As Melusinas à Margem do Rio won three prizes at Doclisboa, included the Award for Best Portuguese Competition Film
As Melusinas à Margem do Rio, directed by Melanie Pereira and produced by Red Desert, won three awards at DocLisboa: The Fernando Lopes Award for Best Portuguese First Film, the School Award for Best Film, and the HBO Award for Best Portuguese Competition Film.
HBO Max Award for Best Portuguese Competition Film.
Fernando Lopes Award.
Schools Award.
In the Portuguese Competition, the HBO Max Award for Best Film went to As Melusinas à Margem do Rio, by Melanie Pereira, “for creating a form to reimagine a legend though the experience of working people, gender and national identity”.
Born in Luxembourg to immigrant families, five women reflect on countries, identities, fragments, and mermaids. While searching among mountains and rivers for Melusina, the mutant and legendary mermaid of the city of Luxembourg, the director talks to four women about their uncertain identities : what it is like to be an immigrant without being one, and to be Luxembourgish without being one. A journey through memories in rainy times. A search for ever-fragmented identities. An uncertain attempt at reconciliations.
Água Fria - Cold Water in "Público" newspaper
Água Fria is almost 14 minutes of reflection on being Portuguese or, at least, "on a certain way of being Portuguese". It's a film "about disappointments, about memories, about sensations". The short film was selected for Clermont-Ferrand, in France, considered the most important International Short Film Festival in the world.
Home: The Country of Illusion selected to Festival Internacional de Cartagena
The new documentary directed by Josephine Landertinger, co-produced by Global Eyes Production and Red Desert, was selected to Festival Internacional de Cartagena, Colombia.
Cold Water wins Special Mention at Mecal Short Film Festival in Barcelona
The documentary Cold Water / Água Fria, won a Special Mention of Onda Curta Prize at Mecal Film Festival, in Barcelona, Spain. Cold Water was selected for the Documentary Competition.
Cold Water in the International Competition of Short Film Festival - Clermont-Ferrand
Cold Water / Água Fria was selected for the International Competition of the world's most important Short Film Festival! The film is going to be presented in the International Competition of Clermont-Ferrand!