GRAND JURY PRIZE VICENTE PINTO ABREU
Awarded to the best film in the International Competition.
Value: €3000
A LITTLE LOVE PACKAGE, GASTÓN SOLNICKI
We have seen the eight films that have made up the international competition of Porto/Post/doc 2022, and would like to express our admiration for the way the festival has brought together a series of very diverse films that all speak with a clear voice and empathy about the world we live in, but that also are in a delicate dialogue with each other. The result is an experience that added up to much more than the sum of its parts.
The winning film effortlessly escapes qualifications such as documentary, essay, or fiction. Dealing with – among other things – issues of contemporary city life, it embraces improvisation as its leading principle. In its process, it finds a freedom that has always been rare, and certainly has become increasingly so. Full of gestures of old-fashioned hospitality, the film’s director also offers a space to others, such as cinematographer and the leading actresses, allowing them to show their arts and crafts. While presenting an alternative narrative to modernity, it has no time for sentimentality or nostalgia. In the end, it celebrates life as the most wonderful gift.
After a lively and extremely pleasant debate, the jury decided to award the Vicente Pinto Abreu Grand Prize for Best Film in International Competition to ‘A Small Package of Love’ by Gastón Solnicki.
PRÉMIO CINEMA FALADO CINEMA FALADO AWARD
Awarded to the best film in the Portuguese language from any competitive sections, unless otherwise excluded.
Value: €1000
VIAGEM AO SOL, SUSANA SOUSA DIAS, ANSGAR SCHAFER
The Cinema Falado Competition Jury thanks Porto/Post/Doc for the diversity of perspectives and aesthetic proposals presented in this section. We highlight, in the selected film, the articulation between the public and the private story, the work within the archives and the effort to preserve and transmit the memories of the anonymous protagonists of the history. We underline the importance that is given to the small story and how, from it, we can recognize the responsibility of collective memory.
TRANSMISSION AWARD
Awarded to the best film in the Transmission Competition, unless otherwise excluded.
Value: €1000
A VIAGEM DO REI, JOÃO PEDRO MOREIRA
The space we have is a lifetime. It is the distance of eternity perpetuated in memory. The quest, when we seek Avalon, beyond the mist. We follow the old language that unites us and reminds us. The winning film is the discovery of the past with the promise of the love we have, for those who give us life and imagination in exchange for almost nothing. It's the princess in the tower who loved you even though you were wrong, in the song of the sirens that lead you to doom or discovery, like dice thrown at luck. It is the accent of the north, on the journey left to chance, on the one who faces death and frees us. It is our King, and his moving journey through this world, portrayed by himself.
Honourable Mention
EL ARENA, JAY B. JAMMAL
The jury of this competition decided to distinguish this film for its beauty as the pertinence of the document itself, and also for the resilience of the Lebanese musicians, producers and other artists. The Lebanese people are exemplary in their solidarity, they now deserve all the international solidarity so that their artists can once again create and live in their country.
CINEMA NOVO AWARD OFFERED BY CANAL180
Awarded to the best film from the Cinema Novo Competition.
Value: €500, plus €2000 in kind services from BLIT, and €500 in kind services from ShowReel
NADA PARA VER AQUI, NICHOLAS BOUCHEZ
With a particular sense of humor and contradicting its title, this work reveals a rigor of look and a precision of rhythm and unique spatiality, in direct dialogue with key authors in the history of cinema.
Honourable Mention
HOME, REVISED, INÊS PEDROSA E MELO
By questioning the codes of its cinematographic genre, the film is intentionally permeable to a plurality of looks.
WORKING CLASS HEROES
Creative grant: €20.000, in partnership Filmaporto
VARIATIONS ON HOW TO FARM A CITY, MÓNICA MARTINS NUNES
A project that portrays from a position of resistance, marginal city landscapes and communities with a creative formal approach, depicting pockets of a city existing within it and also self-contained, tracking and experiencing time according to its own rhythms. A project whose structure is closely linked to its place, its people and its nature.
ARCHÉ AWARD OFFERED BY COMPANHIA DAS CULTURAS/FUNDAÇÃO PEREIRA MONTEIRO
Awarded to the best project presented in the Arché Lab.
Artist Residency at the Companhia das Culturas.
MYSTICISME DU SUD, FÁBIO PENELA
First of all, the jury would like to congratulate the candidates for the quality of the proposals they presented to us: full of hope, diversity and richness of perspectives on the future of documentary film.
The choice was difficult, very thoughtful and made complex by this afternoon's pitches.
We feel that, after the experience of these days with the tutor and the colleagues, everyone will certainly take something memorable with them.
We feel that the project that won, in the phase and trajectory it is in, will benefit from the Castro Marim artistic residency. A prize that will help the project’s development and the path of the filmmaker, even for the connection that he could extend in terms of problematizing the theme of landscape and its implications.
TEENAGE AWARD
Awarded by a group of students from various secondary schools across Porto to the best film in a selection chosen from various programme sections.
A HOUSE MADE OF SPLINTERS, SIMON LERENG WILMONT
For the very special way in which the director integrates himself into the daily life of an orphanage, and his dedication to giving us an insight into two different realities, conveying intimacy in such a raw way; and for the possibility of giving us an inner, deep and personal perspective into the lives of these children.
