Film Screening #1
13th Sep at 19:00
Auditório Ilídio Pinho

. Bus Stop
  Alina Didenko
  Animation, 2024, 4’, Mestrado em Som e Imagem

 A traveling artist, accompanied by a crow, comes across an abandoned bus stop adorned with Soviet symbols.
He intends to repaint the façade with Petrykivskyi art, but the crow’s cawing distracts him, leading him to destroy the symbol.

. A Estória de um Fardo
  Nuno Brandão
  Fiction, 2024, 19’, Mestrado em Cinema

  A young woman tries to counteract the apathy she has developed while watching over a peculiar object—a hanging blue garment bag.

. Apenas Mais Um Dia
  Camila Pereira, Gonçalo Dias, Pedro Costa, Tiago Sousa
  Fiction, 2024, 11’, Licenciatura em Cinema
 

  After losing his best friend, Rui tries to distance himself from everything he knows, suppressing his emotions in the hope of coping better.
However, this escape forces him to confront his guilt and move toward acceptance.

. Naufragia
  Carolina Rebelo, Margarida Dias, Luís Caldeira e Noah Ferreira
  Fiction, 2024, 18’, Licenciatura em Som e Imagem
 

  After her grandfather’s passing, Laura inherits his cattle farm.
A brief encounter with a hunter makes her realize she’s walking into a trap.

. Ofélia        
  Enzo Meriade, Eva Pelúcia, Hélder Freire, Leonor Gamboa
  Fiction, 2024, 14’, Licenciatura em Cinema

  Ophelia attends the wake of her father, who was never present in her life.
There, she searches for Júlio, her father’s best friend.

. O Fantasma da Virgem
  Patricia Pereyra
  Documentary, 2024, 14’, Mestrado em Cinema
 

  In Santo Stefano, Bologna, there is a group of churches that were originally pagan temples dedicated to Isis.
In Porto, a student restoring a Virgin Mary statue imagines its origins, intertwining the visible and the invisible, science and essence.
Does an object exist if it has no matter?

Film Screening #2
13th Sep at 21:30
Auditório Ilídio Pinho 

. O Pássaro de Dentro
  Laura Anahory
  Animation, 2024, 6’, Mestrado em Som e Imagem
 

  The film follows a woman and the bird that lives inside her. Their inability to coexist causes physical harm to her body.

.  Intempérie
  Francisco Cruz, João Pereira, Marco Coelho, Matilde Khmelik
  Fiction, 2024, 14’, Licenciatura em Cinema

  After losing her mother, Isabel distances herself from her best friend, Lia.
She embarks on an emotional journey that challenges the way she processes this tragic event and the changes it imposes on her life and worldview.

. Heebie Jeebies
  Eliana Silva
  Animation, 2024, 4’, Mestrado em Som e Imagem

  Accompanied by her dog, Ellie takes part in a TV show that demonstrates how to live with anxiety.
Inspired by real-life situations mixed with fiction, the film explores mental health issues in a humorous way.

. Valsas na Lua
  Francisco de Assis, Matias Ferreira, Rafael Matos, Rita Rocha
  Fiction, 2024, 17’, Licenciatura em Cinema

  As a child, Filipe fell asleep surrounded by his parents' love.
Now, as a young adult, he finds in his memories the ghosts that haunt his nights.
Pursued by the grief of his father’s death, he spends a night filled with longing and solitude.

. Blossom
  Mariana Pinheiro
  Animation, 2024, 4’, Mestrado em Som e Imagem

  Ryu, a playful representation of the soul, embarks on a journey of self-discovery, confronting all the elements he has been repressing within his subconscious.

. Supervadios
  Ricardo Salgado
  Documentary, 2024, 30’, Mestrado em Cinema

  A collection of audio recordings from conversations between an aunt and her nephew during a road trip with no set destination.
Through family ghosts, drug addiction, near-death experiences, the sea, the beach, good food and drinks, ex-lovers, and wild nights—accompanied by Nina Simone, Sister Sledge, and Supertramp—we are exposed to the emotional ambiguities, and sometimes contradictions, of a unique and special relationship.

Film Screening #3
14th Sep at 17:30
Auditório Ilídio Pinho

(Esta sessão tem curadoria de Gabriel Luna, a partir de uma investigação integrada na dissertação de Mestrado em Cinema)

. A Movie
  Bruce Conner
  Experimental, 1958, 12’

  A true Kuleshovian exercise, A Movie is an industrial impulse that combines B-movies and atomic explosions to provoke specific emotions.

. Of the North 
  Dominic Gagnon
  Documentary, 2015, 74’

  The Arctic, filmed by its own inhabitants.