Queer Porto 4 Awards

This evening took place the Closing Ceremony of Queer Porto 4 – International Queer Film Festival, in Teatro Rivoli, where the festival announced the winners of the Official Competition, the In My Shorts Competition, and the audience award.

Awards

Oficial Competition
 
Best Film: Soldiers. Story from Ferentari (Romania, Serbia, Belgium, 2017, 119’), by Ivana Mladenovic

Audience Award: Dykes, Camera, Action! (USA, 2018, 57’), by Caroline Berler

Special Mention: The Rest I Make Up (USA, 2018, 79’), by Michelle Memran

In My Shorts Competition

Best Portuguese Short Film School: Brthr (Portugal, Spain, 2017, 8’), by Inma Veiga

The Oficial Competition Jury, composed by Da Mata (artist and curator), Liad Hussein Kantorowicz (performer) and Tiago Alves (broadcaster and journalist) decided to give the Award for Soldiers. Story from Ferentari (Romania, Serbia, Belgium, 2017), directed by Ivana Mladenovic, an award worth of 3.000€, given by RTP2 Public TV Channel, by purchasing the exhibition copyrights of the film. The Jury stated: "Excellent film that questions Romanian cisheteronormativity which disciplines and controls bodies and desires, causing pain on whoever dares to be different. On a queer perspective, the film materializes itself by questioning the demands built upon the construction of masculinity, in other words, it calls attention upon the norms that create them."

The Jury also decided to award a Special Mention to the documentary The Rest I Make Up (USA, 2018), by Michelle Memran. The Jury stated: "In the maze of Maria Irene Fornés, the threads are untied by filmmaker Michelle Memran. Not only through the power to transform and also to question herself, Memran avoids any stigmatization usually associated to individuals with Alzheimer’s. It is a true celebration of friendship."
 
The Queer Porto 4 Audience decided to give the Audience Award to Dykes, Camera, Action!  (USA, 2018), by Caroline Berler.

The Jury also gave the Award for Best Portuguese School Short Film to Brthr (Portugal, Spain 2017), directed by Inma Veiga, an award of €400 worth of audiovisual equipment, sponsored by Much Underwear, and a €500 credit for training at one of the Restart schools, in Lisbon or Porto. The Jury stated: “Brthr” is a fictionalized biography that strengthens the feelings of brotherhood and affective protection towards someone who is displaced."

Queer Porto 4 continues tomorrow, Sunday, October 14th, in the BlackBox at Mala Voadora, with the screening at 5 pm of the film No Democracy Here by Liad Hussein Kantorowicz and a talk with the director who will be present at the session. The festival ends with the performance #LOSMICRÓFONOS, by Jorge Dutor and Guillem Mont de Palol, at 8:30 pm, in the Black Box at Mala Voadora.