27 APRIL — 07 MAY 2023

27 APRIL — 07 MAY 2023

Filters

Filters

Competitive section for young filmmakers in age and willingness to experiment with cinema – it is the space par excellence for new voices in portuguese cinema.

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Competitive section for young filmmakers in age and willingness to experiment with cinema – it is the space par excellence for new voices in portuguese cinema.

An Ode

An autobiographical project that starts from a rediscovery and a change of perspective towards the positive and negative facets when it comes to sensitivity and sentimentality.

Experimental, 2023, 6'

By My Hair

Four friends have fun on the beach, while sharing stories that revolve around their experiences of not shaving.

Documentary, 2023, 12'

Coast

A block of buildings facing the sea is once again threatened by the surrounding forces of nature. Two neighbors contemplate starting over somewhere else.

Fiction, 2023, 13'

Construction Work

A film that opens the doors to the world of construction building, composed, here, by the voices of immigrant workers who build houses that will soon be inhabited. Coming, mostly, from former Portuguese colonies, the link to the country of origin is music, but also memory.

Carolina Rosendo

Documentary, 2023, 14'

Dead Nerve

A world made of sounds, another made of silence. Luísa in the middle, between the two experiences, trying to find balance. And us hearing the world through her ears.

Margarida P Fonseca

Documentary / Experimental, 2023, 10'

Hannah, Anna, Ana

A poetic exploration of three generations of women, sometimes close, sometimes distant, but always connected.

Ana Teresa, Bruno Alves

Fiction, 2023, 10'

Holy Family

A film that questions ideas about what is family and what is sacred after a nun is excommunicated and returns to a life that includes the daughter she was estranged from when her faith spoke louder. To whom should she ask for forgiveness now?

Diogo S. Figueira

Fiction, 2023, 22'

Impressions of Light

Reflections in the sea, on a spoon, on camera. Any reflective surface opens the door to exploration and play. Everything changes, depending on the light.

Juliana Julieta

Experimental, 2022, 3'

in my life

The living and the dead speak of the life of a three-year-old boy.

José Lobo Antunes

Documentary, 2023, 18'

Jump

Part of growing up is a certain desire to test the limits and that’s exactly what Duarte does, on one of the several nights when his mother goes to work. Of course, not everything goes as he planned.

Fiction, 2023, 11'

Land Song

A record of a love in documentary form.

Inês Ariana Pereira

Documentary / Experimental, 2023, 8'

Mátria

A tribute to Natália Correia, a Portuguese poet and writer who was born 100 years ago, in a film that travels to the island of São Miguel, in the Azores, where reality and fiction intertwine with her poetry.

Catarina Gonçalves

Fiction, 2023, 27'

Memories of Blackwood and Ivory

Animation and personal archives come together for a collection of memories about the Portuguese colonial past that frees itself from the dominant narratives.

Documentary / Animation, 2023, 16'

My Rage is Underground

A narrative told in the first person in which space and sound work to rebuild a connection with the body that has been lost.

Francisca Antunes

Documentary, 2023, 13'

Near Or Far

A poetic film in which the nature that surrounds an isolated man becomes a metaphor for his deepest feelings.

Animation, 2022, 2'

Rubab

A film that proposes to show a slice of life of students that came from the only music school in Kabul (Afghanistan), who took refuge in Lisbon after the prohibition of music by the Taliban regime. One hundred students were thus received at the National Conservatory.

Documentary, 2023, 18'

Tio Kevin

A film about grief and what it’s like to return to a shared and ancestral place after a family member dies.

Documentary, 2022, 18'

Troubled Times

Through the use of personal archives, the story of the first moments of Angolan independence is told through the voice of Filomena Lopes.

Carlos Tavares Pedro

Documentary, 2022, 21'