Opening Ceremony

Mind the Gap

Country: PORTUGAL Year: 2024 Duration: 10 mins.

Synopsis: Mind the Gap is a piece about London, depicting people walking around or traveling from one place to another. It also reflects the composer's personal journey through the city, as he observed how people have been conditioned to follow traffic lights or signs like "Mind the gap," "Stand on the right," "Walk on the left," and so on. The work is divided into four short movements, each corresponding to a specific sign or direction. The outer movements (I and IV) are written for the left and right sides of the marimba, respectively. The performer attempts to move away from the original register, but the music "pushes" them to stay either on the left or right, returning to the original position.

Credits:

Direction: José-Manuel Xavier

Production: Punto y Raya, Drumming, Festival MONSTRA

Music: Luís Tinoco (composição), André Dias (Interpretação ao vivo)

Age Classification: M/12

One Way Cycle

Country: PORTUGAL , SPAIN Year: 2025 Duration: 9 mins.

Synopsis: In 1929, Adela emigrates from Asturias (Spain) to Havana (Cuba), following her sister Segunda. Adela wants to have a better life and, above all, she needs to understand her cycle to start her real journey: a new life. This a story about menstruation, this is a story about a one-way migration too.

Credits:

Direction: Alicia Nuñez Puerto

Writers: Alicia Nuñez Puerto

Production: Nuno Beato, Diogo Carvalho, Chelo Loureiro, Alicia Núñez Puerto

Animation: Carina Berringuilho, André Silva, Filipe Fonseca, Ismael Fati

Music: Pablo Borghi

Sound: Mario A. Morellón

Distribution: Sardinha em Lata

Age Classification: M/12

The Boy who Erased Kisses

Country: BULGARIA , PORTUGAL Year: 2025 Duration: 10 mins.

Synopsis: The boy doesn't like when somebody kiss him. But what happens if every time you get kissed you erase it? You slowly start to lose your color. And live in an unhappy and more colorless world. For this you have to rediscover human warmth, love and friendship.

Credits:

Direction: Radostina Neykova, Fernando Galrito

Writers: Fernando Galrito, Radostina Neykova

Production: Konrud X, Taumotrópio, apoio/support Bulgarian Film Center

Animation: Kristian Zahariev, Svilen Dimitrov, Radostina Neykova

Music: Fernando Mota

Sound: Fernando Mota e Valeria Krachunova

Age Classification: M/6

O

Country: AUSTRIA Year: 2021 Duration: 6 mins.

Synopsis: A dancer-turned-filmmaker avoids unnecessary movement in a villa in Brittany, embodying a state described by Paul Virilio as “Polar Inertia”. Frame by frame by frame, Paul Wenninger makes the rounds, standing still, in an initially completely empty salon, with his back perpetually turned to the walls – and above all, to the windows. A stormy time seems to fly by while the relationship between outside and inside gets shaken up, even if the exterior views granted to the observer largely consist of projections: trees, beaches, parks shot in high-speed, time-lapse mode.

Credits:

Direction: Paul Wenninger

Writers: Paul Wenninger

Production: Paul Wenninger, Kabinett ad Co

Animation: Paul Wenninger

Music: Peter Jakober

Sound: Michael Derrossett

Distribution: Sixpack

Age Classification: M/12

Dont Know What

Country: AUSTRIA Year: 2019 Duration: 8 mins.

Synopsis: Using single frame editing, primarily focused on sound, the realistic film image transforms into a surreal, structuralist and finally abstract film. Language is transformed into music, voice turns into a drum machine, and the body becomes a surreal fantasy with a dozen of arms and impossibly wild movements. ‘DONT KNOW WHAT’ (2018) combines elements of mainstream cinema, like an entertaining dramaturgy with strategies of avant-garde cinema, like reduction of the imagery, extreme short-cut technique and sound experiments.

Credits:

Direction: Thomas Renoldner

Writers: Thomas Renoldner

Production: Thomas Renoldner

Animation: Thomas Renoldner

Music: Thomas Renoldner

Sound: Andi Haller

Distribution: sixpackfilm

Age Classification: M/12