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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’.

Download Poster Event Here

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 @ 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 @ 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 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

 

 

 

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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.

 

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Heritales @ Centro Cultural Fernão Mendes Pinto – Almada – Portugal (21st of September 2024)

Almada em Cena

Double date at The European Heritage Days 2024, in one of the most beautiful areas of Of the South Bay of Lisbon (Portugal)
The first will be with: “Memory, Itinerancy and Freedom” – a theme and a dramaturgy; of life and work. These were the topics that led to the documentary film workshop, an initiative by Almada Mundo – International Association of Education, Training and Innovation and which had the support of Almada City Council. The exhibition of short films produced will have the participation of the following authors/directors: Agostinho José, Bruna Canilhas, Eduardo Pereira, Fernando Chainço, Joaquina Soares da Silva, Juliana Sousa, Márcio Paca Chitula, Marco Rocca, Mercedes Goacuto.
The second moment will present the screening of the Heritales International Heritage Film Festival’s animated shorts. An event that started in 2016 and has never  missed the JEP since then. This year we will show a selection of the 2024 competition. The rest will be projected in the coming months in various places in the country and in other international partner entities. Part of the selection can also be watched and evaluated online at this webpage:

https://heritales.org/stageintro2024/

Screened films:

70%, the movie

Addhumare (The Bright Light On The Sea)

  • Target Audience: General public, families, children, adults, seniors,
  • Day: 21st of September
  • Time: 15.00 am
  • Duration: 180min
  • Location: Centro Cultural Fernades Mendes Pinto
  • Presence of the director: no
  • Registration: No registration required but limited space available
  • Extra Activities: Presentation and debate with Nicola Schiavottiello co-director Heritales.

 

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The Forest Of The Honey Bees

Synopsis: Isabelle is a violinist-beekeeper in the Ouessant island. She protect her bees and she inspire her daughter with stories and legend about honey bees….

Submitter Statement:  Director of short animated film: The drunken boat (3mn30 / 1994).
Tears of the little prince ( 8mn / 1996 ). Flowers and Butterflies (35MM. 6mn . 1998). The Poem of the sea ( 2004 . 35MM and HD . 16MN ). A Musical Lifetime Allegro ( 3mn / 2014 / HD / NB). The Forest of the Honey Bees ( Director’s cut : 20MN . HD . Janv 2024. the Forest of the Honey bees ( Short version / 14MN55 / May 2024). -Please contact me by mail to have this short version for festival only… –

Director: Erwan Le Gal

Writer: Erwan Le Gal

Producer: Erwan Le Gal

Key Cast: Marie-Josée Croze, Rebeka Vuillemin

Country of Origin: France

Language: French

Subtitles:

Runtime: 00:20:00

Project Website: https://youtu.be/0DRh4mKL0iU?si=TAztf001Z7u09SqI

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ERWANLEGALcineastedessinateur

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/erwan.legal/reel/Cz9z1CzOUk0

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ERWANLEGAL

Student’s Project: No

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Erwan Le Gal

Bio: Born 12 October at Orleans / France.
Audiovisual Studies at ETPA (Rennes).
Self made man in ANIMATION.
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On the other side (beyond) the window

Synopsis: Based on the fantastical worlds described by girls and boys close to Imagiro Company; three dancers resemble lonely children on the routine of their home. They dance and play with the idea of those imaginary journeys. Upon escaping the “confinement” imposed by the adult world, encounter new characters, situations, and fantastical atmospheres: dancing among the clouds, capturing stars, escaping flying cars, or twirling at the center of the sun. These magical encounters bring them fresh perspectives, hopes and joys as they return home.

Submitter Statement:  In this project, we delve into the fusion of dance language with animated audiovisuals, specifically targeting young girls and boys. We aim to explore themes related to the everyday experiences of childhood, their fears and dreams within a world often dominated by adult-centric perspectives.
The inspiration for this animated short film emerged from the shared confinement experiences of children during the pandemic. These were the very children closely associated with the children’s dance company, Imagiro. Guided by the concept of going “beyond the window,” we choreographed dance scenes that we then translated into the language of animated visuals.

Director: Carmen Violeta Pérez, Víctor Hugo Rivera

Writer: Carmen Violeta Pérez, Louisiana Ojeda, Juliana Briceño, Yerlin Tovar, María Moreno

Producer: María Moreno

Key Cast: Louisiana Ojeda, Yerlin Tovar, Juliana Briceño

Country of Origin: Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of

Language: Spanish

Subtitles:

Runtime: 00:24:51

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063558394532

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/Imagirodanza

Student’s Project: No

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Carmen Violeta Pérez, Víctor Hugo Rivera

Bio: Carmen Violeta Pérez, born on July 17th, 1968, is a creator and body researcher. She graduated from the SNDO in the Netherlands and the IUDANZA. She is the director of the dance company for children, Imagiro. In 2021 she ventures into the audiovisual world with the animated dance film for children titled “On the other side (beyond) the Window”.
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Traumfänger

Synopsis: The story of a dreamer, an unexpected conversation and the aftermath of being heard. It’s a story that gently offers the moment to stop fighting against an already rolling stone, a long-awaited desire.

Submitter Statement: 

Director: Tristan Aramis Neuberger

Writer: Tristan Aramis Neuberger, Benjamin Typplt

Producer: Alica Eying

Key Cast: Karla Rörster, Franziska Beck

Country of Origin: Austria

Language: German

Subtitles:

Runtime: 00:26:24

Student’s Project: Yes

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Tristan Neuberger

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