27/12/2025
The 10th Short Film Ceremony of Fânzeres and São Pedro da Cova took place last 5 th of December, with around 90 short films competing at the national level.
Associação Social de Silveirinhos received the "Local Shorts" award for a work entitled "The Land That Breathed Men" produced as part of the project, co-financed by Erasmus Plus.
It is an animated documentary, using mixed media techniques, with storytelling, stop-motion, interviews with living mine workers, animated forms (puppets and others), etc. The entire process involved young community animators, volunteers, and people with disabilities and/or mental illness.
The 10th National Short Film Competition was launched in the Union of Parishes of Fânzeres and São Pedro da Cova.
“It is with pride that we present the 10th short film competition. 10 years is a remarkable milestone and therefore we will try to surpass previous years. Our focus should be on promoting the competition so that it is more widely known and attracts more people. We want to target young university students, young promising talents in Portuguese cinema; we will do everything in our power, which is also very important to us,” said the president of the Union of Parishes of Fânzeres and São Pedro da Cova, Sofia Martins.
This year's poster features James Dean, "symbolizing the 70th anniversary of his death. That year, three of his films were nominated for an Oscar, and he was nominated for Best Actor. He didn't win, but he left a legacy of films, and we wanted to pay him this tribute," says the head of the organization, Pedro Barbosa.
