With 6 competitions and 11 awards, this is the main section of the Festival, where every year we try to select the greatest diversity and quality of works with environmental themes brought to the Festival.
International
Feature Films
Categoria para filmes internacionais com foco em questões ambientais, com duração superior a 60 minutos sendo atribuído o Grande Prémio Ambiente.
International Short and Medium-Length Film Festival
Category for international films focusing on environmental issues, short and medium length, lasting less than 60 minutes, with the International Short and Medium-Length Film Award being presented.
Feature Films
in Portuguese
The Camacho Costa Award is given to Portuguese-language films focusing on environmental issues and lasting more than 60 minutes.
Portuguese-language short and medium-length films
Category for short films in Portuguese focusing on environmental issues, with a running time of less than 60 minutes. The Portuguese Language Short and Medium-Length Film Award is given.
Regional Overview
The Regional Panorama Award is given to films produced in the Serra da Estrela region that promote local environmental values and themes.
Short Films
Fiction, Non-Fiction and Animation
Category for films entered in all categories except Feature Films (up to 10 minutes), with the Fiction, Non-Fiction and Animation prizes awarded.
Other competitions
The Festival has always chosen some of the most important themes for which it has created special awards for any of the categories:
– Environmental Anthropology Award is awarded to the work that best addresses this theme in the International Feature Film and Portuguese Language Feature Film competitions;
– Environmental Education Award, for the best work promoting this theme, for films entered in the International Short and Medium-Length Films and Portuguese-Language Short and Medium-Length Films competitions;
– Youth Award, awarded to the work considered the best among all the competitive categories;
– Water Value Award, awarded to the film that best addresses this theme, among all the competitive categories;
– Animated Short-Film Award, awarded to the work considered the best animated short film in the International Short Film and Portuguese Language Short Film competitions.
This section includes cinematographic and symbolic, evocative or thematic works and artistic exhibitions with different projection dynamics.
Video art
Visual works that explore environmental themes with more or less poetic approaches, projected in a loop and produced in digital, video or film format. These creations go beyond the limits of traditional cinema, taking on a language of their own at the crossroads between contemporary art and cinema.
In 2024 this special session was created, presented in gallery format, allowing for a more immersive and continuous enjoyment of these works.”
Special exhibitions
Throughout the Festival, at times parallel to the official screenings, there may be some special screenings of works that, in one way or another, yesterday or today, focus on environmental, anthropological or even material and immaterial heritage issues in the Serra da Estrela region.
Presentations, workshops, informal meetings, etc. extend the Festival experience, promoting the sharing of ideas between guests and the public, always with a focus on environmental awareness.
Other activities
Alongside the film screenings, other activities such as exhibitions, project presentations, performances or workshops usually take place throughout the week, as long as they are aligned with the Festival’s mission and objectives, allowing for a more immersive and continuous enjoyment of these works.”
Meetings in the garden
Directors or actors, teachers or researchers, programmers or jurors, all the guests can talk about their experience or vision of cinema, and how artistic and cinematic value has an impact on raising awareness of the environmental cause. The public is a fundamental part of this interaction, which takes place in the gardens of the Municipal Library.
CineEco, organized by the Municipality of Seia, is Portugal’s oldest festival dedicated to environmental issues, which has been held uninterruptedly every year since 1995.
Every year the Festival invites some personalities from the film industry or the environmental field to make up the juries. They are responsible for evaluating the competing films in their category and awarding the prizes.
Each jury for the different competitions will be made up of five members: three national or foreign individuals of recognized merit in the film and/or environmental field and two young people with an interest in the areas of film and the environment.
Environment Grand Prize €2,500
International Short and Medium-length Film Award €1,000
Camacho Costa Award €2,000
Portuguese Language Short and Medium-Length Film Award 1.000€
Fiction, Non-Fiction and Animation Short Film Award (up to 10 minutes) 500€
Regional Panorama Award €1,000
Environmental Anthropology Award 1.000€
Environmental Education Prize €1,000
Animated Short Film Award 1.000€
Value of Water Prize 500€
Yout Award 500€
For the 31st edition of the CINEECO festival
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