Two projects presented at Porto Industry Days 2025 have been selected for FIDMarseille 2026, one of the leading international festivals dedicated to contemporary cinema, documentary and hybrid forms. “Vigil”, by Elena López Riera, the winning project of the 2025 edition of Working Class Heroes, is part of the FIDLab selection. “Todo es cárcel”, by Eloy Enciso Cachafeiro, presented at the Industry Screenings, will have its world premiere in the International Competition at FIDMarseille and is also competing in the GNCR Competition.
“Vigil”, presented by FIDLab under the title “Vigilia / Vigil”, is a Switzerland-Portugal production directed by Elena López Riera and produced by Alina Film and O Som e a Fúria. The project takes as its starting point the legend of Henriqueta, a figure associated with the city of Porto, bringing together archive, oral memory and contemporary testimonies around a story of love, transgression and symbolic permanence. Its selection for FIDLab places the project in dialogue with international co-production professionals at a stage still connected to development and production.
Elena López Riera is a Spanish visual artist and filmmaker with a PhD in Audiovisual Communication, whose work is marked by the relationship between ritual, orality, territory, gender and cultural transmission. Her short films “Pueblo”, “Las vísceras” and “Los que desean” have circulated through festivals such as Cannes, Locarno and Zinebi, with “Los que desean” winning the Pardino d’Oro in Locarno. Her first feature film, “El agua”, premiered at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight in 2022 and consolidated a body of work that brings together documentary, fiction, local memory and popular imagination.
“Todo es cárcel”, by Eloy Enciso Cachafeiro, arrives at FIDMarseille after being presented at the Industry Screenings of Porto Industry Days 2025. The film, a 109-minute Spanish production, follows the work of a photographer investigating the concentration camps of the Spanish dictatorship, revealing a cartography of the memory of the defeated. At FIDMarseille, it will be presented as a world premiere, taking part in both the International Competition and the GNCR Competition.
Eloy Enciso Cachafeiro was born in Galicia and studied documentary filmmaking at the Escuela Internacional de Cine y TV in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. His work has explored the relationship between historical memory, territory, language and representation, often through devices that bring together documentary observation, staging and work with non-professional actors. After “Pic-nic”, he directed “Arraianos”, which was presented internationally and awarded at festivals such as BAFICI and Seville, and “Longa noite”, which premiered at the Locarno Film Festival in 2019.
The presence of “Vigil” and “Todo es cárcel” in Marseille makes it possible to follow the subsequent path of two projects that passed through Porto Industry Days at different stages: one still in development and production, the other already completed and entering its international premiere. Rather than establishing a direct causal link, this circulation underlines the importance of creating spaces of encounter where projects in progress can be seen, discussed and followed by professionals, festivals and potential international partners.
