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The Metamorphosis Of Birds
''The Metamorphosis of Birds'' ( pt, A Metamorfose dos Pássaros) is a 2020 Portuguese experimental docudrama film directed by Catarina Vasconcelos and produced by the production company Primeira Idade, world premiered at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival in February 2020, where it was awarded the FIPRESCI Award for Best Film at the Encounters Section. It was selected as the Portuguese entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 94th Academy Awards. The film was financed by the Portuguese film fund ''Instituto do Cinema e do Audiovisual'' and by Portugal's state broadcaster RTP and developed at the ''Archidoc'' writing program of the French film school La Fémis and the Arché development workshop promoted at the Doclisboa international documentary film festival. Awards * FIPRESCI Award for Best Film at the Encounters Section of the 70th Berlinale; * Best International Film of the 24th Vilnius International Film Festival; * Jury Award for Best Film of the ...
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Primeira Idade
Primeira Idade is an independent Portuguese film production company based in Lisbon. Awards It has produced the feature-length hybrid documentary ''The Metamorphosis of Birds'', directed by Catarina Vasconcelos which was world premiered at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival in February 2020, at the Encounters Section, where it was awarded the FIPRESCI Award for Best Film at the Encounters Section. Films * '' Ruby'' a fiction short film, directed by Mariana Gaivão, winner of the Best Director Award at the Curtas Vila do Conde Festival in 2019, and screened at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in January 2020. * ''Look No Further'', directed by André Marques. * ''Bad Bunny'', directed by Carlos Conceição, world premiered at the 70th Cannes Film Festival's Critics' Week, in May 2017. International Co-production Primeira Idade has also co-produced internationally titles such as ''Snakeskin'', directed by Singaporean Daniel Hui, highlighted with the ''S ...
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List Of Submissions To The 94th Academy Awards For Best International Feature Film
This is a list of submissions to the 94th Academy Awards for the Best International Feature Film. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) has invited the film industries of various countries to submit their best film for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film every year since the award was created in 1956. The award is presented annually by the Academy to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States that contains primarily non-English dialogue. The International Feature Film Award Committee oversees the process and reviews all the submitted films. The category was previously called the Best Foreign Language Film, but this was changed in April 2019 to Best International Feature Film, after the Academy deemed the word "Foreign" to be outdated. For the 94th Academy Awards, the submitted motion pictures must be first released theatrically in their respective countries between 1 January 2021 and 31 December 2021. The deadline for ...
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Portuguese Independent Films
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Portuguese Drama Films
Portuguese may refer to: * anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Portugal ** Portuguese cuisine, traditional foods ** Portuguese language, a Romance language *** Portuguese dialects, variants of the Portuguese language ** Portuguese man o' war, a dangerous marine cnidarian that resembles an 18th-century armed sailing ship ** Portuguese people, an ethnic group See also * * ''Sonnets from the Portuguese'' * "A Portuguesa", the national anthem of Portugal * Lusofonia * Lusitania Lusitania (; ) was an ancient Iberian Roman province located where modern Portugal (south of the Douro river) and a portion of western Spain (the present Extremadura and the province of Salamanca) lie. It was named after the Lusitani or Lusita ... * {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ...
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Portuguese Documentary Films
Portuguese may refer to: * anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Portugal ** Portuguese cuisine, traditional foods ** Portuguese language, a Romance language *** Portuguese dialects, variants of the Portuguese language ** Portuguese man o' war, a dangerous marine cnidarian that resembles an 18th-century armed sailing ship ** Portuguese people, an ethnic group See also * * ''Sonnets from the Portuguese'' * "A Portuguesa", the national anthem of Portugal * Lusofonia * Lusitania Lusitania (; ) was an ancient Iberian Roman province located where modern Portugal (south of the Douro river) and a portion of western Spain (the present Extremadura and the province of Salamanca) lie. It was named after the Lusitani or Lusita ... * {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ...
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2020 Films
2020 in film is an overview of events, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies, critics' lists of the best films of 2019, festivals, a list of country-specific lists of films released, and notable deaths. Evaluation of the year The year was greatly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, with numerous films originally scheduled for theatrical release postponed or released on video on demand or streaming services. However, it is to be kept in mind that several film companies stopped reporting box-office numbers during this time due to the pandemic, and several films were still in theatres where guidelines enabled them so. As a result, numbers will grow if they are re-released in the future to compensate for the impact this pandemic has had on consumers and film-watchers. Highest-grossing films The top films released in 2020 by worldwide gross are as follows: After being re-released in 4K in China, earning $26.4 million, the overall gross for the 2001 film ''Ha ...
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List Of Portuguese Submissions For The Academy Award For Best International Feature Film
Portugal has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film since 1980. The award is handed out annually by the United States Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States that contains primarily non-English dialogue. Thirty-nine Portuguese films have been submitted to the Academy for consideration for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. As of the 94th Academy Awards, no Portuguese film has been nominated for the award; Portugal currently holds the record of the most submissions without an Oscar nomination. Almost one-fourth of Portugal's submissions (8 out of 37) have been directed by the prolific Manoel de Oliveira. However, the animated short film ''Ice Merchants'', by João Gonzalez, was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 95th Academy Awards, becoming the first Portuguese film production to do so. Submissions The Academy of Motion Pictur ...
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Mostra Internazionale Del Nuovo Cinema Di Pesaro (Pesaro Film Festival)
The Pesaro International Film Festival (Pesaro Film Festival) is one of the most important Italian film festivals, representing historically an alternative to the Venice film festival for what concerns both for the political view and the choices of films it screened. The festival of Pesaro, especially in its early years, kept an agenda of praising and discussing the craft of cinema without following the film star system. Founded and designed in Rome by Lino Miccichè and Bruno Torri at the end of 1964, the event took place in Pesaro since the first edition (29 May - 6 June 1965), the exhibition is promoted, financed, and managed by the Pesaro Nuovo Cinema Onlus Foundation with the contribution from the Municipality of Pesaro, the Province of Pesaro and Urbino, the Marche Region, the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities, the Media Program of the European Union.{{Cite web , title=Home - Mostra Internazionale del Nuovo Cinema - Pesaro Film Festival , url=https://www.pesar ...
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Portugal Film
Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, In recognized minority languages of Portugal: :* mwl, República Pertuesa is a country located on the Iberian Peninsula, in Southwestern Europe, Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Macaronesian archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira. It features Cabo da Roca, the westernmost point in continental Europe, its mainland west and south border with the North Atlantic Ocean and in the north and east, the Portugal-Spain border, constitutes the longest uninterrupted border-line in the European Union. Its archipelagos form two Autonomous Regions of Portugal, autonomous regions with their own Local government, regional governments. On the mainland, Alentejo region occupies the biggest area but is one of the least densely populated regions of Europe. Lisbon is the Capital city, capital and List of largest cities in Portugal, largest city by population, being also the main spot for tourists alongside Porto, the Algarve an ...
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