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Heritales @ University of Évora – Portugal (10th of December 2025)

Heritales at the University of Évora

Migration, Human Rights and the (re)construction of society. Cinema to reclaim human rights. HUMANIZA in Évora.

Several festivals and film forums in Portugal are joining forces to celebrate the Humaniza film festival, dedicated to migration. They will present various films on the day that commemorates Human Rights, December 10th. Several areas are priorities in the defense of human rights, which are present in the problems highlighted by the UN Sustainable Development Goals. One of the great challenges of current societies is migration and the refugee issue (2). For this reason, several film festivals, following the invitation of Cristiano Gianolla and his Co3-Horizon project (University of Coimbra), have joined the initiative to hold a film festival simultaneously in several cities in Portugal, being themselves responsible for the programming. Thus, the organizations “Espalhafitas- Cineclube de Abrantes”, “Grande Coisa!”, Heritales- International Heritage Film Festival and Cineclube Faro, join the CO3 project led by the University of Coimbra to address migration, an objective that is being defined by the international political environment.

More info in Portuguese here: https://heritales.hypotheses.org/7839

  • Screened films:  Under the Endless Sky, Migrant
  • Target Audience: General public, youth, adults, seniors, researchers, cultural programmers.
  • Day: 10th of December 2025
  • Time: 18.00-21:00
  • Duration: 120 min  with debate
  • Location : Colegio Espirito Santo -Evora
  • Registration: free entry
  • Notes: Film projection followed by debate with festival organizers. Coordinator of the session: Maria Zozaya.
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Heritales @ University of Évora – Portugal (20th of November 2025)

Heritales at the University of Évora

The Heritales Heritage Film Festival, now in its sixth edition and dedicated to the theme of peace, is planning several sessions focused on films that explore the reasons and causes of conflict. On November 20th, the festival will promote a session in collaboration with the Public History department at the University of Évora to discuss the challenges of conflict. The aim is to examine the various causes of conflict at local, national, and international levels, and to highlight the social issues associated with war and conflict, which ultimately lead to losses for all affected communities.

The Heritales festival program features a selection of animated films that question war and highlight a range of issues present in numerous international conflicts. The screening will be followed by an debate at the so called open classroom session, led by Mafalda Soares da Cunha, head of the Public History department at the University of Évora, along with María Zozaya from CIDEHUS-UÉ serving as mediators. During this session, they will explore conflicts from both collective and individual perspectives, address their causes, discuss the victims who suffer as a result, examine gender differences, and delve into various dimensions that raise questions about the sensory and emotional aspects of political conflicts.

The session deals with “War and conflict. People and causes across the board”, based on Heritales animated short films’.

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Screened Films: Last Call: Indian Son,  We Are All Watching! Ceasfire now, Up to the sea she weaves a dream, Max’s Dream, The Black Pomegranate, The Silent Route, Statue, Madres que cantaron la guerra,  Rasga Mortalha, The Dream Of A Blue Planet.

 

  • Target Audience: General public, youth, adults, seniors, researchers, cultural programmers.
  • Day: 20th of November 2025
  • Time: 18.00-22:00
  • Duration: 120 min  with debate
  • Location : Colegio Espirito Santo -Evora
  • Registration: free entry
  • Notes: Film projection followed by debate with festival organizers. Coordinator of the session: Maria Zozaya. Participation and co-coordination: Mafalda Soares da Cunha. Technical director Fernando Mendes.
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Heritales @ International Day of Intangible Cultural Heritage – Centro Cultural Fernão Mendes Pinto – Almada – Portugal (18th of October 2025)

International Day
of Intangible Cultural Heritage at Centro Cultural Fernão Mendes Pinto

As part of the European Heritage Days, Almada Mundo, the International Association for Education, Training, and Innovation, invites you to second Digital Summit of the year. In this occasion we will celebraate the International Days of Intangible Cultural Heritage. We will present 6 short of the 2024-25 competition.

For the occasion Heritales as chosen 7 great documentaries about traditions sustenability, community and natural heritage. The films will be shown along the full day starting at 10 m until 7pm.

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Screened documentaries:

From Old Man to Child (Hu Xiao)
Meryem (Serhan Doğan)
Song After a Revolution (Eduardo Soutullo)
I won’t remain Alone (Yaser Talebi)
The Price of Regulation (Fedawak Gemechu Boru)
White Cover Lapland (Vigmantas – Balevičius)

  • Target Audience: General public, youth, adults, seniors, researchers, cultural programmers.
  • Day: 18th of October 2025
  • Time: 10.00
  • Duration: all day repeting sessions 
  • 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.
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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.
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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.

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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.
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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.

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

Heritales in the Covento Dos Remedios,  “Cinema no Convento”

The initiative “Cinema no Convento” this year with Technology and Humnity
a proposal of the Resource Center for Intangible Cultural Heritage – PCI, started in 2019 by the Resource Center of the PCI with the collaboration of the International Heritage Film Festival – “HERITALES” with the aim of raising awareness the space and work of the Resource Center as well as its content developed in cinema.

This year’s theme is “Technology and Humanity,” inviting us to reflect on the complex relationship between technology and the human condition.
In this film series, we propose a journey through works that discuss topics such as artificial intelligence, robotics, digital ethics, and, in particular, the intersection between technology and intangible cultural heritage. How are technological innovations shaping the transmission, preservation, and reinvention of traditions? We invite you to reflect.

This film portrays the contrast between natural life forms, cultural constructions, and the ways of scientifically recovering, with new technologies, the identities of communities that lack written historical records. A scientific expedition from the University of Zurich travels to southern Chile, uncovering the history of the Mapuche community and their life records, searching in virtually unconnected places where technology has not yet reached. The film raises several questions about ethics, the information obtained through new technologies, and their potential political and malicious use. At the same time, it reveals the possibilities of innovation in finding identity groups that struggle for survival by learning small, still-living pieces of culture, such as the language of their ancestors, Mapudungun.
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  • 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.
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Heritales @ Waking Life – Crato – Portugal (20th of June 2025)

Heritales @ Waking Life Festival 2025

Once again Heritales will be present with mazing screening at the Waking Life Festival in Crato Portugal. Four amazing documentaries from the 2024-25 selection will be shown in these beautiful settings. You can read more about the Waking Life festival on their official website here, and you can check the cinema program here

Screened documentaries:

Our Forest, Our Resources by Veasna Nham
The Price of Regulation by Fedawak Gemechu Boru
Journey to the End of Life by Yevangelina Kovalchuk
The crane dance by Maxence Lamoureux

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  • 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)
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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 Zephyr,  Semurg, Agreb Majnouna

 

 

 

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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