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Curtas 2020 with a new format
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Isaki Lacuesta is the new director on focus of Curtas
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Looking Back: Take One! Competition
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Looking Back: Experimental Competition
CURTAS
Call for entries only until June 30th!
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A summary of “Short Films for Long Days”
CURTINHAS
Curtinhas for the Family
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Looking Back: Portuguese Competition
Short Films for Long Days

BLOG Curtas 2020 with a new format

Curtas Vila do Conde will take place this year between October 3 and 11, presenting a new format, adapted to the new reality and consumption habits. Along with the regular event in cinemas, that will once again have as its central spaces the Municipal Theater of Vila do Conde, the Municipal Auditorium and Solar, the event will promote a set of initiatives in an online format, thus expanding its area of action and allowing the audience and the filmmakers to meet in a safe and close manner. Several sessions in VoD format are programmed, in partnership with Shift72, as well as the holding of debates, interviews and master classes in a virtual environment.

BLOG Isaki Lacuesta is the new director on focus of Curtas

Isaki Lacuesta will be the director of the Infocus section of the 28th edition of the Festival, which this year takes place from October 3rd to 11th. The director is one of the most interesting and outstanding Spanish artists of today. The filmmaker will have short and feature films screened, as well as his first exhibition in Portugal, at Solar - Galeria de Arte Cinemática.

BLOG Looking Back: Take One! Competition

The Take One! Competition, created in 2005, appears with the aim of focusing attention on the best that was being done in Portugal in terms of school films. It would also be a way to affirm the success of national cinema revealed by Geração Curtas and the format as an essential tool for new directors.

BLOG Looking Back: Experimental Competition

Since 2009, Curtas Vila do Conde presents the Experimental Competition, one of the festival's brand images, exposing the best of what is done every year in the world within this area, through a rigorous and bold selection.

CURTAS Call for entries only until June 30th!

This is the last month to submit an application in order to be present at the largest and most important Portuguese festival dedicated to short films and one of the most important in Europe, Curtas Vila do Conde - International Film Festival, which this year will take place between October 3 and 11, 2020.

BLOG A summary of “Short Films for Long Days”

Starting on March 17th, in the midst of a state of emergency, the “Short Films for Long Days“ initiative, from Agência - Portuguese Short Film Agency, to which Curtas Vila do Conde later associated itself with a special program, ran until the past May 19th. In these two months, 22 films were made available online free of charge, and reached over 25 thousand views.

CURTINHAS Curtinhas for the Family

Curtas Vila do Conde, in collaboration with the Short Film Agency, has prepared a selection of short animated films for the family evenings during the month of May. The selection comes from the catalog of “Curtinhas” films, the children's section, that were screened through the last editions of the festival.The initiative will be divided into two sessions - one dedicated to those over 3 and the other to those over 6 - starting next Friday (May 8). The films will remain for free viewing until June 1st.

BLOG Looking Back: Portuguese Competition

The Portuguese Competition had its debut in the third edition of Curtas, in 1995. It is the second competition of the festival with greater longevity, only behind the International Competition. The history of this competition is also the history of Curtas and closely linked to the most important events in Portuguese cinema in the last three decades, something that is reflected in the popularization of the expression “Geração Curtas” (Curtas Generation).

Short Films for Long Days

Curtas Vila do Conde is associating itself with Agência's initiative "Short Films for Long Days" with a program that celebrates the short film format and presents some of Curtas' productions over the past few years, from international authors and national authors, thus enabling the (re)discovery of these works. These films count as an important feature a connection to the northern region of Portugal, and some of them even have a direct relationship with Vila do Conde, where they were filmed. This program makes it possible to discover not only part of the recent history of the festival, but also the region where it takes place.