🎬 OPEN CALL 2026
✨ WINNERS ✨

Acquisition Prize EDP/MAAT
FILME PIN, Maria Rojas Arias and Andrés Jurado, 2026

FILME PIN (2026), by Maria Rojas Arias and Andrés Jurado, creates an inventory of objects.
Using a collection of political “pins” (party and union insignias, etc.), which was found among a family
member´s belongings, the narrator provides us with loose elements, fragments of an individual, but also a collective life, of political and social engagement. That is the fragmented character of the work, not an imposition of a linear or closed interpretation; it is the character of sequences (introduced as unrehearsed), incorporating hesitations, doubts and mistakes, which gives this work its originality as an aesthetic discourse, while simultaneously reinforcing the documentary value it also possesses. (João Pinharanda)

Honourable Mention (EDP/ MAAT)
OUTROS, Bruno Gularte Barreto, 2024

OUTROS (2024), by Bruno Gularte Barreto, introduces us, in an apparently neutral way, to a series of portraits of the inhabitants of a small village where the author was born and grew up.  But these portraits are anything but neutral: first, we have the staging (poses, props, settings) for each of them; the projection then forces us to fixate on them during a time span pre-established by the author; and finally, we understand that the subjects are in a static pose, but that everything surrounding them (nature, animals, etc.) is moving. The superimposition of these three realities creates a strangeness that takes us back to the strangeness of the gaze of each of his compatriots, and of his collective and interior world. (João Pinharanda)

Duplacena Incentive Prize (Audience Choice Award)
SOLTA, Salomé Lamas, 2026

In the gap between solta — release, the unbound, the free — and the closed loop it names, migration is staged as instrumentalized return, and freedom as the most disciplined form of obedience. What looks like liberation is its opposite: homing birds bred so that flight serves only to return.