“Wet Sand” wins the award for Best Film by Queer Lisboa – Observer
The feature film “Wet Sand”, by Elene Naveriani, won this Saturday the prize for Best Film at the Queer Lisbon 26 International Film Festival, in which “Joylan”, by Saum Sadiq, won the Special Mention and the Audience Award.
The closing session of the Quetas Lisboa International Film Festival on Saturday 26 at Cinema São Jorge, in Lisbon, where the awards for the Feature Film Competition, Documentary Competition, Short Film Competition, In My Shorts Competition were announced – that distinguishes the Best European School Film – and Queer Art Competition.
The choice of feature film competition, by Cláudia Lucas Chéu, Nuno Nolasco and Rita Azevedo Gomes, justified the cinematographic choice of “Wet Sand”, by Elene Naveriani, with “under the way it develops a writing and thematic approach to discrimination social, by the direction and performance of the actors, by the intelligence the musical themes dialogue with the time of the film, with emphasis on its own presence”. “Wet Sand” is, for the jury, “an unmistakable beauty”.
In the documentary competition, the Best Film for “Nuestros Cuerpos Son Sus Campos de Batalha”, by Isabelle Solas. The Audience Award distinguished “Corpolitics”, by Pedro Henrique França.
Regarding short films, the choice for Best Film went to “Uma Rapariga Imaterial”, by the Portuguese André Godinho, while the Special Mention was attributed to “Billy Boy”, by Sacha Amaral.
The Audience Award was also given to “An Immaterial Girl”, by André Godinho.
The In My Shorts competition gave the award for Best Film to “Le Variabili Dipendenti”, by Lorenzo Tardella, and the Special Mention to “The Greatest Sin”, by Gabriel B. Arrah.
Best Film in the Queer Art competition went to “Neptune Frost”, by Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman, and Special and Followed Mention for “Ultraviolette le gang des cracheuses”, by Robin Hunzinger.
This guest edition of Queer Lisboa 26 welcomed more than 40 internationals from countries such as Chile, the United States, Brazil, Argentina, Spain, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, France and Switzerland, in addition to several Portuguese guests. More than 6,500 spectators occupied the various rooms of the festival, which means an increase of 30% in relation to its previous edition.
Queer Lisboa 27, which will take place from 22 to 30 September 2023, will take place at Cinema São Jorge and at Cinemateca Portuguesa.