It's the Earth Not the Moon triumphs at DocLisboa
by Vitor Pinto
Portuguese director Gonçalo Tocha’s documentary It's the Earth Not the Moon won the top prize at DocLisboa 2011: the City of Lisbon Award (in international competition) for the best medium-length or feature-length film, presented by the jury presided by historian Peter von Bagh. This is the first time in five years that a Portuguese film was presented in competition at DocLisboa.
It's the Earth Not the Moon screened at the latest Locarno Film Festival, where it received a special mention. The film, shot on Corvo island (the smallest island of the Azores archipelago), focuses on an “inward-looking micro-community”, according to the director.
This documentary is the second film by Tocha. His debut work, Balaou, named Best Portuguese Feature at IndieLisboa in 2007, wasn’t released commercially in Portuguese theatres.
The DocLisboa Special Jury Prize went to Pierre-Yves Vandeweerd’s French/Belgian co-production Lost Land, while the Best New Talent Award went to French helmer Nathalie Nambot’s Friend, Do You Hear.
DocLisboa 2011 screened a total of 172 films and was attended by over 27,000 viewers.
(Translated from Spanish)
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