The black ball rises as the public's favorite film in San Sebastián

One day after its long-awaited premiere in commercial theaters, La Bola Negra emerged this Saturday as the public's favorite film at the San Sebastián festival. The film by Los Javis, Spain's representative at the Oscars, has obtained a total of 9.40 points among viewers, closely followed by Naza, the controversial documentary that denounces the "systematic" killing of civilians in Gaza, with a score of 9.29.

The public has flocked to this love letter to Federico García Lorca starring, among others, Guitarricadelafuente, Miguel Bernardeau, Penélope Cruz, Lola Dueñas and Glenn Close, a story that also recently won the audience award at the Toronto festival and that increasingly paves its triumphant path ahead of the nominations for the Hollywood Academy Awards.

The black ball participated in the San Sebastian competition within the Perlak section, which brings together acclaimed or awarded titles at other festivals such as Fatherland, by Pawel Pawlikowski, which shared with the Javis the recognition for best direction in Cannes, or Fjord, by Cristian Mungiu, who won the Palme d'Or.

The audience award, sponsored for eleven years by the San Sebastián City Council, is worth 50,000 euros, while 20,000 are allocated for the best European film.