Scoil Ide – Limerick (Ireland)


Heritales Awards – Almada- Portugal (5th, 6th,7th of June 2025)

Awards Ceremony & Films Screening 2025

Heritales celebrates the awards ceremony of the 2024 competition. We would like to invite all our fans for a night of films about The Role Peace for Sustainable Communities. The event will take place at the in various location in the municipality of Almada Portugal  (please see below)

This year we are going to explore amazing work from all over the world that showes “leaving in pece and also the effect of conflict and war on sustainable communities, inline with the UNESCO Chair of Education for Global Peace and Sustainability

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PROGRAM Soon Available!

  • Target Audience: Researchers, heritage passionate and general public.
  • Day: 5th, 6th, 7th of June 2025
  • Duration: Various
  • Location and time:
  • 5th of June at 18 : Centro Cultural Fernades Mendes Pinto
  • 6th of June at 17:  FCT-Nova Library Monte da Caprica 
  • 7th of June at 18: Location to be confirmed
  • Presence of the director: Yes
  • Registration: Please send us an email with the name and surname of all the partecipants at: info@heritales.org
  • Extra Activities: Presentation and debate with all the members, partners and directors of the 2024 edition.

 


Heritales @ Scoil Ide Limerick – Ireland (4th of June 2025)

Animation Showcse Scoil Ide

We invite you to come and join us in the halla in Scoil Ide for a fantastic evening of animation, as we showcase the works of local and international animators.

Our own past pupils, Mikey Mahon and Fiadh Browne, will return for the screening of some of their animations, and stay for a chat about their craft and projects.

As well as this, a wonderful collection of movies from the Heritales International Heritage Film Festival have been selected for screening..

Download Event Poster 1: Here

Download Event Poster 2: Here

Screened films:

  • Target Audience: General public, adults, seniors, family, children
  • Day: 4th  of June 2025
  • Time: 19.00
  • Duration: 45-60min
  • Location: Scoil Ide, Corbally, Limerick (halla)
  • Presence of the director: Yes (local animators will be present)
  • Registration: coconnor@scoilide.ie to book a place
  • Extra Activities: Q and A with animators.

 


Heritales @ Auditorio Costa de Caparica – Portugal (18th of May 2025)

Cinema Gandaia

Amazing  date at The Auditorium in Costa de Caparica, in one of the most beautiful area of the South Bay of Lisbon (Portugal) in collaboration with the Association Gandaia present on this territory since long time.
First we will present a short out of competition documentary about local life in Costa de Caparica by Do and the TWOLINES Family.
After we will present the stunning documentary by Mana Garcia, The Songs of TIme, the “Echoes of an ancestral chant resonate deep in the jungle of Misiones, Argentina. They are the voices of the Mbya Guaraní people who preserve their musical legacy through the songs of their children”.

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Screened films:

  • Target Audience: General public, families, children, adults, seniors,
  • Day: 18th  of May 2025
  • Time: 18.00
  • Duration: 90min
  • Location: Auditório Costa da Caparica
  • Presence of the director: yes from Twolines
  • Registration: No registration required but limited space available
  • Extra Activities: Presentation and debate with Nicola Schiavottiello (co-director Heritales).

 


Heritales @ Library of Universidade FCT-Nova Caparica (7th of May 2025)

Heritage Exhibition & Cinema at The Library FCT-Nova

An evening of great art, music, traditions and cinema at the FCT-Nova Library in Caparica – Almada (Portugal)

The Organizing Committee of the Heritales – International Heritage Film Festival, in partnership with the Library of the Faculty of Science and Technology of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Caparica Campus, curated by Professor José J. G. Moura (FCT-NOVA), have the honor to extend this invitation to:

The inauguration of the exhibition of trophies created by students of the Master’s Degree in Science and Art of Glass and Ceramics VICARTE (Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon). The event will take place on May 7, 2025 at 5 pm, at the Library of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Caparica Campus, 2829-516 Caparica. The exhibition is curated by Professor Helena Elias (FBAUL-VICARTE), Professor Marta Castelo (FBAUL-VICARTE) and Professor Fernando Quintas (FBAUL-VICARTE).
At each edition, the Heritales festival holds a trophy exhibition. These artistic pieces, by Vera Andrade, Miranda Winter, Kasia Lendzion and Igor Minin, will be presented, as prizes, at the final ceremony of the Heritales – International Heritage Film Festival.

This event takes place one month after the opening of the exhibition, on June 6, 2025 at 6 pm. They come up with a variety of creative solutions for designing the different award categories. It shows different possibilities of using textures with the materials used, predominantly glass and ceramics. Trophies respect the care of heritage in a broad sense. They share an attachment to a sustainable world, revealing respect for community life, with empathetic and ecological values ​​aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals. In this sense, the opening of the exhibition will feature an interactive dialogue between the exhibition itself and the artistic mediation of the authors of the pieces, when we will have a unique moment of dialogue between the materiality of the pieces, the mental universe of the artists, and the interpretations of the visiting public.

The sample includes all the awards awarded for the current 2024-2025 edition, dedicated to the “Role of peace in sustainable communities”, and this edition of the Heritales festival is supported by the UNESCO Chair in Education for Sustainable Global Peace at the University of Lisbon. Several sculptures from the prizes awarded for the 2022 festival will also be on display, given that the special circumstances of the SARs-Covid confinement period did not allow some of the trophies to reach their respective award-winning authors.

Awards 2024-25: https://www.heritales.org/wp/awards-2024/

Artists and trophies: 2024-25: https://www.heritales.org/wp/awards-2024/

Awards 2022: https://www.heritales.org/wp/awards-2022/

Artists and trophies: 2022: https://www.heritales.org/wp/trophies-artists-2022/

Awards 2020: https://www.heritales.org/wp/awards/

Artists and trophies: https://www.heritales.org/wp/trophies-artists2020/

Prémios 2018-19: https://www.heritales.org/wp/award2018-19/

Artists and trophies: 2018-19: https://www.heritales.org/wp/artists2018-19/

More info here: https://www.biblioteca.fct.unl.pt/

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Screened Films:

From Seven To Seventy, Irako, Unite for Bissau: Nô Kumpu Guiné.

  • Target Audience: This event is dedicated to the University community and also open to the general public.
  • Day: 7th of May 2025
  • Time: 17.00
  • Duration: 120 min + debate
  • Location: FCT-Nova Library Monte da Caprica
  • Registration: No registration and fees required
  • Presence of the director: some
  • Extra Activities: Presentation by Maria Zozaya and Nicola Schiavottiello (Co-directors Heritales)

Heritales @ Revision (14th-18th of April 2025)

Heritales at Revision Film Week – The Land Remembers Story of Resistance and Community

An amazing week of  cinema of resistance the the heart of London!

Revision presents a week of of films at Bay57. Heritales – International Heritage Film Festival will be presents with a program of several film sessions on tangible and intangible heritage,   “Five powerful evenings of films exploring community, land, memory, and resistance from across the globe – from Notting Hill to South Africa, the Caribbean to Palestine.”

More info and program here: https://www.instagram.com/p/DIOOuw1NieS/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

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Download program and location image here

Screened Films:

15th of April: 70% the movie

17th of April: Madulu the Sea ManRaizalThe Jamaican Connection, Humanity

  • Target Audience: This event adult, youngs, researchers and activits.
  • Days: 14th -18th of April 2025
  • Time: see program
  • Duration: 120 min + debate
  • Location: Bay57, Acklam Road, W10
  • Registration: No registration and fees required
  • Presence of the director: some
  • Extra Activities: Debates and presence of Nicola Schiavottiello (Co-directors Heritales)

Heritales @ Library of Universidade FCT-Nova Caparica (10th of April / 7th of May 2025)

Heritage Cinema at The Library FCT-Nova

An evening of great art and traditions trough cinema at the FCT-Nova Library in Caparica – Almada (Portugal)

Heritales – International Heritage Film Festival presents a program of several film sessions on tangible and intangible heritage, where the landscape, communities and architecture of various places around the world are revealed as scenarios of social unity, of community ties that create relationships of stability and solidarity. These are manifested through the transmission of traditional knowledge, techniques and rites, community support in the face of problems and threats to communities and which allow for the construction of relationships with the natural environment that are sustainable in the long term. Unfortunately, these forms of heritage are often questioned by the context of current globalization, which does not coincide well with the rhythms of a world that is no longer balanced and is forgetting the foundations of its pre-industrial past, which promotes sustainable ways of life with its immediate surroundings.

More info here: https://www.biblioteca.fct.unl.pt/

Download  event poster here

Screened Films:

10th of April: Taste of the sun, Yaren, Do Dola, Only the devil remembers, Dangling in Space, The Little Church That Could.

7th of May: From Seven To Seventy, Irako, Unite for Bissau: Nô Kumpu Guiné.

  • Target Audience: This event is dedicated to the University community and also open to the general public.
  • Days: 10th of April and 7th of May 2025
  • Time: 18.00
  • Duration: 120 min + debate
  • Location: FCT-Nova Library Monte da Caprica
  • Registration: No registration and fees required
  • Presence of the director: some
  • Extra Activities: Presentation by Maria Zozaya and Nicola Schiavottiello (Co-directors Heritales)

Heritales @ Faculdade de Belas-Artes da Universidade de lisboa (22th of January 2025)

Heritage Cinema at Acdemy of Fine Arts

An evening of great art and traditions trough cinema at the Faculdade de Belas-Artes da Universidade de Lisboa.

Three amazing documentaries from different sides of the world: the first is  DEQ from Turkish director Furkan Aydın. A short story about DEQ  traditional skin design, The second one, Namarali,  from  Australian director Tim Mummery who tells the story of artist Yorna Woolagoodja and his traditional ancestral culture, and the last one with director Salem Bilal who with is work Summer Pack tells the story of Marrocan characters and their choice to leave in isolation, but immerse in a rich culture environment.

More info here: faculdade de belas-artes da universidade de lisboa » heritales — international heritage film festival

Download  poster event here

Screened Films:

DEQ

Namarali

Summer Pack

  • Target Audience: This event is dedicated to the University community and also open to the general public.
  • Day: 22th of January 2025
  • Time: 18.00
  • Duration: 120 min + debate
  • Location: Academy of Fine Arte Lisbon
  • Registration: No registration and fees required
  • Presence of the director: online
  • Extra Activities: Presentation by Nicola Schiavottiello (Co-director Heritales)

Heritales @ Universidad Autónoma de Madrid | UAM (28th of Novemberr 2024)

Heritage Cinema at the University

A morning of moving images, culture and traditions of the world.

Two amazing films from opposite sides of the globe. The first tells the story of a popular Catholic fest in the neighborhoods of Ribeirão Preto (Brazil). It is an impressive collection of stories, childhood memories, and mysteries from a community that made devotion its way of life through music and parades.  From director Carlos Moro, we revive the abundance of food showing local traditions and customs. The second one is an amazing portrait of a Japanese-Ethiopian community of more than 700  people living in Tokyo. Through the lens of director Itsushi Kawase 川瀬 慈, we are projected to the cultural diversity of Japan with music and religion cerimonies.

Screened Films:

Wanderings of Faith

Living in Connection – Ethiopians in Tokyo


Heritales @ Teatro do Recreio Desportivo da Trafaria (Casino) (27th of October 2024)

Cinemanimado

We invite you  to come and join us at the Recreios Desportivos da Trafaria with a fantastic animated afternoon from selected works of the 2024 festival competition. Come celebrate with us an afternoon of independent animation shorts from cultures and traditions of the world.

A great selection of films of the current competition which comprehend 60 films this year.

Please join us on  this magic Sunday in one of the most beautiful setting in South of  Lisbon. The old Casino of Trafaria, on the Tagus River will host this event and it will welcome you in its beautiful renewed premise.

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Screened Films:

Lotus

Made Of Plastic

Miss Biu

Mothership

Nubecita

Once More To See you

Proteggt

Saber Cair É Uma Ciencia

The Creation Of The World

To Find You

When It Comes From Earth

 

  • Target Audience: General public, adults, seniors, family, children.
  • Day: 27th  of  November 2024
  • Time: 15.00
  • Duration: 50 min
  • Location: Teatro do Recreio Desportivo da Trafaria (Portugal)
  • Registration: Not required but come early to reserve your place.
  • Presence of the director: Yes
  • Extra Activities: Presentation by Nicola Schiavottiello (Co-director Heritales)