Masha Chernaya (The Shards), winner of the City of Lisbon Award
Photo: Eduardo Martins — Doclisboa
The winners of the awards for the 22nd edition of Doclisboa, which ends tomorrow, have been announced. In the International Competition, the City of Lisbon Award went to Masha Chernaya, for her film The Shards, for being, in the words of the jury, ‘a film that delves into a reality defined not with the mere purpose of documenting it, but with the intent of finding meaning through the organized poetry of its images.’. Ex aequo, Fire Supply, by Lucía Seles; and The Anchor, by Jen Debauche, were honoured with the CUPRA International Competition Jury Award. If Seles‘s film is “a cinematographic gesture of radical craftsmanship, a comical and sad urban feuilleton that reflects the dysfunction of life in big contemporary cities”, Debauche brings us “A journey that combines images, words, intimate revelations and the experiencing of nature, to expose a unique glimpse into a woman’s soul and to provide a space to rethink the fragility of the psych”.
In the Portuguese Competition, the MAX Award went to The Palace of Citizens, a film by Rui Pires, which, ‘offering a detailed cinematic portrait of the Portuguese Parliament, addresses the perils and challenges of democracy in an engaging, witty, and insightful way’. The Portuguese Authors Society Jury Award went to The Nights Still Smell of Gunpowder, by Inadelso Cossa: ‘Navigating skilfully through different fragments of memory, searching for truth, the director weaves his country’s political narrative,’ the jury noted. The ETIC jury awarded the School Award to I Am Here, by Zsófia Paczolay and Dorian Rivière, for ‘effectively [conveying] people’s pain, resilience and hope’.
Photo: Eduardo Martins — Doclisboa
In the Cross-Sectional Competition, The Anchor, by Jen Debauche, was honoured once again, this time with the TVCine Channels New Talent Award. Also noteworthy is the Honourable Mention for Dad’s Lullaby by Lesia Diak, in which ‘vulnerability is — rather than being exhibited or put at the service of cinema — generously offered as life’s most fundamental element’. The Healthy Workplaces Film Award went to Favoriten, by Ruth Beckermann, for raising issues that are ‘particularly timely to think about in this convulsive era that needs more integration and less hate’, and there was also an Honourable Mention for Boolean Vivarium, by Nicolas Bailleul, for ‘portraying new forms of work with which we are living more and more, which atomizes us and turns us into islands’. Finally, the INATEL Foundation Award went to The Falling Sky, by Eryk Rocha and Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha, a film that ‘emphasizes people, places, gazes, words that profoundly challenge the audience, with a jarring power that shatters the dimensions of time or culture’.
The audience is also asked to vote at the end of the screenings of the eligible films, resulting in two Audience Awards, the Legal Partners Rights and Freedoms Award and the Doclisboa Award. Both awards went to For You, Portugal, I Swear! by Sofia da Palma Rodrigues and Diogo Cardoso. The full list of award-winning works is below.
The screenings of the films that won an award in this edition of Doclisboa will take place on October 28th, 29th and 30th at Cinema Ideal.
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DOCLISBOA 2024 AWARDS
City of Lisbon Award for Best International Competition Film
The Shards, by Masha Chernaya
CUPRA International Competition Jury Award – ex aequo
Fire Supply, by Lucía Seles and The Anchor, by Jen Debauche
MAX Award for Best Portuguese Competition Film
The Palace of Citizens, by Rui Pires
Portuguese Authors Society Portuguese Competition Jury Award
The Nights Still Smell of Gunpowder, by Inadelso Cossa
School Award – ETIC Award for Best Portuguese Competition Film
I Am Here, by Zsófia Paczolay and Dorian Rivière
TVCine Channels New Talent Award – Award for Best First Feature-Length Film (over 60’) from a selection comprising all sections with the exception of the retrospectives
The Anchor, by Jen Debauche
Honourable Mention – TVCine Channels New Talent Award
Dad’s Lullaby, by Lesia Diak
Healthy Workplaces Film Award – European Agency for Safety and Health at Work Award for Best Feature-Length Film Dealing with Work from a selection comprising all sections with the exception of the retrospectives
Favoriten, by Ruth Beckermann
Honourable Mention – Healthy Workplaces Film Award
Boolean Vivarium, by Nicolas Bailleul.
INATEL Foundation Award – Award for Best Film Dealing with Cultural and Traditional Practices as well as Intangible Cultural Heritage from a selection comprising all sections with the exception of the retrospectives
The Falling Sky, by Eryk Rocha and Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha
Legal Partners Rights and Freedoms Award – Award for Best Film Dealing with Human Rights from a selection comprising all sections with the exception of the retrospectives
For You, Portugal, I Swear!, by Sofia da Palma Rodrigues and Diogo Cardoso
Doclisboa Award – Award for Best Portuguese Film comprising all sections with the exception of the retrospectives and competitions
For You, Portugal, I Swear!, by Sofia da Palma Rodrigues and Diogo Cardoso
