‘The Girl with Busy Eyes’ has been nominated for three Quirino Awards, including Best Ibero-American Animation Short Film, Best Visual Development, and Best Sound Design and Original Music.
This film is an adaptation of an illustrated book by André Carrilho, published in 2020, and has already been selected for over 70 film festivals and showcases worldwide.
Both the book and the film depict a girl who remains glued to her mobile phone, oblivious to the world around her, including imaginary play, adventures, street walks, beach outings, or circus performances.
While the book is grounded in the relationship between text and illustration, particularly in watercolor, the film features no dialogues, bringing all characters to life through movement and sound.
At the Quirino Awards, ‘Percebes,’ by Alexandra Ramires and Laura Gonçalves, is also nominated in the Best Ibero-American Animation Short Film category.
‘Percebes,’ awarded in 2024 at the Annecy festival, is a documentary about the lifecycle of a marine creature highly regarded in Portuguese cuisine, serving as a springboard to explore the lives of those who catch and market it in the Algarve, and to comment on mass tourism.
The film ‘They Killed the Pianist,’ a documentary by Spaniards Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal with Portuguese co-production by Animanostra, is nominated for the Quirino for Best Animation Feature Film.
The theme of the film revolves around the tragic life of Brazilian pianist Francisco Tenório Jr., considered a pivotal figure in Bossa Nova, who disappeared in Buenos Aires in March 1976 while performing with Toquinho and Vinicius de Moraes.
The documentary is set against the backdrop of Brazilian music, particularly the early years of Bossa Nova, and also addresses the “brutality of the dictatorial regimes” that plagued Latin America in the 1960s and 1970s, according to the synopsis.
This eighth edition of the Quirino Awards features 26 films nominated across ten distinct categories.
The winners will be announced on May 10 in San Cristóbal de la Laguna, Tenerife, Spain.
The Quirino Awards were established in 2018 “to promote animation across the 23 countries of the Ibero-American region” and are named after Quirino Cristiani, who the organization claims produced “the first animated feature film in history: an Argentine production titled ‘El apóstol’ (1917).”
