'Sleepwalk', Best Short Film at the 25th Iberian Film Festival

Portuguese short films captured the attention at the 25th Iberian Film Festival gala, as three of the five works by Portuguese filmmakers who participated in the event received awards.

The short film Sleepwalk by the Portuguese filmmaker Filipe Melo has won the Onofre Award for Best Short Film at the 25th Iberian Film Festival (FIC), which closed this weekend with the Onofre Awards ceremony. The gala ended five days in which 35 short films were screened in different sections.

Sleepwalk is a co-production of Portugal and the United States and tells an American story in which the protagonist travels from Arizona to Texas with a secret mission: to get a slice of apple pie.

This short is an adaptation to the big screen of the comic of the same name, published for the first time in the magazine Granta Portugal and written by Filipe Melo, who in addition to being a film director is a pianist and comic book author.

Portuguese short films captured the attention at the 25th Iberian Film Festival gala, as three of the five works by Portuguese filmmakers who participated in the event received awards.

In addition to Sleepwalk, the actor was awarded Fernando Rodrigues, who won the AISGE Award for Best Male Performance for his work in By your Witness, by Joâo Pupo, and Equinox, of Ivo M. Ferreira, which won the AEC Award for Best Photography, taken by João Ribeiro.

woman without child

woman without child, by Eva Saiz, won the Onofre Award for Best Address and the AISGE Award for Best Female Performance went to its protagonist, the actress Susana Alcántara, who plays Tere, a woman who welcomes into her home a boy who knocks on her door by mistake looking for a room to rent and an affinity is created between them similar to that which any mother has with her son, although Tere sees him differently.

This is Eva Saiz's first short film as a director, although she has written several award-winning shorts at important national and international festivals.

The Onofre Award for Best Screenplay went to Jordi Capdevilla for Hawaii and the Onofre Award for Best Original Music was received by Johan Söderqvist for his work on the short film 'La Noria', by Carlos Baena.

Requiem, a four-minute social work by director Juanma Juárez, was chosen by viewers as the winner of the Badajoz Audience Award, while the Olivenza Audience Award went to 'Miedos', the chilling story by Germán Sancho. The San Vicente de Alcántara Audience Award was received by The eighth dimension, the short film directed and written by Kike Maíllo.

The Young Jury awarded the Luis Alcoriza Prize to the work Limbo by the A Coruña director Daniel Viqueira and the little ones awarded the Onofre Children's Audience Award with their votes to the short film 'Nueve Pasos', by Marisa Crespo and Moisés Romera, a thriller with horror elements that addresses the fear of the dark.

the movie The fig tree was the winner of the Extremeño Short Film Contest of the 25th Iberian Film Festival, where it competed with three other titles, Dispatched, by Elena Marcelo; The guest, by Pedro Díaz; and a good man, by Matías Valenzuela.

This short film, which received the Reyes Abades Award for Best Extremeño Short Film, is set in 19th century Extremadura to narrate the confrontation between a group of poor people and an ambitious man who intends to take away the little they have. In this story, four shepherds decide to play a game of cards, who among them will kill the town's landowner.

The project has in the cast national actors such as Pedro Casablanc, Marcel Borras and Adrián Grossas, as well as Extremadurans such as Simón Ferrero or the children who appear in the short film, who were selected in a casting held in Extremadura.

The film was shot in different locations in Los Barruecos, in Malpartida de Plasencia, and in Garrovillas de Alconétar.

Awards 25th Iberian Film Festival

• ONOFRE and €3,000 for Best Short Film: 'SLEEPWALK'
• ONOFRE and €800 Badajoz Audience Award: 'RÉQUIEM'
• ONOFRE and €800 Olivenza Audience Award: 'FEARS'
• ONOFRE and €800 San Vicente de Alcántara Public Prize: 'THE EIGHTH DIMENSION'
• ONOFRE and €500 Children's Audience Award: 'NINE STEPS'
• LUIS ALCORIZA PRIZE from the Young Jury: 'LIMBO'
• ONOFRE for Best Direction: EVA SAINZ for 'WOMAN WITHOUT SON'
• ONOFRE for Best Screenplay: JORDI CAPDEVILLA for 'HAWAII'
• ONOFRE and €500 AISGE Award for Best Female Performance: SUSANA ALCÁNTARA for 'WOMAN WITHOUT SON'
• ONOFRE AND €500 AISGE Awards for Best Male Performance: FERNANDO RODRIGUES for ‘POR TUA TESTEMUNHA’
• ONOFRE for Best Original Music: JOHAN SÖDERQVIST for 'LA NORIA'
• A.E.C. Award for Best Photography: JOÂO RIBEIRO for ‘EQUINÓCIO’
• REYES ABADES Award for Best Extremeño Short Film: 'LA HIGUERA', by Mikel Mas Bilbao.

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