14.10 – 21h00 

CINANIMA À PORTA: AWARDED 2019

Session duration: 65´

Free Entrance*

Age rating: M/16

Sala de Espetáculos   

*Pre-reservations can be made by purchasing a snack pack at the Maus Hábitos online store 

Session presentation: 

CINANIMA À PORTA is the first partnership that takes place between Saco Azul & Maus Hábitos with the International Animation Film Festival of Espinho, which reaches its 44th EDITION this year.

In a pre-festival that takes place in November in the city of Espinho, the Sala do Maus and the city of Porto receive two special sessions during October month: the first presents the 2019 winners in different categories and the second, the program that results from the partnership with ESTONIAN ACADEMY OF ARTS. Enjoy!

PROGRAMA

António Gaio Award 

NESTOR

Nestor, a man with several obsessive-compulsive behaviours lives in an unstable houseboat which never stops oscillating. 

Direction: João Gonzalez

Production: Royal College of Art

United Kingdom | 0:05:30 | 2019 | 2D Computer

Audience Award

MÉMORABLE

Louis, the painter, and his wife, Michelle, have been experiencing strange events. Their world seems to be mutating. Slowly, furniture, objects, people lose their realism. They are deconstructing and sometimes disintegrating. 

Direction: Bruno Collet

Production: Jean-Françopis Le Corre, Mathieu Courtois

France | 0:12:02 | 2019 | Puppets

Best Short Film Award: Animated Documentary

I BLEED

Inspired by a true story, “Sangro” is the intimate confession of a person living with HIV. An animation film that tries to demystify issues about the virus which, to this day, persists in society’s imagination. 

Direction: Tiago Minamisawa, Bruno H. Castro, Guto Br.

Production: Tiago MInamisawa

Brazil | 0:07:15 | 2019 | Drawing on paper, photos, animated objects, 2D comp.

Best Short Film Award: up to 5 minutes

BAVURE

In the beginning it was stain. A paintbrush reveals a being of gouache, opening him, transforming him, twisting him, completing him. From this accelerated evolution arises a conquering being…

Direction: Donato Sansone

Production: Nicolas Schmerkin

France | 0:04:40 | 2018 | Comp. 2D . 2D Comp.

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Best Short Film Award: more than 5 up to 24 minutes

THE DARKER LIGHT

They grow like dogs those silent dreams. Your indelible torments, hidden borders. They fall like strawberries in the mud your blurry emotions. Like honey on thorns of thistles, distant sweetness.

Direction: Andrea Bonetti

Production: Andrea Bonetti

Italy | 0:08:00 | 2019 | Drawing on paper, others

Jury’s Special Award CINANIMA 2019

UNCLE THOMAS – ACCOUNTING FOR THE DAYS

From Regina’s personal and visual memories, a tribute to her uncle Thomas, a humble man with a simple and anonymous life. This is my acknowledgment of how one does not have to be ‘somebody’ to become exceptional in our life. 

Direction: Regina Pessoa

Production: Ciclope Filmes – Abi Feijó, Office National du Film – Julie Roy, Les Armateurs – Rerginald de Guillebon

Portugal, Canada, France | 0:13:00 | 2019 | Cut-outs, 2D computer

Grande Prémio Award

RIVIERA

At the Riviera residency, on a sweltering summer day, it’s nap time. The residents go about their business, sunbathing next to the swimming pool. Inside his dimly lit living room, a bored Mr. Henriet, is spying on his neighbours. 

Direction: Jonas Schloesing

Production: Edwina Liard, Nidia Santiago, Marc Faye, David Braun

France |  0:15:00 | 2019 | Comp. 3D . 3D Computer. Draw on paper