André Almeida Rodrigues

In the countryside painted in white by the frost, the birds sing while entrapping the hunter who warms himself in the early sunlight. In the fireplace, the wood crackles in the fire and warms the elderly who are making siesta in company of their cat. We are in the village, where there it is always too hot despite the cold weather and the rain once in a while. This village is Alfaião.

Technical Sheet

Director: André Almeida Rodrigues

Producer: School of Arts of the Catholic University of Portugal

Year: 2016

Duration: 13 min

Awards

  • The NEXT International Short Film Festival — Best International Documentary — 2019
  • Ahmednagar International Short Film Festival — Best Non‑Fiction Film — 2019
  • IOFF – International Open Film Festival — Honorable Mention — 2018
  • PRINDIE – Princeton Independent Film Festival — Best Frame — 2018
  • FICABC – Festival Internacional Cinematográfico del Atlántico — Best Short Documentary — 2018
  • International Documentary Festival of Ierapetra — Best European Short Film — 2018
  • Shortcutz Covilhã — Best Short Film of May — 2018
  • Shortcutz Caldas da Rainha — Best Short Film of February — 2018
  • Shortcutz Funchal — Audience Award — 2017
  • DO PÃO – International Documentary Film Festival — Honorable Mention — 2017

Nominations

  • Blooom Award by Warsteiner — 2018
  • CBA – Cinema Blogger Awards: Melhor Curta Portuguesa — 2017

Screenings

  • Ciclo de Cinema na UNICEPE — 2023
  • Geofilmefestival — 2020
  • Cinema na Eira – Mostra de Cinema do FOLK ANCAS‑Anadia — 2020
  • Tarde de Cinema — 2020
  • Cine in Roca — 2019
  • FFIFF – Film Frames International Film Festival — 2019
  • Bogura International Film Festival — 2019
  • Festival Horizontes — 2019
  • 3 in 1 Film Festival — 2019
  • Kautik International Film Festival — 2019
  • Curta Canedo — 2019
  • Southern Screen — 2019
  • Entre Olhares – Mostra de Cinema Português — 2019
  • Festival International Sahélien Du Film — 2019
  • Izmit International Short Film Festival — 2019
  • Carakino in Frankfurt (Oder) #1 — 2019
  • Carakino #1 — 2019
  • Ongezien Kort — 2019
  • VASTLab Experimental Festival — 2019
  • The NEXT – International Short Film Festival — 2019
  • Encuentro Para Cinéfagos — 2019
  • La Baleine tend la perche — 2019
  • Homenagem a André Almeida Rodrigues — 2019
  • Etowah Film Festival — 2019
  • CineEco (Extensão) — 2019
  • Mastic Beach Mini Indie Film Fest — 2019
  • Conversas Curtas — 2019
  • Ahmednagar International Short Film Festival — 2019
  • Psicodália — 2019
  • CINENOVA — 2019
  • RPM FEST — 2019
  • CineKasimanwa — 2019
  • ETNOFF – Student Etno Film Festival — 2018
  • Kinomorphia Film Festival — 2018
  • Cinemax Curtas — 2018
  • Feira Internacional do Livro de Guadalajara — 2018
  • PROSPE(C)TIVA B.R.I.O — 2018
  • VIDEOBARDO — 2018
  • Veritas Film Festival — 2018
  • LIFFY – Latino and Iberian Film Festival at Yale — 2018
  • International Independent Film Festival PUBLICYSTYKA — 2018
  • CineEco — 2018
  • Cooltourall — 2018
  • Agenda Cultural da União das Freguesias de Custóias, Leça do Balio e Guifões — 2018
  • Marmaris Uluslararası Kısa Film Festivali — 2018
  • FICM – Festival International du Cinéma et la Mer — 2018
  • AegeanDocs — 2018
  • International Documentary Festival of Ierapetra (Extensão) — 2018
  • Festival de Curtas Jovem — 2018
  • BGFF – The Bioscope Global Film Festival — 2018
  • Shortcutz Figueira da Foz — 2018
  • FICABC — 2018
  • OCFF – Ocean Coast Film Festival — 2018
  • The Unseen Festival — 2018
  • Short cut — 2018
  • FICP – Festival Internacional de Cine de la Patagonia — 2018
  • Festival de Cine Etnográfico de Ecuador — 2018
  • Mostremp – Mostra de Cinema Rural del Pallars — 2018
  • LCIFF – Lake City International Film Festival — 2018
  • International Documentary Festival of Ierapetra — 2018
  • MôTif Film Festival — 2018
  • Festival de Cine Espiritual Contracorriente — 2018
  • Horn Festival — 2018
  • Shortcutz Porto — 2018
  • LUNATIK Short Film Festival Leipzig — 2018
  • Festival Liberdade — 2018
  • SEFF – Smaragdni Eco Film Festival — 2018
  • Festival Curtas Metragens — 2018
  • Curta Arte – Festival de Curtas‑Metragens — 2018
  • Tourfilm Riga — 2018
  • NTFF – Norway Tamil Film Festival — 2018
  • UCLA Latin American and Iberian Film Festival — 2018
  • Moviected — 2018
  • NOFLASH Video Show — 2018
  • Shortcutz Caldas da Rainha — 2018
  • International Film Festival ZOOM – ZBLIZENIA — 2018
  • Curtas à Quarta — 2018
  • Shortcutz Lisboa — 2018
  • Pugnant Film Series — 2018
  • C(H)ORTA – Festival de Curtas do Faial — 2017
  • Cinema no Palácio — 2017
  • IntimaLente – Festival di Film Etnografici — 2017
  • Nuovi Mondi Film Festival — 2017
  • PLATEAU – Festival Internacional de Cinema da Praia — 2017
  • FIFER – Festival Internacional do Filme Etnográfico do Recife — 2017
  • Ymotion — 2017
  • CUVETE — 2017
  • Noite Triplex — 2017
  • BFF – Bushman Film Festival — 2017
  • FENAVID – Festival Internacional de Cine de Santa Cruz — 2017
  • FENACIES – Festival de Cine Estudantil — 2017
  • Shortcutz Funchal — 2017
  • FARCUME — 2017
  • MOITAMOSTRA — 2017
  • Pärnu International Documentary and Anthropology — 2017
  • M.U.X – Misantropia Utópica Excessiva — 2017
  • DO PÃO – Festival Internacional de Cinema Documental — 2017
  • À RAIA – Mostra de Cinema Ibérico — 2017
  • Encontros de Cinema de Viana — 2017

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