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The short film “Bad For a Moment” (“Bad for a Moment”)”, by Daniel Soares, (another Portuguese film — has its world premiere in the short film competition of the Official Selection of Cannes Festival 2024which will take place from the 15th to the 24th of May.
The short film “Bad For a Moment” 15′), by Daniel Soares, produced by O Som e a Fúria, is the sixth Portuguese film present at the biggest cinematographic event in the world and, therefore, will have its world premiere in the short film competition of the Official Selection of the Cannes Festival 2024, which will take place from the 15th to the 24th of May. In other words, the same competition where Portuguese cinema was once happy when in 2009, João Salaviza, won the Palme d’Or with the short film “Arena”.
If Salaviza’s film was about inclusion, “Bad For a Moment”in Daniel Soares, deals with the very current topic of urban gentrification. The film tells the story of an architect or rather the owner of an architecture studio who participates with his team in a team-building (training or consolidation of a work team). The event goes wrong and the architect finds himself confronted with the reality of the social neighborhood that is being gentrified.
Daniel Soares is a Portuguese writer/director, who was born in Germany. In parallel to the filmmaking and his cinematographic work, his photographs were exhibited at the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York. His short films have been shown at festivals such as Telluride, Locarno, Clermont-Ferrand, Hong Kong IFF It is Shanghai IFF.
They were awarded at festivals such as Premiers Plans d’Angers (Grand Prix du Jury), IndieLisboa (Best National Short Film), Zagreb Film Festival (Best International Short Film)among others, and now this “Bad For a Moment” which was then produced by The Sound of Fury, who has already produced works of Miguel Gomes, João Nicolau or Lucrecia Martel, among other Portuguese and foreign directors. In addition to the announcement of “Bad For a Moment” and other candidates for the Palme d’Or, the complete composition of two juries was also announced: the Jury of Selection of Short Films It is La Cinef of 77th Cannes Film Festival and the section Un Certain Regard.
Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar, Claudine Nougaret, Paolo Moretti It is Vladimir Perišićwill accompany the president, the Belgian actress Lubna Azabal, in the awarding of the Palme d’Or for short films and the 3 La Cinef awards, also a selection from the Cannes Festival aimed at short films from international film schools. This Jury will therefore discover and reward the best of the 11 films in the Short Film Competition, as well as the 18 films in the La Cinef Selection.
As already announced, the Canadian actor, director, screenwriter and producer Xavier Dolan will be president of the section jury Un Certain Regard of Cannes Film Festival 2024. He will be surrounded by the French-Senegalese director and screenwriter Maïmouna Doucouré, by the Moroccan director, screenwriter and producer Asmae El Mudirby the German-Luxembourg actress Vicky Krieps and by American film critic and writer Todd McCarthy.
Your mission will be to present the Palmarés of this section that celebrates young cinema, emerging directors — the director of “Bad For a Moment”could one day reach this level — the revelations and new cinematographic languages or originality, even when they are from more established or veteran directors.
This year around 18 films were selected, among which 8 are first works, therefore candidates for Golden Chamber. In 2023, “How to Have Sex – The First Time”, the first film by the British Molly Manning Walkerwon the Un Certain Regard Award granted by the Jury presided over by John C. Reilly. This year “When the Light Breaks” by Icelandic director Rúnar Rúnarssonwill open this section on Wednesday, May 15, 2024.
