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.
Above our Means in "Público" newspaper, by Jorge Mourinha
Jorge Mourinha, film critic from "Público", writes about the filme Acima das Nossas Possibilidades - Above Our Means. The world premiere was in Porto Post Doc.
Melisinas reviewed in Contacto Newspaper
As Melusinas à Margem do Rio, by Melanie Pereira, produced by Red Desert, in the Luxembourgish newspaper Contacto, by Tiago Rodrigues.
Cold Water in the Official Competition of Short Shorts in Mexico
Cold Water / Água Fria was selected for the Official Competition of the Short Shorts Film Festival in Mexico. It is the second Mexican festival to Cold Water, after the Guadalajara Film Festival.
The Factory with World Premiere in Curtas Vila do Conde
Our new documentary, The Factory, directed by Pedro Neves and produced by Red Desert, was selected to the International and National Competition in Curtas Vila do Conde International Film Festival.