New Directors Competition: 101 films run for the prize
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The Bandeira Paulista trophy is given by São Paulo International Film Festival to filmmakers in their first or second feature. A total of 101 movies run for the prize of the New Directors Competition on the 43rd edition.

From the features in this section of the event, a selection is made considering the votes from the audience in the first week of screenings. Only the films with the most votes are presented to the International Jury, in this edition formed by Beto Brant, Lisandro Alonso, Maria de Medeiros e Xénia Maingot.

In more than two decades, the prize revealed directors such as the Iranian Jafar Panahi (The White Baloon, 19th Mostra, 1995); the French Bruno Dumont (The Life of Jesus, 21st Mostra, 1997); the Danish Thomas Vinterberg (The Celebration, 22nd Mostra, 1998); the Mexican Alejandro González Iñárritu (Amores Perros, 24th Mostra, 2000) and the Brazilian Marcelo Gomes (Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures, 9th Mostra, 2005).

In previous editions the Jury awarded ¡Las Sandinistas! (EUA), by Jenny Murray; Adriana’s Pact (Chile), by Lisette 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 by Oro (Mexico), by Diego Quemada-Díez, Fill the Void (Israel), by Rama Burshtein, Breathing (Austria), by Karl Markovics, The Patent Wars (Germany), by Hannah Leonie Prinzler, Plot for Peace (South Africa), by Carlos Agulló and Mandy Jacobson.

See below the films that participate in the New Directors Competition at the 43rd Mostra:

143 SAHARA STREET, by Hassen Ferhani (Argelia, France)
522. A CAT, A CHINESE GUY AND MY FATHER, by Paco R. Baños (Spain, Portugal)
A WHITE, WHITE DAY, by Hlynur Pálmason (Iceland, Denmark, Sweden)
ABOUT THAT LIFE, by Shady El-Hamus (The Netherlands)
ADAM, by Rhys Ernst (USA)
AFRICAN MIRROR, by Mischa Hedinger (Switzerland)
AFTERLIFE, by Willem Bosch (The Netherlands)
ALVA, by Ico Costa (Portugal, Argentina, France)
ANA`S DESIRE, by Emilio Santoyo (Mexico)
ANDREY TARKOVSKY. A CINEMA PRAYER, by Andrey A. Tarkovskiy (Italy, Russia, Sweden)
ARIMA, by Jaione Camborda (Spain)
ASYMMETRY, by Maša Neškovic (Serbia, Slovenia, Italy)
AURORA, by Miia Tervo (Finland)
BABYTEETH, by Shannon Murphy (Australia)
BECO, by Camilo Cavalcante (Brazil)
BELONGING, by Burak Cevik (Turkey, Canada, France)
BOY MEETS GUN, by Joost van Hezik (The Netherlands)
BRUNO ALEIXO’S MOVIE, by João Moreira, Pedro Santo (Portugal)
BUOYANCY, by Rodd Rathjen (Australia)
CENTURY OF SMOKE, by Nicolas Graux (Belgium)
CERTIFIED MAIL, by Hisham Saqr (Egypt)
CLEAN UP, by Man-ki Kwon (South Korea)
CLEO - IF I COULD TURN BACK TIME, by Erik Schmitt (Germany)
CUNNINGHAM, by Alla Kovgan (Germany, France, USA)
DAUGHTER, by Anthony Shim (Canada)
DAYS OF THE WHALE, by Catalina Arroyave Restrepo (Colombia)
DEPARTURE, by Caco Ciocler (Brazil)
DIGITALKARMA , by Mark Olexa, Francesca Scalisi (Switzerland)
DUST, by Udita Bhargava (Germany, India)
END OF SEASON, by Elmar Imanov (Azerbaijan, Germany, Georgia)
ENDLESS JUNE - BRAZIL`S NEW POLITICAL CULTURE, by Francisco Bosco, Raul Mourão (Brazil)
FAR FROM US, by Verena Kuri, Laura Bierbrauer (Argentina)
GAY CHORUS DEEP SOUTH, by David Charles Rodrigues (USA)
GUIE`DANI`S NAVEL, by Xavi Sala (Mexico)
GUTTERBEE, by Ulrich Thomsen (Denmark, USA)
HEAD BURST, by Savas Ceviz (Germany)
HEARTS AND BONES, by Ben Lawrence (Australia)
HEROES DON`T DIE, by Aude Léa Rapin (France, Belgium, Bosnia)
HOMING, by Helvécio Marins Jr. (Brazil, Germany)
HONEYLAND, by Ljubomir Stefanov, Tamara Kotevska (North Macedonia)
INDIGENOUS` SLAYER, by Oscar Sánchez, Robert Julca (Peru)
JUST 6.5, by Saeed Roustaee (Iran)
KOKO-DI KOKO-DA, by Johannes Nyholm (Sweden, Denmark)
LA VIDA EN COMÚN, by Ezequiel Yanco (Argentina, France)
LABYRINTH, by Amir Hossein Torabi (Iran)
LEMEBEL, by Joanna Reposi Garibaldi (Chile, Colombia)
LETTERS TO PAUL MORRISSEY, by Armand Rovira (Spain)
LITTLE HISTORIES, by Rafael Marziano (Venezuela)
LIVING UNSCATHED, by Manuel Siles (Peru, Argentina)
LOST AND FOUND, by Ronan Le Page (France)
LOST HOLIDAY, by Michael Matthews, Thomas Matthews (USA)
MAGALÍ, by Juan Pablo Di Bitonto (Argentina)
MAGGIE, by Ok-seop Yi (South Korea)
MIDNIGHT TRAVELER, by Hassan Fazili (USA, United Kingdom, Qatar, Canada)
MONT FOSTER, by Louis Godbout (Canada)
MR. JIMMY, by Peter Michael Dowd (USA, Japan)
MUSIC & APOCALYPSE, by Max Linz (Germany)
MY EXTRAORDINARY SUMMER WITH TESS, by Steven Wouterlood (The Netherlands, Germany)
MY NAME IS SARA, by Steven Oritt (USA)
NOAH LAND, by Cenk Ertürk (Germany, Turkey, USA)
O FIM DO MUNDO, by Basil da Cunha (Switzerland)
OLEG, by Juris Kursietis (Latvia, Belgium, Lithuania, France)
OUTCAST ROCKSTAR, by Felipe Novaes (Brazil)
PACIFIED, by Paxton Winters (Brazil)
PAPICHA, by Mounia Meddour (France, Argelia, Belgium, Qatar)
PATRICK, by Gonçalo Waddington (Portugal, Germany)
PELICAN BLOOD, by Katrin Gebbe (Germany)
PEWPEWPEW, by Sergey Vasiliev (Sweden)
PHOTOGRAPHER OF WAR, by Boris Benjamin Bertram (Denmark, Finland)
SAINT FRANCES, by Alex Thompson (USA)
SICK, SICK, SICK, by Alice Furtado (Brazil, France, The Netherlands)
SIRON. TIME ON CANVAS, by André Guerreiro Lopes, Rodrigo Campos (Brazil)
SLITS, by Carlos Segundo (Brazil, France)
SONS OF DENMARK, by Ulaa Salim (Denmark)
STITCHES, by Miroslav Terzic (Serbia)
STORIES FROM THE CHESTNUT WOODS, by Gregor Bozic (Slovenia, Italy)
SUICIDE TOURIST, by Jonas Alexander Arnby (Denmark, Norway, Germany, France, Sweden)
SWALLOW, by Carlo Mirabella-Davis (USA, France)
SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL, by Guillaume de Fontenay (France)
SYSTEM CRASHER, by Nora Fingscheidt (Germany)
TAKE ME SOMEWHERE NICE, by Ena Sendijarevic (The Netherlands, Bosnia)
THAT WHICH DOES NOT KILL, by Alexe Poukine (Belgium, France)
THE BEST OF DORIEN B., by Anke Blondé (Belgium, The Netherlands)
THE DAY AFTER I`M GONE, by Nimrod Eldar (Israel)
THE DRIFTERS, by Benjamin Bond (United Kingdom)
THE GOLD-LADEN SHEEP AND THE SACRED MOUNTAIN, by Ridham Janve (India)
THE HUMORIST, by Michael Idov (Russia, Latvia, Czech Republic)
THE LONGEST NIGHT, by Gabriela Calvache (Ecuador, Mexico)
THE REPORT, by Scott Z. Burns (USA)
THE SHARKS, by Lucia Garibaldi (Uruguai, Argentina, Spain)
THE UNKNOWN SAINT, by Alaa Eddine Aljem (Marrocco, France, Qatar)
THE WAITER, by Steve Krikris (Greece)
THE WARDEN, by Nima Javidi (Iran)
THE WORLD IS FULL OF SECRETS, by Graham Swon (USA)
TIME OUT, by Matti Kinnunen (Finland)
TO LIVE TO SING, by Johnny Ma (China, France)
UNDERDOWN, by Sarah Kaskas (Lebanon, Qatar, Germany)
VIGIL IN AUGUST, by Luis María Mercado (Argentina)
WEIHAI, by Liang Huan (China)
WET SEASON, by Anthony Chen (Cingapura, Taiwan)
ZERO IMPUNITY, by Nicolas Blies, Stephane Hueber-Blies, Denis Lambert (Luxemburg, France)

43ª MOSTRA INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA

43ª MOSTRA INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA