Cinema 2.5 euros next week – Daily News – Lisbon

Tickets to 2.5 euros return between 16 and 18 May about 500 rooms in the country. Organization hopes to attract 250,000 spectators.

The Film Festival returns to the country’s cinemas next week, between 16 and 18 May, tickets 2.5 euroseuro. After the 1st edition in 2015, the organization hopes to attract over 50,000 spectators, hoping to reach 250,000. A novelty is the partnership with the Portuguese Film Academy, the film winner of the Sophia Awards, which will be known on Friday, will be displayed in some rooms. impossible love , Antonio-Pedro Vasconcelos, Mountain , John Salaviza, Yvone Kane of Margarida Cardoso, and The Arabian Nights: Volume 2, the Heartbroken , Miguel Gomes are named

Yesterday, during the press conference presentation of this year, Nuno Sousa, the Film Festival organization. It highlighted the fact that in 2015 have registered a “20% growth in the sector this event united, focusing all players a goal and common strategy.” It is recalled that Portugal recorded 14.5 million viewers, 2.5 million more than in 2014. Paulo Santos, the Portuguese Association of Motion Picture Companies (APEC), highlighted the increased accessibility to the movies this party allows, “is a special time of sharing films with an audience that otherwise may not have the same access to the magic of cinema “

Filomena Serras Pereira, ICA President. – Institute Cinema and Audiovisual, said that “the first edition contributed to reconciling the public with cinema, having reversed the trend of recent years.”

Yesterday also ICA presented to / from Cinema report Portugal in highlighting the “very strong presence at festivals” of national production, with “the awards obtained in 2015 to demonstrate the recognition that the Portuguese works are having with cultural agents worldwide.” A production that, according to the ICA had a “significant increase”: over 23 works in 2015, compared to 27 in 2014. The document also lists the 30 national premieres planned for this year

As for. feast of Cinema, note that the price does not include special VIP seats, movie screenings in 3D, IMAX sessions, sessions 4DX and special events.