Fernando Lopes Award

After school, a group of children gathers at Casa de São Bento, where a community project is located and they have the freedom to dream, play and grow. Inside a time machine, they think about their future.

A look at the Alcochete invasion by a boxing coach under house arrest seeking redemption from his worst mistake. Four years later, the academic project remembers the media event, reflecting on the demonised agent of misinformation and sensationalism.

A realizadora caminha pela floresta, que ecoa as suas memórias. Recorda uma carta recebida 5 anos antes, escrita pela avó. A voz de Eugénia escapa-lhe por entre os ramos e a vegetação. Um diálogo intemporal entre duas mulheres a gerações de distância.

Uma viagem pelas possibilidades da memória enquanto corpo vivo. Pela experiência fugaz do momento irrepetível e a tentativa incansável de o registar e comunicar. Pelas várias formas físicas, verbais e mentais em que se cristaliza.

In 2005, Luís and Afonso, father and son, spend the first fortnight of August in Sonega, a village in Alentejo. The vacation, however, doesn’t go as expected. Tension arises from the father’s hidden past, causing their friendship to rupture.

While trying to make a film that makes sense of home movies from her home country, Portugal, a filmmaker in the beginning of her career talks with other filmmakers in the hopes of understanding what it takes to make cinema out of archival images.