Papicha and Lovemobil were the winners of the Golden Lynx Competition and Guilherme Daniel’s Erva Daninha received the National Grand Prix. Fest’s atypical 16th edition has come to an end. The festival screened almost 100 films in three different cities, indoors and outdoors (with overall sold out drive-in screenings — a new screening format introduced this year), and has now announced this year’s winners (watch the video).Papicha, directed by Mounia Meddour, has won the Golden Lynx - Best Feature Fiction Award. Meddour’s feature debut (part of Cannes’ Un Certain Regard in 2019) was considered by the jury to be “an intimate and intense look upon the college free-spirited life of young girls, in a country on the verge of a civil war” as well as “a beautiful portrait of the generations of three Algerian women”, highlighting “the astounding performance by Lyna Khoudri”. Paxton Winters’ Pacificado received...
Motelx, the Lisbon based genre festival in Portugal, wrapped up yesterday after a successful week. They announced the winners of their Méliès d’Argent awards, two films which will go to Sitges to compete for the Méliès d’Or. Guilherme Daniel's Portuguese short film Bad Seed won for Best Portuguese Horror Short / Méliès d’Argent. This is the second win in a row for Daniel. Bad Seed tells the story of a couple who ploughs a seemingly barren land and one day uncover a dark seed in the ground that becomes a strange influence in their behavior. Kirill Sokolov's debut feature film, the Russian horror comedy Why Don't You Just Die! won Best European Horror Feature / Méliès d’Argent. (His film is about)...
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- 9/16/2019
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