Quinta Parede de Ana Martins Pereira (PRT)

In an attempt to fulfill her mother's dream, the director accompanies and is accompanied by three VRChat users, Rúben, Rodrigo and Stiff, who share their experiences and contact with virtual reality, from an affectionate, technological and critical perspective.

Perpetual disorder de João Carlos Pinto (PRT, ESP)

An immersive sensory journey through the bustling streets of Barcelona’s old town, where time, space, and human presence intertwine in unexpected ways. Shot on 16mm using in-camera multiple exposures, the film captures the tension between the sensory overload of the modern world and the slow, deliberate pace of analog filmic expression, inviting viewers into a fragmented yet hypnotic exploration of perception.

TEMPESTADES de Luz Silva (PRT)

In the darkness of Lisbon, a girl kicked out of the car by her housemates continues the night alone.

Prima ku Lebsi de Welket Bungué (PRT)

Prima and Lebsi are two young women, of African descent, daughters of immigrants, meet at a house party on Prima's birthday. Lebsi dates Rave, a young street dancer who makes a living by dancing in the streets of Lisbon center, and they have a daughter in common. Prima is an orphan of both her father and mother, and learned how to get along and survive very early. She is considered by everyone in the neighbourhood as the best producer of hip-hop and trap beats, but she found selling weed as her alternative way to generating money and paying bills. There is an artistic intention to bring feminine vibration to this saga as an essential dramatic additive. This fiery movie-sensation seeks to celebrate interethnic and same-sex relationships, youthful hedonism, and behavioural disruption regarding notions of gender. Prima and Lebsi film plays with several topics involving relationships, pointing to the social empowerment of emancipated women, in the context of Lisbon's periphery. Prima and Lebsi encloses a triptych called Dreams of Color, composed by Bastien (2016) and Arriaga (2019) short films.

Os Ecos que Carregamos de Areeba Naveed (PRT)

On the eve of her 60th birthday, a quiet sorrow lingers in Eugenia's heart. When her children arrive to celebrate, she is enveloped in the contradictory emotions of unspoken grief and profound joy.

My Ray of Sunshine de Laís Andrade (PRT, BRA)

A mother and daughter, separated by the ocean, use soundwaves to communicate. My Ray of Sunshine (2024) dives into the memory of the transatlantic trade of enslaved people through the concept of spiral time. It imagines the voice messages that an enslaved mother might have sent to her daughter. A portrayal of affection as an act of resistance to the violence of colonization.