Industry Screenings

The Industry Screenings have selected nine feature films and three short films at an advanced stage of editing or post-production. The projects will be presented in sessions reserved for industry professionals, through the screening of excerpts and conversations with the teams.

Festival programmers, sales agents, distributors and other professionals will be able to discover the films before completion. For directors and producers, the activity offers an opportunity to discuss strategies for completion, release, distribution and international circulation.

One-to-one meetings complement the sessions, offering space for more specific conversations about each film, its completion schedule and its presentation and distribution possibilities.

Selected feature films

· “Agu Rixu: Rough Waters”, by César Schofield Cardoso (PRT, CPV)
· “Body in Plural”, by Marta Popivoda (DEU, SRB, FRA, BIH, KOR)
· “Familiar Feelings”, by Mónica Lima (PRT)
· “John in Christ”, by João Nicolau (PRT)
· “Karl Marx, Luanda”, by Kiluanji Kia Henda (AGO, PRT)
· “My Lovely Autonomy”, by Hannah Weissenborn (DEU)
· “The Mountain on My Wall”, by Carla Andrade (ESP)
· “Time of Summer”, by Vadim Kostrov (FRA)
· “You the Artists”, by Flavia Contreras de la Parra (CHL, PRT)

Selected short films

· “Auras. Visions of Blindness”, by Nela Fraga (ESP)
· “Half Tone”, by Maria Moreira (PRT)
· “The Difference a Day Makes”, by Vicente Gil and Salvador Gil (PRT)

Co-Production Meetings

The Co-Production Meetings present eleven projects in development or pre-production, put forward by independent production companies from countries participating in the Creative Europe MEDIA programme.

At this stage, the teams are working to define the conditions needed to bring their films to fruition. The programme offers a space to present projects, discuss financing plans and identify partners who can contribute to production and the future circulation of the works.

The pitching sessions introduce each project’s cinematic proposal and needs. In the one-to-one meetings, teams can explore these questions further with potential co-producers, financiers, distributors and sales agents. Meetings are organised around the needs identified by the participants, seeking to create the conditions for concrete collaboration.

Selected projects

· “800 Gondomar in the Subcontinent”, by João Nicolau and Alessandro Comodin (PRT)
· “Archiveless Memories for an Imaginary Museum”, by Ali Razi (FRA, PRT, IRN)
· “A Spectre is Haunting Europe”, by Róbert Mihály and Virág Emma Csuport (SVK, CZE)
· “Copy”, by Miguel Machetti (ESP)
· “Exotic World”, by Sarah Moon Howe (BEL)
· “Journey of an Archive”, by Hannah Papacek Harper and Francesco Amoruso (FRA, GBR, PSE)
· “Long Distance”, by Miguel Eek (ESP, PRT)
· “Our Language”, by Barbara Knezevic (SRB, IRL, AUS)
· “See What I Say”, by Arturas Jevdokimovas (LTU, UKR, ITA)
· “Tomato”, by Giorgi Parkosadze (GEO)
· “Traçadas”, by Tânia Dinis (PRT)

Arché Porto

Organised in partnership with Apordoc, Arché Porto has selected five Ibero-American documentary projects for its Writing and Development Lab.

The workshops focus on the writing, structure and cinematic approach of each project. Working with the participants makes it possible to deepen the proposals, discuss each author’s choices and address the questions that remain open at this stage of the process.

The lab combines this work with presentations and individual meetings with professionals. The teams will therefore have the opportunity to share their projects beyond the workshop context and to discuss possibilities for financing and co-production.

Selected projects

· “CADA / Delving into the Ruins”, by Felipe Ríos Fuentes (CHL)
· “Daddy, I Have Had to Kill Me”, by Chloe Cazorla (ESP)
· “Guano and Guns”, by Romea Muryn and Francisco Lobo (CHL, PRT)
· “Rafael”, by João Paulo Miranda Maria (FRA, BRA)
· “Subject: Unclaimed File”, by Alba Jaramillo (PRI)