The Feroz Awards Surrender to 'Querer' by Alauda Ruiz de Azúa and Nagore Aranburu

Until the Goya Awards someday open up to TV series, the most prestigious awards recognizing fiction productions are the Feroz Awards, given by film reporters and celebrated this Saturday in their twelfth edition in Pontevedra. There were no doubts. 'Querer', directed by Alauda Ruiz de Azúa from Baracaldo, is the series of the year: best drama, lead actress, and screenplay. Nagore Aranburu picked up the statuette for her role as a bourgeois woman from Bilbao with two children who, after thirty years of marriage, accuses her husband of continued rape in a Movistar Plus series that addresses issues such as consent, toxic masculinity, and family legacies.

"'Querer' is a series that talks about the difficulty of telling one's story. We live in a world where women do not feel legitimate to denounce sexual violence. If we are not capable of accepting this with honesty and radicalism, we will not be able to change things," proclaimed Ruiz de Azúa with the Feroz for best screenplay in hand.

The actress from Azpeitia, 48 years old, conveys the fear of a woman who decides to rebel against years of oppression and face the earthquake her complaint causes in her family and social environment. Aranburu, who has participated in significant titles such as 'Loreak' and the series 'Patria', is experiencing her best professional moment. She is awaiting the release of the new movie by the directors of 'Handia', 'Maspalomas', as well as 'Karmele', by Asier Altuna. Alauda Ruiz de Azúa has also recruited her for her new feature film, 'Los domingos'.

'Celeste', another series created by a Basque, screenwriter and director Diego San José, triumphed in the comedy category, although the investigation of an upright tax inspector played by Carmen Machi does not provoke many laughs and moves in a melancholic and somber tone. The awards at the lighthearted gala hosted by La Dani, with constant political claims, were very distributed and surprised in the film category. It is assumed that the journalists and critics of the Feroz have to highlight more transgressive and risky films than those that end up in the Goya Awards.

And so it was. 'Salve Maria', Mar Coll's return fourteen years after 'Tres días con la familia', won the Feroz for best dramatic film. A novel by Katixa Agirre inspires this drama that dares to address the taboo of regretful mothers and describes it as if it were a horror film the trauma of a writer overwhelmed by her baby, who fantasizes about the idea of infanticide. Released last October 31, the film triumphed in Locarno and Valladolid but was very discreet at the box office.

'Casa en llamas', best comedy at the Feroz Awards. Dani de la Orden locks up a well-off family from Barcelona to squabble in their mansion on the Costa Brava. The most successful Catalan film in history held on in theaters for months and has surpassed half a million viewers and three million euros in revenue.

Since Pedro Almodóvar traveled by train to Galicia, the organizers were not going to snub him by leaving him without an award. Best director of the year for 'La habitación de al lado', which recalled the late Marisa Paredes, he may take the award in the same category at the Goya, where his first film in English competes in ten categories, but not for best film. The Feroz for best lead actress went to Emma Vilarasau, the divorced mother who longs for a perfect weekend in 'Casa en llamas'. As expected, the award for best lead actor went to Eduard Fernández for 'Marco', by Aitor Arregi and Jon Garaño, in which he transforms into the trade unionist Enric Marco, who invented a past as a survivor of Nazi concentration camps.

Fernández is also wonderful in 'El 47', another phenomenon of criticism and public that has earned Clara Segura, wife of the protagonist bus driver, the Feroz for supporting actress. In the male category, the award goes to a little-known actor, Óscar de la Fuente, prodigiously natural in that beautiful adaptation of the graphic novel by Paco Roca that is 'La casa'.

The man from San Sebastián, Alberto Iglesias, deserved the Feroz for the music of 'La habitación de al lado', while the series from another Baracaldo native, Javi Giner, 'Yo adicto', rewarded its actors Oriol Pla and Nora Navas. The one who really left Pontevedra happy was Eduard Sola, who amassed two statuettes for the scripts of 'Casa en llamas' and 'Querer'. Let's see who is capable of triumphing in the same year in cinema and television.

FEROZ AWARDS 2025

Film

Dramatic Film: 'Salve Maria', by Mar Coll.

Comedy Film: 'Casa en llamas', by Dani de la Orden.

Direction: Pedro Almodóvar, for 'La habitación de al lado'.

Lead Actress: Emma Vilarasau, for 'Casa en llamas'. Lead Actor: Eduard Fernández, for 'Marco'.

Supporting Actress: Clara Segura, for 'El 47'.

Supporting Actor: Óscar de la Fuente, for 'La casa'.

Screenplay: Eduard Sola, for 'Casa en llamas'. Music: Alberto Iglesias, for 'La habitación de al lado'. Trailer: 'Polvo serán'.

Poster: 'Salve Maria'

Feroz Fiction Outburst: 'Polvo serán', by Carlos Marques-Marcet.

Non-fiction Outburst: 'The Human Hibernation', by Anna Cornudella.

Television

Dramatic Series: 'Querer', by Alauda Ruiz de Azúa.

Comedy Series: 'Celeste', by Diego San José.

Lead Actress: Nagore Aranburu, for 'Querer'.

Lead Actor: Oriol Pla, for 'Yo, adicto'.

Supporting Actress: Nora Navas, for 'Yo, adicto'.

Supporting Actor: Pol López, for 'Nos vemos en otra vida'.

Screenplay: 'Querer'.