Portuguese feature Manas and Dutch title Alpha. have won the first two prizes from the independent Giornate degli Autori sidebar in Venice.
Marianna Brennand Fortes’ Manas took the Director’s Award, selected by The Souvenir director Joanna Hogg’s jury. Set in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, the film follows a 13-year-old girl who decides to confront the oppressive system that controls her family and the women in their community.
The film is backed by Walter Salles and the Dardenne Brothers, and produced by Fortes for Portugal’s Fado Filmes. The film receives a €20,000 cash prize, to be divided equally between...
Marianna Brennand Fortes’ Manas took the Director’s Award, selected by The Souvenir director Joanna Hogg’s jury. Set in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, the film follows a 13-year-old girl who decides to confront the oppressive system that controls her family and the women in their community.
The film is backed by Walter Salles and the Dardenne Brothers, and produced by Fortes for Portugal’s Fado Filmes. The film receives a €20,000 cash prize, to be divided equally between...
- 9/6/2024
- ScreenDaily
‘Alpha’ Wins Europa Cinema Prize At Giornate Degli Autori
Dutch director Jan-Willem van Ewijk’s Alps-set father and son survival drama Alpha has won the Europa Cinemas Label for Best European Film in parallel Venice section Giornate degli Autori. The award comes with promotional and exhibition support from the Europa Cinemas network. The jury consisted of Europa Cinema members Daira Āboliņa (Splendid Palace, Riga, Latvia); António Costa Valente (Teatro Aveirense, Aveiro, Portugal): Andrea Porta (Cinema Teatro Nuovo, Varese, Italy) and Jana Trnková (Head of PR & Marketing, Kino Světozor, Prague, Czech Republic). The film stars Reinout Scholten van Aschat and Gijs Scholten van Aschat as a son and father with a difficult relationship who find themselves battling for survival when the weather turns sour during a testing walk in the mountains. Previous winners of the prize have included Ivan Ostrochovský and Pavol Pekarčík’s Photophobia, Wissam Charaf’s Dirty Difficult and Dangerous,...
Dutch director Jan-Willem van Ewijk’s Alps-set father and son survival drama Alpha has won the Europa Cinemas Label for Best European Film in parallel Venice section Giornate degli Autori. The award comes with promotional and exhibition support from the Europa Cinemas network. The jury consisted of Europa Cinema members Daira Āboliņa (Splendid Palace, Riga, Latvia); António Costa Valente (Teatro Aveirense, Aveiro, Portugal): Andrea Porta (Cinema Teatro Nuovo, Varese, Italy) and Jana Trnková (Head of PR & Marketing, Kino Světozor, Prague, Czech Republic). The film stars Reinout Scholten van Aschat and Gijs Scholten van Aschat as a son and father with a difficult relationship who find themselves battling for survival when the weather turns sour during a testing walk in the mountains. Previous winners of the prize have included Ivan Ostrochovský and Pavol Pekarčík’s Photophobia, Wissam Charaf’s Dirty Difficult and Dangerous,...
- 9/6/2024
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
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