“Alma Viva” by French-Portuguese director Christel Alves Mera is competing for the Best Film award. Goya Prize In Spain.
“Alma Viva” was nominated for the Goya Award for Best Ibero-American Film, along with “La Memoria Infinita” (Chile), “Boan” (Argentina), “La Becerra” (Puerto Rico), and “Simón” (Venezuela).
Christel Alves Mira's first feature film, produced by Midas Films, “Alma Viva” is a fantasy film that examines migration, mysticism and the culture of Trás.os-Montes. It was filmed in Junqueira, in the municipality of Vimioso, where the director has maternal roots.
“Alma Viva”, which premiered in 2022 at the Critics’ Week in Cannes, has won twenty awards, including six “Sofia” Awards awarded by the Portuguese Film Academy.
According to the list of nominees announced by the Spanish Film Academy on November 29, in the category of Best Animated Film there is the feature film “They Shot the Pianist”, directed by Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal, a co-production in Portugal by Animanostra. With financial support from the Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual and the participation of RTP.
The film is set against the backdrop of Brazilian music, especially the early years of bossa nova, and also deals with the “brutality of dictatorial regimes” that characterized Latin America in the 1960s and 1970s, according to the film's synopsis.
The subject is the tragic life of the Brazilian pianist Francisco Tenorio Junior, considered one of the fundamental names of bossa nova, who disappeared in Buenos Aires in March 1976, while accompanying Tocinho and Vinicius de Moraes during a concert.
The 38th session of the Goiás Festival will be held on February 10 in Valladolid, and the most nominated films are “20,000 Kinds of Bees” by director Estibalez Orisola, with 15 nominations, and “Snow Society” by director Juan Antonio Bayona, with 13 nominations. Nominations.
