Familiar Feelings

Mónica Lima

PRT · FIC · 111 min

Expected delivery: December 2026

Lia, once a promising actress, returns to her hometown in Portugal’s interior, marked by drought and wildfires. Expecting to find the house empty, she discovers her family gathered there instead. Hiding in the pantry, she overhears uncomfortable comments about her return. Torn between staying and leaving, she sleeps in her broken-down car and watches her family from a distance, before returning home to attend young Mafalda’s performance.

looking for: A co-producer or finishing partner to secure post-production resources, including colour grading, sound and visual effects; sales agents and festivals for the launch.

You the Artists

Flavia Contreras de la Parra

CHL, PRT · DOC · 83 min

Expected delivery: April 2027

Flavia, a young Chilean filmmaker, brings together a group of artist friends for her first film about art and precarity. Together, they revisit artistic and political actions from Chile’s history. Between Flavia’s creative crisis and disillusionment with the constitutional process, the project becomes a collective experience that questions the place of art, friendship and work in everyday life.

looking for: Rough-cut feedback, finishing finance, post-production awards and European co-producers; programmers, sales agents, distributors, broadcasters and platforms.

Karl Marx, Luanda

Kiluanji Kia Henda

AGO, PRT · FIC · 80 min

Expected delivery: January 2027

Murals, radio debates and artistic interventions symbolically bring Karl Marx back to Luanda. The characters react with irony, nostalgia or apprehension. Blending fiction, satire and historical memory, the film questions the role of Marxism in Angola’s past and what remains of political ideologies in a present marked by inequality, disillusionment and authoritarian tendencies.

looking for: Sales agents, festivals, programmers and partners for the film’s international promotion and distribution.

John in Christ

João Nicolau

PRT · DOC · 70 min

Expected delivery: February 2027

In the south-east of Tanna Island, Vanuatu, music and religion are inseparable. The film observes the ceremonies of the John Frum and Unity of John in Christ movements, as well as two Protestant churches. Through song and performance, it follows different ways of living faith and passing on stories and values, revealing the role of music in shaping community and local identity.

looking for: International sales agents, programmers, distributors and exhibitors; partners to define the festival strategy and circulation in cinemas, museums and cultural venues.

The Difference a Day Makes

Vicente Gil and Salvador Gil

PRT · FIC · 15 min

Expected delivery: November 2026

A mother gets up early to begin another day. But the money she was expecting has not arrived in her account. Over the course of a morning, an afternoon and a night, she crosses the city in search of a way to buy food for her children. Between requests for help, indifference and small acts of solidarity, the film follows the urgency of a day that reveals the repetition of poverty.

looking for: Programmers, sales agents and distributors for the international premiere and circulation; feedback on the film’s positioning, audiences and exhibition beyond the festival circuit.

Half Tone

Maria Moreira

PRT · DOC, FIC · 17 min

Expected delivery: November 2026

In a game of whispers, Maria cannot understand the message passed to her and invents a reply. In 2025, she returns to this memory to investigate the unilateral sensorineural hearing loss diagnosed when she was seven. Through recollections and encounters with people who share similar experiences, the film explores identity, communication and belonging in a predominantly hearing world.

looking for: Sound and image finishing support, a world-premiere strategy, an international sales agent and distributors; programmers’ feedback on the final cut and circulation.

Auras. Visions of Blindness

Nela Fraga

ESP · EXP · 14 min

Expected delivery: October 2026

Shot on 16 mm in the landscapes of Galicia, “Auras” seeks to reproduce the temporary visual disturbances experienced by people with aura. Archival fragments, including microscopic footage, are superimposed on the images. Sound and music bring viewers closer to this sensory experience, in a cinematic investigation that seeks to make a little understood condition more visible.

looking for: An international premiere and distribution partners; funding and new contacts to develop a film performance and exhibition based on the film.

My Lovely Autonomy

Hannah Weissenborn

DEU · DOC · 85 min

Expected delivery: May 2027

Stéphanie, Lewis and Olga are part of Berlin’s post-punk scene. While concerts provide a sense of community, precarity transforms their lives: Stéphanie loses her rehearsal space and home, Lewis trains as a paramedic, and Olga faces a lawsuit brought by a band signed to her label. Balancing humour and uncertainty, the film follows the effects of political and social change on creative work and solidarity.

looking for: Financing to complete post-production, sales agents, distributors and broadcasters; programmers and consultants for the international circulation strategy.

Agu Rixu: Rough Waters

César Schofield Cardoso

PRT, CPV · DOC · 75 min

Expected delivery: May 2027

In Tarrafal, Cape Verde, artisanal fisherman Nelito tries to build a future without emigrating. Declining fish stocks, institutional barriers and the expansion of tourism threaten his plans. As he invests in a new boat, fishermen, fish sellers and boat builders reveal the daily life of a community shaped by the colonial past and the transformation of the coast.

looking for: Financing and post-production services, international sales representation and premiere guidance; distributors, broadcasters and impact partners in available territories.

The Mountain on My Wall

Carla Andrade

ESP · DOC · 90 min

Expected delivery: December 2026

A personal search in the Nepalese Himalayas becomes a love story shaped by inequality, precarity and bureaucracy. Years later, Carla Andrade revisits the journey through Super 8 footage, diaries, photographs and sounds. In dialogue with her late father, she reconstructs a memory where love, loss and displacement intersect.

looking for: A festival for the world premiere and a sales agent to develop the distribution and communication strategy.

Time of Summer

Vadim Kostrov

FRA · DOC · 122 min

Expected delivery: December 2026

In the summer of 2020, Vadim Kostrov films everyday life in the Urals on MiniDV: walks, villages, swimming and family gatherings. After leaving Russia in 2022, following the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, he returns to the images during editing. The diary of that summer takes on a new meaning, preserving the time of a world he can now revisit only through cinema.

looking for: Programmers, sales agents and distributors for the international launch; support for the final sound mix and institutions for circulation across cinema and contemporary art.

Body in Plural

Marta Popivoda

DEU, SRB, FRA, BIH, KOR · DOC · 74 min

Expected delivery: January 2027

Returning to Belgrade to empty her grandmother’s home, Bojana finds the diary tapes she recorded in 1988, during the last celebration of Youth Day in socialist Yugoslavia. The discovery leads her to bring together dancer Sonja Vukićević and choreographer Ligia Lewis. Between rehearsals, memories and current protests in Serbia, the film questions the promises of individual freedom and the possibilities of collective action.

looking for: Completion funds and broadcasters to close the financing gap; contacts with festival programmers and distributors.