The Sol Film Festival 2026 closing: the winners, a buffet at the Torrevieja Casino and the festival’s results

In short

The closing of the 12th Sol Film Festival took place on Sunday 12 July 2026 at 7 p.m. at the Casino de Torrevieja cultural society. The evening included the “Female Gaze” colloquium, where filmmakers discussed women in the film industry, the awards ceremony, a buffet supper, live music and a party. Tickets cost €25.

Our impressions

The July evening in Torrevieja was hot, but everything was still superb: the ceremony, the awards, the buffet and the music — the organisation left the warmest impression at the closing too.

And it became a double celebration: by coincidence, that day was the birthday of Tatiana Denisova Kaunova, the festival’s founder and the owner of Globus, the Russian centre in Torrevieja with a café, a bookshop, an events space and a property agency. Happy birthday!

Winners of the 12th Sol Film Festival

The results, as published on the festival’s official website:

• Best fiction short — La última canción, María Lorente-Becerra
• Best animated short — Pobre marciano, Alex Rey
• Best documentary short — No oblidem, Carlos Rey
• Sol Torrevieja award for the best Valencian Community short — Por dentro, Álvaro G. Company and Mario Hernández
• UNED Torrevieja Audience Award — Montecarlo 67, Rubén Guindo
• Best direction — Polígono X, Néstor López
• Best screenplay — Montecarlo 67, Rubén Guindo
• Best actor (tie) — Juan José Ballesta (Dopamina Zero) and Ramón Barea (Por dentro)
• Best actress — Ángela Molina (La última canción)
• “Female Gaze” award — Perpetua Navidad Azul, Marina Aparicio (collected by the producer Anna Saura)
• Festival Godmother Award — Las desqueridas, Gonzalo Ruiz

The festival in figures

Four days and three venues — the Virgen del Carmen cultural centre, NEOCINE and the Casino — 24 films in competition, full houses at the competition screenings and a €3,000 prize fund. The goal set out in the festival rules is to promote national and international cinema, cultural exchange, new talent and Torrevieja’s place on the map of Spanish and world cinema. In our view, the twelfth edition delivered.

Look out for the next edition in the summer: the festival takes competition entries through the Festhome platform and gives out free screening invitations on its website. We will certainly be back — and will report on it.