HERITALES 2022

Heritales – International Heritage Film Festival 2018 – “Sustainable communities safeguarding natural and urban heritage”

The theme of this 5th edition is: “Sustainable communities safeguarding natural and urban heritage”. This year Heritales will explore sustainable communities as way to promote the natural and urban heritage, bringing together documentaries and other artistic works. Over the course of three months, more than 20 films will be available for viewing and voting on-line, and it will promote live sessions in various international spaces. The culmination of the festival is celebrated with an award ceremony in the last week of September. As part of the event, we are trying to organize a three-day residency for the directors of the selected works. During this period, workshops and debates will take place as well as films projections for the general public.

In this fifth edition, Heritales has partnered with the UNESCO Chair in Biodiversity Safeguard for Sustainable Development at the University of Coimbra (Portugal) and once again we are supported by the General-Directorate for Cultural Heritage Portugal (DGPC)

The award trophies will be produced by the student of the joint program of the Faculty of Science and Tecnology of the University Nova of Lisbon and The Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon.

HERITALES 2020

Heritales – International Heritage Film Festival 2020 – “Education, diversity and community”

The theme of this fourth edition is: “Education, diversity and community”. This year Heritales  will bring together films, documentaries and other artistic works. It will explore cultural diversity and education as ways to promote the sustainability of cultures and places, communities and ecosystems.. Over the course of three months, more than 20 films will be available for viewing and voting on-line, and it will promote live sessions in various international spaces. The culmination of the festival is celebrated with an award ceremony in Lisbon in the last week of September. As part of the event, a three-day residency will be organized for the directors of the selected works. During this period, workshops and debates will take place as well as films projections for the general public.

In this fourth edition, Heritales has partnered with the UNESCO Chair in Education, Citizenship and Cultural Diversity at the Lusófona University of Lisbon which will award the prizes made by the student of the joint program of the Faculty of Science and Tecnology of the University Nova of Lisbon and The Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon.

Finally Heritales has partnered once again with the General-Directorate for Cultural Heritage Portugal (DGPC), which has offered the site for the award ceremony.

HERITALES 2018-19

Heritales – International Heritage Film Festival 2018 – “Rites, gatherings and celebrations for sustainable cultures”

Heritales – International Heritage Film Festival is a cultural project that seeks to disseminate narratives of material and immaterial heritage. Of the many ways to achieve this, Heritales relies mainly on the seventh art of the cinema while also promoting other artistic forms such as photography, interactive media, games, theatre and performances.

The project encourages cultural sustainability by promoting a broad interpretation of what can be understood as cultural heritage, fostering new ways of education, international scientific collaboration, encouraging intercultural dialogue and outreach to an international audience.

In this third edition, Heritales focuses on the topic of “Rites, gatherings and celebrations for sustainable cultures”, inviting films, documentaries, animations and other artistic works that explore cultural celebrations and social gatherings as ways to promote sustainability of cultures and places, communities and environments.

Our aim is to promote the circulation of these works around the world, so in the European Year of Cultural Heritage, Heritales goes on tour, multiplying the sites where the festival will take place and finally “breaking the walls” of the city.

By embracing the practice of itinerant cinema, over the course of one year (from April 2018 to May 2019), we aim to show more than 25 films and documentaries in various international locations. The culmination of the festival will see a final gathering on the 6th of July 2019 in the fantastic setting of the Centro de Inovação da Mouraria / Mouraria Creative Hub in Lisbon. Then, we will celebrate the winners of the 2018/19 awards give by the Direção-Geral do Património Cultural (DGPC) with the trophies hancrafted by great students artists of the Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade de Lisboa (FBAUL).

HERITALES 2017

Heritales – International Heritage Film Festival 2017 – “Sustainable communities”

Heritales – International Heritage Film Festival seeks to disseminate narratives of a filmic and graphic nature related to material and immaterial cultural heritage. In this way, it focuses its role on a major area of ​​UNESCO, communication and information.

In this edition 2017, Heritales focuses its topic on sustainable communities, which is one of the 17 objectives of UNESCO’s 2030 agenda. Thus, of the many ways to disseminate culture, Heritales relies on the seventh art to recover the patrimonial value of the community, specifically in the viability of sustainable communities, whether current or historical.

It turns the cinema into a voice that spread the message of sustainability existing in different cultures, showing potential paths of development in line with the conservation of an environment. It considers that the film medium is unique in preserving culture, since it is one of the most direct ways of reproducing popular memory (in its various forms of oral, visual, practical or written transmission), maintaining forever a community knowledge through the illusion of the moving images.

The sessions comprise both the projection spaces and the film with its subsequent debate. This is intended to establish a cultural dialogue between two levels of communities: the one that is projected on the screens, and the audience that receives these messages. That exchange between the authors of the films and their receiving audience, increase a cultural knowledge that could change own perception and personal vision that will stay in forever. Finally, it is proposed to project sessions in other places with a potential heritage value, such as small neighborhood of Évora and the interior of Portugal.

HERITALES 2016

Heritales – International Heritage Film Festival 2016

Heritales Film Festival aims to disseminate filmic nature of narratives, digital and graphic that apply to the Cultural Heritage.The event will have as main mission the dissemination of heritage material and immaterial content, and simultaneously promoting the experience of heritage spaces, historical and cultural city of Évora in the South of Portugal.Among the forms of action proposes the image projection in public space, as well as within the cultural facilities of the city. Such measures, framed in community outreach strategy will be a stage of exchange and sharing.
The international character of the event will bring the historic centre of Évora the projection of the world in pictures, in the year when the city celebrates the 30th anniversary of classification as a World Cultural Heritage Site by UNESCO.

The ambience of the festival is enhanced by the spaces where it is celebrated. These are places that are not normally conceived to project films, but rather encounter areas that have traditionally served the community to socialize. From private historical spaces, such as churches or the association, to public spaces, such as the square or the courtyard of a convent. Places that for their architectural value today have become the material heritage of the city of Évora.