Predictions Portuguese Film Academy Sophia Awards/Prémios Sophia 2022
BEST PICTURE . BEST DOCUMENTARY . BEST SHORT ANIMATED . BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY . BEST SHORT LIVE ACTION
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- DirectorMarco PontecorvoStarsJoaquim de AlmeidaGoran VisnjicStephanie GilThree young shepherds in Fátima, Portugal report visions of the Virgin Mary, inspiring believers and angering officials of the Church and the government, who try to force them to recant their story. Based on historical events.Best Picture
- DirectorPatrícia SequeiraStarsBárbara BrancoLia CarvalhoCarolina CarvalhoIn 1979, four young ladies are hired to form a girl band. They can sing, they shine with their dancing, and they shock the country. They become a big hit. They are DOCE.Best Pitcure
- DirectorBruno GasconStarsAna MoreiraMiguel BorgesVítor NorteYears after her son's disappearance, a mother keeps trying to find him after an abduction that the police cannot solve while she is moving in a universe that wants to force her to mourn a child whom she believes is still alive.Best Picture
- DirectorLuis IsmaelStarsPedro LaginhaFrancisco BeatrizCatarina LacerdaThe Inquisition continues the persecution of Portuguese Jews, sending Visitador Sebastião Noronha to the city of Oporto. With his family and community in danger, António Álvares, decides to outline an escape plan.Best Picture
- DirectorCarlos AmaralStarsNuno NolascoMaria LeitePaulo CalatréIn a parallel world Miguel tries to hack his way into joining an exodus to another planet. While he dwells in his dreams and frustrations of being left behind he meets Eva, who challenges and forces him to come to terms with his purposeBest Picture
- DirectorSérgio TréfautElderly people gather every day in the romantic gardens of Catete Palace, the former official residence of the presidents of Brazil from 1867 to 1960, and presently the site of the Museu da República.Best Documentary
- DirectorHenrique PinaStarsBruno AlexandreBruno AlvesCatarina CâmaraTo celebrate Companhia Olga Roriz's 25th anniversary, a filmmaker documented the 4 months of preparation for their latest creation: AUTOPSY. An inside look at the work of Olga Roriz and the construction process of a choreographic language.Best Documentary
- DirectorBruno TeixeiraStarsJoaquim AlbertoJoão AtouguiaXico Braga"Echoes of the Red One" shows the activities of the resistance to the Estado Novo (Portuguese fascist regime) in the city Vila Franca de Xira, from the early 30's to 1974. Through the eyes of several witnesses that lived those dictatorship years, the film highlights the different initiatives and events that happened on those years on a political, social and cultural level, showing actions in the collectivities, the gathering in the taverns, the church's role and also some important events like the 1967 floods or the 1969 elections.Best Documentary
- DirectorPaulo César FajardoThe historical events of french invasions that took place in the three portuguese municipalities of Mealhada, Penacova and Mortágua.Best Documentary
- DirectorAmaya SumpsiStarsCarlos Martins MedeirosAmaya SumpsiBest Documentary
- DirectorWolfanger RibeiroAn Astronaut in a mission to explore a mysterious rhombus floating in space, finds a way inside of the rhombus but what he uncovers cannot be put into words.Best Short Animated
- DirectorJoão RodriguesA little girl reads a book before bedtime, and as she starts to drift off to sleep, the real world transforms into a fantastical place where the book's stories come to life. Ana, a character in her own tale, embarks on an extraordinary journey to carve out her place in a world filled with hidden surprises and mysteries.Best Short Animated
- DirectorJoana TosteBest Short Animated
- DirectorAlexandre AlagôaA ritual of grids, reflections and chasms; a complete state of entropy; a space that devours itself; a vertigo that destroys the gravity of the Earth; a trap that captures us inside the voids of the screen of light.Best Short Animated
- DirectorPaul E. VisserStarsSofia CamposJoão CostaFrancisco SebastiãoThe National Ballet of Portugal in an ongoing battle against Covid-19.Best Short Documentary
- DirectorMárcio D'AstrainStarsTom MustinA love letter from an American soul to the city of Lisbon.Best Short Documentary
- DirectorMiguel NabinhoBest Short Documentary
- DirectorTiago AmorimStarsInês AmorimMartinho AmorimTiago AmorimDuring the first lockdown, caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, I returned to live, for almost five months, at my parents' house. In the experience of something that had not happened in a decade, I filmed mine and our cyclical daily activities. A film that arises from the attempt to give order to these visual records in the form of a diary. Personal experience within the collective experience. Cinema within the personal experience.Best Short Documentary
- DirectorAndré RoseiraStarsCarlotaZé GordoIdàliaIn the Portuguese seaside gambling city of Espinho, a small fishing community plays its odds daily against the ocean.Best Short Documentary
- DirectorRui ConstantinoStarsRoy AlmeidaCaleb AngelNolan ChaseA man works for a museum in Lisbon, and receives an artefact from a colleague working on excavations in Egypt. But this object has a supernatural strength.Best Short Live Action
- DirectorJazeps PodnieksStarsJosefine WinklerDuarte CoutoArturo Sebastian HolmlundIn spite of bad omens and the upcoming storm, the fisherman sets out to the sea and doesn't return. The wife of the fisherman becomes haunted with delusions, while searching for the storm whisperer who could return the fisherman home.Best Short Live Action
- DirectorRui ConstantinoStarsPedro PinecrossRui ConstantinoMiguel D. DiasTwo divers are exploring underwater caves when they are attacked by a shark, the head of the maritime police joins forces with a young apprentice and a shark hunter to hunt the shark before it takes hold of the beaches.Best Short Live Action
- DirectorPedro VarelaStarsMick GreerTiago FelizardoAna Vilela da CostaBest Short Live Action
- DirectorFilipe MeloStarsAdriano LuzAntónio FonsecaMaria João PinhoOne night on Viva FM's late night show, host Vitor Lobo gets a phone call from an old friend.Best Short Live Action