‘Listen’ competes for the category of best European film, while ‘Ordem Moral’ is the candidate for best Ibero-American film.
‘Listen’ is Ana Rocha de Sousa’s first fiction feature film, a family drama inspired by a true story, about a Portuguese family emigrated in London, whose children’s custody is removed due to suspicion of abuse.
The film won six awards at the Venice Film Festival, including the ‘Lion of the Future’, for a first work, and the special award from the jury of the Horizons competition.
In January of this year, “Ordem Moral” had already been announced as Portugal’s candidate for best Ibero-American film at the Ariel 2021 Awards, awarded by the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Mexico.
In ‘Ordem Moral’, which opened in Portugal in September, Mário Barroso tells the true story of Maria Adelaide Coelho da Cunha, heiress and former owner of Diário de Notícias for a hundred years.
Last year, the Portuguese candidates were ‘Mosquito’, by João Nuno Pinto, the best Ibero-American film, and ‘Vitalina Varela’, by Pedro Costa, the best European film. None were named.
