Heritales @ NEI European Reserchers Night – Évora – Portugal (26th of September 2025)

Heritales in the NEI European Reserchers Night

The Heritales Heritage Festival once again showcases its short films to promote equality and sustainability at Researchers’ Night 2025. Under the theme “Great Challenges,” the Heritales festival session addresses inclusion.

Inclusive animated shorts, interdisciplinary in nature and with a variety of techniques. They address multiple subjects, revealing the artists’ commitment to inclusion and addressing social problems and pathologies through culture.

PROGRAM NEI 2025

More Info about the film “Las Word” here

More Info about the film “If Only” here

More Info about the film “Traces of The Soul Presence” here

More Info about the film “The Splint” here

More Info about the film “Wild Housemate” here

  • Target Audience: Family and kids, General public, youth, adults, seniors, researchers, cultural programmers.
  • Day: 26th of September 2025
  • Time: 21.00-22:00
  • Duration: 120 min  with debate
  • Location :Conventos Dos Remedios -Evora
  • Registration: free entry
  • Notes: Film projection followed by debate with festival organizers. Coordinator of the session: Maria Zozaya. Partecipation of Takis Sarantoupolos. Technical director Fernando Mendes.

Heritales @ JEP (European Heritage Days) – Centro Cultural Fernão Mendes Pinto – Almada – Portugal (20th of September 2025)

European Heritages Days (Architecture) 2025 at Centro Cultural Fernão Mendes Pinto

School program “Aprendo a Ser Futuro

As part of the European Heritage Days, Almada Mundo, the International Association for Education, Training, and Innovation, invites you to visit the exhibition of works by final-year students of the 2024–2025 1st Cycle of Basic Education. Students from the Union of Parishes Schools of Almada, Cova da Piedade, Pragal, and Cacilhas share significant learning experiences in the areas of citizenship, multimedia, photography, video, psychology, philosophy, personal development, and aesthetic and artistic education.

For the occasion Heritales as chosen two amzing documentaries about trditions sustaenability and community buildings. This will be the theme of the debate associated with the Europan Heritage Days.

Dowload the Poster Event here

Screened documentaries: The Sweet Heritage, A faithfullcommittment to sustainability

  • Target Audience: General public, youth, adults, seniors, researchers, cultural programmers.
  • Day: 20th of September 2025
  • Time: 15.00
  • Duration: 120 min
  • Location : Centro Cultural Fernão Mendes Pinto Almada – Portugal
  • Registration: free entry
  • Notes: Film projection followed by debate with festival organizers. Coordinator of the session: Nicola Schiavottiello.

Heritales @ JEP (European Heritage Days) – Bota Rasa – Évora – Portugal (18th of September 2025)

European Heritages Days (Architecture) 2025 at Sociedade União Eborense

“The Natural Heritage in the Amazon. Where natural architectures, archaeology, and material culture are doors to the indigenous communities’ future.

This session will present a film and a debate that highlight the architectures of nature shaped by indigenous communities. The film explores the natural architecture of the indigenous peoples of Amazonas, the archaeology and methods for examining their past. By excavating the vestiges that can ensure their future. In many communities, the labour of the archaeologists is to show that those ancestral communities have belonged to those places for many centuries, which is essential to ensure their presence in the future, by doing (or respecting) laws that recognise them, their existence, and their territory. We invite participants to explore and share the world through the perspectives of the people who continue to inhabit it.
With this session, The Heritales festival aims to reveal ways of life that highlight the relationship between natural monuments, architecture, and nature. According to ancestral cosmogony, indigenous peoples believe that they belong to the land, in contrast to the perspective promoted by so-called “Western Civilizations,” which holds that the land belongs to people

This will be the theme of the debate associated with the Europan Heritage Days.

Dowload the Poster Event here

Screened documentary: Vestigios de Conocimentos Ancestrales

  • Target Audience: General public, youth, adults, seniors, researchers, cultural programmers.
  • Day: 18th of September 2025
  • Time: 18.00
  • Duration: 120 min
  • Location : Bota Rasa, Praça GIraldo 88, Évora – Portugal
  • Registration: free entry
  • Notes: Film projection followed by debate with festival organizers. Coordinator of the session: Maria Zozaya. Technical director Fernando Mendes.

Heritales @ Convento dos Remedios – Évora – Portugal (17th of July 2025)

  • Target Audience: General public, youth, adults, seniors, researchers, cultural programmers.
  • Day: 17th of July 2025
  • Time: 21.30
  • Duration: 65min
  • Location : Conventos dos Remédios Évora
  • Registration: free entry
  • Notes: Film projection followed by debate with festival organizers Maria Zozaya , Fernando Mendes.

Heritales @ Waking Life – Crato – Portugal (20th of June 2025)

  • Target Audience: General public, youth, adults, seniors, researchers, cultural programmers, families, and children
  • Day: 20th of June 2025
  • Time: 22.00
  • Duration: 50 min
  • Location: Waking Life, Crato, Portugal
  • Registration: Only for attendees of Waking Life Festival
  • Notes: Film screening  introduced by Dinis Proença (Heritales Collaborator)

Heritales @ European Archeological Days (13th of June 2025)

The whole world of the past, alongside you in the present: the knowledge of tapestries, architecture and education

The Heritales Heritage Festival aims to share scientific knowledge with the public through cinema. In collaboration with the Pinto Monteiro Archaeology Laboratory (University of Évora), they present a series of films and debates that highlight both material and immaterial knowledge essential for the sustainable maintenance of communities. We invite participants to explore and share the world through the perspectives of the people who continue to inhabit it. They emphasize the importance of enjoying a rich Heritage, recognizing the influence of other cultures on our own, and highlighting the ongoing preservation of technical knowledge originating from Middle Eastern cultures.

Read more: https://heritales.hypotheses.org/5241

Homepage – Portugal – Jornadas Europeias de Arqueologia

Jornadas Europeias de Arqueologia – Património Cultural

Inpartnership with: Projeto Arqueológico Outeiro do Circo, Beja: https://outeirodocirco.blogspot.com/2025/06/projeto-outeiro-do-circo-com-nova.html

Official Poster & Program Download in PDF

Screened films:  Ghasouf, Into ZephyrSemurg, Agreb Majnouna

 

 

 


Scoil Ide – Limerick (Ireland)


Heritales Awards – Almada-Portugal (5th, 6th,7th and 8th of June 2025)

Awards Ceremony 2024-25, Films Screening and music

Heritales celebrates the awards ceremony of the 2024 competition. We would like to invite you all to a four nights celebration of films about “The Role Peace for Sustainable Communities”. The event will take place in various locations in the municipality of Almada-Portugal  (please see below)

This year we are going to explore amazing work from all over the world that present peace and the effect of conflict and war on sustainable communities, inline with the UNESCO Chair of Education for Global Peace and Sustainability.

We are also trilled to announce that we have partnership with the APCAlmada, which will give us the opportunity to celebrate local traditions trough dance and music. Please come and enjoy these free documentary cinema and other incredible activities with us!

Event financed by national funds through the Foundation for Science and Technology, within the scope of project UIDB/00057

Official Poster & Program Download in PDF

 

 

 


Heritales @ Scoil Ide Limerick – Ireland (4th of June 2025)

Animation Showcse Scoil Ide

We invite you to come and join us in the halla in Scoil Ide for a fantastic evening of animation, as we showcase the works of local and international animators.

Our own past pupils, Mikey Mahon and Fiadh Browne, will return for the screening of some of their animations, and stay for a chat about their craft and projects.

As well as this, a wonderful collection of movies from the Heritales International Heritage Film Festival have been selected for screening..

Download Event Poster 1: Here

Download Event Poster 2: Here

Screened films:

  • Target Audience: General public, adults, seniors, family, children
  • Day: 4th  of June 2025
  • Time: 19.00
  • Duration: 45-60min
  • Location: Scoil Ide, Corbally, Limerick (halla)
  • Presence of the director: Yes (local animators will be present)
  • Registration: coconnor@scoilide.ie to book a place
  • Extra Activities: Q and A with animators.

 


Heritales @ Auditorio Costa de Caparica – Portugal (18th of May 2025)

Cinema Gandaia

Amazing  date at The Auditorium in Costa de Caparica, in one of the most beautiful area of the South Bay of Lisbon (Portugal) in collaboration with the Association Gandaia present on this territory since long time.
First we will present a short out of competition documentary about local life in Costa de Caparica by Do and the TWOLINES Family.
After we will present the stunning documentary by Mana Garcia, The Songs of TIme, the “Echoes of an ancestral chant resonate deep in the jungle of Misiones, Argentina. They are the voices of the Mbya Guaraní people who preserve their musical legacy through the songs of their children”.

Download Event Poster Here

Screened films:

  • Target Audience: General public, families, children, adults, seniors,
  • Day: 18th  of May 2025
  • Time: 18.00
  • Duration: 90min
  • Location: Auditório Costa da Caparica
  • Presence of the director: yes from Twolines
  • Registration: No registration required but limited space available
  • Extra Activities: Presentation and debate with Nicola Schiavottiello (co-director Heritales).