For the second consecutive year, Nebulae presents the Showcase of Portuguese Projects, dedicated to films in the editing stage, in partnership with the Portugal Film Commission. This year’s edition brings together a larger number of projects, representing both emerging and established production companies, which are being presented to industry professionals and international guests, thus boosting the visibility profile of Portuguese cinema and fostering new opportunities for collaboration.
Showcase of Portuguese Projects
Projectos Seleccionados
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The Fleeting Stones of Borralha
by Vasco Monteiro
Production: Cláudia Rita Oliveira (Madame Filmes, Portugal)
Estimated length: 75’
A mining community in the remote north of Portugal was mostly abandoned after its wolfram mines closed in the 1980s, but now there’s a project underway to resume mining operations, promising a return to prosperous times. Is this Borralha’s only fate?
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My Mama Never Taught Me How to Cook
by Sofia Pinto Coelho
Production: Filipe Araújo, Hemi Fortes (Blablabla Media, Portugal)
Estimated length: 70’
Grandmother, daughter and granddaughter talk about their lives, sharing their hopes and the crossroads they face. The daughter—positioned in the middle—reflects on past and future, in an intimate portrait of three women in a country that has also changed.
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My Land My Strength (Nha Terra Nha Força)
by Paulo Carneiro
Production: Ansgar Schaefer (Kintop, Portugal), Paulo Carneiro (Bam Bam Cinema, Portugal), Alex Piperno (La Pobladora Cine, Uruguay), Emanuela Righi, Laurence Reymond (Providences, France)
Estimated length: 70’
During the last eruption of the Fogo volcano, the lava buried the village. The younger ones stayed. As they rebuild the houses with their own hands on stone that is still hot, they swear they see the lit silhouette of a car on the smoking summit.
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Framing the Revolution – A Portuguese Film Story
by Érica Pereira do Nascimento
Production: Fernando Vendrell (David & Golias, Portugal)
Estimated length: 128’
Sussurros reveals previously unseen archive footage and seven pioneering female filmmakers who reinvented Portuguese cinema in the wake of the freedom brought about by the 1974 Revolution, portraying a country and a film industry undergoing profound transformation.
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When Night Falls (Quando scende la notte)
by Greta Ilia Cavaliere, Simona Cella
Production: Patrícia Cairrão, Ricardo G. Santos (Cidades Irrequietas Filmes, Portugal)
Estimated length: 90’
In the summer of 2023, as Senegal is shaken by protests, five Italian-Senegalese girls travel through the country in search of their roots. The letters addressed to their mothers trace a map of longing, memory and becoming.