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Vitor Pinto


1046 articles available in total starting from 11/07/2002. Last article published on 13/11/2018.

A Woman’s Revenge and seven other Portuguese productions at Rotterdam

A Woman’s Revenge, the latest feature by Rita Azevedo Gomes, will screen in the Spectrum section at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, which will open tomorrow and run until February 5. In...  

24/01/2012 | IFFR 2012 | Portugal

Salaviza takes two new shorts to Rotterdam and Berlin

Young director João Salaviza (pictured) will take part in the Rotterdam and Berlin film festivals with two different short films. The Spectrum Shorts section at Rotterdam will show Cerro Negro,...  

20/01/2012 | Festivals | Portugal

A lacklustre 2011 heralds turbulent 2012

It was a year of crisis, unsurprisingly, for cinema too: in 2011, with 15.7m admissions sold, Portuguese movie theatres lost 866,000 viewers compared to 2010. In terms of takings, these figures...  

18/01/2012 | Box Office | Portugal

New film law proposal rejected in parliament

The bill for the new film law, submitted by the Socialist party, was rejected last Friday in Portugal’s parliament, with votes against from the centre-right parties PSD and CDS-PP, which have made...  

16/01/2012 | Legislation | Portugal

Berlinale: Gomes’s Tabu to vie for the Golden Bear

Tabu, by Portuguese director Miguel Gomes, will vie for the Golden Bear at the 62nd Berlinale, which will run from February 9-19. This is the first time since the screening of Manuela Viegas’s...  

10/01/2012 | Berlinale 2012 | Portugal

Portuguese film honours to be called the Sophia Awards

The recently created Portuguese Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, headed by producer Paulo Trancoso (pictured), decided last Monday at a general assembly that the national film awards...  

21/12/2011 | Awards | Portugal

The Artist is Golden Globes favourite with six nominations

It was one of the most acclaimed foreign films in the United States this year and, even though France didn’t pick it as its entry for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar (see news), Michel...  

15/12/2011 | Golden Globes 2012

Canijo and Pêra triumph at Caminhos do Cinema Português

Scooping four gongs, Blood of My Blood was one of the main winners at the Caminhos do Cinema Português Festival (“Paths of Portuguese Cinema”), the only event dedicated exclusively to domestic...  

24/11/2011 | Festivals | Portugal

European Parliament crowns The Snows of Kilimanjaro

The European Parliament’s LUX Prize was awarded this morning in Strasbourg to Robert Guédiguian’s The Snows of Kilimanjaro, on the day of its commercial release in its country of origin, France....  

16/11/2011 | LUX Prize 2011

It's the Earth Not the Moon triumphs at DocLisboa

Portuguese director Gonçalo Tocha’s documentary It's the Earth Not the Moon won the top prize at DocLisboa 2011: the City of Lisbon Award (in international competition) for the best medium-length...  

31/10/2011 | Festivals | Portugal

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