INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION

Vicente Pinto Abreu Grand Prize
Bogancloch, by Ben Rivers

Jury Statement:
As it exceeds the habitual distinction of the senses in our relation to the world through images, sounds, and words, this film involves us in a material texture of coexistence. Gently and generously.
"Ah, Liberty!"
When the camera departs from the Earth in the film's last shot, we eventually recognise a common ground, whose continuity lies beyond our common conceptions of here and there, self and other.
A film that is not about but with.

CINEMA FALADO

SPAutores Award
Resonance Spiral, by Filipa César and Marinho de Pina

Jury Statement:
As "Luta ca caba inda - the fight is not over yet", Resonance Spiral is a 'liberated zone' where time unfolds in a spiral manner, materializing the possibility of reconciling memory and imagination, history and utopia. Using the circle motif to foster ideas, blending archives and captions, the film creates a passage between a period of militant fervor and the present, fostering knowledge sharing and transmission while crafting a new community through cinema.

Honorable Mention – Cinema Falado
The Nights Still Smell of Gunpowder, by Inadelso Cossa

Jury Statement:
The Nights Still Smell of Gunpowder initiates an urgent and necessarily long conversation about the civil war in Mozambique and the still unhealed wounds it left behind. Today, as Mozambican society once again debates its political future in the streets, this beautiful film is indispensable.

CINEMA NOVO

Canal180 Award
An Iron Crust, by Vasco Barbedo

Jury Statement:
The jury decided to give the prize to “An Iron Crust”, by Vasco Barbedo. It’s the film that evidences the strongest directing gesture. It provides an original cinematic form on behalf of a precise vision over the working class in nowadays Portugal.

TRANSMISSION
Teaches of Peaches, by Philipp Fussenegger and Judy Landkammer

Jury Statement:
The directors made an honest documentary about an ageing artist and her struggle to remain relevant two decades later. It shows her resilience and perseverance as a musician and performer.

WORKING CLASS HEROES

Working Class Heroes Award by filmaporto — film commission and Fundación "la Caixa"/ CaixaForum+
The City and the Maps, by Alexandra Guimarães and Gonçalo L. Almeida

Jury Statement:
For their brave ambition to uncover the complex invisible powers that are rapidly reshaping both our lives and the city.
The city and the maps is an act of resistance that raises awareness on a new class of exploited workers in the digital era.

YOUTH AWARD

Journey into Gaza, de Piero Usberti

Firstly, we would like to thank you for the opportunity to be part of the jury for this edition of Porto/Post/Doc.
After an intense debate regarding the selection of films presented, and although the choice was not easy, the winning film stands out for the connection it manages to establish with the viewer.
The director’s choices justify this sentiment, relying on the intimacy achieved through the camera, which blurs the line between character and audience. Throughout these 63 minutes, even without belonging to that place, we empathize with that community, and their struggle becomes intrinsically our own.