“Lonely Wolf”, by Filipe Melo, won the award for best national fiction short film at the ninth edition of the Leiria Film Fest, which ends this Sunday.
The awards were presented on Saturday night, at the Miguel Franco Theater in Leiria, distinguishing the second short film signed by the Portuguese director (and pianist) -a dramatic thriller about a female announcer- as deserving of the festival’s most anticipated award .
In the national competition, “El Mono”, a Portuguese-Spanish co-production by Xosé Zapata and Lorenzo Degl’Innocenti, was considered the best animated short, and “Visões de Copacabana”, by Rita Brás, received the award for best documentary.
Among the foreign films screened at the international short film festival in Leiria, “Branka”, by the Hungarian director Ákos K. Kovács, received the award for best fiction, while a film signed by a group of French authors, “The Tears of Sein ”, was voted the best animation. “Pandelivery”, by Brazilians António Matos and Guimel Salgado, took home the trophy for best documentary.
Present at the festival for the first time, it awarded the micro-film contest “Nada en esta vida”, by Cláudia Sofia Gomes and Ricardo Miguel Soares. “Leo”, by the Iranian Moein Rooholamini, received an honorable mention in this category.
The Leiria Film Fest Audience Award went to “La bathtub”, by Spanish director Sergi Marti Maltas.
Source: Observadora
