DN student film awarded by the Portuguese Film Academy

Atsushi Kuwayama, a DocNomads student from Japan, won the “Sophia” award for best documentary in the student category with “Até à Próxima”, a film he directed during the 1st semester of DocNomads Masters. The “Sophias” are awarded yearly by the Portuguese Film Academy as a prestigious distinction to films made in Portugal.

ATÉ À PRÓXIMA

2016 • Color • 10' • o.v. Portuguese w/ English subtitles

Synopsis: This film is about friendship growing out of walking together while not understanding each other well. It sets in one of the long stairs in the hilly town of Lisbon, where Dona Maria, a lively, vulnerable, and humorous lady from the local, frequently walks up the stairs with a tall guy from somewhere in Asia. She tells the stories about her past and present. Because of the language barrier, the conversation often gets derailed, pointless and lost, arriving nowhere, but along the way, they become who they weren’t before.