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A total of <strong>410 films were submitted for consideration for the CineEco 2026 Official Selection<\/strong>, including fiction films and documentaries produced for cinema and\/or television, from Portugal and abroad, as well as visual art works created in digital, video or film formats, all centred on environmental themes.<br \/>A total of <strong>104 films were selected, of which 87 productions from 33 countries <\/strong>will compete across <strong>CineEco\u2019s six<\/strong> <strong>main competitive sections<\/strong>:  <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>International Feature Film Competition ( <\/strong>fiction and documentaries, 60 minutes or longer) &gt; Environment Grand Prize, worth \u20ac2,500;<\/li>\n<li><strong>International Short and Medium-Length Film Competition<\/strong> (fiction and documentaries, up to 60 minutes) &gt; International Short and Medium-Length Film Award, worth \u20ac1,000;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Competition for Feature Films in Portuguese<\/strong> (fiction and documentaries, 60 minutes or longer) &gt; Camacho Costa Award, worth \u20ac2,000;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Portuguese-Language Short and Medium-Length Film Competition<\/strong> (fiction and documentaries, up to 60 minutes) &gt; Portuguese-Language Short Film Award, worth \u20ac1,000;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Regional Panorama Competition<\/strong>&gt; Regional Panorama Prize, worth \u20ac1,000;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Short Film Competition for fiction, non-fiction, and animation<\/strong> (up to 10 minutes) &gt; Short Film Award for fiction, non-fiction, and animation, worth \u20ac500.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We would like to thank everyone for their overwhelming participation, which once again attests to the importance of CineEco\u2014the Serra da Estrela International Environmental Film Festival\u2014as a premier platform for screening, promoting, and highlighting environmental films.<\/p>\n<p><strong>See the Official Selectio<a href=\"https:\/\/cineeco.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/CE.SO2026_1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">n at this link.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From October 9 to 17, Seia will be the venue for the environmental film festival From October 9 to 17, Seia will once again become the center of international environmental cinema, hosting nine days dedicated to screening Portuguese and international films that highlight and encourage reflection on today\u2019s most pressing environmental issues.This year, we once [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14985,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[115,1],"tags":[],"ano_da_extensao":[],"local_da_extensao":[],"class_list":["post-14964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sem-categoria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - 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