The feature film “Arena mojada”, by Elene Naveriani, won the award for Best Film at the Lisboa 26 International Queer Film Festival, in which “Joylan”, by Saum Sadiq, won the Special Mention and the Audience Award.
The closing session of the Lisboa 26 International Queer Film Festival took place on Saturday at Cinema São Jorge, in Lisbon, where the awards for the Feature Film Competition, Documentary Competition, Short Film Competition, In My Shorts Competition were announced. , which distinguishes the Best Queer European Film and Art School Contest.
The jury of the feature film competition, made up of Cláudia Lucas Chéu, Nuno Nolasco and Rita Azevedo Gomes, justified the choice of “Arena mojada”, by Elene Naveriani, with the “sobriety in the way in which it develops cinematographic writing and approaches the theme of social discrimination, due to the direction and interpretation of the actors, due to the intelligence with which the musical themes dialogue with the time of the film, gaining their own presence”. “Wet Sand” is, for the jury, “an unmistakable beauty”.
In the documentary competition, the Best Film went to “Our Bodies Are Their Battlefields”, by Isabelle Solas. The Audience Award distinguished “Corpolitics”, by Pedro Henrique França.
As for the short films, the choice for Best Film went to “Uma Rapariga Imaterial”, by Portuguese director André Godinho, while the Special Mention was awarded to “Billy Boy”, by Sacha Amaral.
The Audience Award was also given to “An immaterial girl”, by André Godinho.
The In My Shorts contest awarded the prize for Best Film to “Le Variabili Dipendenti”, by Lorenzo Tardella, and the Special Mention to “The Greatest Sin”, by Gabriel B. Arrahnio.
The Best Queer Art Film competition went to “Neptune Frost”, by Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman, and the Special Mention went to “Ultraviolette et le gang des cracheuses de sang”, by Robin Hunzinger.
This edition of Queer Lisboa 26 received more than 40 international guests from countries such as Chile, the United States, Brazil, Argentina, Spain, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, France and Switzerland, as well as several Portuguese guests. More than 6,500 spectators occupied the different rooms of the festival, which represents an increase of 30% compared to the previous edition.
Queer Lisboa 27, which will take place from September 22 to 30, 2023, will take place at the Cinema São Jorge and at the Cinemateca Portuguesa.
Source: Observadora
