Heritales – International Heritage Film Festival 2022 –
"Sustainable communities safeguarding natural and urban heritage"
The Heritales project aims to disseminate material and immaterial heritage using narratives of an artistic and playful nature. It is based on photography, games, theater, performances or interactive media, and mainly on the seventh art through documentaries, animated films and short films. It considers that the promotion of the different cultures of the world should be shared forever through these supports. On the one hand, it aims to encourage sustainability linked to communities and promote a reinterpretation of what can be valued as cultural heritage, emphasizing the importance of education to transmit it. On the other hand, it wants to encourage new ways of transferring knowledge, encouraging intercultural dialogue and giving way to international scientific collaboration through partnerships.
In this 5th edition, the Heritales festival will bring together films, documentaries and other artistic works. It will explores cultural diversity and 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 also promoting 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, 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 fifth edition, Heritales has partnered the UNESCO Chair in Biodiversity Safeguard for Sustainable Development at the University of Coimbra (Portugal). We are supported once again by the General-Directorate for Cultural Heritage Portugal (DGPC).
We invite to participate in this selection phase. Share your experiences with us and with filmmakers from around the world. You can follow our activities on Twitter, Facebook and on our website heritales.org
Prices will be awarded by the UNESCO Chair in Biodiversity Safeguard for Sustainable Development at the University of Coimbra and the General-Directorate for Cultural Heritage Portugal (DGPC). All the trophy will be the work 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. Thse will be given to the best short, best medium and best long documentary as well as best animation, best story, best cinematography and best documentary by popular vote.