The director of the Lisbon & Estoril Film Festival (LEFFEST), Paul White, said this Sunday, in the closing ceremony of the event, the participation of the public this year was “quite superior” to that of the previous years.
it Was a big surprise, especially because there were films hard and that, from the outset, seemed to be risky to pass them”, said Paul White, in the gala of delivery of awards in the Cultural Centre of Belém.
The Polish Jan P. Matuszynski, who was today awarded the Prize for Best Film and Best Director, was happy with the “wonderful news”.
Absent from the award ceremony, the director, 32-year-old won for his feature film “The Last Familly”, based on the story of a surrealist painter Polish, Zdzislaw Beksinski, and his family, whose life is far from normal.
The Special Jury Award João Bénard da Costa, that evokes the former director of Cinemateca Portuguesa, was assigned to film the israeli “Sand Storm”, Elite Zexer. On behalf of the director, and in a video message, the protagonist of the film, Lamis Ammar, dedicated the award to the women portrayed in the work, who live in very difficult living conditions and who still are very strong women.
The Prize IN the Best Film – Audience Choice went to the film “Elle”, Paul Verhoeven, which was presented at the festival, and will debut in Portugal next Thursday.
The jury of this edition of the Lisbon & Estoril Film Festival, was composed by the Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski, the actress swiss Marthe Keller, the Italian actress Valentina Lodovini and the urban artist Swedish Portuguese André Saraiva.
The actress Nicoletta Braschi, the protagonist of the well-known Italian film “life is beautiful”, was also honoured at the ceremony, after having been in Portugal with the play “Happy Days”, in the National Theatre D. Maria II.
it Is a big surprise [this tribute]. This invitation is very special. It was a room theaters very beautiful. The people were addressed with great generosity and freedom. Were days very happy”, said.
The film director Emir Kusturica also said today to be “very happy” with the last days spent in Portugal.
I’m glad that there are people like Paul White in the world, because there is increasingly less space for the people in the cinema. I am very happy to be here, in this city, where you always come with great expectation and I am always enthusiastic,”, argued,
The councilwoman of Culture of the city of Lisbon, Catarina Vaz Pinto, praised the festival, considering it “special and a cultural brand name very strong in the city.”
By the way how to connect the cinema to the other arts, and by the way people, artists and the public intersect these days. It is a festival very welcoming which is born of the complicity of old in which they share a taste for the cinema. We do not know how will be the cinema in the future, but there are always stories to tell and films to make”, he added.
The festival awarded also the Prize for the Best Short Film, that distinguishes the work of students of the School of International Film, “The Sleeping Giant”, Laura Samani, the Centro Sperimentale of Cinematography, in Italy.
This category was also awarded an honorable mention to “Paul est there,” Valentina Maurel, Institut Superieur des Arts (INSAS), Belgium.
The short films were awarded by a jury composed by Daniel Rosenfeld, Lola Peploe, and Stanislas Merhar.
After the delivery of prizes was displayed, the premieres, the film “Nocturnal Animals”, in Tom Ford.
The filmmakers Jim Jarmusch and Emir Kusturica and the poet Adonis were among the more than 60 guests from 10.Th edition of the LEFFEST, which started November 04.
in Addition to the retrospetivas and homages to Jean-Luc Godard, Jerzy Skolimowski, the LEFFEST also presented retrospetivas of Emir Kusturika, Teresa Villaverde, Pascal Bonitzer, Agustin Díaz Yanes, and Daniel Rosenfeld.
The director of the franco-swiss Jean-Luc Godard, considered the master of the Nouvelle Vague, was honored with a retrospective of its complete work – about a hundred movies – and with an international symposium.
In parallel to the display film – films in the premieres or in competition, retrospetivas and tributes – the LEFFEST presented, as in previous editions, initiatives such as exhibitions, conferences, readings, book presentations and concerts.
In the competition, in 10.Th edition of the LEFFEST, were also the films “American Honey”, by Andrea Arnold, “Bangkok Nites”, Katsuya Tomita, “Christine”, Antonio Campos, “Dogs”, by Bogdan Mirica, “El Futuro Perfecto”, de Nele Wohlatz, “Harmonium”, Kôji Fukada, “Big Big World”, Rehab Erdem, “Little Men,” Ira Sachs, “Nocturama”, Bertrand Bonello, and “The Last of Us”, Ala Eddine Slim.
there Were 11 in the spaces of the exhibition: Cinema Mediates Monumental, espaço Nimas, Casino Estoril, Centro Cultural de Belém, Centro Cultural de Cascais, Teatro Nacional D. Maria II, Teatro da Trindade, in Casa das Histórias Paula Rego, Cinematheque, Cinema IN the Cascais Shopping and P31 – Centro Hospitalar Psiquiátrico de Lisboa.
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