Gala del Sol’s vibrant and uninhibited ‘Llueve sobre Babel’ wins the Panorama Spain Award

• The jury granted a Special Mention to the short film El cuento de una noche de verano by María Herrera
• The award-winning film will be screened at 5:45 p.m. today, April 30, with its lead actress, Celina Biurrun, in attendance

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Wednesday, April 30, 2025.– Llueve sobre Babel (Rains Over Babel), by Gala del Sol, wins the Panorama Spain Award of this 24th Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival. Described at Sundance as “a Colombian steampunk tropical fantasy” and in the catalog as “vibrant and uninhibited,” this unique Spanish, Colombian and American co-production captivated the jury who assessed the freshest Spanish works competing in the section: six feature films and two short films.

Valerio Carusso, director of Cineuropa, a portal about European cinema in four languages; María Lanfranchi, an expert in festival distribution and currently working in Intramovies, and Bartholomew Sammut, a Maltese-Australian, non-binary film curator who works for the Panorama section of the Berlin International Film Festival as part of their selection committee, have decided to give the Panorama Spain Award to Gala del Sol’s film for being “an impressive and collaborative first feature that tackled many issues guiding us through hell on earth with an enjoyable ride through wonderful performances, production design, direction and editing.”

The award-winning film will be shown at 5:45 p.m. today, April 30. After celebrating Llueve sobre Babel’s success at the reading of the list of winners, Celina Biurrun, its lead actress, will attend this final screening of Gala del Sol’s work.

Likewise, the jury decided to grant a Special Mention to the short film El cuento de una noche de verano (A Midsummer’s Night Tale), by María Herrera. In this case, “for saying so much without using words but rather utilizing cinema as a visual language.” This work by Herrera, who has been at the Festival these past few days, was described by programmer Elodie Mellado in the catalog as “a complex, nuanced, thought-provoking piece.”