‘The 47’ Lead Eduard Fernández Upon Receiving Spain’s Prestigious National Cinematography Award: ‘Gaza is a Mirror in Which We All Appear, Whether We Like It or Not’

Barcelona-born actor Eduard Fernández received the 2025 National Cinematography Award Sept. 20 from the Minister of Culture, Ernest Urtasun, at the 73rd San Sebastián Film Festival. The prize, granted by the Culture Ministry’s Institute of Cinematography and Audiovisual Arts (Icaa), carries a cash award of €30,000.

The award ceremony was attended by various cultural figures and institutional representatives, including El Deseo producer Esther García who had received the Donostia Career Achievement award at the festival’s opening ceremony the night before.

After briefly reflecting on his early days in cinema, a visibly moved Fernández ended his speech by whipping out a keffiyeh shawl to wrap around his shoulders, saying: “The atrocity that is happening in Palestine, the savagery of arguing over a word– genocide or not – is irrelevant, even though it’s legally important. Allowing children to starve to death is barbaric, regardless of the term you use,” he stated, reading out…