| Adú | |
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| Directed by | Salvador Calvo |
| Written by | Alejandro Hernández |
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| Distributed by | Paramount Spain S.L.[1] |
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Running time | 119 minutes |
| Country | Spain |
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Adú is a 2020 Spanishdrama film directed bySalvador Calvo, written byAlejandro Hernández and starringMoustapha Oumarou,Luis Tosar andÁlvaro Cervantes.[2] The film premiered in Spain on 31 January 2020.[3]
The film won fourGoya Awards, includingBest Director for Calvo andBest New Actor for Adam Nourou, from a total of thirteen nominations, at the35th Goya Awards.[4][5]
The film intertwines three storylines related to theAfrican immigration to Europe. A six-year-old boy and his older sister make a desperate attempt to fleeCameroon for Europe, waiting on a runway to smuggle themselves inside an airplane's cargo hold. Not far away, an activist againstillegal hunting discovers the terrible scene of a dead elephant, its tusks removed. As well as fighting against illegal poaching, he has to face issues with his daughter, recently arrived in the country. Thousands of miles to the north, inMelilla, aSpanish city in North Africa, a group ofcivil guards face a mass assault on the Melilla border fence by Africans desperate to gain access to Spain.[6]
The film is aTelecinco Cinema, Ikiru Films, La Terraza Films, Un Mundo Prohibido AIE and Mogambo production, it had the collaboration ofMediaset España and Mediterráneo Mediaset España Group and funding fromICAA.[7]
| Awards | Category | Nominated | Result |
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| Goya Awards | Best Film | Nominated | |
| Best Director | Salvador Calvo | Won | |
| Best Original Screenplay | Alejandro Hernández | Nominated | |
| Best Supporting Actor | Álvaro Cervantes | Nominated | |
| Best New Actor | Adam Nourou | Won | |
| Best Cinematography | Sergi Vilanova | Nominated | |
| Best Editing | Jaime Colis | Nominated | |
| Best Art Direction | César Macarrón | Nominated | |
| Best Production Supervision | Ana Parra and Luis Fernández Lago | Won | |
| Best Sound | Eduardo Esquide, Jamaica Ruíz García, Juan Ferro and Nicolas de Poulpiquet | Won | |
| Best Makeup and Hairstyles | Elena Cuevas, Mara Collazo and Sergio López | Nominated | |
| Best Original Score | Roque Baños | Nominated | |
| Best Original Song | "Sababoo" by Cherif Badua andRoque Baños | Nominated | |
| Premios Feroz | Best Original Soundtrack | Roque Baños | Nominated |
