Section presenting first, second and third works never publicly shown in Portugal. These films were finished in the year in which the festival takes place or in the previous year. In this section, feature and short films compete in separate programmes.
FEATURE FILMS
- A Dim Valley, Brandon Colvin | fic., USA, 2020, 92’
- Looking for Venera, Norika Sefa | fic., North Macedonia/Kosovo, 2021, 111’
- The Last Hillbilly, Diane Sara Bouzgarrou,Thomas Jenkoe | doc., France/Qatar, 2020, 80’
- Shiva Baby, Emma Seligman | fic., USA, 2020, 77’
- What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?, Aleksandre Koberidze | fic., Georgia/Germany, 2021, 150’
- Ski, Manque La Banca | doc./fic., Argentina/Brazil, 2021, 74’
- The Inheritance, Ephraim Asili | doc./fic., USA, 2020, 101’
- We, Alice Diop | doc., France, 2021, 115’
- Last Days of Spring, Isabel Lamberti | fic., Spain/The Netherlands, 2020, 77’
- Radiograph of a Family, Firouzeh Khosrovani | doc., Iran/Norway/Switzerland, 2020, 80’
- The Witches of the Orient, Julien Faraut | doc., France, 2021, 100’
- Delphine’s Prayers, Rosine Mbakam | doc., Belgium/Cameroon, 2021, 91’
SHORT FILMS
- Ain’t no Time for Women, Sarra El Abed | doc., Canada, 2020, 19’
- Bambirak, Zamarin Wahdat | fic., Germany / USA, 2020, 14’
- Blue Rose, Olya Korsun | doc., Russia, 2020, 53’
- C, Marion Täschler | anim., Switzerland, 2020, 5’
- Come Here, Marieke Elzerman | fic., Belgium, 2020, 26’
- The Disappearance of Tom R., Paul Sirague | doc., Bélgica, 2020, 19’
- Easter Eggs, Nicolas Keppens | anim., Belgium / France / The Netherlands, 2020, 14’
- Ella i jo, Jaume Claret Muxart | doc., Spains, 2020, 20’
- Friend of a Friend, Zachary Zezima | anim., France, 2020, 14’
- Heliconia, Paula Rodríguez Polanco | fic., France/Colombia, 2020, 26’
- I Don’t Sleep Anymore, Marina Palacio | doc., Spain, 2020, 22’
- Keep Shiftin‘, Verena Wagner | doc., Germany, 2020, 21’
- The Last Day, Lauri-Matti Parppei | fic., Finland, 2020, 16’
- Letter From Your Far-Off Country, Suneil Sanzgiri | doc./exp., USA / India, 2020, 17’
- Lonely Blue Night, Johnson Cheng | fic., USA, 2020, 15’
- Mofo Relay, Taewan Kim, Shunny Kim | anim., United Kingdom, 2021, 2’
- My Nightingtale with Tears, Cécile Lapergue | doc., France, 2020, 23’
- One Thousand and One Attempts to Be an Ocean, Wang Yuyan | doc./exp., France, 2021, 12’
- Places, Vytautas Katkus | fic., Lituania, 2020, 12’
- The Pleasants Effect, Pete Levine | doc./exp., USA, 2020, 36’
- Poum Poum!, Damien Tran | anim., França, 2021, 6’
- Push This Button if You Begin to Panic, Gabriel Böhmer | anim., United Kingdom / Switzerland, 2020, 13’
- Return to Toyama, Atsushi Hirai | fic., France, 2020, 25’
- Seeking Aline, Rokhaya Marieme Balde | doc., Switzerland / Senegal, 2020, 27’
- The Shift, Laura Carreira | fic., United Kingdom / Portugal, 2020, 9’
- Since Time Immemorial, Clary Demangeon, Jeanne Delafosse | doc., France, 2020, 14’
- Sing Along, Muniz Filho, Sávio Fernandes | doc., Brazil, 2020, 19’
- Stories Keep Me Awake at Night, Jérémy van der Haegen | fic., Belgium/France, 2020, 30’
- Thank You, Julian Gallese | anim., United Kingdom, 2020, 8’
- Tracing Utopia, Catarina de Sousa, Nick Tyson | doc., USA/Portugal, 2021, 27’
- Transportation Procedures For Lovers, Helena Estrela | doc./exp., Portugal, 2021, 9’
- Washing Machine, Alexandra Májová | anim., Czech Republic, 2020, 5’