Dand according to the list of nominees for the 21st edition of Sophia, released today in Lisbon, “Alma Viva” has 13 nominations.
With eleven nominations each for Sophia come “Nunca Nada Happened”, by Gonçalo Galvão Teles, and “Restos do Vento”, by Tiago Guedes.
“Alma Viva”, the first feature film by Cristèle Alves Meira, opened in theaters last October and was Portugal’s candidate for an Oscar nomination.
The film, which features performances by Lua Michel, Ana Padrão, Ester Catalão, among others, is a microcosm of family ties, emigration, mysticism and Trás-os-Montes culture, and was entirely shot in Junqueira, in the municipality of Vimioso, where the director has maternal roots. Filming also featured non-professional actors from the locality.
In Sophia, “Alma Viva” is nominated, for example, for Best Film, produced by Midas Filmes, Direction, Original Screenplay, Leading Actress, for Lua Michel, and Cinematography, for Rui Poças.
For the Sophia Award for Best Film, “Wolf and Dog”, by Cláudia Varejão, “Restos do Vento” and “Nunca Nada Happened” are also nominated.
Cláudia Varejão, Tiago Guedes, Gonçalo Galvão Teles compete with Cristèle Alves Meira for the Sophia for Best Director.
In the category of Best Documentary Feature Film, “Cesária Évora”, by Ana Sofia Fonseca, “Entre Ilhas”, by Amaya Sumpsi, “Objetos de Luz”, by Acácio de Almeida and Marie Carré, and “A Body that Dances — Ballet Gulbenkian 1965-2005”, by Marco Martins.
For the Best Series/Telefilm award, “3 Women – Post-Revolution”, by Fernando Vendrell and Elsa Garcia, “Causa Própria”, by Edgar Medina and Rui Cardoso Martins, “Cuba Libre”, by Henrique Oliveira, and ” Vanda”, by Patrícia Muller.
Among the nominated short films, emphasis should be given to those in the area of animation, in the year of the centenary of animation cinema and several distinctions for Portuguese cinema.
For the Sophia Award for Best Animated Short Film are nominated “Garrano”, by Vasco Sá and David Doutel, “Ice Merchants”, by João Gonzalez, “O Casaco Rosa”, by Mónica Santos, and “O Homem do Lixo”, by Laura Gonçalves.
This year, the Sophia Career Award will go to Carlos Saboga.
“A leading scriptwriter in Portuguese cinema since the 1980s, he has written films by António-Pedro Vasconcelos, Luís Galvão Telles, Fernando Lopes, Raul Ruiz, Valéria Sarmento and Mário Barroso, and has also written and directed his own films (‘Photo’, ‘At An Uncertain Hour’)”, says the academy.
Carlos Saboga had previously been distinguished at the Sophia Awards, in 2013, with the award for best original screenplay for the film “As Linhas de Wellington”.
The list of nominees can be consulted at www.academiadecinema.pt.
The Sophia awards ceremony is scheduled for May 21 at Casino Estoril, Cascais, broadcast on RTP2.
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