2016 Fall
Best Narrative Feature Film
Silenciosa (Argentina) by Sofia Medrano
The strange disappearance of a mountaineer, leaves a big question to be unveiled. After two years without answers, Ana, his girlfriend,restart the search, submerged in the silent atmosphere of nature, the mystery of dreams and geometry.
Best Documentary Feature Film
Batusha's House (Kosovo) by Tino Glimmann, Jan Gollob
KADRI BATUSHA is building his tremendous house in the outskirts of Prishtina in Kosovo since 15 years; without any plans, architects or building permits. The architecture of this enormous building, with all its little towers, stairs and mazy corridors is a manifestation of Kadri Batusha's biography: A life story shaped by political activism, prison, migration, the years as an asylum seeker in Switzerland but also the time of war in Kosovo.
Best Narrative Short Film
The Feeling (Italy) by Leo Canali
A boy working in a hotel. Cleans the rooms, and each room retains its own story, told from the traces of those who have hosted.
Best Documentary Short Film
Alphonsine (Belgium) by Raulic Matthieu
Portrait of Alphonsine and her dog, Sweetie.
Best Animated Short Film
Munitionnettes (France) by Lara Cochetel
After receiving an official letter announcing the death of their husbands on the battlefield, the women workers of a bomb factory decide to make their own kind of revolution.
Best Underground Film
Mortem (Canada) by Diego Lozano
A man with blood in his hands stands looking down, while a beautiful young woman wakes up in a throne. The woman has awakened in black and resembling a skeleton, but feeling more alive and powerful. The woman sees the man and realizes it's her husband. Joyed she goes to him, but finds out the awful truth: that in a state of twisted lust he had killed her. Heartbroken, the woman turns back realizing she has entered the kingdom of the dead.
Best Experimental Film
Artistic Dictatorship (Belgium) by Gor Aroevic
In a sequence of surrealistic tableau-like images the film shows the artistic creation of a new type of human being who has the ability to see maximum beauty in all human action. Igoder wants to kill the enigmatic State, who keeps humans in a condition of apathy, and establish an artistic dictatorship where humans can evolve into new and better type of beings. The film merges and honors the styles of Sergei Parajanov and Andy Warhol
Best Portuguese Cinema Now & Lisbon Bull Award
Patrioska by Tiago Araujo
Five deities of power gather in an underground lair to discuss major themes about world domination and status-quo: Mr. Tactus, Mr. Olfactus, Mr. Paladaris, Mr. Auditivus and the head of the assembly, Mr. Visionarius. Visionarius has machiavellian prospects for the future of mankind, but he is warned by the Angel Auditivus about the spiritual awakening present in some avenues of Western society.
