IndieLisboa 2021’s awarded films were announced this Monday, September 6, at Culturgest.
The filmmaker Rosine Mbakam wins the Feature Film Grand Prize City of Lisbon with her film Delphine’s Prayers, a raw documentary that portrays a young Cameroonian woman carrying a past of suffering, belonging to a generation of young African women destroyed by our patriarchal societies and abandonned to sexual exploration. The International Competition Jury also awarded The Inheritancewith the TVCINE Special Award. The Award for Best Portuguese Feature Film was given to Jack’sRide by Susana Nobre, and the Dolce Gusto Award for Best Short Film to What Remains by Daniel Soares. And the Yellow Color New Talen Awardrevealed Laura Carreira’s “cirurgically precise directing”, with The Shift. The Short Film Grand Prize was given to Keep Shiftin’by Verena Wagner.
> The awarded films can be seen at Cinema Ideal on September 7 and 8.
AWARDED FILMS
INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM COMPETITION JURY
Bas Devos | Erika Balsom | Joana Craveiro
• Feature FilmGrand Prize City of Lisbon – 15.000 Euros
DELPHINE’S PRAYERS,Rosine Mbakam, Belgium / Cameroon, doc., 2021, 91’
• TV CINE Special Award (Rights acquisition for Portugal)
THE INHERITANCE,Ephraim Asili, USA, doc. / fic., 2020, 101’
INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM JURY
Bianca Lucas | Mariana Gaivão | Réka Bucsi
• Betclic Short Film Grand Prize – 4000 Euros
KEEP SHIFTIN’,Verena Wagner, Germany, doc., 2020, 21’
• Best Animation Award – 500 Euros
THANK YOU,Julian Gallese, United Kingdom, anim., 2020, 8’
• Best Documentary Award – 500 Euros
SEEKING ALINE, Rokhaya Marieme Balde, Switzerland /Senegal, doc., 2020, 27’
• Special Mention
AIN’T NO TIME FOR WOMEN, Sarra El Abed, Canada, doc., 2020, 19’
• Best Fiction Award – 500 Euros
COME HERE, Marieke Elzerman, Belgium, fic., 2020, 26’
• Special Mention
LONELY BLUE NIGHT, Johnson Cheng, USA, fic., 2020, 15’
NATIONAL COMPETITION JURY
Mercedes Martínez-Abarca | Ramiro Ledo Cordeiro| Daniel Vadocky
• Award for Best Portuguese Feature Film – 5000 Euros
JACK’S RIDE, Susana Nobre, Portugal, doc. / fic., 2021, 70’
• Best Director in a Portuguese Feature Film – 1000 Euros
SIMON CALLS, Marta Sousa Ribeiro, Portugal, fic., 2020, 84’
• Dolce Gusto Award for Best Portuguese Short Film – 2000 Euros
WHAT REMAINS, Daniel Soares, Portugal, fic., 2021, 20’
• The Yellow Color New Talent Award – 1500 Euros
THE SHIFT, Laura Carreira, United Kingdom / Portugal, fic., 2020, 9’
BRAND NEW COMPETITION JURY
Delphine Jeanneret | Maria João Mayer | Mia Tomé
• Betclic Brand New Award – 1500 Euros + Portugal Film promotion and sales
(previously announced on a special ceremony, September 3 at Casa do Capitão)
HUNTING DAY, Alberto Seixas, Portugal, fic., 2020, 3’
SILVESTRE FEATURE FILM JURY
Anabela Moutinho | Ehsan Khoshbakht | Maria do Carmo Piçarra
• Silvestre Award for Best Feature Film – 1500 Euros
BY THE THROAT, Effi & Amir, Belgium, doc., 2021, 75’
• Special Mention
FOREST – I SEE YOU EVERYWHERE, Bence Fliegauf, Hungary, fic., 2021, 112’
SILVESTRE SHORT FILM JURY
Daniel Ebner | Maíra Zenun | Rita Cruchinho Neves
• Silvestre Award for Best Short Film– 1000 Euros
ONE IMAGE, TWO ACTS, Sanaz Sohrabi, Canada / Germany / USA / Iran, doc. / exp., 2020, 45’
• Special Mention
PALMA, Alexe Poukine, France / Belgium, fic., 2020, 40’
INDIEMUSIC JURY
Cláudia Guerreiro | Yaw Tembe | Yen Sung
• IndieMusic Award – 1000 Euros |EX-AEQUO
SISTERS WITH TRANSISTORS,Lisa Rovner, United Kingdom / France, doc., 2020, ‘84
NUEVE SEVILLAS, Pedro G.Romero e Gonzalo García Pelayo, Spain / France, doc., 2020, 158’
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL JURY
Pedro Coelho | Romeu Costa | Sandra Pereira
• Amnesty International Award – 1500 Euros
RADIOGRAPH OF A FAMILY, Firouzeh Khosrovani, Iran / Norway / Switzerland, doc., 2020, 80’
ÁRVORE DA VIDA JURY
Inês Gil | Rui Martins
• Árvore da Vida Award for Best Portuguese Film – 2000 Euros
SOPRO,Pocas Pascoal, Portugal, doc., 2021, 43’
AUDIENCE AWARDS
• Feature Film Award – 1500 Euros
LADIES OF THE WOOD, Claus Drexel, France, doc., 2021, 90’
• Short Film Award – 1000 Euros
YOU’RE DEAD, HÉLÈNE, Michiel Blanchart, Belgium, fic., 2020, 24’
• IndieJúnior Audience Award – 500 Euros
TINTA, Erik Verkerk e Joost van den Bosch, The Netherlands, anim., 2020, 2’
Until September 8, aditonnal screenings will be held at Cinema Ideal, where some of the awarded films can still be seen, and at Cinemateca Portuguesa, with screenings of films from the Sarah Maldoror Retrospective.