people who care for them and support them.” In addition, he thanked the importance of cinema and culture that “sustains us in difficult times.”