Grand Jury Prize

The Memory of Butterflies
2025, Peru, Portugal, 77'

Message from the jury:

A powerful and evocative cinematic experience that skilfully combines historical archive with personal narrative. Its strength lies in its compelling structure, the richness of its archival and reenacted material, and its carefully composed editing and sound design. A special mention should be made to the gesture of restitution of the archival image to the indigenous community and the ritualistic way it is repossessed.

Best Feature Film Award

Partition
2025, Canada, 61'

Message from the jury:

The film creates a temporal tunnel that unites past and present, rescuing historical memories and images that have never really been lost – they have just changed their location. It directs the gaze of the viewer from the colonised to the coloniser. Here, the alien is you.

Best Short Film Award

Listen to the shadow
2025, Spain, 30'

Message from the jury:

An extraordinary, thorough, and extensive archival research forms the basis of this short film, highlighting the international solidarity that occurred almost 100 years ago, in a context similar to the one we live in today. It opposes the current tendency to rewrite history and erase episodes of resistance, including the importance of the participation of women in the struggle against fascism.

Memory and Archive Honorable Mention

The Insides of our Lives
2024, Netherlands, 50'

Message from the jury:

The decision to weave together anonymous fragments into a seemingly singular life story is both bold and effective, creating a universal yet deeply intimate portrait. The film’s themes are urgent and timely, reflecting on identity, separation, and belonging in a divided Europe.

Lives and Places Honorable Mention

Radiance
2023, Japan, 18'

Message from the jury:

What begins as an apparently aimless collection of daily footage gradually evolves, through intense editing, into a heartfelt cinematic letter – an ode to stillness and observation. The interplay between the daughter’s presence and the imagery of plants offers a delicate metaphor for growth, resilience, and the cycles of life.

Fiction Honorable Mention

Run River!
2025, Russian Federation, 12'

Message from the jury:

The narrative balances moments of tension and tenderness. Visually, the film is carefully composed, with well-crafted frames reflecting the internal conflict of the protagonist. The subjective shots recreate an interesting fairy tale ambience. A very promising first film.

Jury 2025

Fátima Vieira

Fátima Vieira is Vice-Rector of the University of Porto (Culture, Museums, and U.Porto Press).
A Full Professor at the Faculty of Arts, where she has been teaching since 1986, Fátima Vieira was a member of the General Council of the University of Porto from 2012 to 2014 and has served on various scientific councils and committees since earning her PhD in 1998. She was Director of the Department of Anglo-American Studies from 2008 to 2010 and President of the Utopian Studies Society / Europe from 2006 to 2016.

Raquel Schefer

Raquel Schefer is a researcher, filmmaker, programmer, and Associate Professor in the Department of Cinema and Audiovisual at Sorbonne Nouvelle University. She holds a PhD in Film and Audiovisual Studies from Sorbonne Nouvelle, with a dissertation on the history and aesthetics of revolutionary cinema in Mozambique. She also holds a Master’s degree in Documentary Film from the Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires and a Bachelor’s degree in Communication Sciences from NOVA University Lisbon.

Paula Miranda

Paula Miranda studied Fine Arts, and during her studies she discovered that films don’t edit themselves—and that editing is a profession. She has been working as a film and audiovisual editor since 2001, first in advertising and later in cinema, documentary, and any other format that sparks her interest. She is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Women’s Studies at NOVA FCSH, with a particular focus on the role and representation of women in film and audiovisual media. She is also the founder of the association MUTIM, where she has served as president since 2022.

2025

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  • Vector68Grand Jury Prize
  • Vector68Best Feature Film Award
  • Vector68Best Short Film Award