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2026 competition awards Vicente Pinto Abreu Grand Prix: €3,000 for the International Competition winner. Human Rights in Motion Award: €5,000 for a film addressing human rights, freedom and democracy. SPAutores – Cinema Falado Award: €1,500 for the Cinema Falado winner. International Medium-Length and Short Film Competition Award: €1,000. Transmission Award: €1,000, chosen by the audience from the competing Transmission films. Cinema Novo Canal180 Award: €500 for the Cinema Novo winner. MAD Sound Studios Award: a Cinema Novo filmmaker receives a discount on sound editing and mixing for their next film. Youth Jury Award: the student jury selects a film from across the programme. Juries may also award special mentions. 2026 Porto Industry Days awards Industry Screenings: MAD Sound Studios offers a sound-editing and mixing discount; Sound Force Studio offers music composition services or studio hours for music production. Co-Production Meetings: DAE provides project-development consultancy; School of Arts — UCP awards €1,500; FIDMarseille | FIDLab offers the producer participation at FIDLab 2027, tailored professional meetings and accommodation; Jacob Burns Film Center offers a two-to-four-week residency, accommodation, editing-suite access and a weekly stipend; New Futures — Repensar offers three tailored consultancy sessions; Sound Force Studio offers a sound-design and mixing discount. Arché Porto: Eurodoc provides tailored project consultancy; MAD Sound Studios offers a sound-editing and mixing discount; Sound Force Studio offers a sound-design and mixing discount, awarded by the jury. Working Class Heroes: a €75,000 production grant, supported by Filmaporto — Porto Film Commission and the “la Caixa” Foundation through CaixaForum+.

2026 edition — 19–28 November, Porto, Portugal. Selection and eligibility: Films must be completed after 1 January 2025. Competitive sections favour world premieres, followed by international and European premieres. Non-competitive screenings require a Portuguese premiere. Earlier Portuguese screenings, national television broadcasts or VOD availability accessible from Portugal make a film ineligible unless the festival expressly authorises an exception. Non-English films need English subtitles. Competitions: International Competition accepts features of 60 minutes or more; International Medium-Length & Short Film Competition accepts medium-length works of 31–60 minutes and shorts up to 30 minutes. Cinema Falado covers productions or co-productions from Portuguese-speaking countries and films concerning Lusophone cultures. Cinema Novo covers Portuguese film-school works and Portuguese students studying abroad. Transmission concerns music, sound and their cultural or social connections. The Youth Jury, made up of higher-education students from Porto and Greater Porto, chooses from a six-film programme drawn across the festival. Non-competitive programmes include School Trip for school audiences; Docs4Teens, a teenage-documentary partnership with Krakow Film Festival, Festival dei Popoli, FIPADOC and Docudays UA; 360-degree Immersive Dome Cinema at Porto Planetarium; filmmaker retrospectives and thematic focuses; and special screenings, galas and previews. School Trip accepts animation, fiction and documentary, in short and feature formats; the planetarium call is for fulldome films. Submission: Apply through FilmFreeway. The 2026 deadlines are 31 January (early), 30 April (regular) and 31 July (extended). The platform lists notification on 19 October 2026. 2026 fees, in early/regular/extended order: International Competition €20/€30/€40 (FilmFreeway Gold €18/€27/€36). International Medium-Length & Short Film Competition, Cinema Falado, Transmission, Docs4Teens, School Trip and Full Dome Planetarium each charge €10/€15/€20 (Gold €9/€13.50/€18). Cinema Novo is free at all three deadlines. Screenings and withdrawal: A selected film may receive up to three screenings, including public, jury and industry screenings. Further screenings require prior rights-holder permission. Withdrawal requests require communication and approval before 19 October 2026; confirmed films cannot be withdrawn after that date. Delivery: Screening copies must be DCP, with English subtitles embedded or supplied separately. By 19 October 2026, selected films must supply a high-resolution trailer, stills and promotional materials, two or three uncaptioned promotional clips, a downloadable film for internal and press use, a completed entry form and a dialogue list with timecodes. The festival may use excerpts totalling up to three minutes for promotion. Awards: Cash awards and other benefits are listed in the awards section. Juries may also give special mentions. The festival supplies selection and award laurels and encourages their use in promotional material. Rights and hospitality: If rights change hands after selection, the original rights holder must communicate the festival terms to the successor. Directors receive accommodation for the days on which they attend their film screenings; participants generally pay their own travel. Final terms: Submission constitutes acceptance of the regulations. The festival may amend the rules without advance notice. Submission enquiries: opencall@portopostdoc.com.