"This film, a visually hypnotic existential cinematic poem, is greatly enhanced by its avant-guarde and minimlist editing technique."
--Moscow International Documentary Film Festival (DOKer)
Jury Statement

“Bill Brandt meets Federico Fellini.”
—Mike Lerner, producer

“There is something sublimely beautiful about Mark John Ostrowski’s film Sixty Spanish Cigarettes (2015).”
—The Art(s) of Slow Cinema

Festivals:
Roma Cinema Doc (Rome, Italy) - June 2015
Premio Marcellino de Baggis Festival Internazionale del Cinema Documentario 2015 (Taranto, Italy). Oct. 2015 - ***Award "Menzione speciale della Direzione Artistica"***
Gijón International Film Festival. "Gran Angular Asturiano" section (competition) - 25.11.2015
V Muestra de Cine Europeo de Lanzarote - 29.11.2015
IX Encuentro Hispanoamericano de Cine y Video Documental Independiente (4.2016) - Official Selection
Moscow International Documentary Film Festival (DOKer) 5.2016 - Official Selection
***AWARD "BEST EDITING"***
Art Film Festival Cannes (AVIFF) 5.2016 - Official Selection
Polish International Film Festival 5.2016
Picknic Film Festival (Santander) 6.2016
Verona International Film Festival (Italy) 9.2016
Korea International Expat Film Festival 9.2016
Spotlight Documentary Film Awards - Winner June 2016
http://theartsofslowcinema.com/2015/09/18/sixty-spanish-cigarettes-mark-john-ostrowski-2015/
http://emergeredelpossibile.blogspot.ae/2015/10/sixty-spanish-cigarettes.html?m=1

Sixty Spanish Cigarettes is a minimalist metaphor for Spain’s bleak socioeconomic landscape in which young people see emigration as their only way out.

Sixty Spanish Cigarettes es una metáfora en clave minimalista de la situación socioeconómica desesperanzadora en la cual para muchos jóvenes españoles la emigración se ha convertido en la única salida.