Vanessa Ventura

A sensory journey through Porto in the 2000s, built from visual memories. Through the collection, manipulation and frame-by-frame animation of thousands of photographs drawn from many different lives, the film assembles a collective vision of a city suspended between memory and dreams — a city that no longer exists, or perhaps never existed at all.

A woman wakes up early because she wants to give herself a gift: time. But each spark of inspiration is cut short by household responsibilities that demand her attention, the children, the laundry, the meals. The mental load of these tasks becomes unbearable, and she reaches a breaking point.

A political musical film about a Pink Jacket that always has something up its sleeve. In the comfort of its home, Pink Jacket uses couture and torture to stitch up the opponents of the system. Mónica Santos has already won twice the Audience Award at Curtas with “Between the Shadows” (2018) and “Amélia & Duarte” (2015).

Surpresa (Surprise) is a short documentary animation made using a recorded conversation (that is, not acted, not rehearsed, not scripted…) between a mother, Joana, and her three-year-old daughter, Alice, who is recovering from kidney cancer. They both talk – openly and frankly – about the illness, their present circumstances, struggles and successes.