Carlos Marques-Marcet is celebrating a special international prize…

The 41-year-old Spanish film director, screenwriter and film editor, best known for his first fictional film 10,000 km, picked up the Platform Competition Award at the just-wrapped 2024 Toronto Film Festival.

Marquez-Marcet won for his unequal parts contemporary dance-musical and ensemble drama They Will Be Dust.

In addition to directing the film, he co-wrote the film with Clara Roquet and Coral Cruz.

Starring Ángela Molina, Alfredo Castro and Mònica Almiral, the woman centers on a woman with an incurable disease who decides to end her life. Her significant other Flavio sets in motion a plan to die together in Switzerland, while their daughter Violeta ends up as an unmeant middle woman.

Heres the list of this year’s TIFF awards winners:

People’s Choice Award
The Life of Chuck, dir. Mike Flanagan | USA
The first runner-up: Emilia Pérez, dir. Jacques Audiard | France/USA/Mexico
The second runner-up: Anora, dir. Sean Baker | USA

People’s Choice Midnight Madness Award
The Substance, dir. Coralie Fargeat | United Kingdom/USA/France
The first runner-up: Dead Talents Society, dir. John Hsu | Taiwan
The second runner-up: Friendship, dir. Andrew DeYoung | USA

People’s Choice Documentary Award
The Tragically Hip: No Dress Rehearsal, dir. Mike Downie | Canada
The first runner-up: Will & Harper, dir. Josh Greenbaum | USA
The second runner-up: Your Tomorrow, dir. Ali Weinstein | Canada

SHORT CUTS AWARDS

Best International Film
Deck 5B, dir. Malin Ingrid Johansson | Sweden
Honourable mention: Quota, dir. Job Roggeveen, Joris Oprins, Marieke Blaauw | Netherlands

Best Canadian Film:
Are You Scared To Be Yourself Because You Think That You Might Fail?, dir. Bec Pecaut | Canada

FIPRESCI AWARD
Mother Mother, dir. K’naan Warsame | Somalia

NETPAC AWARD
The Last of the Sea Women, dir. Sue Kim | USA

BEST CANADIAN DISCOVERY AWARD
Universal Language, dir. Matthew Rankin | Canada
Honourable mention: You Are Not Alone, dirs. Marie-Hélène Viens, Philippe Lupien | Canada 

BEST CANADIAN FEATURE FILM AWARD
Shepherds, dir. Sophie Deraspe | Canada

PLATFORM COMPETITION AWARD
They Will Be Dust, dir. Carlos Marques-Marcet | Spain, Italy, Switzerland
Honourable mention: Sylvia Chang in Daughter’s Daughter, dir. Huang Xi | Taiwan