Inês Lima's film was honored at the Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg with the Deframed Award in the International Competition.
At the awards ceremony for the 41st edition of the Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, the Deframed Award was given to the short film “The Moving Garden” (Inês Lima, 2024, Portugal, EXP/FIC, 19′).
The jury, composed of Yalda Afsah (artist and filmmaker), Zohra Ait El Jamar (director of Hayy Cinema), Alecio Araci (filmmaker), Katerina Gregos (director of the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens), and Ayhan Salar (filmmaker, author, and curator), issued the following statement:
“The film stands out for its lyrical, original approach to storytelling, where gardens become more than just physical places and transform into surreal spaces for bizarre and unusual encounters that are funny, deadpan, and mysterious. It invites the audience to slow down, pause, and reflect — with humour and a poetic lightness of touch — on a number of issues, from tourism and the environment to interpersonal relationships and the strange behaviours humans display when in nature. The film hovers between dreaminess, surrealism, and reality, always appearing to levitate in a world of its own imaginary, kaleidoscopic tactility".
