As Melusinas à Margem do Rio won the Doclisboa 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.
Lucefece won the Cinema Falado Competition at Porto Post Doc
We are very happy to announce that Lucefece - where there is no vision, the people will perish, by Ricardo Leite and produced by Red Desert, was the Best Film in the Cinema Falado Competition at the Porto Post Doc 2023 Festival.
Cold Water won Europa Award at Filmets in Spain
Cold Water / Água Fria won the Europa Award in Filmets Badalona International Film Festival, in Spain. It is the third award in Spain!
Inn won the Ciudad de Martil award for Best Documentary
We are happy to inform you that our film Inn / Hospedaria, directed by Pedro Neves, won the Ciudad de Martil award for Best Documentary at the Martil Film Festival in Morocco.
Cold Water wins a Special Mention of the Jury at the Martil Film Festival in Morocco
The short documentary Cold Water / Água Fria, directed by Pedro Neves and produced by the Red Desert won Special Mention of the Jury at Festival de Cine de Martil, in Morocco. Cold Water was selected for the Documentary Competition.