On Sunday, the 48th edition of Portugal’s Cinanima (cinanima.pt) festival of animated film wrapped up in Espinho, announcing the year’s prize winners after 10 days of screenings and events.
In the international short film competition, Nicolas Keppens’ stop-motion piece Beautiful Men picked up another Academy Award-qualifying honor, winning the Grand Prize Espinho City Award. Other key prizes went to Alexandra Ramires & Laura Gonçalves’ Percebes (Antonio Gaio Award for a Portuguese short), Song Ye’s Unrecognized Character Detected (Gaston Roch Award for a student film) and Adam Elliot’s Memoir of a Snail (Grand Prize for feature film)
Cinanima 2024 Prize Winners
International Competition – Short Films
Grand Prize Espinho City Award – Beautiful Men by Nicolas Keppens (Belgium, France, Netherlands)
Jury Special Award – A Crab in the Pool by Alexandra Myotte & Jean-Sébastien Hamel (Canada)
Best Animated Documentary – I Died in Irpin by Anastasiia Falileieva (Czech Republic)
Best Experimental Film – See the Sun Rise in the Moon by Charles Nogier (France)
Best Sound Design – Entropic Memory Nicolas Brault (Canada)
Best Screenwriting – A Crab in the Pool by Alexandra Myotte, Jean-Sébastien Hamel (Canada)
Commendation for Short Film – Zarko, You Will Spoil the Child! by Veljko Popovic, Milivoj Popovic (Croatia)
Audience Award – Percebes by Alexandra Ramires & Laura Gonçalves (Portugal)
International Competition – Feature Films
Grand Prize – Memoir of a Snail by Adam Elliot
(Australia)
Special Mention – Flow by Gints Zilbalodis
International Competition – Student Films
Grand Prize Gaston Roch Award – Unrecognized Character Detected by Song Ye (China)
Special Mention – Dragfox by Lisa Ott (U.K.)
National Competition
Antonio Gaio Award – Percebes by Alexandra Ramires & Laura Gonçalves (Portugal)
Young Portuguese Director Award (Under 18 Years Old) – Never Stop Singing by Associação de Ludotecas do Porto – Anilupa, EB de Fernão de Magalhães (Portugal)
Young Portuguese Director Award (18 to 30 Years Old) – Bursting at the Seams by Adriana Andrade, Luana Rodrigues, Daniela Tietzen (Portugal)
Special Mention – It Shouldn’t Rain Tomorrow by Maria Trigo Teixeira (Portugal)
