The film winners of the Festival Política are already known
The Political Festival, the largest event dedicated to human rights and citizenship, free of charge, taking place in Portugal, ends its 2024 edition in Coimbra this Saturday, November 23. “Monte Clérigo”, “Místida” and “A Cor da Liberdade” won awards in the competitive section of the festival.
The Festival Política announces on Friday evening, at the São Francisco Convent in Coimbra, the winners of the film section. The festival, which in 2024 took place in Lisbon, Braga, Coimbra and Loulé, dedicated three national productions: “Monte Clérigo”, “Místida” and “A Cor da Liberdade”.
“Monte Clérigo”, by Luís Campos, won the Jury Prize – Film of the Year. This picture follows a teenager who spends his summer working in a forest watchtower, indifferent to the immigrant workers of the greenhouses that surround him. Looking for a lost watch, this teenager ends up on the side of the invisible. A reflection on working conditions and an increasingly daily reality. Pedro Laginha, Filipe Amorim, Gonçalo Almeida, Kelly Bailey, Aayush Kandel, Paula Lobo Antunes, and Pedro Pernas are part of the cast.
The winner of the Public Prize was “The Color of Freedom”, by Julio Pereira. This documentary starts from the story of José Pedro Soares, a former political prisoner who was detained and tortured by PIDE between 1971 and 1974, and contextualizes Portugal and its social reality at that time, through the memories of former political prisoners, historians, journalists and artists. “The Color of Freedom”, which obtained more votes among the audience that attended the film sessions, is a message of struggle and different forms of resistance that are urgent to know and preserve.
The Future Award, awarded productions by filmmakers up to 30 years old, went to “Místida”, by Falcão Nhaga. In this fiction, an immigrant mother calls her son to help carry the shopping bags home. During the journey, the two talk about the future and the issues that plague them. Developed at the School of Theater and Cinema, “Místida” has interpretations by Bia Gomes and Welket Bungué.
This year, the Festival Política totalled 15 days of free activities in Lisbon (Cinema São Jorge), Braga (Youth Center), Coimbra (Convent São Francisco) and Loulé (Cineteatro Louletano), as well as a film cycle in Grândola (Cineteatro Grandolense). The program consisted of 85 initiatives, including cinema, performances, music, humour, exhibitions, conversations and activities for children, which had more than five thousand participants.
In the year that marks the 50th anniversary of 25 April, the program of the Political Festival had as its central theme the intervention, having called artists, young people, creators, academics and activists to develop proposals and reflections focused on the need to increase citizens’ participation in institutions, elections and their communities.
The national tour of the Political Festival 2024 ends this Saturday at the São Francisco Convent in Coimbra. The journalist Ana Cristina Pereira dynamizes the dynamic conversation “All the voices”, where she shares her reflection on the importance of listening to those who are not in the centres of power and the responsibility of informing and documenting the present (16h). Catarina Pastilha (5:45 pm) presents “Give Voice to the Shadow”, which aims to stage the ideas and emotions of people who live in the shadows of society. Djam Negiun presents “AMI.LCAR“, a show inspired by the life and work of Amílcar Cabral (23 November, 6:30 p.m.). Hugo van der Ding assures the show of humour. “What matters is to participate” (9.30 p.m.). Closing the evening, the short film session “Over 18” will be shown.
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