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FESTROIA’ RETURN’S HOME

The 28. Festroia will be held, exclusively, this year from 21st to the 30 of September.


This alteration it’s due to the fact that the conclusion of the works of renovation and modernization of the Forum Municipal Luisa Todi that will be concluded in September.


Therefore the Festival will be back to its official theatre.

Festival de la Rochelle shows "The secret of Miguel Zuzarte", a short series from a novel by Mário Ventura

The Secret of Miguel Zuzarte, miniseries about the Republic, displayed on RTP1, integrates the 13th Edition of the Fiction Festival of La Rochelle, which will take place between 7 and 11 September.

The series showed by RTP1 between 9 and 10 October 2010, and integrated in four mini-series which marked the Republic Day, now incorporates the list of nominees for the 13th Fiction Festival of la Rochelle, France.

This production, The Secret of Miguel Zuzarte that goes for competition between 7 and 11 September, was produced by HOP, with the participation of actors as Ivo Canelas, Luis Alberto, Ana Nave, Cristina Cavalinhos, Rosa do Canto among others.

This production follows the footsteps of the Original Series that is currently on display in the first channel of the state, Liberdade 21, who had been nominated for this contest in 2009.

Source: Diário de Notícias (photo and text)

AWARDS - 27 EDITION FESTROIA – INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL OF SETÚBAL

BEST FILM - GOLD DOLPHIN    TIRZA, by Rudolf van den Berg, The Netherlands/Belgium

SPECIAL JURY PRIZE – SILVER DOLPHIN    JUST BETWEEN US, by Rajko Grlic, Croatia/Serbia/Slovenia

BEST DIRECTOR – SILVER DOLPHIN    Oleg Novkovic, for WHITE WHITE WORLD, Serbia/Germany/Sweden

BEST ACTOR – SILVER DOLPHIN    Nebojsa Glogovac, for THE WOMAN WITH A BROKEN NOSE, by Srdjan Koljevic, Serbia/Germany

BEST ACTRESS – SILVER DOLPHIN    Florence Loiret Caille, for THE LITTLE ROOM, by Stéphanie Chuat and Véronique Reymond, Switzerland/Luxembourg

BEST SCRIPT – SILVER DOLPHIN    Julio Rojas and Matias Bize, for THE LIFE OF FISH, by Matias Bize, Chile/France

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY – SILVER DOLPHIN    Pini Hellstedt, for LAPLAND ODYSSEY, by Dome Karukoski, Finland

AUDIENCE AWARD    MAMMA GÓGÓ, by Fridrik Thor Fridriksson, Iceland

PRIZE MAN AND HIS ENVIRONMENT    SEVERN, THE VOICE OF OUR CHILDREN, by Jean-Paul Jaud, France

SPECIAL MENTION    PRINCESS, by Arto Halonen, Finland

SPECIAL MENTION    TRY I WILL, by Susana Pilgrim, Germany/Italy

FIRST WORKS AWARD    THE ABANDONED, by Adis Bakrac, Bosnia

SPECIAL MENTION    BLACK & WHITE, by Ahmet Boyacioglu, Turkey

SPECIAL MENTION    To Magdalena Poplawska for her performance in the movie BETWEEN TWO FIRES, by Agnieszka Lukasiak, Poland/Sweden

FIPRESCI PRIZE    HAIR, by Tayfun Pirselimoglu, Turkey/Greece

SIGNIS PRIZE    THE LITTLE ROOM, by Stéphanie Chuat and Véronique Reymond, Switzerland/Luxembourg

SPECIAL MENTION    WEIRDO, by Audrey Najar and Fréderic Perrot, France

CICAE PRIZE    REBOUNCE, by Heidi Maria Faisst, Denmark

MÁRIO VENTURA AWARD    THE HARDEST PART, by Olivier Refson, United Kigdom

27. FESTROIA

3 a June 12, 2011

The 27. Edition of Festroia - Festival Internacional de Cine de Setubal will be held this year from 3 to 12 June and will feature 180 films from 40 countries, numbers representing the diversity that characterizes the only Portuguese festival included in prestigious annual calendar of FIAPF (International Federation of Film Producers Associations).

In terms of programming, this year's festival features the usual competitive sections - Official Section, First Works and Man and Nature - and with several non-competitive exhibits, including the Tribute to Turkey and the cycle Cooking Love.

Notably also the complete retrospective of Dutch filmmaker Jos Stelling, who will be honored with the Career Golden Dolphin.

With regard to extra-animation festival, Festroia will maintain its focus on meeting point, located at Avenida Luísa Todi and lively during the festival.

This year the festival will also take place in Auditorio da Anunciada, the Municipal Auditorium Charlot, Jose Afonso Auditorium and Cinema City Classic Alvalade (Lisbon), where they show movies in two rooms.

LITTLE WHITE LIES is the ante-debut on 27 Festroia

LITTLE WHITE LIES

Guillaume Canet,

France, 154 '

Synopsis:

Despite a traumatic event, a group of friends decide to go ahead with their usual beach holiday. Their relationships, beliefs, feelings of guilt and friendship are severely tested.

They are finally forced to confess the little lies they have told each other.

Cast: Francois Cluzet, Marion Cotillard, Benoit Magimel, Gilles Lellouche, Jean Dujardin, Laurent Lafitte, and Valerie Pascale Bonneton Arbillot

Distributor in Portugal: Zon Lusomundo

Festroia honors Jos Stelling

In its 27th edition, Festroia - International Film Festival of Setubal, will honor Dutch filmmaker Jos Stelling with a Career Dolphin.

About Jos Stelling

Born in Utrecht - the Netherlands - the July 16, 1945, Jos Stelling is a self made man who made 11 films, and this year started the production of his latest film "The Girl and the Death", where the actress Sylvia Hoekse plays the principal role.

He debuted in 1974 with completion in the movie "Mariken Nieumegen van, " the film being selected for the Official Section of the Cannes Film Festival in 1975. No further Dutch movie had this honor. With this film, the cinematography of Stelling was installed around the world.

In 1981 he founded the Dutch Film Days, a festival for Dutch filmmakers, gives them the opportunity to present their films in an informal manner, thus creating a launch platform for these filmmakers. He continued as chairman and director until the 10th edition in 1991. When he left the Festival was renamed to "Dutch Film Festival.

Jos Stelling is the founder and owner of two arthouse cinemas in Utrecht, Springhaver (since 1978) and Louis Hartlooper Complex (since 2004).

Festroia honors Maria de Medeiros

In its 27th edition, Festroia - International Film Festival of Setubal, will honor the portuguese actress, singer and director Maria de Medeiros with the Career Dolphin.

Born in Lisbon - Portugal - August 19, 1965, Maria de Medeiros Vitorino de Almeida, is the daughter of Maestro Vitorino de Almeida and Maria Armanda de Saint-Maurice Ferreira Esteves, a journalist, has a younger sister, the actress Inês de Medeiros. The maternal grandmother, Odette de Saint-Maurice, was a writer and author of juvenile radio. He spent his childhood in Austria, returning to Portugal after the April 25, 1974. In Lisbon, she attended the Lycee Francais Charles Lepierre.

Fluent in six languages??, is based in Paris and is married to Agustí Camps, a Spanish designer, who has two daughters, Julia(1997) and Eleanor(2003).

FESTROIA AGAIN IN LISBON, TURKISH CINEMA IN FOCUS

The 27th edition of FESTROIA - Internacional Film Festival of Setubal, which takes place 3-12 June, is marked by the return of the event in Lisbon, with an extension at the Cinema City Classic Alvalade, 5-12 June, where it will be displayed much of the festival program.

Known as a Renaissance environment and rigorous selection of films that are projected, Alvalade Classic Movies will present Festroias programme in four daily sessions to be held in two of the four rooms of the complex.

In Setubal, the festival will feature take place in the same places than 2010: Anunciada Auditorium and the renovated Municipal Auditorium Charlot, part of the Europa Cinemas network, and Almada with the usual extension in the Auditorium Fernando Lopes Graça

Regarding programming, which is already under preparation, will include about 200 films, highlighting the special section "Love and the Kitchen, " filled by feature films from big names in European cinema.

Regarding the usual "Homage to a Country", this year, the elected is Turkey. The Festival Focus on the Turkish Cinema will include about 20 films.

Open entries for the 27th edition.

Regulations and entry forms are already available online.

26th EDITION FESTROIA AWARDS

25th EDITION FESTROIA – INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL AWARDS
BEST FILM - GOLD DOLPHIN - A SOMEWHAT GENTLE MAN, by Hans Petter Moland, Norway
SPECIAL JURY PRIZE – SILVER DOLPHIN - HEARTBEATS, by Saara Cantell, Finland
BEST DIRECTOR – SILVER DOLPHIN - Hans Petter Moland, for A SOMEWHAT GENTLE MAN, Norway
BEST ACTRESS – SILVER DOLPHIN - Sylvia Hoeks, for THE STORM, The Netherlands/Belgium
BEST ACTOR – SILVER DOLPHIN - Stellen Skarsgard, for A SOMEWHAT GENTLE MAN, Norway
BEST SCRIPT – SILVER DOLPHIN - Kim Fupz Aakeson, for A SOMEWHAT GENTLE MAN, Norway
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY – SILVER DOLPHIN - Jakob Ihre, for A FAMILY, by Pernille Fischer Christensen, Denmark

26th EDITION FESTROIA – INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL SPECIAL AWARDS

AUDIENCE AWARD - SUBMARINO, by Thomas Vinterberg, Denmark/Sweden
PRIZE MAN AND HIS ENVIRONMENT - LETTERS TO FATHER JACOB, by Klaus Haro, Finland
SPECIAL MENTION - GIMME SOME RESPECT, by Pekka Karjalainen, Finland
PRIZE CITY HALL OF SETÚBAL – AMERICAN INDEPENDENTS - ELEPHANT EYES Distributor, U.S.A.
FIRST WORKS AWARD - SEBBE, by Babak Najafi, Sweden/Finland
FIPRESCI PRIZE - ALL THAT I LOVE, by Jacek Borcuch, Poland
SIGNIS PRIZE - A FAMILY, by Pernille Fischer Christensen, Denmark
SPECIAL MENTION - X=X+1, by Juraj Krasnohorsky, Slovakia
CICAE PRIZE - ALL THAT I LOVE, by Jacek Borcuch, Poland
MÁRIO VENTURA AWARD - João Azevedo, Luis Lobo and Joana Cunha, by the Script of “ACT OF LIFE”, Portugal
MÁRIO VENTURA AWARD - Zvonimir Juric, by the Script of “YELLOW MOON”, Croatia

Auditório Municipal Charlot on the Europa Cinemas

The quality of the programming of the Municipal Auditorium Charlot, Setúbal, was recognized by Europa Cinemas, whose committee approved the entry of this Theatre in this demanding European network of cinemas.

The Municipal Auditorium Charlot bet on display, with affordable and quite often, the best of European cinema, leaving the choice of programming by the Association Festroia.

With this distinction, Portugal now has three cities in the Europa Cinemas network(already part of the network are cinemas Medea in Lisbon and Oporto), which objective is to support the theatres that are committed to show european cinema and organizing initiatives designed to put young audiences in contact with this art.

The Municipal Auditorium Charlot, now part of the CICA (International Confederation ofArt Cinemas and Testing).

Stories from the Resistance

Throughout the years, our hands and eyes hold dozens of films that become engraved in our memory, impossible to forget.
Among them there are stories of men and women who struggled to the extreme for believing that any human being deserved to be respected and that everything that takes away freedom and dignity should be fought.
On its 26th edition, Festroia will present some of those stories that took place in Europe, because although we are part of the European Union for almost 25 years, we still don’t know much about the resistance in many of our fellow countries.

Festroia Photos

The photos from the festroia events can be seen in http://fotos.festroia.pt.
For high resolution copies please ask the Festival reception desk.

Michael Madsen, Festroia Guest of Honor

Michael Madsen is more than just the critically acclaimed actor best known for his role as Mr. Blonde in Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs, he is also a prize winning poet. Michael's first professionally published book, Burning in Paradise, won the Independent Firecracker Award in 1998. The Complete Poetic Works of Michael Madsen, Vol. I: 1995-2005, which was published by 13 Hands Publications in 2005, is a complete ten year volume and compilation of his work. He has since chronicled his life and travels as an actor and photographer in Signs of Life (2006) and in 2008 Michael gained international attention when his book Burning In Paradise was translated in Norwegian for the first time. He has since then been invited to Italy and Mexico  as a poet.

Michael Madsen's forthcoming book, American Badass, will be released on September 25, 2009 and is a stunning photo journey of Madsen's iconic and cinematic history interspersed with new poetry. Michael Madsen continues to turn in edge-of-the-seat performances, but his poetry continues to tell the backstory of his life.

Mário Ventura Award for the best short-film script

Remembering the literary career of the founder of Festroia and awarding the best short-film script being screened at the festival, whether it is in a competitive or non-competitive section, are the goals of the Mário Ventura Award, handed out for the first time this year.
With a prize-money of € 2,000, this award is decided by the Direction of the Festival, standing out as another tribute to the Festroia’s founder Mário Ventura, writer, journalist and politically and socially committed citizen who died three years ago.

Festival Caractheristics

Being a unique festival in Portugal, Festroia celebrates a quarter of a century in an original way, having a giant tent place in from of the Convent of Jesus, one of the first works of Manueline style architecture, prior to Hieronymites Monastery, as its main venue.
This was the solution found to overcome the delay in the renovation works of the Luísa Todi Municipal Forum, the festival's usual main venue, and shows the creative and professional way to which Festroia reacts to obstacles.
This year’s program has the usual four competitive sections – Official Section, First Works, American Independents and Man and His Environment – and several non-competitive showcases, including a Tribute to Czech Republic, a Film Noir exhibition and the section Across the Universe, to celebrate the International Year of Astronomy.
Regarding the extra-festival animation, and after the success in 2008, Festroia will have a meeting point located on the renewed central plaque of the Luísa Todi Avenue. It will have the First Showcase of Regional Products – Festroia, fruit of a partnership with the Association for the Rural Development of the Setubal Peninsula, as well as a happy hour with musical animation every day at 19h30 and a party every night.
The 25th edition of Festroia is sponsored by the Setubal Municipality, and has the support of the European Union's MEDIA program, the Portuguese Institute for Cinema and Audiovisual, the Buehler-Brockhaus Foundation, the Association of Municipalities of the Setubal Region, Eurodome, Lisnave, Caja Duero and Sabores do Sado.

Festroia Juris

Keeping with tradition, the juries of the four competitive sections of the 25th Festroia are made up of renowned film personalities.
Official Section:
Juraj Jakubisko (Czech Republic) – director
Paul Morrison (UK) – director
Phyllis Mollet (France) – Independent film consultant
Beatriz Flores Silva (Uruguay) – director
Lola Mayo (Spain) – producer
Fernando Luís (Portugal) – actor
Henrique Teixeira (Portugal) – director of the Funchal International Film Festival
First Works:
Ivan Shvedoff (Russia) – actor
Alexander Oppersdorff (Germany) – director
Petr Koliha (Czech Republic) – director of the Zlin International Film Festival.
American Independents:
Martin Maryska (USA) – sound editor, screenwriter and producer
Carl Haber (Czech Republic) – director
Dorka Gryllus (Hungary) – actress
Man and His Environment:
Antunes Dias (Portugal) – biologist
Arlindo Mota (Portugal)– poet
Albertina Estrela (Portugal) – teacher

Festroia at Jesus Square

The main cinema where the 25 Festroia will take place is a giant tent on the town center, at Jesus Square in face of the monastery with the same name.

The new cinema that the Festroia with the close cooperation of Setubal City Hall will set, answering the justified delay on the qualification works of Forum Luisa Todi, is a modern blackout tent with 500 places and all the needs to enjoy the Festival.

New trophies

On Festroia 25th edition, new official awards were created – the Gold and Silver Dolphins.

To celebrate the event’s quarter of a century, and keeping up with the creation of the Festival’s new image, the awards were revamped in order to adapt to the institutional logo, keeping its former identity – the waves and the dolphins – symbols of Festroia and the city of Setubal.
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