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A presentation of projects by Ivo M. Ferreira, Marta Popivoda and Nuno Boaventura Miranda for Working Class Heroes, a Porto/Post/Doc programme dedicated to creating new films about Porto and its working communities.
Established in 2021, the programme invites three filmmakers each year to present their proposals to an international jury. The selected project receives a €75,000 production grant and is developed and produced over two years, with its world premiere at Porto/Post/Doc.
Exploring labour, belonging, memory and urban change, the three projects seek their stories among the people who live and work in Porto. The city becomes a territory of research, a place of encounter and the raw material of filmmaking.
Projects presented
The Margin Within / A Margem de Dentro
Ivo M. Ferreira
PRT · DOC
Every day, a couple takes tourists along the Douro to see Porto. As the Ribeira fills with visitors and scaffolding spreads across the Baixa, rising rents threaten to drive them out of the city they show to others.
About the director
Ivo M. Ferreira (Lisbon, 1975) is a filmmaker and screenwriter. He grew up in a family closely connected to theatre and began acting as a child. His work moves between fiction and documentary, revisiting little-explored episodes in Portugal’s contemporary history. Letters from War (2016) premiered in the Berlinale Competition. In 2026, he directed Projecto Global.
The Body Arrives from the Future / O Corpo Chega do Futuro
Marta Popivoda
DEU, SRB, FRA · DOC, FIC
Porto is in a heatwave. A migrant woman delivering food by app crosses empty streets, bridges and doorways towards Foz, where wealthy houses face the Atlantic. Her voice recalls her journey to Portugal, while 16 mm images of the ocean set the privilege of looking against the necessity of working through the heat. Her day is interwoven with Porto’s history of struggle: the unnamed bearer of a 1974 placard demanding “Freedom for Homosexuals” and the Texmalhas women who stopped work. The film proposes inviting couriers and queer performance artists to stage these words together, asking whether the missing body might arrive from the future.
About the director
Marta Popivoda is a filmmaker, artist and researcher working between Berlin and Belgrade. Her work explores the relationships between memory, history and ideology, and between individual and collective bodies, from a feminist and queer perspective. Her works have been presented at festivals and institutions including Berlinale, Locarno, IFFR, MoMA and Tate Modern.
Claiana
Nuno Boaventura Miranda
PRT · DOC
A Cape Verdean musician arrives in Porto planning to stay for a few days and never leaves. Over almost two decades, Aguinaldo becomes Claiana, a mysterious and chameleonic figure moving through the city’s bars, streets, artistic circles and immigrant communities. As friends and acquaintances reconstruct his story, reality begins to blur with myth, revealing a man caught between two places, two identities and a city that gradually became his second island.
About the director
Nuno Boaventura Miranda is a Cape Verdean filmmaker. He co-founded his production company with Pedro Soulé in 2015 and develops a sensory cinematic language centred on human experiences. He directed the documentary Kmêdeus and the short film A Última Colheita, presented at IFFR 2025. He has participated in programmes including La Fabrique, Atlas Workshops and EAVE and is developing his debut feature, As Flores dos Mortos.
