It´s with great pleasure that we announce our 16th edition´s list of awarded films. We thank the Jury for their arduous work and our audience for this wonderful selection.
FEATURE FILM COMPETITION
Jury: Andrea Basilio, Claudia Bolshaw, Olivier Cotte, Pedro Brito, Zsuzsanna Kreif
Grand Prix MONSTRA
My Life as a Zucchini – Claude Barras | France, Switzerland | 2016 | 70’
Best Film for Children and Youth
Louis & Luca – The Big Cheese Race – Rasmus A. Sivertsen | Norway | 2015 | 78′
Jury Honorable Mentions
Window Horses – The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming – Ann Marie Fleming | Canada | 2016 | 89’
Jury Special Prize
Louise by the Shore – Jean-François Laguionie | France, Canada | 2016 | 75’
Audience Award
My Life as a Zucchini – Claude Barras | France, Switzerland | 2016 | 70’
PORTUGUESE COMPETITION
Jury: Falk Schuster, Giannalberto Bendazzi, Paula Tavares
Jury Honorable Mentions
It Would Piss Me Off To Die So Yoooooung… / Chatear-me-ia Morrer Tão Joveeeeem… – Filipe Abranches | Portugal | 2016 | 16′
Final Call / Última Chamada – Sara Barbas | Portugal | 2016 | 12′
Best Portuguese Film – SPautores / Vasco Granja Award
It is necessary that I diminish / É preciso que eu diminua – Pedro Serrazina | Portugal | 2016 | 4′
Audience Award
Final Call / Última Chamada – Sara Barbas | Portugal | 2016 | 12′
SHORT FILM COMPETITION
Jury: Andrea Basílio, Andrea Martignoni, Géza M. Tóth, Irena Jukic Pranjic, Tiago Neves de Albuquerque
Grand Prix Monstra- Shorts
Peripheria – David Coquard-Dassault | France | 2015 | 12′
Jury Honorable Mentions
Summer’s Puke is Winter’s Delight – Sawako Kabuki | Japan | 2016 | 3′
Accidents, Blunders and Calamities – James Cunningham | New Zealand | 2015 | 5′
Best Experimental Film
Squame – Nicolas Brault | Canada | 2015 | 4´
Best Portuguese Short
It Would Piss Me Off To Die So Yoooooung… / Chatear-me-ia Morrer Tão Joveeeeem…– Filipe Abranches | Portugal | 2016 | 16′
Jury Special Prize
Among the Black Waves – Anna Budanova | Russia | 2016 | 11′
Audience Award
Blind Vaysha – Theodore Ushev | Canada | 2016 | 8´
STUDENT COMPETITION
Jury: Joana Nogueira, Jonathan Hodgson, Juan Pablo Zaramella
Best Student Film
Look at Me Only – Tomoki Misato | Japan | 2016 | 8′
Jury Honorable Mentions
Foreign Body – Marta Magnuska | Poland | 2016 | 7′
Where our memories are – Yuriko Ogawa | United Kingdom | 2016 | 4′
Best Portuguese Student Film
A Place in Nowhere / Lugar em Parte Nenhuma – Bárbara de Oliveira, João Rodrigues | Portugal | 2016 | 6′
Jury junior: Ana Rita Margaço, João Vermelho, Adriana Abreu, Raghuraj Rai
Best Student Film
Steven Goes to the Park – Claudia Cortés Espejo | Bélgica | 2016 | 6′
Jury Honorable Mentions
Eidos – Elena Ortolan | Italy | 2016 | 5′
The Table – Eugène Boitsov | France | 2016 | 4′
A Love Story – Anushka Kishani Naanayakkara | United Kingdom| 2016 | 7′
Best Portuguese Student Film
A Place in Nowhere / Lugar em Parte Nenhuma – Bárbara de Oliveira, João Rodrigues | Portugal | 2016 | 6′
Audience Awards
Happy End – Jan Saska | Czech Republic | 2015 | 6′
SUPER SHORT COMPETITION
Jury: Pedro Letria, Vera Neubauer, Meenakshi and Vinay Rai
Best International Super-Short
Tour – Jasmijn Cedee | Belgium | 2016 | 2’21
Jury Honorable Mentions
The Darkest Truth About Love – Lara Lee, Hannah Jacobs | United Kingdom | 2015 | 1’49
Aftermath – Layla Atkinson | United Kingdom | 2015 | 3′
Tekkol – Jorn Leeuwerink | The Netherlands | 2015 | 2′
Best Portuguese Super-Short
Stingy Jack´s Tale / A lenda de Stingy Jack – Andreia Reisinho Costa | Portugal | 2016 | 2’52
MONSTRINHA COMPETITION – SHORTS FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH
Jury: João Jaime, Luísa Violo, Michel Simeão
Best Film MONSTRINHA
Cloudberry – Polina Minchenok | Russia | 2015 | 8’
Jury Honorable Mentions
FAMILY PROGRAM CATEGORY
Way of Giants / Caminho dos Gigantes – Alois Di Leo | Brazil | 2016 | 12’
3 TO 6 CATEGORY
The Gossamer – Natalia Chernysheva | Russia | 2016 | 4´
7 TO 12 CATEGORY
Stick Man – Jeroen Jaspaert, Daniel Snaddon | United Kingdom | 2015 | 27´
13 + CATEGORY
The Courthouse – Estelle Costedoat, Antoine Engels, Julien Fradin, Florian Gourdin, Pierre-Edouard Mérien, Olivier Royer | France | 2016 | 7´
Audience Awards
FAMILY PROGRAM CATEGORY
Pat and Mat – Orange Juice – Marek Beneš | Czech Republic | 2016 | 8´
3 TO 6 CATEGORY
In a Cage – Loic Bruyere | France | 2016 | 6´
7 TO 12 CATEGORY
Stick Man – Jeroen Jaspaert, Daniel Snaddon | United Kingdom | 2015 | 27´
13 + CATEGORY
The Courthouse – Estelle Costedoat, Antoine Engels, Julien Fradin, Florian Gourdin, Pierre-Edouard Mérien, Olivier Royer | France | 2016 | 7´
GOLDEN PEANUT COMPETITION
Bronze Peanut
69SEC – Laura Nicolas | Belgium | 2016 | 1’42
Silver Peanut
The D in David – Michelle Yi, Yaron Farkash | USA | 2016 | 2’06
Golden Peanut
Mr. Blue Footed Booby – Gino Imagino | Ecuador | 2015 | 2’19