Directed by Ernesto Daranas, the sensitive story of Chala and his model teacher Carmela, won also in France the Audience Award at the Spanish Film Festival and the Latin American Film Festival in Grenoble, as well as the Audience Award to the CIC Iberbanco Best Film during the 31st edition of the Reflets du Cinéma Ibérique et Latinoaméricain from Villeurbanne and the Association Pour le Cinéma in France.