Legal Partners Rights and Freedoms Award

Legal Partners Portugal Award for Best Film Dealing with Human Rights from a selection comprising all sections with the exception of the retrospectives and competitions.
1500€

21 Oct / 17:00 / 83’
Cinema São Jorge - Sala 3
27 Oct / 11:00 / 83’
Cinema São Jorge - Sala 3

A Stone’s Throw

Aala Marma Hajar
Razan AlSalah

Amine, a Palestinian elder, is exiled twice from land and labour. He is displaced from his birthplace Haifa, seeking refuge in Beirut, and again in…

19 Oct / 14:00 / 83’
Cinema São Jorge - Sala 3
27 Oct / 22:00 / 83’
Cinema São Jorge - Sala 3

Works and Days

Ilgwa Nal
Minsoo Park, Kearnhyung Ahn

Nine individuals living in South Korea, with varying ages, genders, and occupations, yet all ordinary people. Across 81 fragments of daily life, inner voices of…

One Screening Only
20 Oct / 10:30 / 138’
Cinema São Jorge - Sala 3

The Landscape and the Fury

Nicole Vögele

Along the Bosnian-Croatian border near Velika Kladuša, the paths of mine disposal experts, migrating families and locals cross. This cinematographic essay centres around this region,…

21 Oct / 21:45 / 80’
Cinema Ideal
22 Oct / 14:15 / 80’
Culturgest - Pequeno Auditório

Under a Blue Sun

Mitahat le Shemesh Khula
Daniel Mann

When Bashir Abu Rabia, a 75-year-old Palestinian Bedouin artist, watches the film Rambo III, he sees much more than Sylvester Stallone fighting against the Soviets…

One Screening Only
26 Oct / 19:15 / 84’
Cinema São Jorge - Sala M. Oliveira

The Words Women Spoke One Day

Les mots qu'elles eurent un jour
Raphaël Pillosio

“In 1962, Yann Le Masson filmed Algerian women activists on their release from prison in France. More than 50 years later, now that the soundtrack…

18 Oct / 19:00 / 93’
Cinema São Jorge - Sala M. Oliveira
19 Oct / 21:45 / 93’
Cinema Ideal

The Nights Still Smell of Gunpowder

As Noites ainda cheiram a Pólvora
Inadelso Cossa

Concerned with the fragmented memories of my childhood during the civil war in Mozambique, I return to my grandmother’s village to reveal untold stories. She…

One Screening Only
19 Oct / 15:30 / 98’
Culturgest - Auditório Emílio Rui Vilar

For You, Portugal, I Swear

Por ti, Portugal, eu juro!
Sofia da Palma Rodrigues, Diogo Cardoso

During the Portuguese Colonial War (1961-1974), thousands of Africans fought alongside the Portuguese Armed Forces and risked their lives for a homeland they believed was…

22 Oct / 21:45 / 110’
Cinema São Jorge - Sala M. Oliveira
23 Oct / 22:00 / 110’
Culturgest - Pequeno Auditório

The Falling Sky

A Queda do Céu
Eryk Rocha, Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha

With the imminent threat of the falling sky, and surrounded by miners and xawara epidemic, shaman Davi Kopenawa and the Yanomami community of Watorik-i invite…

19 Oct / 19:45 / 78’
Cinema Ideal
One Screening Only
20 Oct / 21:45 / 78’
Culturgest - Pequeno Auditório

Dad’s Lullaby

Tatova Kolyskova
Lesia Diak

Serhiy returns home after serving for three years in the war between Ukraine and Russia. He carried the weight and responsibility of other people’s lives.…

22 Oct / 21:45 / 76’
Culturgest - Pequeno Auditório
25 Oct / 14:00 / 76’
Culturgest - Pequeno Auditório

Two Refusals (Would We Recognize Ourselves Unbroken?)

Suneil Sanzgiri

A woman’s dreams become haunted by the Adamastor—a titan from Portuguese mythology who sought to destroy Vasco de Gama’s ship and prevent him from ever…

17 Oct / 19:45 / 90’
Cinema Ideal
19 Oct / 22:00 / 90’
Cinema São Jorge - Sala 3

Night Has Come

Vino la noche
Paolo Tizón

A group of young men, many of them teenagers, voluntarily enlists in a rigorous military programme within the Peruvian Armed Forces. They are driven by…

18 Oct / 14:00 / 142’
Cinema São Jorge - Sala 3
23 Oct / 19:45 / 142’
Cinema São Jorge - Sala 3

Voices of the Silenced

Park Soo-nam, Park Maeui

This film delves into the historical experiences of Park Soo-nam, born in colonial-era Japan, retracing the history of Zainichi Koreans in Japan. Through the lens…

One Screening Only
18 Oct / 10:30 / 106’
Culturgest - Pequeno Auditório

In Limbo

W zawieszeniu
Alina Maksimenko

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine finds Alina in Irpien, near Kiev. She is alone, with her leg in a cast. She manages to escape with her…