Moving between intimate stories and collective memories, the Cinema Falado Competition brings together archive, fabulation and observation of everyday life to reveal different ways of inhabiting the Portuguese language. From the Cape Verdean diaspora to the memories of post-independence Mozambique, from a Roma family to a Rio favela and the landscapes of northwest Iberia, the films trace a plural territory of belonging, transformation, conflict and resistance.

Nha Balila – Dentu d’Algem
André Xina, Inês T. Alves, PRT, 2026, DOC, 77'
At 92, batuku legend Nha Balila travels to Portugal, where her vitality and music resonate powerfully through the Cape Verdean diaspora.
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Cochena
Diogo Allen, PRT, 2025, DOC, 92'
A chant from another time follows a Gypsy family through the gestures, relationships and life cycles of Maria and Arménio.
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Phosphene
Miguel Filgueiras, PRT, 2026, DOC, 74'
In northwest Iberia, the Garrano horse moves through a sensory fable about the collision between human civilization and the untamable force of nature.
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Mirage
Bingham Bryant, PRT, USA, DEU, 2026, FIC, 70'
In San Sebastián, a young woman’s search for mirages opens into a story within a story, where bodies, images and points of view keep shifting.
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Saudades Eternas
Emma Boccanfuso, CHE, FRA, BRA, 2026, DOC, 94'
In a Rio favela, Sueli holds her family and an ever-changing home together, while gunfire, sudden deaths and everyday life continue outside.
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Os Continuadores da Revolução: We Must Not Forget the Past
Pedro Neves, PRT, MOZ, FRA, 2026, DOC, 91'
Thousands of photographs from post-independence Mozambique summon the unfinished dreams and ghosts of the Portuguese and Mozambican revolutions.
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Amílcar
Miguel Eek, ESP, PRT, FRA, SWE, CPV, 2025, DOC, 87'
Poems, letters and archival footage revisit Amílcar Cabral’s life and political thought, between anti-colonial struggle and his assassination in 1973.
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