Portuguese Competition

Easter

Country: PORTUGAL Year: 2023 Duration: 11 mins.

Sinopsys: In an autobiographical record, based on real facts, we follow Ruivo's family road trip Ruivo family to Castelo de Vide to the Easter celebration. But not everything goes as expected. Or maybe yes...

Credits:

Direction: André Ruivo

Writers: Ana Ruivo e André Ruivo

Production: Humberto Santana

Animation: Osvaldo Medina

Music: Luísa Semedo

Sound: João Penedo

Morning Shadows

Country: PORTUGAL Year: 2023 Duration: 12 mins.

Sinopsys: "I spend my life sitting, like an angel in the hands of a barber." - Rimbaud. Consider the association suggested by a barber shop between a razor blade and a pen, the brush of a painter and a barber, water, blood and ink. The way in which the main character experiences elemental things. The light travelling through space inhabits the body, its gestures, sensations and movement. The images – in this diary of lost things – represent loss and the healing of wounds. Morning Shadows tells the story of a unique life on its circular journey under the light of a brightening black sun.

Credits:

Direction: Rita Cruchinho Neves

Writers: Pedro Castro Neves

Production: Pedro Castro Neves

Animation: Rita Cruchinho Neves

Music: Teho Teardo

Sound: Maria Castro, Henri Le Boursicaud

Distribution: Portugal Film - Portuguese Film Agency

Foxtale

Country: PORTUGAL Year: 2022 Duration: 6 mins.

Sinopsys: A hungry fox fights for the last berry on top of the tree.

Credits:

Direction: Alexandra Allen

Writers: Alexandra Allen, Sara Allen

Production: Alexandra Allen

Animation: Alexandra Allen

Music: João Martins

Sound: Alexandra Allen, Sara Allen

Distribution: Alexandra Allen

The Wide Eyed Girl and the Long Legged Boy

Country: PORTUGAL Year: 2023 Duration: 11 mins.

Sinopsys: This is a love story full of encounters and mismatches, in which resides a constant presence of an incessant search for the relationships of happiness and self- esteem between the two characters.

Credits:

Direction: Maria Hespanhol

Writers: Maria Hespanhol

Production: Ricardo Almeida

Animation: Rita Sampaio

Music: Pedro Marques

Sound: Pulsar Studios

Distribution: Freak Agency

Look

Country: PORTUGAL Year: 2023 Duration: 11 mins.

Sinopsys: Two screenwriters are in the process of creating a screenplay, conjuring some of their past, present and future ghosts, projecting their concerns and differences on the journey of the fictional characters, possibly their alter egos.

Credits:

Direction: Nuno Amorim

Writers: Nuno Amorim, Vanessa Ventura, Nuno Amorim, Vanessa Ventura

Production: Vanessa Ventura, Nuno Amorim, Vanessa Ventura, Nuno Amorim

Animation: Manuel Sacadura, Joana Toste, Nayden Nikolov, João Silva, Daniela Duarte, Patrícia Figueiredo, Nuno Amorim, Milton Pacheco, Manuel Sacadura, Joana Toste, Nayden Nikolov, João Silva, Daniela Duarte, Patrícia Figueiredo, Nuno Amorim, Milton Pacheco

Music: Mateja Staric, Mateja Staric

Sound: Mateja Staric, Duarte Ferreira, Mateja Staric, Duarte Ferreira

Distribution: Animais avpl, Animais avpl

The Girl Who Walked On Snow

Country: PORTUGAL, SPAIN Year: 2024 Duration: 4 mins.

Sinopsys: In a distant place, the saddest of girls carries within her a darkness feared by all. Fearing that her melancholy will taint everything around her, she only dares to venture outside when it snows, confident that the white mantle of purity will camouflage her sadness.

Credits:

Direction: Bruno Carnide

Writers: Ana VMA Fernandes

Production: Bruno Carnide, Cátia Biscaia, Eduardo M. Escribano Solera

Animation: Bruno Carnide

Music: Miguel Samarão

Sound: Bruno Carnide

Distribution: Mailuki Films

Cold Soup

Country: PORTUGAL, FRANCE Year: 2023 Duration: 10 mins.

Sinopsys: A woman victim of domestic violence looks back at the years when she was married, recalling how difficult it was to stay afloat.

Credits:

Direction: Marta Monteiro

Writers: Marta Monteiro (Inspired in the comics “Sopa” by Joana Estrela)

Production: Vanessa Ventura, Nuno Amorim (ANIMAIS AVPL); Claire Beffa, Sidonie Garnier (La Clairière Ouest)

Animation: Daniela Duarte, João Silva, Manar Guiller, Natália Azevedo

Music: Nico Tricot

Sound: Geoffroy Cantou-Carrassoumet

Distribution: AGENCIA - Portuguese Short Film Agency

Motus

Country: PORTUGAL Year: 2023 Duration: 4 mins.

Sinopsys: Motus: a body in motion. A stop-motion animation where conception, degradation and regeneration cohabit in a unique way. A creation on a metal sheet using ethanol as the raw material.

Credits:

Direction: Nelson Fernandes

Writers: Nelson Fernandes

Production: Nelson Fernandes

Animation: Nelson Fernandes

Sound: Nelson Fernandes e Felipe Santareno

Distribution: Nelson Fernandes

Alma's Condition

Country: PORTUGAL, SPAIN Year: 2024 Duration: 12 mins.

Sinopsys: Alma wakes up every day with a different condition which keeps her from having a comfortable daily routine, reflecting her feelings of inadequacy as she tries to fit it among others.

Credits:

Direction: Sara Naves

Writers: Sara Naves

Production: Nuno Beato, Diogo Carvalho, Jose Mª Fernández de Vega

Animation: Sara Naves, Carina Beringuilho, Filipa Gomes da Costa

Music: Óscar López Plaza

Sound: Green Peak Studio - Daniel Camalhão

Almost Forgotten

Country: PORTUGAL Year: 2023 Duration: 9 mins.

Sinopsys: A woman wanders through the impermanence of her childhood memories, trying to rebuild the story of the house where her grandfather lived.

Credits:

Direction: Dimitri Mihajlovic, Miguel Lima

Writers: Dimitri Mihajlovic, Miguel Lima, Pedro Bastos

Production: BAP - Animation Studio - David Doutel, Vasco Sá

Animation: Carolina Bonzinho, Dimitri Mihajlovic, Leander Meresaar, Marta Andrade, Miguel Lima, Rozenn Busson, Teresa Baroet

Music: Hainbach

Sound: Bernardo Bento, Pedro Marinho

Distribution: AGENCIA - Portuguese Short Film Agency

De Imperio

Country: PORTUGAL, SPAIN Year: 2023 Duration: 13 mins.

Sinopsys: During a peaceful night, a group of fugitives tries to find its way to the center of the building, where the entire resistance is gathering. Evading the surveillance, they go through the rooms of the Giants and witness their macabre routines.

Credits:

Direction: Alessandro Novelli

Writers: Alessandro Novelli

Production: BAP - Animation Studio - David Doutel, Vasco Sá, Alexandra Ramires; Studio Kimchi - Carlota Pou, Bruno Simões

Animation: Inês Teixeira, Leonor Pacheco, Marta Reis de Andrade, Laura Gonçalves, Alessandro Novelli, Carolina Bonzinho, Maria Francisca Moura

Music: Simon Smith

Sound: Simon Smith, Jonathan Darch

Distribution: AGENCIA - Portuguese Short Film Agency