Porto/Post/Doc 2026’s International Competition brings together eight films that cross different geographies to reflect on the present through intimate and collective experience. From Paris to Guinea-Bissau, Peru to Iran, Japan to the mountains of Montenegro, the selection brings together stories of exile, repression, memory, disappearance and the defence of ways of life. 

Rehearsals for a Revolution
Pegah Ahangarani, CZE, ESP, 2026, DOC, 95'
Through the lives of five relatives and mentors, Pegah Ahangarani revisits Iran’s recent history and her own memories.
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To Hold a Mountain
Biljana Tutorov, Petar Glomazić, SRB, FRA, MNE, SVN, HRV, 2026, DOC, 115’
On Montenegro's Sinjajevina plateau, shepherd Gara and her daughter Nada defend their ancestral land from becoming a NATO military training ground.
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Letters from an Inner Exile
Eloy Enciso, ESP, 2026, FIC, 109'
A Spanish artist scouting Francoist camp sites confronts the buried history of repression, family inheritance and collective forgetting.
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Dao
Alain Gomis, FRA, SEN, GNB, 2026, FIC, DOC, 185'
Between a wedding in France and an ancestral ceremony in Guinea-Bissau, a family moves through memory, ritual and transmission.
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At Night
Beatrice Gibson, GBR, FRA, 2026, FIC, EXP, 87'
Over a single night in Paris, six women cross paths, carrying their desires and uncertainties through a city lit by neon.
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Far From the Trees
Meritxell Colell Aparicio, ESP, PER, ITA, 2026, FIC, DOC, 117'
A sound artist travels through Peru to record endangered languages, confronting inherited exile, memory and the fragile meaning of belonging.
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Fire Flower
Ana Vaz, FRA, BRA, 2026, DOC, 105'
Yoko Hayasuke’s diary meets community accounts of survival in Japan after the 2011 tsunami and nuclear disaster.
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Tin Castle
Alexander Murphy, IRL, FRA, 2026, DOC, 106'
The O’Reilly family lives in a caravan under threat of eviction. Alexander Murphy observes their daily life and the bonds that hold them together.
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