This prize is one among a list of many more which includes Best International Film and Critics Award in the Valdívia Film Festival, FIPRESCI Award in the Viennale, Critic’s Award for Best Film in Sao Paulo Film Festival, the Jury Special Award, the Critic’s Award, the Audience Award and the Film Club Society Award in Santa Maria da Feira Film Festival, the Lady Harimaguada de Plata Award and the José Rivero Award for Best Young Director in Las Palmas International Film Festival, the Jury’s Special Award and a Special Mention for the sound in Guadalajara’s Film Festival, and finally Best Film Award in BAFICI – Buenos Aires International Festival of independent Cinema.
OUR BELOVED MONTH OF AUGUST is a co-production between O Som e a Fúria and Shellac Sud.
In the heart of Portugal, amid the mountains, the month of August is abuzz with people and activity. Emigrants return home, set off fireworks, fight fires, sing karaoke, hurl themselves from bridges, hunt wild boar, drink beer, make babies. If the director and film crew had got straight to it and resisted the temptation to join in the festivities the synopsis would come down to: “Our Beloved Month of August” follows the affective relationship between a father and daughter, and the daughter’s cousin, all musicians in a dance band. So, love and music then.