Portimão Film Festival - 2nd Edition

What happens when we no longer fit in the place we were destined for?

Amid bodies that reject expectations, people confronting their limits, families seeking to rebuild, and communities marked by memory and territory, cinema discovers characters in conflict with what is expected of them.

Over three days, the Portimão Film Festival offers a journey through different ways of being, resisting, and belonging. It features intimate and collective stories, both close and distant, that question the places we occupy - and those we are told we should occupy.

Because sometimes it is when we no longer fit that we truly begin to find our place.

Programme:

Theme: "What happens when we no longer fit in the place we were destined for?"

9 OCTOBER - “BEING” 20:00 - Small Auditorium

Title: Pheasant | by: Beatriz Silvestre | Year: 2024 | Country: Portugal | Duration: 5 minutes and 49 seconds | Genre: Fiction

“Faisão” is a metaphor that connects the female figure with a life destined to a pheasant, a bird coveted by hunters for its exotic appearance. The narrative reveals an allegory of the abuse suffered by many women around the world. This injustice continues to be perpetuated through the centuries, represented by a species of bird that has also faced a life of exploitation and mistreatment.

Title: The Friends | by: GROUP | Year: 2001/2006 | Country: Portugal | Duration: 12 minutes | Genre: Family

Two friends united in a bond without a defined time. The tenderness expressed in silences that speak. A poem to the simplicity of the senses, to friendship, beyond love!

Title: Full Stop | by: Miguel López Beraza | Year: 2022 | Country: Portugal and Spain | Duration: 22 minutes and 38 seconds | Genre: Documentary

This film is an excuse, a cure. The director returns to his parents' home and invites them to play a game where they become movie stars. This role-playing game will serve as a pretext to discuss the cancer that both his mother and father have overcome and the fear of loss.

Title: Place 54 (Episode 3) | by: Bernardo Lopes and Francisco Mira Godinho | Year: 2024 | Country: Portugal | Duration: 18 minutes and 39 seconds | Genre: Fiction

An anthology fiction series set in a car park. Five episodes, five stories, five genres, one parking space.

A moment of conversation and Q&A with Beatriz Silvestre and Nicole Ribeiro (Faisão) and actors from the GROUP

Title: Marina | From: Paoli de Luca | Year: 2025 | Country: Italy | Duration: 19 minutes | Genre: Drama

A year after starting her gender transition, Marina spends a summer weekend at her best friend Camilla's house, where she observes and sketches her in her notebook. The arrival of a male presence, with Lorenzo and his friends, will test their friendship.

Title: Trick (EN) or Migué (PT-BR) | by: Rodrigo Ribeyro | Year: 2025 | Country: Brazil | Duration: 15 minutes | Genre: LGBTQIA+, Social, Women

Elisa, a worker from São Paulo, decides to skip work to go to the beach.

Title: Revolver | by: Paoli de Luca | Year: 2026 | Country: Italy | Duration: 20 minutes | Genre: LGBTQIA+, Romance, Youth

Naples. In a pulsating techno club, a playground of desire, dominance, and survival, bodies collide under strobe lights. At the centre, Ronga, a trans dancer, continues to move and spin inside a cage of iron. Orbiting around her are Daniel, a photographer drawn to her raw beauty, Manuel, a toxic and predatory obsession, and Medusa, the enigmatic queen of the club. Amidst drinks, beats, and power games, Ronga fights for her dignity within the cruel hierarchy of her nightlife world.

10 OCTOBER - “RESIST”

20:00 - Small Auditorium

Title: Alișveriș | by: Vasile Todinca | Year: 2025 | Country: Romania | Duration: 15 minutes | Genre: Drama

Tatiana, an unemployed woman, spends her days selling her personal belongings to survive. Today she has an important deadline and may end up selling a piece of her body to keep a roof over her head.

Title: Numb | By: Nuno Borges and Márcia Estima | Year: 2026 | Country: Portugal | Duration: 8 minutes and 57 seconds | Genre: Drama

João is a 23-year-old young man who struggles with social interaction and communication. He feels a daily detachment from himself, as if he is an external observer of his own life, body, and thoughts. He lives with a sense that the outside world is unreal or artificial. Tired of merely existing, he embarks on a journey to reconnect with himself.

Conversation and Q&A with NuMar producer and psychologist Susana Godinho

Title: Last Seven Days | by: Rickey Jewkes | Year: 2025 | Country: USA | Duration: 1 hour and 46 minutes | Genre: Drama

A US Army veteran documents his last week before a planned suicide attempt.

11 OCTOBER - “BELONGING”

2:30 PM, Café Concerto

Workshop/Talk with Luís Campos: "A

Join Luís Campos for an engaging workshop and talk.