SANFIC 2026 Winners Announced: Monguen and Narciso Take Top Film Awards in Chilean and International Competitions as Festival Concludes November 8
SANTIAGO, Chile — The winners of SANFIC, the Santiago International Film Festival, have been announced, with the festival concluding on November 8, 2026. According to FilmoFilia's report drawing on Variety's awards coverage, Best Film in the Chilean Competition went to Monguen, a documentary by the late Antonio Caro, while Best Film in the International Competition went to Narciso, directed by Marcelo Martinessi.
Other major awards included Best Director in the Chilean Competition for Thomas Woodroffe (Erratics), Best Performance for Sofía Paloma Gómez (Black Corp) and Best Short for Reina de Puerto by Ariel Amor. In the International Competition, Best Director went to Lukas Dhont for Coward and Best Performance to Paulina Garcia for Love Is the Monster. The festival's industry arm, SANFIC Industria, also announced its work-in-progress prizes, with Hot Springs and The Cry of Serankwa each receiving three awards in the Work in Progress Iberoamericano section.
Ceremonies were scaled back following the death of Chilean filmmaker Sebastián Lelio on November 6: the red-carpet portions of the November 6 industry ceremony and the November 7 festival ceremony were cancelled, and festival director Carlos Nuñez and SANFIC Industria head Gabriela Sandoval dedicated the remainder of the festival to Lelio. Accepting her award, Garcia displayed the Berlin Silver Bear she won for Lelio's 2013 film Gloria. Nuñez estimated attendance at 35,000 to 40,000, an increase of 10 to 15 percent; those figures are the festival's reported estimates rather than audited totals.
Source: FilmoFilia
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Photo: 图：本届国际竞赛最佳表演奖得主保利娜·加西亚（资料图）。Wikimedia Commons，墨西哥城文化局摄，CC BY-SA 2.0，已预裁16:9。/ Paulina Garcia, this year's International Competition Best Performance winner (file photo). Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0.
