Grand Jury Prize Vicente Pinto Abreu
For best film in the International Competition


A LOS LIBROS Y A LAS MUJERES CANTO
MARÍA ELORZA

The jury in the International Competition awards the grand prize to the most welcome surprise in the competition, a film that feels immediate, organically warm, and full of humour that is both friendly and a little dark. It approaches the seemingly lofty subject of bibliophilia with both lightness and depth, meeting the viewer at eye-level without imposing, and totally without pretension. A constantly inventive work, the film is a collage that is somehow both wild and precise, effortlessly shifting between different historical registers—familial, literary, and cinematic—that portrays the book as an object that is seductive, dangerous, but always close to the domestic world, surrounded by a feminist network of care. 

SPAutores – Cinema Falado Award
For best film in Cinema Falado Competition


LUCEFECE: WHERE THERE IS NO VISION, THE PEOPLE WILL PERISH
RICARDO LEITE

Honourable Mention Cinema Falado Competition

2720
BASIL DA CUNHA

The special mention goes to 2720 by Basil Da Cunha for his sense of rhythm, his special and deep connection to the community of people that he’s portrayed in this labyrinth of works full of social and cinematographic tensions.

Transmission Award
For best film in the Transmission Competition, unless otherwise excluded


SIETE JERELES
GONZALO GARCÍA PELAYO, PEDRO G. ROMERO

Siete Jereles is a precious document of a deep and genuine culture that lives from a look that is as intimate and close as it is challenging and original, that pulses with an imaginative montage and that never forgets the purpose of illustrating the art of a proud people, with single knowledge. Watching this film is truly going on a journey to encounter an intangible heritage that the world needs to know about.

Cinema Novo Award CANAL180
For best film of Cinema Novo Competition


RUBAB
MARTA VAZ

The jury of the Cinema Novo Competition unanimously decided to reward the frontality of the look and the formal mastery of documentary techniques present in the film Rubab by Marta Vaz.

Teenage Award
For best film in a selection chosen from various programme sections. Awarded by a group of students from various secondary schools across Porto.


GIRLS' STORIES
AGA BORZYM

Because of the way this film portrays something seemingly banal, but transforms it into something special; because it is a film that touches the hearts of all people who have gone through this phase of life or shows others how special the teenage phase of life is for girls; and due to the subtle evolution that shows the quick and unnoticed time that the protagonist girls spent, the jury chose Girl's Stories by Aga Borzym as the winner of the Teenage Jury Prize of this edition of the Porto/Post/Doc festival.

Arché Award by Companhia das Culturas/Fundação Pereira Monteiro
Awarded to the best project presented in the Arché Porto Lab


BOCAÍNA
PEDRO GONÇALVES RIBEIRO

The 2023 Arche Jury is pleased to award a project that has demonstrated unique and real promise in terms of its ideas, understanding and proximity to its subject, relevance to current form of world systems thinking and the importance of ancestral language and conceptualisation. This project is poised to benefit from the time afforded by the award, and we very much look forward to its finished product. Consequently, the Arche Jury prize goes to Bocaina. After all, directed by Pedro Gonçalves Ribeiro.

Working Class Heroes Award – Filmaporto
For best Working Class Heroes project

CAPE OF THE WORLD
TOMÁS BALTAZAR

A project that bridges times and spaces by confronting the director’s personal memories with the transformations of the city of Porto. Through a mother son relationship and without format boundaries, the film navigates between an hospital in the centre and a desolated industrial area where the family lives. A portrait of the city and a portrait of a time.