Continuity and online reinvention
Introduction
The 3rd edition of the Moinho Cine Fest was held entirely online due to the covid‑19 pandemic, continuing the digital format adopted the previous year. Despite the circumstances, the festival strengthened its identity by consolidating nano film as a central category and expanding micro film beyond mobile‑only formats.
For the first time, a submission fee was introduced, and in return the festival also began paying screening fees to the selected films, establishing a new model of participation and artistic recognition.
A total of 639 submissions from 63 countries were received, from which 106 films representing 49 countries were selected and presented across three online sessions that brought together works from around the world.
Awarded Films
- Best Film: Particles – Olafur Arnalds — Sylvia Borges (Germany)
- Best Nano Film: Camino — Fausto E. Celis (Mexico)
- Best Mobile Film: The Endanger Beauty — Komeil Soheili (Iran)
- Best Portuguese Film: Ribeira — Pypah Santos (Portugal)
- Best Portuguese Nano Film: Generations, Traditions — Diogo Figueiredo (Portugal)
- Best Portuguese Mobile Film: Selfie — Paulo Fajardo (Portugal)
- Best Animation: Fowl Goblin — Samantha Nortje (South Africa)
- Best Documentary: The Shallow Pond — Clay Thomas (United States of America)
- Best Experimental Film: The Grid — Sebastian Bolenius (Portugal)
- Best Fiction: Freedom — Yuri Sardenberg (Brazil)
- Best Music Video: Another Place — Anna Radchenko and Jeremy Schaulin‑Rioux — music: Bastille and Alessia Cara — Music Video — United Kingdom, 2019
- Best Fashion Film: Welcome to Milan — Giacomo Boeri and Matteo Grimaldi (Italy)
- Honorable Mention: Flower in the Subway — Christine Le Clézio (South Africa)
- Honorable Mention: Dog’s Life — Edoardo Maria Brighenti (United Kingdom)
Official Selection
The Official Selection brought together films from multiple genres and origins, reflecting the diversity that defined this third edition.
Micro Films
- 2 in a Million (director’s cut) — J. A. Moreno — music: Steve Aoki, Sting and SHAED (United States of America)
- A Maldição da Ilha do Rei Lagarto — Pedro Santasmarinas — music: Os Barbosas (Portugal)
- A.I.T.A.: Nature is My Favorite Designer — Nur Vural (Turkey)
- Alone — Jimmy Castro (Argentina and Venezuela)
- An Apparition — Nagaraju (India)
- Another Place — Anna Radchenko and Jeremy Schaulin‑Rioux — music: Bastille and Alessia Cara (United Kingdom)
- Apartment Orgy — Yi Ling Yap (Germany)
- Around the world in 88 seconds — João Meirinhos (Portugal)
- Bellydance Vogue — Hadi Moussally — music: Hadi Zeidan (Lebanon)
- Canary’s Echo — Christopher Ellis (South Africa)
- Changing LA — Andrea Fiorentini Del Río (United States of America)
- Cucamelon — Paul Fletcher (Australia)
- Culture leap (non-linear) — Roger Horn (South Africa)
- Dassie — Kayley Wagner and Abdullah Akram (South Africa)
- Definition — Murshidul Alam Bhuiyan (Bangladesh)
- Dog’s Life — Edoardo Maria Brighenti (United Kingdom)
- Durga’s Lockdown — Mitesh Take (India)
- Eles vêm por ti, Bárbara — José Pedro Lopes — music: Os Barbosas (Portugal)
- Encounter One — Summer Dunsmore (United States of America)
- Epistrophe — Jerry Jacob (Oman)
- Fine Dust and Smog in Seoul: Getting Serious — Finn Harvor (South Korea)
- Flow — Thalisa Pillay (South Africa)
- Flower in Subway — Christine Le Clézio (South Africa)
- Fowl Globin — Samantha Nortje (South Africa)
- Freedom — Yuri Sardenberg (Brazil)
- Go Home Now — Natasha Cantwell — music: Autow Nite Superstore (New Zealand)
- Here We Are — Hristina Belousova and Dante Rustav (Kazakhstan)
- Herman Faustus Chatman Pt. 2 — Jonathan Croft — music: The Music Team (Canada)
- Hidden Memories — Anna Beata Baranska (Poland)
- Humanize — Escola Básica do 1º Ciclo com Pré‑Escolar de Câmara de Lobos — teacher‑guided: Rui Duque (Portugal)
- I AM — Sukru Ozcevik (Turkey)
- I Can’t Breathe — Catarina Branco — music: Thom Yorke – Suspirium (Portugal)
- Interference — Tiago Soares (Portugal)
- Intersective Mappings III: Saturated Mirrors — Luís Miranda — music: Airtone ft. Onlymeith (Portugal)
- Keep Walking — Cyro Rossi (Italy)
- Kettling — Alan Del Castillo (Mexico)
- Kune — Pablo Pattenden — choreography: Solsire Pinto (Argentina)
- Matilha — Francisco El Hombre — music: Los Pibes (Brazil)
- Not for Love — Vitor Souza Lima (Brazil)
- of Son — Nolan Barry (United States of America)
- One World — Josua Tobias Krüger (Germany)
- Particles — Sylvia Borges — music: Olafur Arnalds (Germany)
- Persistence — David Barros (Portugal)
- Pine and Genesee — Kelly Gallagher (United States of America)
- Press Repair — Pedro Caldeira and Paulo Graça — music: Jenni Nord (Portugal)
- Ribeira — Pypah Santos (Portugal)
- Rita se Groot Trek — Janique Viljoen (South Africa)
- Run Away — Ishtiyak Ahmad Zihadi (Bangladesh)
- Selfie — Paulo Fajardo (Portugal)
- Shit Boat (No Fans) — Simon Norton — music: Alestorm (Australia)
- Susana — Laura Gamse (United States of America)
- Tender is the Cat — Alex Xu and Jinshuai Zhang (China)
- That Hat! — Jon Tan (Singapore)
- The Banishment — Mohammad Amin Kamali (Iran)
- The Endanger Beauty — Komeil Soheili (Iran)
- The Grid — Sebastian Bolenius (Portugal)
- The Last Oak — Annabel Vine (United Kingdom)
- The Little Ember — John Lester Rimorin (Philippines)
- The Outsider — Hugo Pinto (Portugal)
- The Shallow Pond — Clay Thomas (United States of America)
- The Speech — Ashraf Shishir (Bangladesh)
- The Sugarcane Man — Tina Obo and Leroy Le Roux (South Africa)
- TinyWeddings — 6º A Class from Escola Básica Dr. José Domingues dos Santos — teacher‑guide: Abi Feijó (Portugal)
- Un Éden para Lady Helena — Carina López — music: Les Petit Bâtards (Ecuador)
- Violent and Tender — Filip Fredrik Haglund (United Kingdom)
- Wasted — Daniel Izu. Eze (Nigeria)
- Water is Life — Mustapha Benghernaout (Algeria)
- Waters Culture — Luís Mário Fontoura (Brazil)
- Welcome to Milan — Giacomo Boeri and Matteo Grimaldi (Italy)
- What Kind of Foreign — Ricardo de Oliveira (Portugal)
- With… Out — Hubert Bąk and Piotr “Latona” Kusal (Poland)
Nano Films
- ; — Laura Villamisar Aguila (Spain)
- Ad Nauseam — Úrsula San Cristóbal (Spain)
- Alone — Franco Ariel Malizia (Argentina)
- Artist — Max Zachrisson (Switzerland)
- Camino — Fausto E. Celis (Mexico)
- Confiteor — Arjanmar Rebeta (Philippines)
- Generations, Traditions — Diogo Figueiredo (Portugal)
- Haiku — Telmo Ribeiro (Portugal)
- I Loved Alone — Zoran Furkan Cömert (Turkey)
- Let Me Dance — Tania Kamal‑Eldin (Egypt)
- Los Magos — MUTI (South Africa)
- Magick Trick — Lucas Moreira (Portugal)
- Memories on Water Paint — Beatriz Mestre Costa (Portugal)
- Passione — Jamillah van der Hulst (Netherlands)
- Penhead — Hyuri Constâncio (Brazil)
- Stage — Kazuya Ashizawa (Japan)
- Stay Home, Stay Safe, Stay Sane? — Nick Hales (United Kingdom)
- Sunder — Edward Heredia (United Kingdom)
- Teething itch — Xiaoli O. Chang (Sweden)
- The Breakup — Lucila Brindisi — music: Gallant – Talking to Myself (Argentina)
- Water — Saiyeed Shahjada Al Kareem (Bangladesh)
- What if you have full mouth?! — Mia Maros (Croatia)
Out of Competition
Cap Spartel Film Festival
- Last Dance — Hamza Dakkoun (Morocco)
- Paint — Yassine Erraihani (Morocco)
- Women’s Suffering — Hamza El Maazi (Morocco)
Casa-Museu de Vilar
- A Troubled Day — 6th Year Students from Externato Senhora do Carmo (Portugal)
- Beheaded — 12th Year Students of TEAC from Escola Dr. Machado Matos(Portugal)
- Carmen’s Atelier — 11th Year Students of the Fashion Design Technical Course from Escola Secundária de Marco de Canaveses(Portugal)
Jury
Cristiano Jesus
Born in 1996, he holds a Master’s degree in Comparative Studies from the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon, where he completed a dissertation on the work of Jean-Luc Godard. He graduated in Sound and Image from the School of Arts and Design of Caldas da Rainha and directed the short film Um Beijo Dado Mais Tarde (2017), screened at the Portuguese Cinematheque and the Leiria Film Festival. He writes film criticism for Jornal de Leiria and collaborates with Os Fazedores de Letras and Nucivo. Since 2020 he has been part of CineClub Bairrada, working in directing and editing.
Sandra José
Actress and author, born in 1975 in Chaves, where she began piano studies at the age of seven. She holds a degree in Music and a Master’s in Theatre. She began her professional career as an actress in 2000 and has since worked as a playwright, trainer, director and creator of performances for babies. With experience in theatre, television and film, she is currently performing in the play Alice, o outro da história.
Tiago Cerveira
Filmmaker and photographer who documents the material and immaterial heritage of rural Portugal. His project O Meio e a Gente explores the identities and characteristics of Portuguese rural communities. He is the author of several documentaries on nature and rural culture, screened and awarded at national and international festivals. His work has been presented in individual and collective exhibitions and published in national and international media.
Credits
- Direction: André Almeida Rodrigues
- Organization: Anartem – Cultural Association
- Promotion: Union of the Parishes of Custóias, Leça do Balio and Guifões
- Year: 2021
Support
Institutional Support
- Matosinhos City Council
- Union of the Parishes of Custóias, Leça do Balio and Guifões
Organizational Partners
- Curta Canedo
- Ocean Coast Film Festival
- Cap Spartel Film Festival
- Casa Museu de Vilar
Media Partners
- NM Matosinhos
- Rádio Cidade Matosinhos
- MCR