“Lóngquán: The Dragon’s Spring,” a hybrid doc-fiction feature marking the feature debut of Catalan Adrià Guxens, walked off with the work-in-progress award at Locarno Pro ’s inaugural Spanish Previews.

The plaudit consists in a €10,000 ($11,700) in-kind award in post-production services granted by Barcelona’s Antaviana. The award goes to a film which seeks to address a near absence in Spanish cinema, movies entering characters of multi-cultural origins.

A fiction film with at times a documentary feel and at others suggesting the careful directorial control of a fiction film, moving between realism and fantasy, past and present, the excerpts of “Lóngquán” shown at Locarno climaxed in one of the emotional high points of the Previews, hushing a Locarno Rialto Cinema audience, thanks in pa

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