Rage [+leggi anche:
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Tréfaut’s film scooped a total of six prizes: Best Picture, Best Cinematography (for Acácio de Almeida), Best Adapted Screenplay (Sérgio Tréfaut and Fátima Ribeiro), Best Actress (Isabel Ruth), Best Actor (Hugo Bentes) and Best Supporting Actor (Adriano Luz).

Parque Mayer, a cinematic homage to revista – a traditional and popular genre of Portuguese theatre – directed by António Pedro Vasconcelos, came up short, despite winning the Best Director Award: of its 15 nominations, Parque Mayer cashed in on a mere three, outpaced not only by Rage, but also by Soldado Milhões [+leggi anche:
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Between the Shadows (Portugal/France), the winner of the Best Animated Short Film Prize, uses pixilation and stop-motion techniques to tell the story of Natália, a woman who has a tedious, repetitive job in a bank where hearts can be deposited or saved up. She begins a quest for true love and ends up caught in a personal dilemma: she must decide whether she can entrust her heart to someone else, or whether she should keep it to herself. Directed by Mónica Santos and Alice Eça Guimarães, and co-produced by Vivement Lundi! and Un Segundo Filmes, Between the Shadows was the only Portuguese film nominated for the 44th César Awards. The other winners in the short-film category were Filipe Melo’s Sleepwalk, for Best Short Fiction Film, and Kids Sapiens Sapiens by António Aleixo, which snagged the Best Short Documentary Film Award. The Best Documentary Film Award was bestowed upon O Labirinto da Saudade, an adaptation of Eduardo Lourenço’s book of the same name, which deconstructs the Portuguese ethos, directed by Miguel Gonçalves Mendes.

The TV series Sara, created by Marco Martins and Bruno Nogueira, won the Best Television Film Award. “Cudin”, a song composed by Miguel Moreira (also known as “Tibars”) and Vasco Viana for the movie Djon Africa [+leggi anche:
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Most of this year’s Sophia Prize winners – namely, Rage, O Labirinto da Saudade, Sleepwalk, Between the Shadows and Kids Sapiens Sapiens – will be screened across the country at the first of two annual editions of Festa do Cinema, unspooling between 13 and 15 May.

Here is the complete list of winners: 

Best Film
Rage [+leggi anche:
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Best Documentary
O Labirinto da Saudade – Miguel Gonçalves Mendes

Best Director
António-Pedro Vasconcelos – Parque Mayer

Best Actress
Isabel Ruth – Rage

Best Actor
Hugo Bentes – Rage

Best Supporting Actress
Ana Bustorff – Ruth [+leggi anche:
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Best Supporting Actor
Adriano Luz - Rage

Best Screenplay
Jorge Paixão da Costa and Mário Botequila - Soldado Milhões [+leggi anche:
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Best Adapted Screenplay
Sérgio Tréfaut and Fátima Ribeiro - Rage

Best Cinematography
Acácio de Almeida - Rage

Best Film Editing
João Braz - Soldado Milhões

Best Sound
Pedro Melo, Branko Neskov, Ivan Neskov and Elsa Ferreira - Soldado Milhões

Best Soundtrack
Manuel João Vieira - Cabaret Maxime [+leggi anche:
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Best Original Song
“Cudin” - Miguel Moreira (“Tibars”) and Vasco Viana - Djon Africa [+leggi anche:
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Best Artistic Direction
Joana Cardoso - Soldado Milhões

Best Special Effects
Jorge Carvalho and Carlos Amaral - Soldado Milhões

Best Costume Design
Maria Gonzaga - Parque Mayer

Best Make-up and Hairstyling
Abigail Machado and Mário Leal - Parque Mayer

Best Television Film or Miniseries
Sara - Marco Martins and Bruno Nogueira

Best Short Documentary Film
Kids Sapiens Sapiens - António Aleixo

Best Short Fiction Film
Sleepwalk - Filipe Melo

Best Short Animation Film
Between the Shadows - Mónica Santos and Alice Guimarães (Portugal/France)

Best Student Film
Terra Ardida - Francisco Romão (ETIC)

Career Awards
Pedro Efe (actor) and Lia Gama (actress)