About a thousand people attended the Festival of Short Films last weekend. Faro – Farcume, to see the 108 short films that were in the competition.
In the 3rd edition of the event, there were the usual four categories – Animation, Documentary, Fiction and Videoclip – but there were five first places, as in Fiction the first place was shared by two competitors.
More than 20 hours of cinema for all tastes shown at the Hotel and Tourism School of Faro, between 28 and 31 August, attracted an average of about 250 people per day, very interesting numbers for this young festival, organized by Faro 1540 – Association for the Defense and Promotion of the Environmental and Cultural Heritage of Faro.
Something that is not dissociated from the strong international component present, which is also noted in the distribution of prizes.
In animation, for example, the first prize went to the Brazilian film «ED», directed by Gabriel Garcia (Brazil).
In the Documentary, the Portuguese film «Mia mia Sudan Taman Taman» won, by Luís Moya, in Fiction, the short films «Bué Sabi» by Patrícia Delgado and «O Cheiro das Velas» by Adriana Martins da Silva shared first place. aequo and in the Videoclip category the winner was the video «Chama de mil cores» by the band João Lum, directed by Sonat Duyar.
The videos shown were chosen from 164 applications. Although Farcume has parallel sessions, the quantity and quality of the proposals led the organization to decide to increase the festival from three to four days and drop the semi-finals and the final. Thus, the winners were announced on the last day of the festival.
«The festival once again had a strong concern and environmental sensitivity, having drawn up an Environmental Management plan in order to guarantee the optimization of the resources necessary for the promotion and realization of the event, the valorization of the generated waste, being also a Zero Carbon initiative, in other words, FARCUME was completely free of carbon emissions, one of the elements most responsible for the greenhouse effect that contributes to the problematic phenomena of climate change», added the organization.
The final classification of this 3rd edition of FARCUME in the different categories was:
Entertainment
1st "ED", Gabriel Garcia (Brazil)
2nd «Forbidden Room», Ricardo Almeida/Emanuel Nevado
3rd “Luminaris”, Juan Pablo Zaramella (Argentina)
Honorable Mentions:
«The Ria, the Water, the Man», Matos Barbosa
«Bad cat», Eva Mendes/Joana de Rosa/Sara Augusto
Documentary
1st “Mia mia Sudan Taman Taman”, Luís Moya
2nd "Village of Tísicos", Hugo Dinis Neves
3rd "Sand", Humberto Kzure-Cerquera (Brazil)
Honorable Mentions:
«Our grandparents' games», Flávio Farias (Brazil)
«Crooner Vieira – The power of voice and romanticism have nothing to do with age», Catarina Neves
«Faro from Train to Airplane», Lena Campelo/Fábio Léria/ Carla Santos/ José Cabecinha (audio)
Fiction
1st (ex aequo) «Bué Sabi», Patrícia Delgado and «O Cheiro das Velas», Adriana Martins da Silva
2nd «Dios por el Cuello», José Trigueiros
3rd «2nd Category Poetry», Luís Santo Vaz
Honorable Mentions:
«The widowhood of the Carpideira», Anderson Legal/Bruno Little (Brazil)
«Cold Night in Castelo Branco», Luís Diogo
«Rafael and Maria», Ricardo Machado
Video Clip
1st João Lum – “Flame of a thousand colors”, Sonat Duyar
2nd Indie Nice Weather for Ducks – “Back to the Future”, Bruno Carnide/Cláudio Cigarro
3rd Orblua – “Military Airplane”, Carlos Norton
Honorable Mentions:
Tribal Baroque – «Gipsi Dance», Nuno Sá Pessoa
Vol 2 – “Leave and Come”, Joel Duarte
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