CINZAS (ASHES) 15'
GENRE: DRAMA, HORRORDIRECTOR: CÉLIA FRAGA
Synopsis:In a rural environment in the 1940’s a young widow lives in a state of deep loneliness and misery. Her routine consists on a succession of similar days, spent at home or working in the field. But everything becomes worse once a mysterious entity begins to torment her.
LAURA 16'
GENRE: DRAMADIRECTOR: GUILHERME FRANCO
Synopsis:Laura never had independence. Her mother, her abusive ex-boyfriend, always something holding her. When she goes to Coimbra to study, she finds the opportunity to discover who she is. A WAY OF TIME 9'
GENRE: EXPERIMENTALDIRECTOR: ANA MARGARIDA ALMEIDA
Synopsis:A kind of apocalypse of the masses, a non resigned fury against alienation. The loss, broken systems, divided mind of its own literal. The penumbra of life and death, of being? Instinctive questions are placed in search of the same answers. The suffocating absence of reflection, drunk and consumed, thirsty to know what awaits it (if it could only see the reflection of what it is)...
INTROMISSÃO (INTRUSION) 17'
GENRE: DRAMA, HORRORDIRECTOR: CÉLIA FRAGA
Synopsis:In what seemed to be another normal day at work, Simao receives a strange phone call.
CRISTIAN 26'
GENRE: DOCUMENTARYDIRECTOR: LUÍS BALDAQUE
Synopsis: "Cristian" is a documentary that portrays the life of a Romanian man, ex-drug addict andex-homeless. Cristian Georgescu was born in 1978 in Romania and was reborn in Oporto. It is inthis city that he rewrites his story as an Activist and Peer Educator. The charism thatcharacterizes him unites with the determination to want to bring change to the lives of thosewho now go through much of what was his past. In this documentary we will discuss thedifferent phases of his life, the greatest difficulties he had throughout his life as well as hisrebirth from the ashes
CELFIE
3'
GENRE: ANIMATIONDIRECTOR: DÉBORA MENDES
Synopsis:A scientist looks for answers by looking at the world through the lens of her microscope.
CORPOREALITIS
4'
GENRE: ANIMATIONDIRECTOR: BEATRIZ BAGULHO
Synopsis:It’s been too long.Forgotten and bitter, Catarina’s body abandons his head, interrupting a dance of affection between body and mind.Escaping from his life partner, the physique decides to enter a dimension of headless bodies, the Corporealitis.However, stubborn mind doesn’t rest. Precisely when we lose our dearest members is when we most value them.
DUALITY
4'
GENRE: ANIMATION, DOCUMENTARYDIRECTOR: ELMANO DIOGO
Synopsis:What does it feel like to have a puzzle but not having all the pieces to finish it and not being able to give up on it? Duality plays an important role in this never-ending puzzle that is living as an half-full, half-empty person.
EU27 - THE NEW DAWN
4'
DIRECTOR: ANGELIZABEL FREITAS
Synopsis:This short film is based on one of the possible scenarios for the future in the Union 27 (without the UK), suggested by the President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker: "Do much more, together." The future of Europe lies on the education of children and young people. The short film implies the idea of a new beginning so that all countries can work together putting into practice, and in a more efficient way, the values of Human Rights that sustain and exalt the European Union.
PAST-IT
3'
DIRECTOR: ELMANO DIOGO
Synopsis:A journey through the happiness and sadness of Nostalgia, using post-it as windows to the past of the person watching his memories..
