2017 Summer
Lisbon Bull Award (aka ‘Best of the Fest’)
Best Experimental Film
Im Rules (Estonia) by Maria Netti Nüganen
Up close and personal. Maria Netti Nüganen has studied dance, circus, theatre and music. Her interest is to explore the potential of these arts on contemporary performative scene.
Best Narrative Feature Film
RUN / FLUCHT (Germany) by frank blau
Germany. The situation has changed from democracy to a kind of military dictatorship. L., a woman age30, mother of two little children is being blackmailed by the department of homeland-security: She has to hand over a so called terrorist. B. is on the run. She is forced to leave Germany. L. finds B. in the forrests, they walk together.After some time L. realises, that she and B. are in the same desperate situation. Run- a movie about trust, loneliness and the morality of betrayal.
Best Documentary Feature Film
Omar & Gloria (Mexico) by Jimmy Cohen
Omar and Gloria are an extraordinary Danzon couple. Omar relates to the world through Gloria. Gloria relates to the world through her video camera.
Best Portuguese Cinema Now
Nortik (Portugal) by Tiago Iúri
An exploration has to be carried out on the planet Nortik by Jane and her colleagues, but the mission doesn't happen as expected. It consisted in looking for someone superior to us, humans.
Best Animated Feature Film
Release from Heaven (Iran, Islamic Republic of) by Ali Noori Oskouei
In a war torn country, a female writer and teacher has to accompany two of her students on a life changing journey.
Best Narrative Short Film
Three months (France) by Diego Neptali Aldana Torres
A young woman fights untiringly for the custody of her daughter.
Best Underground Film
Marvins Place (Germany) by Julian Bollerhoff
Two unsuccessful, but overambitious young filmmakers are running out of luck with their latest pseudo documentary film project until they find the socially isolated student Marvin. He would do almost anything for a small amount of attention, and they would do everything for a larger amount of fame. From the start this relationship could not be farer away from being mutually beneficial. But when they manage to talk the woman of his unfulfilled desires into the project an orgy of self-destruction unfolds. Her own wounded psyche turns out to be the perfect ally for the cynical cold camera. The unconventional perspective of this short movie brings voyeurism to a painful new level. Against their will the audience is forced to become partners in crime with the filmmakers while watching young Marvin's hopeless struggle. An emotional character study and an incisive satire about the act of filmmaking. It is the dark absurdity when men who could not be less interested in human beings are in the business of selling human emotions.
Best Animated Short Film
Addison Groove - Changa (United Kingdom) by Vector Meldrew
Lose your mind with this warped and wonderful journey through preternatural dance moves.
