The Mallorcan filmmaker Daniel Monzón has won five Goya Awards with the film “The Laws of the Border” inspired by the novel that the writer Javier Cercas published in 2011, a story that tells the adventures of three adolescent delinquents in the Spain of the Transition.

The film won the awards: “Best Adapted Screenplay” (together with Jorge Guerricaechevarría), “Best Costume Design”, “Makeup and Hairdressing” (Sarai Rodríguez, Benjamín Pérez and Nacho Díaz), “Artistic Direction” (Balter Gallart) and “revelation actor” (Chechu Salgado).

Julia de Paz Solvas and Núria Dunjó López also aspired to the award for best adapted screenplay, for ‘Ama’; Majorcan Agustí Villaronga, for ‘The Belly of the Sea’; and Benito Zambrano and Cristina Campos, for ‘Lemon bread with poppy seeds’.

“First of all, a kiss to Agustín (Villaronga)”, said Monzón when he went on stage, where he wanted to thank the “mythical team” with which he worked on the film.

Border Laws places us in the summer of 1978, in the midst of a democratic transition, where a 16-year-old boy seems to not fit into his own middle-class world, begins to mingle with other young people in a very different environment, who in the world of crime.

Jorge Guerricaechevarría and Daniel Monzón pose with the Goya for Best Adapted Screenplay. Photo: EFE/Biel Aliño.