“Fuocoammare ‘Berlinale winning film will be distributed by Leopard Films – Digital Journal

 The film about immigrants in Lampedusa “Fuocoammare” ( “Fire at Sea ‘), the Italian filmmaker Gianfranco Rosi, who won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival 66 in the documentary category, will be distributed in Portugal by Leopard Films.
 

“The film awarded by a jury chaired by actress Meryl Streep will hit Portuguese cinemas in 2016, with delivery guaranteed by Leopard Films, which had been distributed ‘Holy grail’ (2013) , the previous film by the Italian director, “said the producer said in a statement.

the documentary, which also received the Jury Prize Ecumenical, the Award by Amnesty International and the newspaper Award Berliner Morgenpost, one passes on the island of Lampedusa, Italy, and shows the reality of the lives of immigrants who aim to reach Europe, one of the most pressing issues of today.

“Fuocoammare” Gianfranco Rosi presents us Samuele, a boy 12 years building catapults and wanders Lampedusa, where he lives with his grandparents and his father, an island many years ago target men, women and children who drop out of Africa into Europe in precarious vessels, which often shipwrecked in the Mediterranean .

Já “Ballad of a Batrachian,” the Portuguese Leonor, who today won the Golden Bear for best short film, will hit Portuguese rooms by the hand of Portugal film, said the distributor in a statement .

With this film, his first outside of the school context, Leonor won the jury of the international competition of short films at the Berlinale, which awarded him the grand prize, “but also the public – the ovations of full houses left no room for doubt, “said the Portugal Film.

the Portuguese public can still see the new film by André Téchiné,” Quand on a 17 Ans “(” When it has 17 Years ” ), which included the competition of the Berlin Festival, and the new film of the duo Benoît Belépine and Gustave Kervern, “Saint Amour” starring Gerard Depardieu, both distributed by Leopard Films.

Displayed in section Forum the Berlinale, the film by Hugo Vieira da Silva “Outpost of Progress”, starring Nuno Lopes and Ivo Alexander and produced by Paulo Branco, come to the Portuguese rooms on 17 March after sessions exhausted in Berlin, also indicated the Leopard Films .

Digital Diary with Lusa