4th Edition – 2022

The return to in‑person screenings.

Introduction

The 4th edition of the Moinho Cine Fest marked the return to in‑person screenings, representing an important moment in the festival’s evolution after two years of adaptations. The sessions took place across the Union of the Parishes of Custóias, Leça do Balio and Guifões, reinforcing the festival’s connection to the local territory.

A total of 421 submissions from 57 countries were received, from which 107 films representing 35 countries were selected, reflecting the international diversity that characterises the festival. The sessions were held on April 2 in Guifões, April 9 in Leça do Balio and April 14 in Custóias.

Award Winners

Best Film: Nostalgia — Anastasia Raykova (Portugal)
Honourable Mention: Factory Talk — Lucie Rachel and Chrissie Hyde (United Kingdom)
Best Micro Film: Nata Desta Vida — Cláudia Sofia Gomes and Ricardo Miguel Soares (Portugal)
Best Nano Film: Papercut — Marina Fastoso (Italy)
Best Mobile Film: Rede — André Silva (Portugal)
Best Portuguese Film: Nata Desta Vida — Cláudia Sofia Gomes and Ricardo Miguel Soares (Portugal)
Best Portuguese Nano Film: The cocoon thread — Ivo Reis and Vanessa Fernandes (Portugal)
Best Portuguese Mobile Film: Rede — André Silva (Portugal)
Best Animation: Don’t Drop the Goose — Jurie Visagie (South Africa)
Best Documentary: Lost — Hao Tong (United States of America)
Best Experimental Film: The Light of the Star We Are Seeing Right Now — Jennie Feyen (Australia)
Best Fiction: Nostalgia — Anastasia Raykova (Portugal)
Best Music Video: Aufm Deich — Jakob Reuter — music: Lisa Spielmann (Germany)
Best Dance Film: Strange Christmas — Sergio Catá Riobóo — performance: Cristina Calvo and Christian Martínez Riobóo (Spain)
Best Fashion Film: My Venus — Julia Shuvchinskaya (Canada)

Official Selection

The Official Selection brought together films from multiple genres and origins, reflecting the diversity that defined this fourth edition.

Micro Films

#CDR: CoViD‑Distance Relationship — Arjanmar Rebeta (Philippines)
(p a ll s a) — Marcelo Ignacio Lagreze (Chile)
201 Days — Anne Zinn‑Justin (France)
5 minutos de 2020 — Francisca Simões (Portugal)
652 miles = 0 (or the wonderful convenience of videocalling) — Giulio Gobbetti (United Kingdom)
A Girl With Her New Wall — Anas Zwahri (Syria)
And if you should see Dave… — Vadim Lasca — music: The Stranglers (United States of America)
Angry Dogs — Shaun Clark (United Kingdom)
Área 51?52! — Alexandra Prates and Tânia Prates (Portugal)
Aufm Deich — Jakob Reuter — music: Lisa Spielmann (Germany)
Black and White Series #4: Plantas — Luís Miranda (Portugal)
c o r r e d o r — Dally Schwarz — performance: Dally Schwarz (Portugal)
Chasing Stars — Laura Aldofredi (Netherlands)
Choice — Jabran Zafar (Pakistan)
Cold Heart (PNAU Remix) — Raman Djafari — music: Elton John and Dua Lipa (Germany)
Contacto Peculiar — Luis Enrique Pacheco Arias — performance: Ernesto Peralta Torrecilla and Sonia Uribe Restrepo (Chile)
Creature of Habit — Beatriz Nunes Silva (Portugal)
Crossed — Jean‑Charles Fritz (France)
Currently, me — Mireya Piñuela (Mexico)
Dancing With Rainbow — Hassan Mokhtari (Iran)
Diamante em Mar de Vidro — pai.xaomae.tecto (Portugal)
Don’t Drop the Goose — Jurie Visagie (South Africa)
E L E O N O R _ — Eléonor Silva (Portugal)
Earth — Max RC Schleser (Australia)
Efémero — Paulo Fajardo (Portugal)
El Altarcito — Luciano Ramos — music: Choquemanta (Argentina)
Entrelugar — Pedro Perdigão (Brazil)
Eurynome — Catherine Kasima Kanda — performance: Anna Juniewicz (Poland)
Factory Talk — Lucie Rachel and Chrissie Hyde (United Kingdom)
Faísca de pó — Jackson Abacatu — music: Isabella Bretz (Brazil)
FLASH — Rui Duque (Portugal)
Flashbacks — Dominic Angerame (United States of America)
FLIES — Anabela Costa (Portugal)
For All of Us — Betsy Stern — music: Betsy Stern (United States of America)
Forgive Me (Chapter One) — Elizabeth Schneider and Michael Covello (United States of America)
Ghostown — André Pereira (Portugal)
Hunting Day — Alberto Seixas (Portugal)
I am ok — Olivia Lucchini — performance: Deep Impact Dancers (Italy)
Ilomilo — Luis Santaolalla and Inés Duport — performance: Myriam González and Eloi García (Spain)
Inanna — Amanda Môa, Juliana Barretto, Luiza Leal, Mayra Costa, Reginaldo Oliveira, Renah Berindelli, Renata Baracho and Valéria Nunes — performance: dance ensemble (Brazil)
Incomplete — Dalena Tran — music: Ash Koosha (United States of America)
Just a Show — Mustapha Benghernaout and Mohamed Taher Shawki Boukef (Algeria)
Kevin — Imogen Graham (United Kingdom)
Leaning on the Water — Sara Barati (Iran)
Leave Your Body — Natasha Cantwell (New Zealand)
Limbo — Ganza Moise (Rwanda)
Liminal — Julián Larroza — performance: Julián Larroza (Argentina)
Lost — Hao Tong (United States of America)
Lullaby — Elham Khazaei (Iran)
Man‑made — Alla Abdunabi (United Arab Emirates)
Mattricide — Gemma Rigg (United Kingdom)
Message For You — Axel Dumont — music: Axel Dumont (Belgium)
Minute point five haïku — Finn Harvor (South Korea)
MOÇO — Tiago Aires Lêdo — music: flores (Portugal)
Modais — Nícolas de Sousa — music: Silvio Filgueira (Brazil)
Mr. & Mrs Mantis — Maya Kahanovitz (South Africa)
My Venus — Julia Shuvchinskaya — music: Pedro y Juan (Canada)
Nata Desta Vida — Cláudia Sofia Gomes and Ricardo Miguel Soares (Portugal)
No Kissing — Alexander Abramov — music: Mourning Exercises (Russia)
Nós — David Francisco dos Santos (Brazil)
Nós — Nelson Fernandes (Portugal)
Nostalgia — Anastasia Raykova (Portugal)
O Quarto — Tiago Soares (Portugal)
O que é um Tubarão? — Francisco Lopes — music: The Angry Sharks (Portugal)
olhAR‑TE na VIDA + olhAR‑TE na MORTE x — Hernando Urrutia (Portugal)
PASSOS — Dante Vicenzo — performance: Maria Passos (Brazil)
Perpetual Loop — Javier Otero (Spain)
Powder Keg | The Quarries — Jasmine Dreame Wagner — music: Jasmine Dreame Wagner (United States of America)
Queen of Spades — Pedro Salvado — music: Andre de Brito (Portugal)
R.I.P — Anel Truter (South Africa)
Rebobinar — David Alexandre Santos Passos (Portugal)
REDE — André Silva (Portugal)
Reminiscence — Rubén Seca (Spain)
Road Friend — Aleksei Borovikov (United States of America)
Sem Farol — Vitor Meuren — music: Guto (Brazil)
Shift — Chen Sing Yap (Canada)
Small talk — Geertrui De Vijlder (Belgium)
Somewhere o’er the Mountains — Kazuma Glen Motomura — music: Yoshiyuki Motomura (Japan)
Subtle Body — Robin Bisio — performance: Nikki Pfeiffer (United States of America)
Summer in St. Louis — Cami Thomas (United States of America)
Tenjinsan Textiles — Michael Lyons and Haruka Mitani (Japan)
The Light of the Star We Are Seeing Right Now — Jennie Feyen (Australia)
The pigeon lady — Giulia Brazzale (Italy)
The Right Vintage — Trace Winter (United States of America)
The thief — Mohammed Adel Abd El Azim (Egypt)
Timbales: Between city and identity — Ruhal Hernández (Mexico)
Transgenesis — Jenny Elisabeth Kleine (Germany)
Um Conto de Natal Pandémico — José Pedro Lopes (Portugal)
Um Quarto para as Onze — Paulo Araújo (Portugal)
We Are Without — SJ.Ramir (Australia)
Woodworm Lab — Nacho Recio — music: Joe Hunter (Spain)
Yeh Woh (‘Turmoil’) — Anuj Malhotra (India)

Nano Films

Aeon — Jake Sefton (United Kingdom)
Bukhara 6:0 — Aleksandr Barkovski (Uzbekistan)
Chronos — Emmanuel Dubois (France)
Dancing With Rainbow — Hassan Mokhtari (Iran)
Papercut — Marina Fastoso (Italy)
Pedidos — Roberto I. Ercolalo (Spain)
Rainbow Dragon — Gabby Sumney (United States of America)
Reverse Consciousness — Fortuné Baeni (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
Revival — Izabella Retkowska (Germany)
Smoke — Kostiantyn Mishchenko — music: Kostiantyn Mishchenko (United States of America)
Strange Christmas — Sergio Catá Riobóo — performance: Cristina Calvo and Christian Martínez Riobóo (Spain)
Summer Night — Carla Pekander (Finland)
The Author: Chapter Three — Elvert Bañares (Philippines)
The cocoon thread — Ivo Reis and Vanessa Fernandes — performance: Vanessa Fernandes, Alice Fernandes and Tamara K. Fernandes (Portugal)
Three Drops of Water and a Dragonfly — Johann Calderón (Argentina)

Jury

José Paulo Santos

Born in Coimbra in 1979, he has been dedicated to independent cinema since 2013. His film …além da sala de espera is part of the National Cinema Plan, screened at 20 international festivals and awarded in Porto and New Delhi. His fiction works Circunstâncias and Observador also screened at several festivals. His most recent film, 1965 | Panreal, um edifício de Nadir Afonso, won the Augusta Award for Best Documentary at the 19th BragaCine. He is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Vigo, developing a film about the poet Avelino Díaz.

Marta Raquel Quelhas

Born in 1987, she holds a degree in Cinema and Audiovisual from Escola Superior Artística do Porto, where she produced the short film O canto dos cisnes, a finalist for the 2011 ZON National Award. She has worked in academic productions, television, theatre and events, joining the team of the short film Carnaval Sujo in 2019. She coordinated theatre pieces such as A Noite, by José Saramago, and Pocahontas, a theatre‑in‑cinema project. Since 2021 she has been working in the field of communication.

Sérgio Duarte

Born in Coimbra in 1975, he worked for 12 years as a dental prosthesis technician while maintaining a strong connection to cinema. He completed training in video, cinematography, sound and directing, collaborating on productions for brands such as Nike and Coca-Cola. He now writes and directs his own films. He has been recognised as a Specialist Videographer in Social Reporting and Documentary, Master Videographer, finalist for Videographer of the Year 2018 and winner of the award that same year.