The official competition selection for the 48th Cinanima festival edition has been announced. The Academy Award-qualifying festival will run November 8-17 in Espinho, Portugal.
The international competition includes 81 works across short films (38), student films (38) and feature films (five, not yet posted). The selection includes four locally produced shorts: Percebes, T-ZERO, Citizen Tourist and It Shouldn’t Rain Tomorrow
In the national competition, 32 films will represent Portugal; 10 will compete for the António Gaio Award, 11 for the Young Portuguese Director Award (ages 18 to 30) and another 11 films are up for the Young Portuguese Director Award (under 18 years of age).
Below are listed the films selected for the Oscar-qualifying International Competition – Short Films. Find all the selections and more information at cinanima.pt.
International Short Films:
- A Crab in the Pool – Alexandra Myotte, Jean-Sébastien Hamel (Canada)
- A Stand Still Journey – Izù Troin (France)
- It Shouldn’t Rain Tomorrow – Maria Trigo Teixeira (Portugal)
- Beautiful Men – Nicolas Keppens (Belgium)
- Citizen Tourist – Gustavo Carreiro (Portugal)
- Confessions of Hungarian Saints: Prince Saint Imre – Sandor Bekesi (Hungary)
- Daughter of Butades – Hirotoshi Iwasaki (Japan)
- Dying for Beginners – Emily Downe(United Kingdom)
- Earth Coal – Bastien Dupriez (France)
- Entropic Memory – Nicolas Brault (Canada)
- Hello Summer – Martin Smatana, Veronika Zacharová (Slovakia)
- I Died in Irpin – Anastasiia Falileieva (Czech Republic)
- I Had Nothing – Elyse Kelly (U.S.A.)
- I Haven’t Told My Garden Yet – Diek Grobler (Netherlands)
- I’m Perfectly Fine – Dario van Vree (Netherlands)
- In the Shallows – Arash Akhgari (Canada)
- Kafka. In Love – Zane Oborenko (Latvia)
- Lack – Paweł Prewencki (Poland)
- Loca – Véronique Paquette (Canada)
- Loop Line – Renuka Shahane (India)
- Maybe Elephants – Torill Kove (Canada)
- Octopus Banana Hotchpotch – Milanka Fabjancic (Slovenia)
- Percebes – Alexandra Ramires, Laura Gonçalves (Portugal)
- Plunge – Ellie Land (United Kingdom)
- Remember Us – Pablo Leon (U.S.A.)
- See the Sun Rise in the Moon – Charles Nogier (France)
- Shoes and Hooves – Viktória Traub (Hungary)
- Shorts From the Box (a.k.a. Mitch-Match): Modern Times – Géza M. Tóth (Hungary)
- Silent Panorama – Nicolas Piret (Belgium)
- Spooky Loops – Stas Santimov (Ukraine)
- T-Zero – Vicente Nirō (Portugal)
- Tennis, Oranges – Sean Pecknold (U.S.A.)
- The One Who Knows – Eglė Davidavičė (Lithuania)
- The Painting (Le tableau) – Michèle Lemieux (Canada)
- Zarko, You Will Spoil the Child! – Veljko Popovic, Milivoj Popovic (Croatia)
