This Sunday, the Portuguese Film Academy presents the Sofia Awards: Edgar Pera’s Não sou nada – Club of Nothingness leads the nominations, while Luis Celia and Rui Simões receive career awards.
The 13th edition of the Sofia Awards, with the theme “Cinema is Freedom,” will take place at the Estoril Casino, in the municipality of Cascais, Lisbon district, and will be broadcast on RTP2.
This year, Edgar Pera’s film about the heteronyms of the poet Fernando Pessoa leads Sophia with 15 nominations, followed by Marco Martins’ Great Yarmouth – Temporary Figures, about Portuguese emigration and labor relations in the United Kingdom, with 13 nominations. .
Feature films by Edgar Pera and Marco Martins are nominated in the Best Film and Best Director categories.
Carlos Conceição’s Nasan Valente and João Canijo’s Mal Viver are also nominated in ten and eight categories respectively for the Sofia Awards for Best Film and Best Director.
Nominated in the Best Actress category are Anabela Moreira (“Mal Weaver”), Beatriz Batarda (“Great Yarmouth – Preliminary Figures”), Carla Maciel (“Legua”) and Joana Bernardo (“The Bride”).
Competing in the category “Best Actor in a Leading Role” are Joao Arrais (“Nasao Valente”), Miguel Borges (“Nanu su Nada – Club of Nothingness”), Rafael Morais (“Amadeo”) and Rui Morrisson (“Sombras Brancas”).
The Best Documentary Feature category includes Águas do Pastaza by Ines T. Alves, What Words Can Do by Luisa Sequeira and Luisa Mariño, Super Natural by Jorge Jacome and Viagem ao Sol by Ansgar Schäfer and Susana de Souza Diaz.
For the Sofia Award for Best Series/TV Film: Cavalos de Corrida by Andre Santos and Marco Leana, Emilia by Filipa Amaro, Rabo de Peixe by Augusto Fraga and Salgueiro Maya – O Implicit were nominated by Sergio Graciano.
The Sofia de Carreira will be awarded to the 81-year-old musician Luis Cilia, one of the “April singers” who in recent years has devoted himself exclusively to composition, namely theatre, dance and cinema, and to the director Rui Simões. , who celebrated 80 years of life and 50 years of career, almost entirely dedicated to documentary filmmaking.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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