Portuguese Competition

10 films, 4 of which world premieres, 1 international premiere and 1 European premiere. New directors and others previously presented at Doclisboa, in a gathering of films that reveal movements crossing the country’s borders and going beyond the present time.

MAX Award for Best Portuguese Competition Film
6000€

Portuguese Authors Society Portuguese Competition Jury Award
2000€

School Award
ETIC Award for Best Portuguese Competition Film
1500€ (in technical services)

23 Oct / 19:15 / 63’
Cinema São Jorge - Sala M. Oliveira
26 Oct / 14:00 / 63’
Cinema São Jorge - Sala 3

Sulfur

Enxofre
Karen Akerman, Miguel Seabra Lopes

Child solidarity is stronger than death.

Blue

Ana Vîjdea

Rodica (40) and her children, Maria (14) and Patrick (18), are Romanian expats living in Belgium. Their lives centre on finding each other’s coordinates in…

Unstable Rocks

Pedras Instáveis
Ewelina Rosińska, Nuno Barroso

Geology, animals and the human path flow into this subjective portrait of Portuguese landscapes. Between 2018 and 2023, the director came across different regions and…

20 Oct / 19:00 / 92’
Culturgest - Auditório Emílio Rui Vilar
22 Oct / 21:45 / 92’
Cinema Ideal

Resonance Spiral

Espiral em Ressonância
Filipa César, Marinho de Pina

Centrifugal movement once described the tactical, situated beginnings of an anti-colonial armed struggle. In a flow of gestures and recurrences, a building for preserving Guinean…

21 Oct / 19:15 / 79’
Cinema São Jorge - Sala M. Oliveira
23 Oct / 10:30 / 79’
Culturgest - Pequeno Auditório

I Am Here

Estou Aqui
Zsófia Paczolay, Dorian Rivière

“The most constant and deadly disease in any society is indifference.” – Abbé Pierre. In 2020, amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, Lisbon’s largest sports centre is…

One Screening Only
25 Oct / 19:45 / 72’
Cinema Ideal

Fire of Wind

Fogo do Vento
Marta Mateus

The vines have borne fruit, and it’s harvest time. Soraia, a young girl, cuts herself. The blood mixes with the wine. A black bull follows…

23 Oct / 21:45 / 80’
Cinema São Jorge - Sala M. Oliveira
25 Oct / 11:00 / 80’
Cinema São Jorge - Sala 3

At Trafaria

Na Trafaria
Pedro Florêncio

Na Trafaria is an alternative mapping methodology that uses cinema as a cartographic tool. A heterogeneous and fragmented territory, Trafaria is made up of several…

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…

22 Oct / 18:00 / 132’
Cinema São Jorge - Sala M. Oliveira
26 Oct / 10:30 / 132’
Cinema São Jorge - Sala 3

The Palace of Citizens

O Palácio de Cidadãos
Rui Pires

Faced with the increasing distance between citizens and power, and following an economic crisis that deeply affected social cohesion, Rui Pires’s film offers an unprecedented…

22 Oct / 21:00 / 109’
Culturgest - Auditório Emílio Rui Vilar
25 Oct / 19:45 / 109’
Cinema São Jorge - Sala 3

The Flame of a Candle

Sob a Chama da Candeia
André Gil Mata

Northern Portugal. A house with green tiles, a garden, a magnolia. Rooms full of objects from past lives in here. Traces of time, gestures and…