STORM – Quorum Dance Company
Storm is an original creation by conductor and composer Armando Mota, who warns of global warming and rising sea levels, focusing on what could be the future of the islands of Culatra and Armona.Inspired by classics such as Romeo and Juliet and West Side Story, the work takes on a strong Algarve feel, just as […]
Video art
Created in 2024, this non-competitive section of the Festival’s official selection is presented in an exhibition-gallery format, allowing for a more immersive and continuous enjoyment of these works. Visual creations that address environmental concerns in ways that are both poetic and experimental are presented in a loop and produced in digital, video, or film formats, […]
tectonik.Tombwa – parts for acrux and toha
Victor Gama’s multimedia solo concert tectonik.Tombwa continues the interrupted research of Angolan anthropologist Augusto Zita N’Gonguenho. In the 1980s, Zita studied the Namib desert, combining science and local divinatory practices, until he disappeared under apartheid-related circumstances. From her notes, Gama has created a work that uses sound and music as tools of historical memory. Performed […]
Film Market
The film market is a networking space that promotes meetings between producers, directors and young students. Face to face, projects can meet with producers, directors and/or screenwriters in a space dedicated to the exchange of ideas and the presentation of works. This is a “film accelerator” promoted by CineEco and dedicated to all aspiring directors. […]
The Spirit of the Mountain: We Are the Wind That Whistles Through the Trees
The Spirit of the Mountain brings together Portuguese and international artists who, through painting, sculpture, and installation, explore the mountain as a living being, a symbol, and a place of belonging.Inspired by the Serra da Estrela, the exhibition offers a poetic reflection on the ancient imaginaries that dwell within these landscapes, portraying the mountain as […]
The life cycle of images
“An encounter of experimental practices of artistic research with biomaterials in search for more sustainable pathways to create visual memory”. Through photography, sound recording, sculpture, and illustration, emerges the narrative of macroalgae as both an object of study and a creative medium, in dialogue with the imaginaries of science and research. The motto of the […]
Colmeia (Hive)
Among the exuberant beauty of nature and the life built by man, there is a great relation, as well as a great difference.
WILDESTCôa
Shot in the Greater Côa Valley, this documentary film takes us to one of the most vibrant, wild and inspiring regions of our country, Portugal, exploring the life forms that inhabit these parts and the results of five years of this rewilding movement. The session will be attended by the director, a representative from Rewilding, […]
Climate In Therapy
Seven climate scientists meet in a godforsaken meeting room to engage in circle therapy about their shared climate anxiety. Can emotional honesty be part of the solution? Open a bottle of climate anxiety. Pour the contents into a hot pot under high pressure. Then add a teaspoon of horror, a tablespoon of anger and three […]
Dog Alone
A dog was abandoned in its own home at the time when my grandfather began to experience his widowhood and I was returning from London, a place where I felt lonelier than ever.