Drawing Room Lisbon: Gabriel Abrantes

His films premiered in competition at the Venice Biennale, the Berlinale and Locarno International Film Festival, where he won the Golden Bear for “A History of Mutual Respect” (2010). Most recently, he was shortlisted for the Berlinale Shorts competition with “The Artifical Humours” (2016), which was commissioned for the São Paulo Biennale exhibition “Live Uncertainty” (2016), and participated in the 16th Lyon Biennale, with “A Brief History of Princess X” and “Les Extraordinaires Mésaventures de la Jeune Fille de Pierre” (2022). In 2018, his film “Diamantino” (2018), which he co-directed with Daniel Schmidt, won the Grand Prize at the Semaine de la Critique in Cannes. In 2014 he was a commissioned artist of the Biennal d’Image Mouvement - Centre d’art Contemporain de Genève (Switzerland). He received the EDP Young Artists Award in 2009, the Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival in 2010, and the EFA Award at the Berlin Film Festival in 2014 and 2016.