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Best Portuguese Horror Short Film 2020: 12 finalists announced
There will be 12 films in competition for the highest prize awarded to short films in Portugal.
Lisbon International Horror Film Festival, which takes place this year between 7 and 14 September at Cinema São Jorge, announced today the 12
short films in competition for the MOTELX Award - Best Portuguese Horror Short Film / Méliès
d'Argent.
In the year of a pandemic, MOTELX’s programming team received once again dozens of submissions to what is the biggest prize awarded to short films in Portugal: €5,000, coupled with an inspirational weekend at Belver Hotels and a nomination for the Méliès d’Or competition organised by the Méliès International Festivals Federation. In this way, one of the Festival's greatest objectives is once again fulfilled: to encourage the production, promotion and screening of national horror cinema.
From folk horror to dystopian sci-fi, including subgenres such as gore and home invasion, the selection of Portuguese shorts in this edition stands out for its thematic variety. In competition will be: “The Great Parody”, by André Carvalho; “Dirty Carnaval”, by José Miguel Moreira; “Her Oldest House”, by Tiago Bastos Nunes; “Death on Tape”, by Pedro Miguel Costa; “The Outsider”, by Hugo Pinto; “Karaoke Night”, by Francisco Lacerda; “Loop”, by Ricardo M. Leite; “Mata”, by Fábio Rebelo; “Mirror Room”, by David Seguro; “Petrichor”, by Gustavo Silva; “Why Do You Hate Your Brother?”, By Pedro Martins and Inês Marques; and “The Silence”, by Pedro Caldeira and Paulo Graça.
The contingent of Portuguese shorts also includes two shorts screened out of competition. Described as “a visual ritual between life and death”, “Sábàtina”, by Rafael dos Santos, will be shown in the new MOTELX section dedicated to Experimental Short Films. In the section dedicated to our younger audience, Big Bad Wolf, Bruno Caetano's short film “The Peculiar Crime of Oddball Mr. Jay”, winner of the Quirino Ibero-American Animation Awards, is highlighted.
Tickets to MOTELX’s 14 th edition will be up for sale starting 31 August and the Festival’s full programme will be announced next week.
In the year of a pandemic, MOTELX’s programming team received once again dozens of submissions to what is the biggest prize awarded to short films in Portugal: €5,000, coupled with an inspirational weekend at Belver Hotels and a nomination for the Méliès d’Or competition organised by the Méliès International Festivals Federation. In this way, one of the Festival's greatest objectives is once again fulfilled: to encourage the production, promotion and screening of national horror cinema.
From folk horror to dystopian sci-fi, including subgenres such as gore and home invasion, the selection of Portuguese shorts in this edition stands out for its thematic variety. In competition will be: “The Great Parody”, by André Carvalho; “Dirty Carnaval”, by José Miguel Moreira; “Her Oldest House”, by Tiago Bastos Nunes; “Death on Tape”, by Pedro Miguel Costa; “The Outsider”, by Hugo Pinto; “Karaoke Night”, by Francisco Lacerda; “Loop”, by Ricardo M. Leite; “Mata”, by Fábio Rebelo; “Mirror Room”, by David Seguro; “Petrichor”, by Gustavo Silva; “Why Do You Hate Your Brother?”, By Pedro Martins and Inês Marques; and “The Silence”, by Pedro Caldeira and Paulo Graça.
The contingent of Portuguese shorts also includes two shorts screened out of competition. Described as “a visual ritual between life and death”, “Sábàtina”, by Rafael dos Santos, will be shown in the new MOTELX section dedicated to Experimental Short Films. In the section dedicated to our younger audience, Big Bad Wolf, Bruno Caetano's short film “The Peculiar Crime of Oddball Mr. Jay”, winner of the Quirino Ibero-American Animation Awards, is highlighted.
Tickets to MOTELX’s 14 th edition will be up for sale starting 31 August and the Festival’s full programme will be announced next week.