New Talent Award

TVCine Channels Award for Best First Feature-Length Film (over 60’) from a selection comprising all sections with the exception of the retrospectives and Cinema of Urgency

3500€ (includes the acquisition of the television rights for Portugal)

One Screening Only
24 Oct • 22:00 / 90’
Cinema Ideal
One Screening Only
28 Oct • 11:00 / 90’
Cinema São Jorge - Sala 3

earth altars

Sofía Peypoch

Sofía Peypoch returns to the site of her kidnapping. Amid the darkness and silence, her hands search underground for traces of a buried memory. Others replicate this chimerical gesture. The…

One Screening Only
21 Oct • 16:45 / 86’
Culturgest - Pequeno Auditório
One Screening Only
23 Oct • 10:30 / 86’
Culturgest - Pequeno Auditório

Magnificent Sky

Alexandru Badea

Theory and practice meet the noise of reality in a portrait of Romanian avant-garde composers Iancu Dumitrescu and Ana-Maria Avram, whose driving ambition was to provoke a revolution in sound.…

One Screening Only
21 Oct • 21:15 / 115’
Cinema São Jorge - Sala M. Oliveira
One Screening Only
22 Oct • 10:45 / 115’
Cinema São Jorge - Sala 3

Em Ano de Safra

Sofia Bairrão

Cork oaks perspire, birds whistle and ants make their way. A cycle of cork extraction in a village in central Portugal. A father and a daughter in a technological clash.…

One Screening Only
22 Oct • 18:00 / 119’
Cinema São Jorge - Sala M. Oliveira
One Screening Only
25 Oct • 10:30 / 119’
Culturgest - Pequeno Auditório

Fogo no Lodo

Catarina Laranjeiro, Daniel Barroca

Unal is a village of rice producers whose inhabitants played a crucial role in Guinea-Bissau’s liberation struggle against Portuguese colonialism. They were the first to engage in the armed uprising,…

One Screening Only
23 Oct • 19:00 / 98’
Cinema São Jorge - Sala M. Oliveira
One Screening Only
27 Oct • 10:30 / 98’
Culturgest - Auditório Emilio Rui Vilar

As Melusinas à Margem do Rio

Melanie Pereira

As she goes through hills and rivers looking for Melusina, a mutant and legendary mermaid from the city of Luxembourg, where she grew up, the director talks to four women…

One Screening Only
23 Oct • 19:00 / 89’
Culturgest - Auditório Emilio Rui Vilar
One Screening Only
26 Oct • 21:30 / 89’
Cinema São Jorge - Sala M. Oliveira

A Câmara

Tiago de Aragão, Cristiane Brum Bernardes

The Brazilian National Congress mostly comprises men. The film unprecedentedly follows elected women from different political spectrums conducting politics in the Chamber of Deputies in the last year of Jair…

One Screening Only
26 Oct • 20:00 / 81’
Cinema Ideal
One Screening Only
27 Oct • 22:00 / 81’
Cinema Ideal

This

Terrorismo de Autor

Esto is a story of communists and fascists—Indians and cowboys—, of identity as a trench, homeland or death in life. Esto is an intergenerational dialogue where each generation denies and…

One Screening Only
24 Oct • 14:00 / 94’
Culturgest - Pequeno Auditório

Portrait of the King as a Child

Alessandra Lancellotti

Once upon a time, there was a castle on a mountain, with a man inside. The man placed all the conflict and all the beauty of the world inside the…