The Argentine filmmaker Dolores Fonzi took advantage of her speech at the Premios Goya 2026 gala to launch a forceful message after collecting the award for Best Ibero-American Film for Belén. From the stage, she warned: “Don't fall into the trap. The far-right came to destroy everything. I come from the future.”
Fonzi pointed out that he comes from an Argentina governed by Javier Milei, where —as he denounced— it has come to putting “water up for sale”, and asked that this situation not be replicated in other countries.
During his/her intervention, he/she thanked the recognition and lamented that the world has become “into a horror movie”, alluding to the genocide in Gaza and to the persecution by the U.S. Immigration Service (ICE), situations that, he/she said, cannot continue to be allowed.
Belén prevailed in the category over The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo (Chile), by Diego Céspedes; The Skin of the Water (Costa Rica), by Patricia Velásquez; Sisters (Brazil), by Marianna Brennand; and A Poet (Colombia), by Simón Mesa Soto.
