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Heritales promotes @ University of Évora – Portugal (13th-15th of May 2026)

Heritales at the University of Évora promotes The 3rd International Seminar of the BRIDGES Project, entitled ‘Invisible limitations? The inclusion of difference.

From May 13 to 15, the III international seminar organized by the BRIDGES project — «Cultural Bridge». Promoting cultural inclusion to achieve a more democratic society (PLANAPP-FCT, S4P25), based at CIDEHUS of the University of Évora, will take place in online and in-person formats.

This third BRIDGES seminar aims to study inclusion and ways to give visibility to possible avenues for promoting it through culture and the arts. Under the general title of “Invisible Limitations? Inclusion of Difference through Art, Culture and the Digital World,” special attention will be paid to forms of inclusion for intergenerational groups, the elderly, disadvantaged people, people with disabilities, and those with neurodivergences (ADHD, ASD). In line with the project’s interests, cross-cutting themes will again be addressed, primarily encompassing public cultural policies; initiatives to promote cultural and racial diversity; and intersectionality in gender equality, presenting these issues through the lens of the arts.

As in previous meetings, the BRIDGES project invites a wide range of experts from various fields, including research, psychology, medicine, cultural prescription, culture, and the arts, such as theatre and film. In this way, the aim is to address this multifaceted reality from a comprehensive international perspective, through diverse disciplinary representations. This project will address professional trajectories and their association with personal experiences, as well as institutional frameworks structured within organizations, and the various public and artistic expressions that aim to promote positive changes in these social fields. In this sense, and as an essential part of the BRIDGES project’s interests, artistic expressions will be explored as a way to give visibility to these issues and to seek more solutions to achieve true equality through the transformative power of culture.

Session online 14th: https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/meeting/register/TehXE-W1TaaRhugeaR-pHQ

Session online 15th: https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/meeting/register/TehXE-W1TaaRhugeaR-pHQ

More info an program in Portuguese here: https://bridges.hypotheses.org/6679

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Heritales promotes @ Casa Do Burgos Evora – Portugal (15th-18th of April 2026)

Heritales at the University of Évora promotes The 2nd International Seminar of the BRIDGES Project, entitled ‘I Have A Dream.

In the light of diversity: art, culture, public policy and the digital world’, will focus particularly on culture and diversity, as well as the ways in which the principles of equality are being undermined. The title refers directly to Martin Luther King’s vision of true equality, as expressed in his famous 1963 speech, ‘I Have a Dream’, which called for an end to racial discrimination, by choosing the words and wishes of union.

During the three-day event, international lecturers, researchers and artists will present their studies and results, demonstrating the importance of public policies in culture and the role of education and the arts in promoting diversity and fostering integration within communities. The research highlights the importance of combatting xenophobia and hate speech directed at migrants, refugees, the Romani-Gypsy community, and cultural minorities.

This second international seminar of the BRIDGES project aims to explore inclusion and highlight possible ways of promoting it through culture. The event will address the following themes: public cultural policies; educational initiatives to promote racial and cultural diversity; perspectives on racism and xenophobia; integration policies for refugees, immigrants, and the Roma community; combatting racism and hate speech; and artistic expressions as a means of raising awareness of these issues and achieving equality through the transformative power of culture.

Session online: Enter and immediate registration, here

More info an program in Portuguese here: https://bridges.hypotheses.org/4181

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Heritales promotes @ Bota Rasa Évora – Portugal (18th of March 2026)

Heritales at the Bota Rasa Sociede Uniao Eborense

LECTURE AND WORKSHOP*
Joana Negrão (A Cantadeira project)
“Some traditional songs sung by women: from work to pilgrimage”
In the context of the International Seminar “Women in Focus: from narrative to representation in language, art, heritage and the digital world” (March 17 and 18)

More info an program in Portuguese here: https://bridges.hypotheses.org/1909

  • Target Audience: General public, youth, adults, seniors, researchers, cultural programmers.
  • Day: 18th of March 2026
  • Duration: 120min
  • Time: 17.00
  • Location : Bota Rasa – Evora
  • Registration: free entry
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Heritales promotes @ University of Évora – Portugal (17th-18th of March 2026)

Heritales at the University of Évora promotes International Seminar Women in Focus: from narrative to the representation in the language, art, heritage and the digital world. 

The Ponte Cultural-BRIDGES project, in conjunction with GabIgual at the University of Évora, is promoting a seminar alluding to Women’s Month, entitled “Women in Focus: from narrative to representation in language, art, heritage, and the digital world.” It will take place on March 17th and 18th, in both in-person and online formats.

It begins on the afternoon of the 17th, at the Colégio do Espirito Santo (CES Anfit. 131). We will share with the academic community some of the activities carried out at the University of Évora in the context of gender equality. After a lecture on inclusive language for women, there will be a round table discussion with the participation of several university leaders, with a view to proposing more inclusive communication strategies that promote the visibility of women, in a proposal aligned with European regulations.

More info an program in Portuguese here: https://bridges.hypotheses.org/1909

  • Target Audience: General public, youth, adults, seniors, researchers, cultural programmers.
  • Day: 17th-18th of March 2026
  • Time: 14.00-19:00 
  • Location : Colegio Espirito Santo -Evora
  • Registration: free entry
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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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FCAT & Heritales @ Evora – Portugal (22nd-23rd of February 2019)

Training for cultural programmers and managers for the visibility of African cinema

African cinematographies are still the most unknown in the world, despite the fact that more and more awards and prizes are awarded in the main film festivals of the world (from Berlin to Venice, passing through Cannes), being applauded not only by the public but also by the directors and programmers of festivals. This ignorance is even more difficult to understand in societies that seem to have forgotten the historical relationships and links with African cultures: if on one hand the culture and traditions of Andalusia and the Algarve owe so much to their historical relations with the Maghreb, on the other hand, we must not forget that Alentejo, Algarve and all of Portugal have been enriched culturally and economically by the former Portuguese-speaking African colonies. The project “TRAINING OF CULTURAL PROGRAMMERS AND MANAGERS FOR THE VISIBILITY OF THE CINEMAS OF AFRICA: CROSS-BORDER COOPERATION BETWEEN THE EUROREGION CINEMATOGRAPHIC FESTIVALS AAA” aims to create stable links of collaboration between cultural entities of the AAA Euroregion in the cinematographic field to promote dialogue and cross-border cooperation. For this purpose, a joint work is proposed on the promotion in the cinematographic contests of the AAA Euroregion of the African cinematographic films and their diaspora. The work will be carried out in a training process aimed at programmers, managers and directors of film festivals in the Algarve, Alentejo and Andalusia, which foresees meetings (a preliminary one in Évora on February 22 and 23 and the final in Tarifa on the 29th of April to May 1), film viewings (on-line delivery from November to February, on-site in Tarifa), study of the history of African cinematography (on-line submission from November to February), meetings with experts and filmmakers Africans (in Évora and Tarifa). The project is organized by the association Al Tarab, creator of the annual African Film Festival of Tarifa and Tangier. Several directors and programmers of festivals of the AAA Euroregion are involved in the project: Paula Duque, director of the Marvão International Film Festival – PERIPERIAS (Alentejo), María Zozaya Montes, director of the International Festival of Cinema on Patrimony – HERITALES (Alentejo) , Carla Magro Dias, director of the International Festival of Curtas-metragens of Evora – FIKE (Alentejo), Marina Lanza, programmer of the International Film Festival of Lagoa – ALGARES (Algarve), José Ramón Martínez, co-director of the International Short Film Festival and Alternative Cinema of Benalmádena – FICCAB (Andalusia), David Sánchez, programmer of the International Short Film Festival in San Roque – FICSAN (Andalusia), Ana Isapel Pozo, programmer of the Festival Corto Genial of Puente Genil (Andalusia).

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Program (Spanish)

Gaetano Gualdo

Degree in Hispanic and Anglophone Literature from the University of Verona (Italy) and Master in Audiovisual Translation from the University of Cádiz (Spain). Member of the organization of the African Film Festival-FCAT since 2006, he has worked as coordinator of the Festival’s parallel activities. He has also been an event promoter and cultural projects within and outside the Spanish geography (Morocco, Mozambique, Equatorial Guinea, Paraguay, etc.). He has worked in the organization of different international festivals in Argentina and Chile.

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Mane Cisneros Manrique

She holds a PhD in Ethnology from the EHESS (École en Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales), Paris. Degree in Geography and History from the Complutense University of Madrid. Master’s Degree in Cultural Anthropology from the National Itztapalapa University of Mexico City. She is president of Al Tarab and founder and director of the African Film Festival of Córdoba-FCAT. He has been a juror at numerous international and African film festivals around the world, member of the ICAA cinematographic aid commission and is a Knight of Arts and Letters of the French Republic.

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Marion Berger

Graduate in Art History and Film, Marion has worked in the programming department of the Spanish Film Library before joining the FCAT programmer in 2007, a position that has led her to specialize in African theaters. He collaborates punctually with specialized magazines and has coordinated and drafted part of the African Notebooks of Casa África. She has also given different conferences about African cinemas in festivals and universities (University of Seville, University of Brasilia, Political Film Festival of Buenos Aires, Spanish Cultural Center of Lima, Zinebi, etc.).

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Federico Olivieri

Bachelor of Journalism (US), MA in Global Media and Post-National Communication (SOAS, University of London) and PhD in the Pablo de Olavide University (Seville). Member of the organization of the African Film Festival-FCAT since its foundation and promoter of cultural and academic projects between Europe and Africa. In recent years he has coordinated different training activities for the promotion of African film criticism: Talent Press at the Durban International Film Festival – South Africa; first edition of the Course-Workshop of film criticism in the FCAT; and the first film critic workshop of Cultura Dakar – Senegal.

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HERITALES @ Casa da América Latina – Lisbon (1st -2nd of October 2018)

Cultural Heritage, Interfaces and new Media – Worshops with Marina Thomé and Marcia Mansur

Digital platforms are transforming the way photographers, documentarists and journalists create and express audiovisual narratives. Every day, about 1.8 billion digital images are published on the web. The web environment and contemporary media enable meetings of different perspectives, participatory narratives and new formats of storytelling through different interfaces, mobile solutions, immersive experiences in virtual real age, web documentaries and mapped audiovisual projections.

The program immerses in concepts and cases that use multi-platform narratives as support for documentary content, discusses production steps and questions how interactivity transforms distribution possibilities, social impact and engagement.The activity will discuss the relationship creative use of the documentary process and the promotion of dialogue on cultural diversity, memory and territory; and how to combine photography, video and audio in transmedia projects to promote cultural goods. Topics include: immaterial cultural heritage and safeguards, participatory narratives and cartography, interactive documentary production, and collaborative content platforms.

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  • Target Audience: General public, youth, adults, seniors
  • Day: Monday – Tuesday, 1st – 2nd of October
  • Time: 18:00
  • Duration: 240 min
  • Language: Portuguese/English
  • Location: Casa da América Latina
  • Presence of the director: Yes
  • Registration: This activity  requires booking. The limit of participants is 20.
  • Extra Activities: Lecture + film on the 3d of October

Marcia Mansur

Marcia  is a producer and documentary filmmaker and has collaborated with institutions such as “Video in the Villages”, aimed at supporting indigenous people through audiovisual and “UnionDocs”, the Brooklyn Center for Documentary Arts. Her short films have been screened in festivals such as Contro-Sguardi International Festival of Anthropological Cinema (Italy, 2010), and awarded Honorable Mention in Festivals such as Filme Etnografico do Recife (Brazil, 2010).

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Marina Thomé

Marina Thomé is a documentary filmmaker and photographer. She holds a master´s degree in Creative Documentary (UAB – Barcelona, Spain). Marina is the co-author and director of photography for the documentary “La Ciudad Tipográfica”, shot in Barcelona and presented in international film festivals such as Tirana International Film Festival in Albania, and co-directed the first Spanish interactive web documentary “SEAT: Shadows of the Progress”.

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HERITALES @ Casa da América Latina – Lisbon (3d of October 2018)

The Sound of Bells + Lecture

Honorable Mention Heritales – Short Documentary 2017

In Minas Gerais, Brazil, bell sounds set the pace of life of the residents of the historic cities, announcing time for work, rest, pray, and celebrate. Over 40 different bell rings are known in the region, and were nominated as Brazilian Intangible Cultural Heritage. The bell ringers, characters from the top of the towers, are known to have transformed bell rings over the centuries from their colonial origins and have mixed them with the strong African heritage in Brazil. The documentary is a poetic representation of religious experience in everyday life. The feature film The Sound of Bells is part of an expanded documentary project, which is pioneering the use of new media for the dissemination of the intangible heritage. Digital technology can support increased appreciation of cultural heritage, strengthen dialogue and understanding among cultures. How do younger generations react, interact or create new ways to express their cultural heritage? The project works with the combination of memory and new technologies, sound mapping and community engagement through a transmedia production that includes an online multimedia platform with sound cartography and innovative content, an interactive documentary, audiovisual public interventions on churches facades and an award-winning audio guide app for mobile devices.

Category: Documentary – Duration: 70′ – Spoken Language: Portuguese – Subtitle Available: English – Spanish – Production Date: 16-07-2016 – Producer/Production Entity: Estúdio CRUA

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  • Target Audience: General public, youth, adults, seniors
  • Day: Wednesday, 3d of October
  • Time: 18:30
  • Duration: 120 min
  • Location: Casa da América Latina
  • Presence of the director: Yes
  • Registration: This activity  does not requires booking. But the limit of participants is 100.
  • Extra Activities: Lecture before the projection

Marcia Mansur

Marcia  is a producer and documentary filmmaker and has collaborated with institutions such as “Video in the Villages”, aimed at supporting indigenous people through audiovisual and “UnionDocs”, the Brooklyn Center for Documentary Arts. Her short films have been screened in festivals such as Contro-Sguardi International Festival of Anthropological Cinema (Italy, 2010), and awarded Honorable Mention in Festivals such as Filme Etnografico do Recife (Brazil, 2010).

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Marina Thomé

Marina Thomé is a documentary filmmaker and photographer. She holds a master´s degree in Creative Documentary (UAB – Barcelona, Spain). Marina is the co-author and director of photography for the documentary “La Ciudad Tipográfica”, shot in Barcelona and presented in international film festivals such as Tirana International Film Festival in Albania, and co-directed the first Spanish interactive web documentary “SEAT: Shadows of the Progress”.

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