The names of the winners of the Green Years Competition and the industry awards for the 22nd edition of Doclisboa are now known. The awards ceremony took place today at Culturgest.
In the Green Years Competition, which honours first works and emerging directors, the TVCine Channels Award for Best Green Years Competition Film went to Giulia Mancassola‘s Petrolia for, in the words of the jury, having the “ability to portray a space sustained in time, for the way it absorbs the environmental context and proposes a present far from pessimism”. The Pedro Fortes Award for Best Portuguese Film went to The Dead in Frock Coats, by Manuel Rainha, ‘for its exploration of different cinematographic references, for the rigour of its language, for its recovery of Portuguese mythical imagery and for the risk of working with non-professional actors’. The Award for Best Short Film went to The Quiver, by Judith Deschamps, ‘for the high level of the aesthetic proposal, for daring to guess the next trends in documentary cinema, for reflecting reality around a very current debate and for transferring it through the corporeality of the film’.
Photo: Eduardo Martins – Doclisboa
NEBULAE Awards
The Nebulae Awards, Doclisboa’s industry project and networking space, and the Arché Awards, Apordoc’s development and creative thinking space taking place during the festival, were also presented. The DAFilms Award for Best First or Second Arché Project or Guest Country in the Writing, Development or Completion Stage went to Sara Flores Y El Universo del Kené, by Èlia Gasull Balada and the Pitch the Doc Award for Best Invited Country Project in the Writing, Development or Completion Stage went to Reflejos de la Casa Verde, by Antonio Morales.
The Invited Country for Nebulae 2025 was also announced. In this case, it won’t be a country, but the Benelux, an organisation that brings together Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, and which will have a privileged place in the industry component of Doclisboa 2025.
Finally, the winners of the Arché Awards have been announced. The Arché jury – made up of Catarina Mourão, Clémentine Mourão-Ferreira and Juan Pablo Bastarrachea – honoured two of the film projects competing in this year’s edition of Apordoc’s development lab. The first, the Documentary Association of Europe Talent Development Award for Best Arché Project in the Writing or Development Stage, was presented to Ruído, by Juan Pablo Polanco. The Land of the Widows of the Dead, by Melanie Pereira, was honoured with the School of Arts, Catholic University of Portugal Award – Special Jury Award for Best Arché Project in the Writing or Development Stage. The same film also won the #LINK Encuentro Iberoamericano de Cine Documental Award for Best Portuguese Arché Project in the Writing or Development Stage and the Impronta Award for Best Arché of Invited Country Project in the Writing or Development Stage.
Finally, the FIDLab Award for Best Portuguese Arché Project in the Writing, Development or Completion Stage, a prize from FIDLab, FIDMarseille’s international co-production platform, which arises from the desire to help kick-start the production of new works, was awarded to Penitents, by Diogo Pereira.
The participants took their projects to be presented at Culturgest, after three days of workshops, followed by individual meetings with industry professionals.
We are now entering the final weekend of Doclisboa, which has brought films, debates, parties and many activities to the city, filling the usual venues: Culturgest, Cinema São Jorge, Cinemateca Portuguesa, Cinema Ideal and Casa do Comum. Stay with us. Find the full programme here.
