The year Sam Neill visited us to receive the Grand Honorary Award, Maribel Verdú, Patrick Wilson, Charles Band, and Asia Argento also joined us. Taking the frenetic realm of the Mad Max universe as this year's main thematic tribute, we also honored Fabrice Du Welz (Adoration) as well as Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles (Bacurau). In animation, Masaaki Yuasa, Gints Zilbalodis, and Makoto Shinkai all shared the spotlight. However, it was Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia who really knocked it out of the park with The Platform, the first Spanish film to win, on its own, the Award for Best Feature Film in the Official Selection.
