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Jonathan Uliel Saldanha exhibition opens at Solar "Locus Amoenus, Locus Horribilis” will open on November 22 2019 at Solar - Cinematic Art Gallery and will be open until January 11, 2020.

The Solar - Cinematic Art Gallery, in Vila do Conde, opens next Friday, November 22, 2019, at 18h, “Locus Amoenus, Locus Horribilis”, an exhibition by Jonathan Uliel Saldanha, one of the most relevant artists of the multidisciplinary field of contemporary Portuguese art. The inauguration will be marked by a live performance by a duo composed by artist Jonathan Uliel Saldanha and Diogo Tudela (members of the collective Terror), which starts at 7 PM. The inauguration also features a performance by Daniel Martins, an artist invited by Solar.

Curtas Vila do Conde: Call for entries Entries are open for the competitions of the 28th edition of Curtas Vila do Conde - International Film Festival, which will take place between July 11 and 19, 2020. The films can be submitted online, on the various platforms available. New short films produced in 2019 or to be produced in 2020, with a maximum duration of up to 60 minutes (except where noted), in various genres and at festival competitions are accepted. Registration until April 30th 2020.

Portuguese Shorts nominated for the EFA The films “Cães que ladram aos pássaros” by Leonor Teles and “Les Extraordinaires Mésaventures de la Jeune Fille de Pierre” by Gabriel Abrantes feature on a list of five nominees for the European Film Awards at the European Film Academy in the catego The five nominees for the Best European Short Film Award were chosen from a list of 19 nominees chosen by the international juries of various international film festivals. Gabriel Abrantes was nominated for this award by the Portuguese festival Curtas Vila do Conde and the Venice International Film Festival selected the film by Leonor Teles. The winner will be announced on December 7 in Berlin.

Carlos Conceição awarded at Doclisboa "Serpentarius",first feature film by Carlos Conceição, was awarded with the Tv Cine New Talent Award Doclisboa that took place from 17th to 27th October in the Portuguese capital. The New Talent Prize is given to the director of the best first feature film of the event's whole program, except retrospectives and cinema of urgency, and was awarded by the jury composed of Aya Koretzky (director, Portugal), Sofia Bohdanowicz (director, Canada) and Veton Nurkollari (artistic director of the Dokufest Festival, Kosovo).