BLUE BREATH
NEWS
"THE RYE HORN" BY JAIONE CAMBORDA, WINS THE GOLDEN SHELL AT THE 71ST EDITION OF THE SAN SEBASTIÁN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, THE MOST IMPORTANT AWARD OF THE COMPETITION
Last Saturday, September 30th, the film "The Rye Horn" was awarded the Golden Shell, making it the best film in competition at the 71st edition of the San Sebastián International Film Festival.
"The Rye Horn", directed by Jaione Camborda, is a feature film co-produced between three countries: Spain, Portugal, and Belgium. It was filmed in the regions of Galicia and Northern Portugal and produced by the production companies: Miramemira, Bando à Parte, and Bulletproof Cupid
SINOPSYS
Illa de Arousa, 1971. Maria is a woman who earns her living by seafood. She is also known on the island for helping other women in childbirth with special dedication and care. After an unexpected event, she is forced to flee and begins a dangerous journey that will make her fight for her survival. Seeking her freedom, Maria decides to cross the border by one of the smuggling routes between Galicia and Portugal.
31ª EDITION OF CURTAS VILA DO CONDE 2023
NORTH PORTUGAL FACTORY
ESPINHO
André Guiomar , Mya Kaplan
MARIA
Mário Macedo, Dornaz Hajiha
AS GAIVOTAS CORTAM O CÉU
Mariana Bártolo , Guillermo Garcia Lopez
Special Sessions: Opening & Closing
FLYBY KATHY
Short film by Pedro Bastos.
[CI] Competição Internacional
O HOMEM DAS PERNAS ALTAS
Short animation film by Vitor Hugo Rocha
NOMINEES FOR THE 21ST EDITION OF SOPHIA AWARDS: LOVE LIGHTS, THE GARBAGE MAN, GARRANO E INFINITE SEA IN THE COMPETITION
'ANA MORPHOSE', A SHORT ANIMATION FILM BY JOÃO RODRIGUES, WAS PRIZED AT MONSTRA LISBON ANIMATION FILM FESTIVAL 2023, WITH AN HONORABLE MENTION BY THE JURY
Honorable mention to Ana Morphose
Prize SPA/ Vasco Granja
MONSTRA - Lisbon Animated Film Festival.
INTERNACIONAL PREMIERES
This month Ana Morphose will have the first International premiere at the Children and youth competition at the 69th edition
of the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen.
The South American premiere will be at BAFICI - Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema.
The film is also invited, out of competition, for the:
Moscow International Film Festival
Short to the Point Film Festival
Brighton International Animation Festival.
AS THE NEW FORTNIGHT, THE FACTORY BECOMES THE DIRECTORS' FACTORY!
This program aims at the emergence of new talents on the international scene by allowing four newly formed pairs (a regional director associated with an international director) to co-direct a film.
After the Balkans in 2019, the Directors' Fortnight, Bando a Parte and DW associate this year for a program of films with North Portugal Factory.
The festival will be proud to present for its 55th edition the fruit of these collaborations : 4 co-written and co-directed short films.
The seven selected directors bring also feature films projects and will profit from their presence at the Fortnight to pitch these projects to the professionals (producers, distributors and sellers)
THE PAIRS 2023 :
ANDRE GUIOMAR (Portugal) & MYA KAPLAN (Israel)
MARIO MACEDO (Portugal) & DORNAZ HAJIHA (Iran)
MELANIE PEREIRA (Portugal)
MARIANA BARTOLO (Portugal) & GUILLERMO GARCIA LOPEZ (Spain)
'THE GARBAGE MAN', BY LAURA GONÇALVES, WON THE AWARD FOR BEST ANIMATED AT CLERMONT-FERRAND INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL
THE NOTHINGNESS CLUB
BY EDGAR PÊRA AT ROTTERDAM IFF 2023 BIG SCREEN COMPETITION
The Nothingness Club is a psychological thriller inside the head of Fernando Pessoa, who in his Clube do Nada, inhabited by heteronyms, the poet manages to fulfill all his dreams in life. But the arrival on the scene of a sophisticated woman, very different from the Ofélia of the real world, destabilizes the Club, at the same time that the outrageous avant-garde heteronym, Álvaro de Campos, violently disputes Pessoa's authority.
FLYBY KATHY
A SHORT FILM BY PEDRO BASTOS WORLD PREMIERE AT ROTTERDAM IFF 2023
In 1981, English actress Kathy Harcourt mysteriously disappeared from the United States. 40 years later, this story unfolds, from an old 35mm copy of the last film Kathy Harcourt stared in. This film retraces this brief episode of the golden age of adult cinema.
LOVE LIGHTS BY MARIE CARRÉ AND ACÁCIO DE ALMEIDA WITH INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE AT THE 75TH EDITION OF THE LOCARNO FILM FESTIVAL.
https://www.locarnofestival.ch/LFF/home
SYNOPSYS
The evocation of light in cinema leads the Character of the Man of Light to reflect on it, its essence and its multiple manifestations in a revisitation of geographical spaces and memories.
TWO AWARDS FOR " THE GARBAGE MAN" BY LAURA GONÇALVES AT ANIMAFEST ZAGREB!
In its international premiere, the short film won the Grand Prix and the Audience Award for best short film at the Croatian festival.
Grand Competition Short Film Jury´s statement: "Many things impressed us in this film. The naturalism of the dialogue. The warmth and intimacy of the family setting. But most of all, the tenderness with which it tells its story of generosity in the midst of political and economic hardship in Portugal. And also, the monkey."
DISTOPIA DE TIAGO AFONSO PREMIAÇÕES
O documentário Distopia de Tiago Afonso foi premiado duplamente no DocLisboa 2021 com o prémio de melhor filme da competição portuguesa e também com o prémio Escola Etic também para melhor filme da competição Portuguesa. Na ultima edição do Porto Post Doc venceu o prémio Cinema falado.
AT ROCHA'S TABLE HAD ITS INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE AT THE 74TH EDITION OF THE INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF LOCARNO 2021
Premiered worldwide in early August at the Locarno festival, this first feature film by Samuel Barbosa explores Paulo Rocha's creative process through his films, his characters, the artists he worked with and other testimonies of his art.
SYCORAX WORLD PREMIERE AT THE QUINZAINE DES RÉALISATEURS IN CANNES 2021
A film shot in the Azores with Agustina Muñoz, Diana Diegues and Susana Abreu.
A co-production Bando à Parte and Filmika Galaika.
Who is Sycorax? The first of all characters in William Shakespeare's "The Tempest" to set foot on the play's island. The problem is that Sycorax has no voice. She is barely mentioned by Prospero as a wicked old witch who vilely trapped Ariel, the spirit of the air, in a tree.
But why would she lock Ariel in a tree? Here, we would not believe so much in Prospero.