Promoted by the University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies, the American Corner and the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon, the 1st Film Festival of the School of Arts and Humanities aims to promote the creation and exhibition of films at university level, encouraging students to make their own films, fostering imagination and reflection on the moving image and on the various themes explored by it.
The theme for the first edition is “Cinema and Humanity”, thus allowing those interested to submit films on the particular relationship between cinema and the idea of humanity, while also encouraging the debate on the disciplinary and thematic links on this relationship.
The festival has a single competition section and comprises a prize for Best Film and two honorable mentions. Those selected to exhibit their films will also be given the opportunity of attending a workshop taught by a Portuguese director.