Film Awards
We celebrated videodance, documentary and animation, with the announcement of awards for the 16th Edition of the InShadow Festival. Of the approximately 400 applications in the different areas, 100 films were selected for the international competitions. The InShadow juries - Official, Documentary, Schools, Audience and Animation - were tasked with awarding 10 films in the various categories and also awarded an honourable mention.
Olhares | Alexia Fernandes (PT)
Amid societal pressures to conform, a protagonist grapples with fitting into predetermined roles. Yet, through a journey of self-discovery, they confront the constraints of conformity, navigating the intricate dynamics of identity and societal norms.
In the Same Boat | Mervi Junkkonen, Mia Malviniemi (FI)
A film about the limits of the body and the boundless mind. With the help of a dancer, one of Rauno’s childhood memories comes to life through dance and movement. It’s a journey of misadventures and his father’s new national cursing record.
The Battle for Swan Lake | Joan Carol Gratz (EUA)
Cats, a dog, and a fish head perform the classic ballet, Swan Lake.
Together | Ísak Hinriksson (IS)
A man walks into a shop and meets a girl.
APXH (beginning) | Maja Zimmerlin (CH)
In the beginning there was nothing: a nothing in which nothing existed. The smallest particle, a cell, a grain of sand. Merging, crystallizing, forming shapes. When light and dark intermingled, who could fathom the being and becoming? A first breath, endlessly recurring, gave its weight to the waves, and against the wind. The continuity of duplication and division, forming life in tenderness and timeless trust.
The War of the Birds and the Beasts |
Yuldus Bakhtiozina (RU)
The film is based on a Vodskaya fairy tale. Tells the story of the emergence of enmity between animals and birds. The cunning bat also participated in this confrontation and supported different sides when it was profitable for her. However, the birds discovered her deception and drove her away. Now the bat can only fly at night when the moon is shining, hiding its cowardice from the birds.
Olhares | Alexia Fernandes (PT)
Amid societal pressures to conform, a protagonist grapples with fitting into predetermined roles. Yet, through a journey of self-discovery, they confront the constraints of conformity, navigating the intricate dynamics of identity and societal norms.
Pendulum | Anna Boekelder (BE)
Two people explore how to be there for one another by catching each other when they fall, but their ways of giving and receiving love are not compatible.
Coreomania: Hora de Ponta | Rodrigo Esteves (PT)
It’s rush hour. We follow what might happen on the way to catch the train back home.
Burn From the Inside | Mthuthuzeli November (UK)
This film explores the origins of music and its power to move us, delving into the innate rhythms within our bodies and speech. Inspired by personal memories, the director captures the trance-like state evoked by sound, blurring the boundaries of time and space, and exploring the connection between Earth, the ancestral plane, and our emotional responses.
epilogue (extinction) | Yi Hng Tan, Leonard Yee (SG)
In the far future, Humanity exists only in vestiges, with the remnants wasting away. Two stories - one of a man forgotten through time, who has all but his mind intact, after willingly isolating himself in a desperate bet to survive; and another the last outsider, unable to remain still, carrying forward the memories of all his predecessors, both destined to meet in a finale with the entire human race.