# Festroia International Film Festival

The Tróia International Film Festival, commonly referred to as Festroia (Portuguese: Festival Internacional de Cinema de Tróia – Festróia), was an annual international film festival in Portugal held from 1985 to 2014.
Held in the town of Setúbal and named after the nearby Tróia Peninsula where the festival was originally based until 1993, the festival showcased mainly arthouse films made by smaller or less publicised national cinemas from around the world. In later editions its competitive section was open to films from countries producing less than 30 feature films per year. Usually held in the first week of June, the festival gave out a series of prizes, with the main award for Best Film being the Golden Dolphin (Golfinho de Ouro).
The last edition held was the 30th festival held in 2014. Due to cuts in funding, the 2015 edition was cancelled in March that year, three months before it was scheduled to take place, and a notification saying that there would be no 31st edition was put up on the official website in its last update. The website itself was taken down in early 2017.

## Golden Dolphin winners

| Year | Film | Director | Country |
| 001985 (1st) | Twenty Years Later | Eduardo Coutinho | Brazil |
| 001986 (2nd) | Fool for Love | Robert Altman | United States |
| 001987 (3rd) | Madrid | Basilio Martín Patino | Spain |
| 001988 (4th) | In the Name of the Son | Jorge Polaco | Argentina |
| 001989 (5th) | The Citadel | Mohamed Chouikh | Algeria |
| 001990 (6th) | Rose of the Desert | Rachid Benhadj | Algeria |
| 001991 (7th) | Homo Novus | Pál Erdöss | Hungary |
| 001992 (8th) | One Full Moon | Endaf Emlyn | Wales |
| 001993 (9th) | It's Better to Be Wealthy and Healthy Than Poor and Ill | Juraj Jakubisko | Czechoslovakia |
| 001994 (10th) | The Sacred Mound | Hrafn Gunnlaugsson | Iceland |
| 001995 (11th) | Madagascar | Fernando Pérez | Cuba |
| 001996 (12th) | Cold Fever | Fridrik Thor Fridriksson | Iceland |
| 001997 (13th) | The Father | Majid Majidi | Iran |
| 001998 (14th) | The Bandit | Yavuz Turgul | Turkey |
| 001999 (15th) | Solomon & Gaenor | Paul Morrison | Wales |
| 002000 (16th) | Ambush | Olli Saarela | Finland |
| 002001 (17th) | Italian for Beginners | Lone Scherfig | Denmark |
| 002002 (18th) | Every Stewardess Goes to Heaven | Daniel Burman | Argentina |
| 002003 (19th) | Intimate Stories | Carlos Sorín | Argentina |
| 002004 (20th) | Bonjour Monsieur Shlomi | Shemi Zarhin | Israel |
| 002005 (21st) | Turtles Can Fly | Bahman Ghobadi | Iran |
| 002006 (22nd) | What a Wonderful Place | Eyal Halfon | Israel |
| 002007 (23rd) | The Border Post | Rajko Grlić | Croatia |
| 002008 (24th) | Empties | Jan Svěrák | Czech Republic |
| 002009 (25th) | Forbidden Fruit | Dome Karukoski | Finland |
| 002010 (26th) | A Somewhat Gentle Man | Hans Petter Moland | Norway |
| 002011 (27th) | Tirza | Rudolf van den Berg | Netherlands |
| 002012 (28th) | The Parade | Srđan Dragojević | Serbia |
| 002013 (29th) | The Broken Circle Breakdown | Felix Van Groeningen | Belgium |
| 002014 (30th) | The Priest's Children | Vinko Brešan | Croatia |

## Footnotes

* ↑ "Festróia - Tróia". Internet Movie Database. Archived from the original on 2009-12-11. Retrieved 2024-12-26.
* ↑ Otto Coelho, Sara (3 March 2015). "Festival de cinema Festróia 2015 cancelado por falta de verbas". Observador. Retrieved 4 March 2017.
* ↑ "Comunicado de Imprensa". Archived from the original on 18 January 2017. Retrieved 18 January 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)