About

We live in a world ruled by the images that reach us through screens and displays. We adhere to the frenetic consumerism of images, the more frantic the greater the torrent of information. In a global world with growing civilizational challenges, where concepts such as war, epidemic or climate crisis seem increasingly palpable and close, it is important that such media images are not neglected as sources of information, but also that they are not devoured uncritically. On the one hand, there is talk of post-truth and the deluge of information; and there is also talk of alienation and escapism in the “society of the spectacle”, to use G. Debord’s term. To these scenarios, we wave the values ​​of science, but also of art.

Since its first edition more than a decade ago, the Family Film Project has sought to reconcile the political and epistemological value of images with their aesthetic value, always pointing its focus a little beyond the direct or immediate dimension of the images, beyond of the information they provide, opening up to the performative dimension without harming the archaeological and documentary potential of such images.

Whether through ethnographic films, archive or found-footage films, “home movies”, the various forms of experimental film or the hybridization between film and the performing arts, the Family Film Project seeks to highlight the challenges of cinema in its testimonial and artistic double facet: reconciling authenticity with poetry, reality with fiction, the status quo with difference…

In this 11th edition, the festival's programme maintains its usual matrix, with several competitive sessions divided into thematic sections: Lives and Places, Memory and Archive and even a competitive session dedicated to Fiction and Animation. In all, the competitive sessions bring together twenty-one films from fifteen different nationalities, including five films produced in Portugal.

When

Saturday, 22 October 2022 09:30-22:00

Friday, 21 October 2022 15:00-22:00

Thursday, 20 October 2022 15:00-22:00

Wednesday, 19 October 2022 14:30-22:00

Tuesday, 18 October 2022 18:30-22:30

Gallery

Location

Location

Passos Manuel Cinema

Cinema

Cinema Trindade

Cinema

Coliseu Porto Ageas

Concert halls

Maus Hábitos - Espaço de Intervenção Cultural

Concert halls