Call for Entries – Arquiteturas Film Festival
- dinamia6
- Oct 9
- 2 min read
The 13th edition of the Arquiteturas Film Festival, themed “Urban Age”, turns its attention to the lived experience of urbanisation – from the material forms of architecture to the social and cultural dynamics that define contemporary cities.
This edition seeks films that explore the many dimensions of urban life: housing, infrastructure, public space, informality, environmental change, and social reproduction. The Arquiteturas Film Festival has interest in works that expose the contradictions of the city as a space of both opportunity and exclusion, solidarity and conflict, precarity and imagination.
The festival invites cinematic practices that highlight the embodied, emotional, and political dimensions of urbanisation – engaging with questions of race, class, gender, and ecology to rethink what it means to live together in the urban age.
Submissions are open to films of any kind – documentary, fiction, or experimental – and of any duration, short or feature-length. An interdisciplinary committee will curate the programme in collaboration with the festival’s organiser, INSTITUTO.
Films must be submitted via Film Freeway by 2 November 2025. Alongside film screenings, the festival will host talks, tours, and installations, creating opportunities for in-depth discussion around the themes and research behind the films.
The Arquiteturas Film Festival will take place from 1–4 July 2026 in Porto, Portugal. Organised by INSTITUTO and directed by architect Paulo Moreira, the festival was founded in 2013 and has since become a platform for debating and disseminating architecture in dialogue with the visual and spatial arts, critical thought, and interdisciplinary collaborations.
The Call for Entries is open until 2 November 2025, 23:59 GMT.
Submissions must include a secure online screener, a synopsis, one to three high-resolution stills, and brief production details (including the team, a short bio, and any relevant social media handles).
The Selection Committee of the 13th edition of the Arquiteturas Film Festival is composed of Andrea Pavoni, Joana Pestana Lages, Mira Samonig and Sofia Borges.
The Jury includes Gustavo Imigrante, João Queirós, Klearjos Eduardo Papanicolaou, Luís Tavares Pereira and Rute Nieto Ferreira.