Jornal da Mostra

The 50th São Paulo International Film Festival comes to a close this Thursday (29) after two weeks of a historic edition celebrating the festival’s 50th anniversary. From October 15 to 29, the Mostra brought 394 titles from 90 countries to São Paulo, screened across 57 movie theaters, cultural venues and CEUs, in addition to hosting meetings, debates, tributes and special activities.

The winners of the 50th edition were announced during the awards and closing ceremony, held at Teatro Cultura Artística. The festival then closes its program with the screening of “You Can See Everything”, by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim.

The 50th Mostra Jury, composed of Ali Asgari, Boots Riley, César Augusto Acevedo and Laís Bodanzky, selected the Bandeira Paulista Trophy winners from among the 15 titles in the New Directors Competition that received the most votes from the audience during the festival’s first week.

In addition to the Jury Awards, the winners selected by the audience and critics were announced, as well as the recipients of the Brada Award, Netflix Award, Projeto Paradiso Award and Prisma Queer Award.

See the complete list of award winners from the 50th Mostra below

Jury Award | Best Fiction Film

“Five Years, Four Months”, by Esteban Hoyos García and Juan Miguel Gelacio (Colombia, USA)

Jury Award | Best Documentary

“The Hummingbird Paints Fragrant Songs”, by Matteo Norzi and Èlia Gasull Balada (Peru, USA, Qatar)

Jury Award | Best Director

Fernanda Tovar, for “Sad Girlz” (Mexico, Spain, France)

Special Jury Award

“Edward Said: Between Worlds”, by Maiken Baird (USA)

Audience Award | Best Brazilian Documentary

“Fernanda”, by Pedro Waddington (Brazil)

Audience Award | Best Brazilian Fiction Film

“Feito Pipa”, by Allan Deberton (Brazil)

“100 Days”, by Carlos Saldanha (Brazil)

Audience Award | Best International Documentary

“The Hummingbird Paints Fragrant Songs”, by Matteo Norzi and Èlia Gasull Balada (Peru, USA, Qatar)

Audience Award | Best International Fiction Film

“Soudain”, by Ryūsuke Hamaguchi (France, Japan, Germany, Belgium)

Critics Award | Best International Film

“Sad Girlz”, by Fernanda Tovar (Mexico, Spain, France)

Critics Award | Best Brazilian Film

“Little Tragedies”, by Daniel Nolasco (Brazil, Germany)

Brada Award | Best Production Design

“Trial of Hein”, by Kai Stänicke (Germany)

Netflix Award

“Talented”, by Thais Fujinaga (Brazil)

Projeto Paradiso Award

“The French Teacher”, by Ricardo Alves Jr. (Brazil, France, Portugal)

Prisma Queer Award | Best International Film

“I Plant My Hand in the Garden”, by Boris Hadžija and Hoda Taheri (Germany, Serbia, USA)

Prisma Queer Award | Special Jury Award

“The Passion According to G.H.B.”, by Gustavo Vinagre and Viva Couto (Brazil)

Prisma Queer Award | Best Brazilian Film

“London”, by Victor Di Marco and Márcio Picoli (Brazil)

Humanity Award

Marco Bechis

Leon Cakoff Award

James Gray
Paulo Branco
S.S. Rajamouli