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This year the Festival will be celebrating its 56th consecutive edition with the same enthusiasm felt the day it first saw the light on September 21st 1953.

Conceived as an International Film Week for the purpose of screening and marketing films, it was not long before the IFFPA granted it B status (non-competitive), thanks to the success of its first edition. A year later it was called the International Film Festival, and in 1955 the IFFPA recognised the festival as competitive, specialising in colour films. In other words, it could now grant official prizes. This marked the emergence of the “Concha”, or shell - at the time only awarded in silver - determined by an international jury.

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The Queer Lisboa is organizing its 12th edition, a unique opportunity to catch up on the most recent international gay, lesbian, and queer cinematography. The Festival has three main Competition Sections: Feature Film Awards (best feature, best actor, and best actress), Documentary Award, and Short Film Award (audience award).
An International Jury will give away the awards of the Best Feature Film and Documentary Competitions, and a great number of national and international guests will attend our 12th edition.
In a special film cycle, Queer TV, the Festival will screen some recent television productions adapted to the big screen, exploring some of the most pertinent subjects which make the contemporary agendas of queer culture and communities.
Another new Festival feature is the programme section Queer Art, in which cinema meets the visual arts at large, through two main perspectives: on the one hand, a showcase of very recent edgy filmmaking defying the boundaries of cinematic languages, genres and narratives; and on the other hand, feature fictions and documentaries portraying renowned queer artists.

The Queer Lisboa 12 will also present three thematic film cycles, accompanied by several debates with the presence of many national and international guests: a film cycle on Religion and Homosexuality, a regard upon the Portuguese Colonial War, and a film cycle on Obscenity, with 5 late night screenings, exploring the limits of the explicit sex on screen.

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The aims of the festival are presenting, teaching, confronting and experimenting the art of the moving image. Always searching for artistic innovation, the Festival produces and exhibits interdisciplinary projects in animation and moving image.

The program will comprise the following areas:

• Animation Short Film Competition;
• English retrospective;
• Interdiciplinary Artistic Projects;
• Workshops and Seminars;
• Monstrinha - films for younger audiences;
• exhibitions;
• Monstra editions.

If you want more information regarding Monstra Festival, visit its official website.

In parallel to the Official Selection, the Festival also runs non-competitive film programmes dedicated to discovering other aspects of cinema. These range from the historical nature of Cannes Classics, to the directorial debuts of the Caméra d’Or and the more public arena of the Cinéma de la Plage.

Cannes Classics: Since 2004, the Festival has celebrated the heritage of film with Cannes Classics. The programme’s aim is to highlight works of the past, presented with brand new or restored prints, and to give them a second lease of life in museums, cinemas and on DVD.

Cannes Classics is held at the Buñuel Theatre and offers a diversified thematic programme which is particularly focused on: new or restored prints, tributes to filmmakers or foreign cinema, documentaries on filmmaking.

The Caméra d’or: created in 1978, this programme focuses on the first features in any selections (official Selection, Directors’ Fortnight, International Critics’ Week) and awards the best of them.

Cinema de la Plage: opened in order to bring Cannes to the masses, the Cinéma de la plage is an outdoor theatre on the Macé beach screening films Out of Competition or from the programme Cannes Classics.

Have access to the complete program of the festival, as well as other details and curiosities, by visiting its official website.

The ending ceremony of the 5th International Independent Film Festival happens today at 09.30 p.m., in Cinema São Jorge, where the winner films will be announced. After that will be screened the film “It´s a Free World”, by Ken Loach.
The most seen films are “My Blueberry Nights”, by Wong Kar Wai, “Happy Go Lucky”, by Mike Leigh, “Joy Division”, de Grant Gee, “Mister Lonely”, de Harmony Korine, “Go Go Tales”, by Abel Ferrara, “Uprise”, by Sandro Aguilar and “Sleepwalking Land”, by Teresa Prata.