Winners of the 35th Marseille International Film Festival(FIDMarseille), it was announced today that Ico Costa has won the Best Feature Film award European Award for Secondary School Students Fondation Vacances Ble Dedicated to new talents and the discovery of new cinematography, as well as an honorable mention in the Prix de L'École de la 2e Chance, known as the Prix de la Hope, supported by the Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts. Marseille.
The jury of the Marseille Festival Award is made up of high school students, respectively, and this year of students from Greece, Spain, Germany and vocational education in the region.
“O Ouro e mundo” is Echo Costa's second feature film and was shot in Mozambique, where the director has worked in recent years. The film had its international premiere at the Marseille Festival, a few weeks after winning the Best Portuguese Feature Film award at the IndieLisboa Festival.
Regarding the production of the film “Ouro eo Mundo”, which is a French co-production, Eco Costa explained that the film was postponed several times due to the epidemic, and that the conditions on the ground meant that it was implemented in “a short time.” Team and minimal equipment.”
The Grand Prix of the International Competition of this edition of the Marseille Film Festival was awarded to the film “bluish”, an Austrian production directed by Lilith Kraksner and Milena Czernovsky, which has already been defined as a testament to Generation Z, as it depicts two characters aged around 10 years. Twenty wandering through the city on dark winter days.
The film “If I Fall, Don't Pick Me Up”, by Irishman Declan Clarke, won a special mention from the jury in the international competition. The feature film is set in Berlin in 1974, when young director Walter Asmus, 32, becomes assistant to playwright Samuel Beckett, 68, who will be staging his classic play for the first time. By showing the work on stage, the film documents the beginning of a friendship that did not end after the Nobel laureate's death.
The Georges de Beauregard Prize, which honors the French producer and supports the post-production of a film in international competition, went to “Todo document de Civilización” by Argentine director Tatiana Mazo González. The film revisits the memory of a teenager who disappeared nearly ten years ago at the hands of the police, in what it calls a “search operation” in the middle of the hustle and bustle of Buenos Aires.
The film's title is taken from a quote by Walter Benjamin: “Every document [témoignage] Civilization is at the same time a barbaric document.
In addition to Ouro e o Mundo, the Portuguese presence in the Marseille competition also included Sob a chama da candeia by André Gil Mata, co-produced by Portugal and France. The film, which features slow-motion shots and little dialogue, is the director's latest feature, following 2018's The Tree and 2023's short O Patio do Carrasco.
The Doc Alliance program, from the platform of documentary festivals in which FIDMarseille participates, includes “As melusinas à beira do rio” by Melanie Pereira, “Like the glitch of a Ghost” by Paula Albuquerque, as well as the Portuguese film. Two short films produced by minorities, “I Stumble Every Time I Hear from Kiev” and “Smoke of Fire,” both by Ukrainian director Darina Mamysur, who has settled in Portugal.
The festival presented a retrospective screening of films by Brazilian director Adderley Quiros and Portuguese director Joana Pimenta.
