We welcome to the festival the many filmmakers, producers and actors, national and international, who will be present to introduce their screenings.

 

SPECIAL SCREENINGS

Guto Parente, filmmaker, Death and Life Madalena (Brazil)

 

FEATURE FILM COMPETITION

Sara Fantova, filmmaker, Jone, Sometimes (Spain)

 

DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION

Jérôme Clément-Wilz, filmmaker, This Is My Body (France)

Maarten de Schutter, filmmaker, My Sweet Child (The Netherlands)

 

SHORT FILM COMPETITION

Alba Cros, filmmaker, Born at Night (Spain)

Inês Oliveira, filmmaker, Neko (Portugal)

Giulia Cosentino, filmmaker, The First Times (Italy)

Lazare Lazarus, filmmaker, Ghosts of Hard, chapter 2 (France)

Luciana Merino, Pascal Viveros, filmmakers, Towards the Sun, Far from the Center (Chile)

 

IN MY SHORTS COMPETITION

Anaïs Kaboré, filmmaker, Touch Me with Your Eyes (Belgium)

Elsa Michaud, filmmaker, Metamorphosia (France)

Rezmorah, protagonist/cowriter, Deborah Viegas, editor, Rezbotanik (Brazil)

 

QUEER ART COMPETITION

Igor Mo, actor, Not Even God Is as Fair as Your Jeans (Brazil)

Maja Classen, filmmaker, Salalisa Volm, producer, Truth or Dare (Germany)

 

PANORAMA

Mauro Soares, actor, Latin Blood - The Ballad of Ney Matogrosso (Portugal)

 

QUEER FOCUS:  “Did You Say You Were Trans?”

Caio Amado Soares, invited programmer (Portugal)
Ian Kaler, filmmaker, The Growing Edge (Austria)

Paula Tomás Marques, filmmaker, When We Dead Awaken (Portugal)

Pol Merchan, filmmaker, The Light that Covers the Wounds (Spain)

Theo Jean Cuthand, filmmaker, Dreams of Sunlight through Trees (Canada)

 

GENDER PLAY

André Murraças, Flávio Gil, filmmakers, Heitor Fernando, actor/stage director, This Woman Is a Man (Portugal)

Sónia Baptista, Raquel Melgue, filmmakers, invited Kings, My Kingdom for a King (Portugal)

 

RETROSPECTIVE: Lionel Soukaz
Stéphane Gérard, filmmaker

 

The full list of guests can be found here.