Portuguese Competition

In exile, a Brazilian child develops strategies to rise.

In order to reflect upon current practices of political dissent, we delve into the past and follow the experiences of a young artist. Invited to go underground in Portugal, during…

Filmmaker Davina Maria and illustrator Dominique Goblet share a fascination for the beach in Ostend. Made up of photographs and illustrations, the film subtly interweaves their respective artistic practices. With…

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.…

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,…

Shyness is nice, but shyness can stop you from doing all the things in life you’d like to. With the world near its end, a dialogue with a chat bot…

Shot on film and hand processed by the director for over 20 years, Lucefece mixes personal, political and mythical views on reality, exorcising old ghosts. Stories from the director’s childhood,…

Edgar is going to Lisbon to study this year. He is spending the summer travelling with Diogo, going from festival to festival. Northern Portugal as a landscape.

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…