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Brazilian films are the great winners at the 29th Mostra BR de Cinema
Two Brazilian films, a documentary, "For a Better Day", by João Jardim, and a fiction feature "Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures", by Marcelo Gomes were the great winners at the 29th Mostra BR de Cinema - the São Paulo International Film Festival.Each film was awarded three trophies at the ceremony this Thursday (November 3), at Memorial América Latina, prior to a showing of the restored copy of the classic "The Battleship Potemkin" (1925), by Sergei Eisenstein.
The Eisenstein film was accompanied by the Sinfônica Jazz orchestra, in a performance of the original score by German composer Edmund Meisel, composed in 1926, conducted by João Maurício Galindo.
A portrayal of the crisis in education in Brazil as from statements by young students and their teachers in several states, "For a Better Day" was awarded the Prize for Youth - voted by 16,000 spectators from government schools, present at the Youth Festival, in a program parallel to Mostra. The Bombril Prize (that awarded R$ 15,000,00 to the best documentary in the national selection this year) and the prize for best documentary by the jury also went to João Jardim for "For a Better Day".
Focusing on the day-to-day experiences of a German and a Brazilian travelling
the roads in the Brazilian hinterland at the height of World War II, "Cinema,
Aspirins and Vultures" was awarded the trophy for best fiction feature
by the jury, with best actor to João Miguel, and best Brazilian film by
the critics.
The jury also awarded a prize to the Chinese production "Peacock", by Gu Changwei, with a special trophy for directing and lighting, and to the American script for "Everything is Illuminated ", first film directed by actor Liv Schreiber.
The Humanity prize, instituted as from 2004, was awarded this year to Brazilian documentarist Eduardo Coutinho. The Bombril prize for best national fiction film to the amount of R$ 25,000,00 was awarded to first-timer Marcelo Galvão, for the film "Quarta B".
The critics awarded the prize for best feature film to the Chinese film
"The World", by Jia Zhang-Ke, and granted honorable mention to Jon
Wengstrom, curator of the Swedish Film Library for the retrospective on
film maker Victor Sjöström. The Mostra public chose as best
short films "My Humanity", by American Daniel Skaf, and "The Pink Diary of Lori Lamby ", by Brazilian Sung Sfai; medium-length
films, "Coup d’état contre Hugo Chávez" (France), by Kim Bartley
and Donnacha O`Brien, and the Brazilian film "Wet Paint", by Paulo Alzugaray and Ricardo Van Steen; the Swedish
documentary "Bergman Och Filmen, Bergman Och Teatern, Bergman Och Farö", by Marie Nyreröd; and the Danish fiction
feature "Adam`s
Apples", by Anders Thomas Jensen.
