Jornal da Mostra

São Paulo International Film Festival awards new filmmakers, who have concluded their first or second feature, with the Bandeira Paulista trophy. In 2020, 88 films that form the New Directors Competition run for the prize.

From the total number of films in the section, the most voted by the audience are selected (this year, in a virtual way) at the end of the festival’s first week of screenings. Only the best rated features are presented to the Jury, which, in 2020, gather the professionals Cristina Amaral, Felipe Hirsch and Sara Silveira.

Held over two decades ago, the Competition has awarded filmmakers such as the Iranian Jafar Panahi (The White Balloon, 19th Mostra, 1995), the French Bruno Dumont (The Life of Jesus, 21st Mostra, 1997), the Danish Thomaz Vinterberg (The Celebration, 22nd Mostra, 1998), the Mexican Alejandro Gonzáles Iñarritu (Love’s a Bitch, 24th Mostra, 2000) and the Brazilian Marcelo Gomes (Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures, 29th Mostra, 2005).

Last year, the Jury granted the Bandeira Paulista trophy to three features: Best Documentary for Honeyland (North Macedonia), by Ljubomir Stefanov e Tamara Kotevska, and Best Fiction for Babyteeth (Australia), by Shannon Murphy, and for System Crasher (Germany), by Nora Fingscheidt.

Among the recently awarded films are ¡Las Sandinistas! (EUA), by Jenny Murray; Adriana’s Pact (Chile), by Lissette Orozco; El Amparo (Venezuela, Colombia), by Rober Calzadilla; Sparrows (Iceland, Denmark, Croatia), by Rúnar Rúnarsson; Inbetween Worlds (Germany), by Feo Aladag; Harmony Lessons (Kazakhstan, Germany, France), by Emir Baigazin; La Jaula de Oro (Mexico), by Diego Quemada-Díez; Fill the Void (Israel), by Rama Burshtein; Breathing (Austria), by Karl Markovics, and Plot for Peace (South Africa), by Carlos Agulló and Mandy Jacobson.

Check out, below, the list of films that integrate the New Directors Competition at the 44th Mostra.

17 BLOCKS, by Davy Rothbart (USA)

9,75, by Uluç Bayraktar (TURKEY)

A MACHINE TO LIVE IN, by Yoni Goldstein e Meredith Zielke (USA)

AL-SHAFAQ - WHEN HEAVEN DIVIDES, by Esen Isik (SWITZERLAND)

ANIMA, by Reza Golchin (IRAN)

AS ABOVE, SO BELOW, by Sarah Fancis (LEBANON)

BACK TO VISEGRAD, by Antoine Jaccoud e Julie Biro (SWITZERLAND)

BAD TALES, by Fabio & Damiano D`Innocenzo (ITALY, SWITZERLAND)

BEING MORTAL, by Liu Ze (CHINA)

BETWEEN DOG AND WOLF, by Irene Gutiérrez (SPAIN, CUBA)

CANDANGO: MEMÓRIAS DO FESTIVAL, by Lino Meireles (BRAZIL)

CHECK MATE, by Bruna Piantino (BRAZIL, URUGUAY)

CHICO REI ENTRE NÓS, by Joyce Prado (BRAZIL)

COCOON, by Leonie Krippendorff (GERMANY)

COLOMBIA IN MY ARMS, by Jenni Kivistö e Jussi Rastas (FINLAND, DENMARK, SWEDEN, FRANCE)

CORRAL, by Marcelo Brennand (BRAZIL)

DENTE POR DENTE, by Julio Taubkin e Pedro Arantes (BRAZIL)

DIGGER, by Georgis Grigorakis (GREECE, FRANCE)

ECSTASY, by Moara Passoni (BRAZIL, USA)

EEB ALLAY OOO!, by Prateek Vats (INDIA)

EQUINOX, by Lena Knauss (GERMANY)

EXILE, by Visar Morina (GERMANY, BELGIUM, KOSOVO)

FAREWELL AMOR, by Ekwa Msangi (USA)

FEELS GOOD MAN, by Arthur Jones (USA)

FILHO DE BOI, by Haroldo Borges (BRAZIL)

HAVEL, by Slávek Horák (CZECH REPUBLIC)

HOMECOMING - MARINA ABRAMOVIC AND HER CHILDREN, by Boris Miljkovic (SERBIA)

IN MY DREAM, by Murat Çeri (TURKEY)

JOSEP, by Aurélien Froment (SPAIN, BELGIUM, FRANCE)

KAIRÓS, by Nicolás Buenaventura Vidal (FRANCE, COLOMBIA)

KALA AZAR, by Janis Rafa (NETHERLANDS, GREECE)

KILL IT AND LEAVE THIS TOWN, by Mariusz Wilczyński (POLAND)

LA FRANCISCA, A CHILEAN YOUTH, by Rodrigo Litorriaga (CHILE, FRANCE, BELGIUM)

LA MARINA, by Étienne Galloy e Christophe Levac (CANADA)

LIFE ON THE ROAD, by Sidra Rezwan, Salwa Soleiman Sedo, Ekhlas Heydar Samubud e Adnan Faroq (IRAQ)

LONELY ROCK, by Alejandro Telémaco Tarraf (ARGENTINA, MEXICO, QATAR, UNITED KINGDOM)

LORELEI, by SABRINA DOYLE (USA)

LUXOR, by Zeina Durra (EGYPT, UNITED KINGDOM)

MATER, by Jure Pavlovic (CROATIA, SERBIA, FRANCE, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA)

MEMORY HOUSE, by João Paulo Miranda Maria (BRAZIL, FRANCE)

MOSQUITO, by Nuno Pinto (PORTUGAL, BRAZIL, FRANCE)

MUM, MUM, MUM, by Sol Berruezo Pichon-Rivière  (ARGENTINA)

MY HEART CAN`T BEAT UNLESS YOU TELL IT TO, by Jonathan Cuartas (USA)

NAKED ANIMALS, by Melanie Waelde (GERMANY)

NEITHER HERO NOR TRAITOR, by Nicolás Savignone (ARGENTINA)

NO HARD FEELINGS, by Faraz Shariat (GERMANY)

O LIVRO DOS PRAZERES, by Marcela Lordy (BRAZIL, ARGENTINA)

OCEAN WOMAN, by Djin Sganzerla (BRAZIL, JAPAN)

PANQUIACO, by Ana Elena Tejera (PANAMA)

PARI, by Siamak Etemadi (GREECE, FRANCE, NETHERLANDS, BULGARIA)

PILATE, by Linda Dombrovszky (HUNGARY)

RED MOON TIDE, by Lois Patiño (SPAIN)

SAMBA OF SAINTS - AN AFRO-BAHIAN RESISTANCE MOVEMENT, by Betão Aguiar (BRAZIL)

SANGUINETTI, by Christian Diaz Pardo (MEXICO, CHILE)

SILENCE AND SUNSET, by Kazufumi Umemura (JAPAN)

SINGLE CYCLE, by Qi Zhang (CHINA)

SISTERS IN THE END OF THE WORLD, by Luciana Mazeto e Vinícius Lopes (BRAZIL)

SOIL, by Sevgi Hirschhäuser (GERMANY, TURKEY)

SPAGAT, by Christian Johannes Koch (SWITZERLAND)

SPRING BLOSSOM, by Suzanne Lindon (FRANCE)

STRIDING INTO THE WIND, by Shujun Wei (CHINA)

SUMMER KNIGHT, by Xing You (CHINA)

SUMMER REBELS, by Martina Saková (GERMANY, SLOVAKIA)

SUMMER WHITE, by Rodrigo Ruiz Patterson (MEXICO)

SUMMERTIME, by Carlos López Estrada (USA)

SWEAT, by Magnus von Horn (POLAND, SWEDEN)

TALES FROM THE PRISON CELL, by Abel Visky (HUNGARY, CROATIA, UNITED KINGDOM)

TENTEHAR - SENSITIVE ARCHITECTURE, by Paloma Rocha (BRAZIL)

THE DEATH OF CINEMA AND MY FATHER TOO, by Dani Rosenberg (ISRAEL)

THE EARTH IS BLUE AS AN ORANGE, by Iryna Tsilyk (UKRAINE, LITHUANIA)

THE LITTLE REFUGEE, by Batin Ghobadi (TURKEY, IRAN)

THE NAME ENGRAVED IN YOUR HEART, by Kuang-Hui LIU (TAIWAN)

THE NAMES OF THE FLOWERS, by Bahman Tavoosi (BOLIVIA, CANADA, USA, QATAR)

THE NOSE OR THE CONSPIRACY OF MAVERICKS, by Andrey Khrzhanovsky (RUSSIA)

THE RED SCROLL, by Nelson Botter Jr (BRAZIL)

THE SAINT OF THE IMPOSSIBLE, by Marc Raymond Wilkins (SWITZERLAND)

THE SEA WITHIN, by Dainara Toffoli (BRAZIL)

THE SURROGATE, by Jeremy Hersh (USA)

THE TREMOR, by Balaji Vembu Chelli (INDIA)

THE TROUBLE WITH BEING BORN, by Sandra Wollner (AUSTRIA, GERMANY)

THE TROUBLE WITH NATURE, by Illum Jacobi (DENMARK, FRANCE)

THIS IS MY DESIRE, by Arie Esiri e Chuko Esiri (NIGERIA)

THRESHOLD, by Rouzbeh Akhbari e Felix Kalmenson (CANADA, ARMENIA, TURKEY)

TRIGGER, by Pavel Ganin (RUSSIA)

VALENTINA, by Cássio Pereira dos Santos (BRAZIL)

WINDOW BOY WOULD ALSO LIKE TO HAVE A SUBMARINE, by Alex Piperno (URUGUAY, ARGENTINA, BRAZIL, NETHERLANDS, PHILIPPINES)

YO’EMIAN LABYRINTH, by Sergi Pedro Ros (MEXICO, SPAIN)

ZANKA CONTACT, by Ismaël El Iraki (FRANCE, MARROCO, BELGIUM)