Feature Film Grand Prize City of Lisbon / 15.000 Euros
TVCine Special Award / Rights acquisition for Portugal
Jurist, he founded the musical groups Mão Morta and Mécanosphère, having more than 30 records released. Actor in cinema and theatre, he created community events, performance, dance and video art shows, and has published a dozen books.
Head of Programme and Acquisitions at Vilnius lFF “Kino pavasaris”. Coming from the film curating and film studies academic background, she has been active in film criticism, festival programming, and arthouse distribution for over 10 years.
Filmmaker, artist, and researcher living and working between Berlin and Belgrade. The main concerns in her work are the tensions between memory, history, and ideology, as well as the relations between collective and individual bodies, that approaches from a feminist and queer perspective. Today, she often collaborates with theorist and dramaturge Ana Vujanović in the production of films, video installations, and performances.
EMEL Short Film Grand Prize / 4.000 Euros
Best Animation Award / 500 Euros
Best Documentary Award / 500 Euros
Best Fiction Award / 500 Euros
Film archivist with Ciné-Archives, in Paris, where she is responsible for preserving and distributing Med Hondo’s films and archives. She is co-curating a yearlong series of programmes, in 2023, for the Open City Documentary festival, and medium-length films, in Paris, within FLiMM festival, for the past seven years.
Filmmaker, screenwriter, performer and trans activist. Creative director of Queer Art Lab. His first short film, “An Avocado Pit” (2022), was awarded at IndieLisboa, AFI, Brest and Clermont-Ferrand, and is still in the festival circuit.
UK based filmmaker and artist from Zurich. He has an interest in memory and the absurd, and his practice often focuses on passing ideas. His films have qualified for the Academy Awards and the European Film Awards.
Award for Best Portuguese Feature Film / 5.000 Euros
NOVA FCSH Award for Best Director in a Portuguese Feature Film / 1.000 Euros
Award for Best Portuguese Short Film / 2.000 Euros
The Yellow Color New Talent Award / 1.500 Euros convertible into image post-production services
Director and screenwriter of three short films and the features: “Medusa” (2021, Cannes Directors’ Fortnight, TIFF, IFFR, Viennale, Special Jury Prize at IndieLisboa) and “Kill Me Please” (2015, Venice Film Festival, SXSW).
Head of Programme at CPH:DOX. He runs various film clubs, teaches film history, and writes about cinema. In 2019, he received an award for his work from Festival de Cannes – Marché du film and Screen International.
Curator, film critic and distributor. Part of the programming teams of Black Canvas FCC, Reykjavik FF and Berlin Critics’ Week. Distributor at La Ola Cine. His texts on cinema have been published at MUBI Notebook, Cinema Scope and the publications of Locarno, Viennale, Mar del Plata and Tribeca.
Brand New Award / 1.500 Euros + promotion and sales by Portugal Film
Born in 2000, he’s the son of a Cape Verdean mother and a Guinean father, growing up in the outskirts of Lisbon. His first short film “MISTIDA” (2022) was selected by La Cinef, the competitive section of the Cannes Film Festival dedicated to school films from around the world. In its Portuguese premiere, the film wins the Grand Prize for Short Film at Indielisboa.
Programme manager of Berlinale Talents, the talent development initiative of the Berlin International Film Festival, with an annual summit in Berlin, seven global offshoots and a year-round community of almost 10,000 alumni.
Film curator and filmmaker, from Donostia. She’s a film programmer at Tabakalera and the Punto de Vista festival. As a filmmaker, she has directed three short films, “Xulia” (2019), “Zerua blu” (2020) and “Hirugarren koadernoa” (2022).
Silvestre Award for Best Feature Film / 1.500 Euros
Comes to cinema through editing. Her films “Coûte que coûte” (1995) and “Récréations” (1998), released in theatres, have been part of the documentary revolution in French cinema. Since then, she has alternated between documentaries and fictions. Filming others as heroes: documentary or fiction, a single question: what is a story? A life?
Film curator and programmer, based in Vienna. As part of the CineCollective, she is responsible for the artistic direction and coordination of Kaleidoskop Film und Freiluft. She is involved in the pre-selection of the Berlinale Panorama, and is a member of the non-fiction commission of the Zürcher Filmstiftung. She explores engagements and collective spaces.
Japanese sound artist based in Lisbon. He has developed a particular interest in ethnography and anthropology. His immersive work encourages an awareness of the sound that is unnoticed in everyday life.
Escola das Artes Silvestre Award for Best Short Film / 1.000 Euros
Born in Brittany, raised by VHS and living in Switzerland, he started showing films on dirty sheets in the 1990’s. He joined the selection team of the 2300 Plan 9 Film Fest before creating the Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival (LUFF) in 2002, which he has been petting since then.
Has worked in the field of adventurous cinema for fifteen years, developing audiovisual projects, curating, and publishing. She is one of the film programmers and producers at the 25 FPS Festival in Zagreb, Croatia.
Berlin based artist, singer, songwriter and producer. She has released 10 full length albums, along with multiple singles and EPs on her own label DARK SKIES ASSOCIATION, since 2009. As an outspoken DIY advocate, she has toured the five continents extensively with her one-woman-show.
Bandida do Pomar IndieMusic Award / 1.000 Euros
Co-founder of bands like Hipnótica and Beautify Junkyards and more recently with solo works, like Kyron. Responsible for creating soundtracks for cinema and contemporary dance, and also a poetry author with some published works.
Visiting Associate Professor at Escola Superior de Artes e Design – Politécnico de Leiria. He is also a journalist and art critic for Ípsilon, Público newspaper supplement, and for Contemporânea magazine.
Singer, performer and multi-instrumentalist. For over a decade she has already performed on the five continents. Her musical style reinvents itself, crossing influences from vaudeville, classic cinema, post-punk and cabaret.
Amnesty International Award / 1.500 Euros
Artist, musician, composer and activist.
Amnesty International Direction.
Deputy Director of TSF.
Árvore da Vida Award for Best Portuguese Film / 2.000 Euros
Poet and essayist.
Theologist.
Mutim Award
Actress and producer.
Filmmaker.
Screenwriter.
Schools Award
Escola Artística António Arroio
Casa Pia de Lisboa
Escola Profissional de Tecnologia Digital
Universities Award
Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema
Faculdade de Letras
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Feature Film Award / 1.000 Euros
Short Film Award / 750 Euros
IndieJunior Award / 500 Euros