The film The Arabian Nights by Miguel Gomes, won the award for Best Sydney Film Festival Film. The triptych of Portuguese filmmaker focused on the impact of austerity policies in Portugal is praised on Sunday by the jury as “an ambition of film and political vision that confronts, frustrates and fascinates – and ultimately reminds us that the film contained to be a powerful vehicle to examine the human condition. “
The Sydney Film Prize has a cash value of 42,500 euros and was delivered by a jury chaired by Liz Watts, producer of Animal Kingdom (2010) or The Hunter: Last Tasmanian Tiger (2011), which also stressed that “the film reminds us that hope and strength are fundamental to the human spirit.” Miguel Gomes, in a statement, thanked from Lapland festival of distinction whose integrated competition for the second time – the first was with Tabu in 2012. “I think there are two major reasons to be honored with this award: 1) it is easier to have premiums when you can have three different screenings, “he joked about the structure of your project, which is divided into three volumes ( The Restless The Heartbroken and The Dark) and “2) I am now in Lapland the land of good and reliable … Santa Claus! “.
From the stories collection of the structure and folk tales of the Middle East and South Asia One Thousand and One Nights , a year of filming began in August 2013 became a script constantly building based on stories that a group of journalists (Maria José Oliveira, Rita Ferreira and João Dias) found in Portuguese society to tell Scheherazade -. the princess that every night I had to tell a story to their king to win another day of life and serves as a narrator in the film totaling 383 minutes in length
According advanced the producer Luís Urbano Sunday Lusa, movies debut up separately in late summer in Portugal – The Restless will arrive in late August and the end of September, will be premiered the other two films
The festival ended on Sunday in the Australian city with the announcement of the top prize for the Portuguese project produced by The Sound and the Fury, which premiered in the Directors’ Fortnight of the 68 Cannes Film Festival and which will be the film opening of the 23rd edition of Curtas- International Film Festival, which takes place 4-12 of July in Vila do Conde.
The previous winners of the festival were Two-day, one night (2014), Forgive God Only (2013), Alps (2012), A Separation (2011), Imaginary Loves (2010), Bronson (2009) and Hunger (2008).
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