The industry screenings are private sessions of new projects from Porto, northern Portugal, and Galicia, looking for a world premiere. These showcase screenings are meant for festival programmers and artistic directors, sales agents, distributors, film fund directors and other professionals attending the festival.

Organised by Porto/Post/Doc in partnership with Filmaporto - Film Commission, and with the support of AICEP - Portuguese Trade & Investment Agency, it is an activity that aims to give visibility to the most recent Portuguese and Galician cinema, and to promote contact between directors and producers with professionals from the international film industry.

Access to these screenings is by invitation only.

EMPIRE, by Alessandro Novelli
Portugal, Spain, ANI, 13'
Completion date: JAN 2023
Production: David Doutel, Vasco Sá, Alexandra Ramires (BAP – Animation Studio, PRT), Carlota Pou (Studio Kimchi, ESP)

During a peaceful night, a group of fugitives try to find their way to the centre of a building, where the entire resistance is gathering. Evading surveillance, they pass through the rooms of the Giants and witness their macabre routines.

O HOMEM DAS PERNAS ALTAS THE MAN WITH HIGH LEGS, by Vítor Hugo Rocha
Portugal, ANI, 9’
Completion Date: JAN 2023
Production: Rodrigo Areias, Bando à Parte (PRT)

A pin-legged organ-player immerses himself in the music of his instrument and dances clumsily in a blank space. The lines drawn by his choreography give rise to tall houses, with inhabitants that interconnect and seek fulfilment.

A SHEPHERD’S TALE, by Carlos M. Peñalver
Spain, Portugal, DOC, FIC, 77’
Completion date: JAN 2023
Production: Carlos M. Peñalver, Nico Martínez (OMEN, ESP), Elisa Bogalheiro (María Zimbro, PRT)

Xoel, a landscape phonographer, arrives to Serra da Estrela to record sounds which are about to disappear. A mysterious melody will drive him on a quest to record its source, and lose himself in the mountains.