Film “Everytime” wins the Lisbon Film Festival

O sandra Wollner’s film “Everytime”, won the award NOS of the 20th Lisbon Film Festival (LEFFEST), while the great award João Bénard da Costa for best performance was the “La perra”, Dominga Sotomayor, announced today the organization.

The jury of the competition was composed by David Cronenberg, Milagros Mumenthaler, Angélica Liddell, Gidon Kremer and Andrea Camprincoli, and the awards were announced at the closing ceremony of the festival, at Cinema São Jorge, in Sala Manoel de Oliveira.

The winner of the NOS Grand Prix is a German and Austrian co-production, which portrays a “tragedy that unites a mother, her youngest daughter and her eldest daughter’s boyfriend” under the sun of the island of Tenerife, in the Canary Islands, according to the synopsis released by the festival.

“La perra”, which won the great award João Bénard da Costa for best achievement, is a Chilean and Brazilian production, with action passed on a remote island in southern Chile, in which Sotomayor challenges “the traditional narrative of affections between humans and domestic animals”, is mentioned in the synopsis.

The festival jury awarded the award for best argument to the Franco-Belgian film “Notre Salut”, by director Emmanuel Marre.

Ana Dumitrascu won the award for Best Actress for the French film "Diary of a Room Maid", by Radu Jude.

The award for best actor was for Italians Toni Servillo and Lorenzo Perrotta, for Mario Martone's film "Scherzetto".

As the best cast, the jury distinguished the French production “Mariage au goût d’Orange”, by Christophe Honoré.

The award for best photography was awarded to Peter Andrews for the British and American production “The Christophers”, by Steven Soderbergh.

According to the organization's information, the jury of the section discovered, composed of Barbara Sukowa, Ana Vilaça, Javier Porta Fouz and Yoshio Kitagawa, awarded the award revelation to Auguste Bernard Kouemo Yanghu, a production originating in four countries (Cameras, France, Belgium and Benin).

The jury of the international meeting of film schools, composed by Sérgio Graciano, Lily Cole and Anders Refn, awarded the award for best short film João Miragre to the Belgian production “Deux ames”, by Cecili Matureli and Avril Poirier, students of the Institut Supérieur des Arts du Spectacle et des Techniques de Diffusion (INSAS), in Belgium.

The Mexican film “El canto del jaguar”, by Antonia Sofía Silva Alvarado, a student at ENAC (National School of Cinematographic Arts), from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, received an honorable mention, says LEFFEST.

The festival featured a selection of more than 150 films, including pre-screens, award-winning and retrospective works.