2016 Summer
Lisbon Bull Award & Best Narrative Short Film
Dryad (France) by Thomas Vernay
The wind blows, noises of armor resound. A knight escorts a young woman athwart plains. The thunder begins to scold, clouds invade the landscape. The knight, worried, stares the castle on the horizon. The end is close.
Best Narrative Feature Film
The Red Spider (Poland) by Marcin Koszalka
Karol is a usual teenager living in communist Cracow in the 60's. Everything changes when he accidentally becomes a witness of a murder. Tempted by love, fascinated by death, Karol will soon have to make the most important choice of his life.
Best Documentary Feature Film
Kelly (Germany) by Uli Decker, Felipe Frozza
"Kelly" is a film about a person who lives in a foreign country and in a foreign body. Kelly is a Brazilian transsexual who found refuge in an Italian holiday village. While pursuing her childhood dream of becoming a singer and performer, she survives on prostitution and dreams of finding the love of her life with the help of Afro-Brazilian rituals. The film is a psychological portrait of a complex and contradictory person who reflects human hopes and dreams in an excessive way.
Best Documentary Short Film
Letter from an imaginary man (Italy) by Matilde De Fei
Letter from an imaginary man is a project about love, about love letters. It supports a collection and research operation, which started in 2012, of volunteers willing to read their letter and tell their story on video. A survey about deep intimacy feelings, which, starting from the reading of the private written work, foreruns the interview. Each subject was met individually, in a unique setting; all meetings have a strong conceptual and video performative implication. But there is a "voile de mystere", the necessary illusion mentioned by Nietzsche about love and art, about illusion as a need. It 's all a game: mix fiction with reality, literature with life, emphasizing the illusory nature of love, the inability to love without imagining.
Best Animated Short Film
Limites (Italy) by Giulia Landi
The urban routine of a metropolis at the Alps' foot leads a young girl to dream about an alternative life in the mountains. Her patience slowly runs thin, until she gets fed up and decides to fulfill her dream and leave. But she'll have to face the gap among idealized nature and real wilderness...
Best Underground Film
Nostalgia Ghost in the Death Valley (Brazil) by Lufe Bollini
Nostalgia Ghost in the Death Valley is a short film that guides you through the greatest artistic occupation in Latin America. In 2014 the director LUFE BOLLINI, along with many other artistic and political movements occupied a 13-story idle building in downtown Sao Paulo. The movie depicts the utopic and libertarian congregations all the way through the political and aesthetic dissidence of the collectives during the initial months of the moviment.`
Best Experimental Film
The Black that Follows (United States) by Bloom
A young woman, Pearl, lives in a society in which a pair of eyes watch over every room. She is forced to do the same exact things every day at the same time. She is tremendously sad, but has a dream of entering a mysterious cafe one night. She musters up the courage to enter the cafe one day, and meets an enigmatic man named Magnus. He claims that they have met in different worlds and that he has written poems about these other worlds. He tells her each poem as we visually experience each other world. Through the stories, he offers her a path to liberation in their current world.
Best Portuguese Cinema Now
Eternity and a Day by Truman Hopper
Eurybia. Jesse realizes that Zelda is missing. Ignoring her whereabouts as the days go by, he decides to leave in search of his girlfriend. During this long journey following the only road connecting the city to the exterior world, Jesse is going to discover and try to cope with the consequences of the emptiness caused by her absence.
