2016 Spring
Lisbon Bull Award
Best Narrative Short Film
Maniacs (Sweden) by Isabella Carbonell
A girl goes to visit her sister who has been impossible to reach since being released from a psychiatric ward. She had been admitted for undressing in front of her colleagues, losing her job in the process. When the girl arrives at her sister's apartment she realizes that things are much worse than she could have imagined. The sister has not eaten for several days, has killed her pets, covered all the windows with dark plastic bags and has let two strangers into her home. The healthy sister, paralyzed by anxiety, tries to understand what is going on and how this could have happened. But to her surprise, her sister claims to be anything but in bad shape. On the contrary, she says that she has never been happier since she turned her back on the outside world.
Best Narrative Feature Film
God is dead (Korea, Republic of) by Hye-jin Kim, Hye-ryung Kim
A girl and her mother started to settle in the redevelopment area illegally. Three guys who believed to occupy this area offered an affront to the town people at the same time. They subsist from day to pointless day, morally deprived and socially detached. One day, they are all meet in this area...
Best Documentary Feature Film
The Little Firemen (United States) by Quincy Perkins
A group of orphaned boys who live 10,000 feet up in the Andes Mountains and save lives on go-carts. They live in an active terrorist zone and must work as firemen to earn a living.
Best Documentary Short Film
Fundir (United States) by Allison Cekala
Every year hundreds of thousands of tons of salt are transported to Boston via cargo ship to spread on the roads during wintertime to de-ice the roads. Most of the salt comes from one mine open-pit in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. Fundir follows the processing and importation of Boston's road salt from one of its main sources in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile to the ice-covered streets of Boston. The film is a biography of a material. It is a record of extraction, migration, and physical transformation, initiated by a vast and intricate choreography of human labor and global trade starting at the desert mine in Chile and ending in Boston's salt-covered streets.
Best Animated Short Film
Died 100 Times (Lithuania) by Ruah Edelstein
An intuitive contemplation on how we die many times during our life and through that become more alive.
Best Underground Film
Grounded (United Kingdom) by Will Hooper, Jack Snelling
A man's small world is tainted by the arrival of his newly born son.
Best Experimental Film
La Vie en YouTube (France) by Anna Zisman
This is a story made of pieces of lives, discovered among those that can be seen endlessly on You Tube. A story which inevitably talks about ourselves. You Tube revisited, without gags, clips, tutorials and considered as a privileged witness of our times. And recognizing oneself in it, remembering it, dreaming of it.
Best Portuguese Cinema Now
Fenix by Adriana de Barros
Three girls find themselves in a room with a jerrycan filled with gasoline and a lighter.
