More than 80 films in competition at the 31st edition of the Serra da Estrela International Environmental Film Festival.
INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM COMPETITION (≥ 60′)
INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM COMPETITION
| A New Kind of Wilderness | Silje Evensmo Jacobsen | 84′ |
| Norway, Documentary, 2024 | ||
| Angelo in the Magic Forest | Alexis Ducord, Vincent Paronnaud | 81′ |
| France/Luxembourg, Animation, 2024 | ||
| Black Snow | Alina Simone | 100′ |
| USA, Documentary, 2024 | ||
| Climate in Therapy | Nathan Grossman, Olof Berglind, Malin Olofsson | 64′ |
| Sweden, Documentary, 2025 | ||
| KATWE | Nima Shirali | 97′ |
| Uganda, Sweden, Documentary. 2025 | ||
| Milch ins feuer (Smell of Burnt Milk) | Justine Bauer | 79′ |
| Germany, Drama, 2024 | ||
| Pet Farm | Finn Walther, Martin A. Walther | 82′ |
| Norway, Documentary, 2024 | ||
| The Town That Drove Away | Grzegorz Piekarski, Natalia Pietsch | 70′ |
| Poland, Documentary, 2025 | ||
| XUE SHUI XIAO RONG DE JI JIE (After the Snowmelt) | Yi-Shan Lo | 110′ |
| Taiwan/Japan, Documentary, 2024 | ||
| White House Effect | Bonni Cohen, Pedro Kos, Jon Shenk | 97′ |
| USA, Documentary, 2024 |
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION FOR SHORT AND MEDIUM-LENGTH FILMS
INTERNATIONAL SHORT AND MEDIUM-LENGTH FILM COMPETITION
| A Clawsome Tale | Lucie Machin | 21’43” |
| United Kingdom, Documentary/ Fiction/ Animation, 2025 | ||
| A QUI LE MONDE (Blooming) | Marina Russo Villani, Victor Missud | 45′ |
| France, Documentary, 2024 | ||
| Atom & Void | Gonçalo Almeida | 8’46” |
| Portugal, Horror, 2024 | ||
| Blue Lake Whispers | Hossein Khami | 15′ |
| Iran, Drama, 2024 | ||
| Couper le Robinet (Close the Tap) | Mathieu Duthilleul, Maya Vienne | 4′ 09” |
| France, Experimental/ Comedy, 2024 | ||
| EEL | Wayne Burns | 10’56” |
| Canada, Thriller, 2025 | ||
| El mar sussura nuestro Regresso (The Sea Whispers Our Return) | Catalina Infante | 16′ |
| Chile, Documentary, 2025 | ||
| Enraizados (Our Roots Remain) | Ivonne Serna, Sélim Benzeghia | 18′ |
| Mexico, Documentary, 2024 | ||
| EX-TRACT | Marcel Barelli | 3′ |
| Switzerland, Animation/ Experimental, 2025 | ||
| Headland | Mariana Duarte | 13′ |
| United Kingdom, Documentary, 2024 | ||
| Humans build the biggest nests | Isaac King | 4′ |
| Canada, Animation/Experimental, 2024 | ||
| KJÆLEDYRUTRYDDELSE (Pet-extermination) | Mikkel Storm Glomstein | 14’20” |
| Norway, Drama/Comedy, 2025 | ||
| La petit Ancêtre (The Little Ancestor) | Alexa Tremblay-Fancouer | 11’12” |
| Canada, Documentary/Animation, 2024 | ||
| Martha | Marcel Barelli | 6′ 53” |
| Switzerland, Documentary/Animation, 2024 | ||
| MUT | Giulio Squillacciotti | 18′ |
| Italy, Documentary, 2024 | ||
| Yesterday I rememberd my mom | Leandro Afonso | 22’39” |
| Brazil, Drama/Fiction, 2025 | ||
| PLANETAGATIK | Eneko Muruzabal Elezcano | 9’35” |
| Spain, Fiction, 2024 | ||
| Plastic Surgery | Guy Trevellyan | 12’02” |
| United Kingdom, Thriller, 2025 | ||
| Radical neighboring | Mattias Olsson | 18′ |
| Sweden, Documentary, 2025 | ||
| Ray the rug | Mohammad Ali Shakeri | 6’16” |
| Thailand, Documentary/Animation, 2024 | ||
| Silent Panorama | Nicolas Piret | 5’09” |
| Belgium, Documentary/Animation, 2024 | ||
| SUKANDE KASÁKÁ (Ailing Land) | Kamikia Kisedje, Fred Rahal | 30′ |
| Brazil, Documentary, 2025 | ||
| Terradread | Beatrice Aliné | 21’40” |
| Germany, Fiction 2025 | ||
| That`s how i love you | Mário Macedo | 18′ |
| Croatia/Portugal, Fiction, 2024 | ||
| The Killing Fields | Willow Naomi Curry | 13’42” |
| USA, Documentary/Experimental, 2024 | ||
| The Legend of Tibrogargan | Anna Doyle | 11’32” |
| Australia, Documentary/ Experimental, 2025 | ||
| Tigre es Yaguareté (Tiger is Yaguareté) | Left Hand Rotation Collective | 27′ |
| Argentina, Documentary, 2025 | ||
| Water will be here tomorrow | Lesia Bakalets | 26′ |
| Ukraine, Documentary, 2024 | ||
| ZRYWKA | Aram Menua Jesajan | 11′ |
| Poland, Documentary, 2025 | ||
| 红 (Hong) | Yingying HU | 29′ |
| China, 2024 |
PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE FEATURE FILM COMPETITION
PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE FEATURE FILM COMPETITION
| The time of water | Christiane Garcia | 80′ |
| Brazil, Fiction, 2024 | ||
| This is not a garden | Marta Pessoa | 79′ |
| Portugal, Documentary, 2025 | ||
| Waterline | Rui Simões | 68′ |
| Portugal, Documentary, 2025 | ||
| No more history between us | Priscilla Brazil | 75′ |
| Brazil, Documentary, 2024 | ||
| We are Two Abysses | Kopal Joshy | 76′ |
| Portugal, Documentary/Fiction, 2025 | ||
| Natterer Treasure | Renato Barbieri | 84′ |
| Brazil, Documentary, 2024 |
COMPETITION FOR SHORT AND MEDIUM-LENGTH FILMS IN PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE
PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE SHORT AND MEDIUM-LENGTH FILM COMPETITION
| Millennium ‘s Turn | Alberto Seixas | 14’25” |
| Portugal, Fiction, 2024 | ||
| Banana Yellow | Alexandre Sousa | 12’42” |
| Portugal/Hungary, Animation, 2025 | ||
| Atom & Void | Gonçalo Almeida | 8’46 |
| Portugal, Horror, 2024 | ||
| Aurora | Bruna Lessa | 20′ |
| Brazil, Fiction, 2025 | ||
| Metamorphosis Chantings or That Time When I Incarnated as Porpoise | Ainá Xisto | 11’25” |
| Portugal/ Brazil, Documentary/Experimental, 2024 | ||
| Dog alone | Marta Reis Andrade | 13’02” |
| Portugal/France, Animation, 2025 | ||
| Hive | Tatiane de Oliveira | 10’31” |
| Brazil, Documentary, 2025 | ||
| DARU/N | Benjamin Hindrichs | 14’33” |
| Portugal/Spain, Documentary, 2024 | ||
| Sulphur | Karen Akerman, Miguel Seabra Lopes | 15′ |
| Portugal/Brazil, Experimental, 2024 | ||
| May | Claudio Carbone | 12’27” |
| Portugal, Documentary,2025 | ||
| Spring Tide | Renata Freitas Machado | 19’45” |
| Brazil, Documentary, 2025 | ||
| But it´s not the same | Bárbara da Palma Teixeira | 18’34’ |
| Portugal, Documentary, 2025 | ||
| I feel at peace thinking of today | Paulo Gadioli | 8’03” |
| Brazil, Documentary, 2025 | ||
| The Last Soy Sweeper | Blue Perseus, Paulo Alípio | 13’52” |
| Brazil, Documentary, 2025 | ||
| Caught in the Net | Nuno Alves de Lima | 28′ |
| Portugal, Documentary/Animation, 2024 | ||
| Ribeiro de baixo, cape of the world | Nuno Mendonça, Rodrigo Queirós, Vitor Covelo | 19′ |
| Portugal, Documentary, 2024 | ||
| Time to smile | Jonas Almeida Braga Amarante | 12’15” |
| Portugal/Brazil, Documentary, 2025 | ||
| Vânia and Valéria | Isabela Alves, Isabella Milena Nascimento | 21’32” |
| Brazil, Documentary, 2025 |
REGIONAL PANORAMA COMPETITION
REGIONAL PANORAMA COMPETITION
| The fire | Joana Cabete | 3’06” |
| Portugal, Animation, 2024 | ||
| The last sheperd of Sabugueiro | Laurène da Palma Cavaco | 6′ |
| Portugal, Documentary, 2025 | ||
| Down the Mountain | Carlos Martínez-Peñalver Mas | 8′ |
| Portugal, Documentary/ Experimental, 2025 | ||
| Take Care | Joana Alves | 19’56” |
| Portugal, Fiction, 2024 | ||
| We are two Abysses | Kopal Joshy | 76′ |
| Portugal, Fiction/Documentary, 2025 | ||
| Carved in stone | Tiago Cerveira | 16’15” |
| Portugal, Documentary, 2024 |
COMPETITION FOR SHORT FICTION, NON-FICTION AND ANIMATION FILMS (≤10 min)
FICTION, NON-FICTION AND ANIMATION SHORT FILM COMPETITION (≤ 10 min)
| The Refusers | Wiep Teeuwisse | 2’31” |
| Netherlands, Animation, 2024 | ||
| This is wild! | Daniel Neves Montezano | 21’12” |
| Brazil, Documentary/Animation, 2024 | ||
| EXTINCT | Yesid Soacha | 7′ |
| Colombia, Animation, 2024 | ||
| Fish and rice | Group of students from Berlin Elementary School | 1’43” |
| Cape Verde, Animation/ Experimental, 2025 | ||
| The Old World | Owen Archinet | 11′ |
| France, Animation, 2025 | ||
| OVA – The little astronaut (Al Short Film) | Cyril Verbois | 6’37” |
| Switzerland, Animation, 2025 | ||
| Pieris: the wing of the wind | Tiago Miguel | 3’13” |
| Portugal, Animation, 2025 | ||
| A pleasure | Sónia Estévez | 4′ |
| Spain, Animation/ Experimental, 2024 | ||
| PSSST ! | Morgane Parelli | 2’47” |
| France, Fantasy/ Comedy, 2025 | ||
| Red wolf in time out | Dave Russo, Calliope Mary | 4′ |
| USA, Documentary/Animation, 2025 | ||
| I am Water | Roser Cusó | 6’20” |
| Spain, Animation, 2025 | ||
| The land keeps watch | Iryna Tanasiichuk | 7’52” |
| Estonia/Ukraine, Animation, 2025 | ||
| Tomorrow neves dies | Behnam Bahadori | 4′ |
| Iran, Animation, 2024 |