2016 Winter
Lisbon Bull Award
Best Experimental Film
It’s Not Homosexual Just The Homophilic But Also The One Blinded By The Lost Phalus (Spain) by Equipo Palomar
It's not homosexual just the homophilic but also the one blinded by the lost phallus, takes it title from a previously unknown 1976 draft for a short film that directors of the film discovered in the archives of the spanish prolific writer, anthropologist and LGBT activist Alberto Cardín, who died of AIDS-related illness in Barcelona in 1992. The exuberant production of Cardín’s loose screenplay by Equipo Palomar is an erratic and erotic exploration of narcissism, blasphemy, miscegenation, transvestism, the murder of Pier Paolo Pasolini and the Schreber case.
Best Narrative Feature Film
Rage (Poland) by Michal Wegrzyn
After a quarrel with his wife, Adam spends time with his mistress at the gym. Later, as he runs 20 kilometers to get home, he takes a phone call, which is his dream come true. The owner of a TV station promotes him to evening news editor. Adam’s imagination conjures up a vision of a brilliant career. He doesn’t suspect his world will soon collapse… Now he has 90 minutes to patch up his life.
Best Documentary Feature Film
Sky’s The Limit, the extreme painters (France) by Jerome Thomas
French documentary featuring extreme graffiti artists from worldwide, performing at monumental heights, with the sky as only limit.
Best Narrative Short Film
Millions of tears (France) by Natalie Beder
Two lost souls become uneasy, temporary travel companions in this moving film that subtly blurs the line between reality and a wished-for alternative.
Best Documentary Short Film
The Devil and the Holy Water (Finland) by Diego Maria Malara
For centuries, exorcism has been a daily practice in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. But as Ethiopia has undergone extensive social change, exorcism has been revolutionized. New problems produce new demons, and new demons require dramatic new rituals. Shot in Addis Abeba, ‘The Devil and the Holy Water’ is a short documentary that portrays exorcisms conducted by the controversial priest Mehmer Girma, whose charisma gathers hundreds of people from across Ethiopia and around the world. Narrated by a woman exorcized by Mehmer Girma, the film gives an intimate account of the reality of demonic affliction in modern Ethiopian life.
Best Animated Short Film
Old Bear (France) by Chen Chen
An old bear, lives in an appartement, with a young lady. Even though she takes care of him, the bear becomes uncontrollable, dreams more and more to get back in the forest.
Best Underground Film
Snake Eating Its Own Tail (Finland) by Tuomas Anttonen
Russian criminals settle their scores in a sleepy border town and fall into a destructive cycle of violence.
Best Portuguese Cinema Now
Landing by Filipe Martins
Metaphorical characters intersect in a story told through gestures, body and places. Life, from beginning to end. And the great conflict that runs through this route is the always incomplete landing: a landing that will not ultimately more than the arrival to a state of things, a definitive immobility. It is the eternal conflict between the rapture of the passions and the hidden desire for serenity, to the balance, to conformism and death.
