One more year, The Filmoteca presents several special sessions with the winning works of the main categories of the Lola Gaos Awards 2025, organized by the Valencian Academy of the Audiovisual. The best fiction film, A fifth Portuguese, and his other six directing awards, script, music, leading actor, editing and sound, offers a beautiful story of chance encounters and reinvented lives. In the case of the best documentary feature, Chronicle Team: trench art, we remember the history of an essential Valencian artistic collective in contemporary art. with The Barracuda tresor, best animated feature, we live an exciting pirate adventure that the family audience can enjoy in Menuda Filmo. The cycle is completed by the session dedicated to the short winners of the fiction categories, documentary and animation, which affect issues such as homophobia, historical memory and reflection on the body and gender expression. The sessions will include a presentation and discussion by members of the artistic and technical team. An occasion to claim the good moment of Valencian cinema, which in recent times has significantly increased its presence in the media, sales i festivals.
05.03.26 THURSDAY / 19.30 h Presentation and discussion with director Avelina Prat.
A fifth Portuguese
Avelina Prat. Spain, Portugal. 2025. Color. 114′. DCP.
Int. Manolo Solo, Maria de Medeiros, Rita Cabaço, Branka Katic.
The disappearance of his wife leaves Fernando, a quiet geography professor, completely devastated. Aimless, supplants the identity of another man as a gardener of a Portuguese farm, where he establishes an unexpected friendship with the owner, entering a new life that does not belong to him.
