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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

26th Festroia: entries until March 30

Entries to 26th Festroia are already open. Use the link “entry forms” to download the entry forms and the regulations right now.
We hope to see you in June.

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 Award Winners

Check the award winners list of this year’s edition here.

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.

Video Initiation Workshop

Festroia in a partnership with Vo’Arte Association promotes from 7th to the 9th of September a Video Initiation Workshop in the Museum of Work Michel Giacometi.
This 15 hours training will be presented by director and producer Pedro Sena, clearing the participants ideas about the theory and practice of direction, camera operation, sound and editing in a way that enables them to build a project evolving from initial idea trough final result.
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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.

Festroia Support

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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. Download do ficheiro de suporte >>

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 Download do ficheiro de suporte >>

Festival Sections - Official Section

From Iceland to Indonesia, going through Uruguay or Romania, the Official Section of the 25th Festroia present 15 of the best films made in the last year in countries with a film production that is small in size, but big in quality.
Jiri Chlumsky’s Broken Promise is the entry from Slovakia, based on the autobiography of Martin Friedmann, a young Jewish footballer that tries to survive during World War II, while the Czech Republic will run for the Gold Dolphin with Filip Renc’s Guard No. 47, about a railway guard that saves the life of a man who, however, will end up destroying the guard’s life.
Finnish cinema, which was paid a tribute in 2005 at Festroia, is represented by Dome Karukoski’s most recent work Forbidden fruit, that tells the story of two friends from a closed religious community that seize the opportunity of a Summer job to have new experiences.
Also from the cold come Terribly happy, by Danish filmmaker Henrik Ruben Genz, a thriller about a depressed cop that has won awards in almost every festival it enters, and Mammoth, by Lukas Moodysson, a co-production between Sweden and Denmark with actor Gael García Bernal in one of the main roles.
Also fruit of a co-production, but this time between Bulgaria, Hungary, Slovenia and Germany, The world is big and salvation lurks around the corner, by Stefan Komandarev, tells the journey of a grandfather who tries to rescue his grandson’s memory, while Katia’s sister, by Dutch filmmaker Mijke de Jong, make us follow the path of a 13-year old girl who lives in Amsterdam and loses her mother and her sister to the world of prostitution.
From Israel, another country that has garnered many awards at Festroia, Igal Bursztyn’s Out of the blue tells the story of a man in love with a woman from an ad, a plot that is a lot lighter than the one in The exchange, by Romanian Nicolae Margineanu, about an unemployed man who is robbed and ends up becoming a criminal like the one that deceived him.
Austrian filmmaker Harald Sicheritz comes with The reason why, the story of a journalist who commits and allegedly premeditated crime, although no one believes he is guilty, while Iceland’s Baltasar Kormákur brings the comedy White night wedding and Indonesia is represented by Riri Riza’s The rainbow troops, about how life alters the dreams of a group of children.
There are also two films off-competition, directed by filmmakers that were in Festroia before: Danish Annette Olsen brings Little soldier, the story of a woman soldier who is recruited by her father to serve as a chauffeur to his new escort; and Beatriz Flores Silva, author of Masangeles, a co-production between Uruguay, Belgium and Switzerland, telling the story of a young woman that falls in love with her revolutionary half-brother.
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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 from now on

The 25th edition of Festroia will feature the new look of the Festival’s official awards – 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.