This year, the 71st edition of the festival was planned to take place in two stages: In February, the film market and the presentation of films online and for professionals took place, and in June the program was scheduled to be shown to the public in a room.
The final decision on what will happen in June was postponed to May, and a pilot cultural event with the inclusion of tests to covid-19 is being considered.
From the planned schedule, the retrospective dedicated to the classics of cinema and the exhibition of the Expanded Forum program, which was due to open on May 18, has been postponed to 2022.
For June, in addition to the screening of the programming films, the prizes, announced in February, were scheduled to be delivered. The program, shown in February to professionals, included the films “Luz de Presença”, by Diogo Costa Amarante, and “Nanu Tudor”, by the Moldovan director Olga Lucovnicova with co-production between Portugal, Belgium and Hungary, and which won the Urso de Berlin for best short film.
In the Forum section, the feature film “No taxi in Jack”, by Susana Nobre, was included.
In the Expanded Forum program, in which cinema extends to other artistic expressions, were “Mudança”, by the Portuguese-Guinean artist Welket Bungué, “Night for day”, by the British visual artist Emily Wardill, with Luso-Austrian co-production, and Portuguese production “13 ways of looking at a blackbird”, by Brazilian director Ana Vaz.
The film “Rock Bottom Riser”, by the Portuguese-American director Fern Silva, was in the Encounters section.
