Heritales – International Heritage Film Festival 2024 –
"The role of peace for sustainable communities"

The Heritales project aims to disseminate material and immaterial heritage using narratives of an artistic and playful nature. It is based on photography, games, theatre, performances, or interactive media, mainly on the seventh art through documentaries, animated films, and short films. It considers that the promotion of the world's different cultures 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 6th edition, the Heritales Festival will bring together films, documentaries, and other artistic works. It will explore once again cultural diversity and promote the sustainability of cultures and places, communities, and ecosystems. Over three months, more than 20 films will be available for viewing and voting online, 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, we will try to organize a three-day residency for the directors of the selected works. During this period, workshops and debates will take place, and film projections for the general public.

In this sixth edition, Heritales would like to consolidate a partnership with the UNESCO Chair of Education for Global Peace and Sustainability at the University of Lisbon (Portugal). We will be supported by MUSEUS E MONUMENTOS DE PORTUGAL, E.P.E

We invite you 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 of Education for
Global Peace and Sustainability at the University of Lisbon (Portugal) and the MUSEUS E MONUMENTOS DE PORTUGAL, E.P.E. All the trophies will be made with the work of the joint program of the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University Nova of Lisbon and The Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon. These will be given to the best short, best medium, and best long documentary as well as the best story, best cinematography, and best animation.

We invite filmmakers and researchers from all over the world to submit their films on the highlighted topic of "The role of peace for sustainable communities" and to share with the audience your interdisciplinary work.
Free entry for students with institution email, please contact us with your institution emails (which will need to match the one of the FilmFreeway account) and ask for a free passcode

Like in previous years, Heritales will accept authors of different backgrounds, working in historical, archaeological, anthropological, and social studies of past present, and future cultures, sites, and objects.

There will be 4 main entry categories: shorts (up to 20 min duration), medium (from 20 min to 40 min. duration), long (from 40 min duration to 80 min. duration), and animation (up to 40 min duration). In the animation category, it is not required to submit work on the current subtopic of "The role of peace for sustainable communities" but we will consider any topic regarding cultural heritage and sustainable communities.

Authors are required to submit their films before the 15th of May 2024. The selected films will be shown starting from the 15th of June until the ceremony awards at the end of September 2024.

We will contact the winners to confirm his/her participation in the ceremony in the middle of August 2024.

All selected films will be screened online and at physical events in different countries. The submitters will need to create a free Vimeo account, upload their film and share it publicly between the 15th of June and the 31st of September.
We will create the 2024 collection of the 2024 competition on our Vimeo account and embed the film on our platform for the people to vote.
The free Vimeo account will be enough for the video work to be screened online, however, we recommended having a professional account to rely on more bandwidth.

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  • Miguelangel Tisera

    Excelent festival! Really a important event

    December 2024
  • tehila lapidot

    Thank you for screening my short film at the festival. It is an honor to share my work with your audience.

    December 2024
  • Richard Oliver

    Allahu Akbar 🙏 God is so good. This would be my 1st award win from Portugal. I worked so hard on this film to the brink of exhaustion. Because of its historic, sensitive (and what some might say) controversial subject matter. I knew that it would be hard to get the funding I needed. So I decided to forge ahead and fund and produce it myself.

    As budding filmmakers, to have our work or passion project reviewed and acknowledged by distinguished and reputable accomplished judges, is truly an honor in itself. I was discouraged from my publicist to produce this film 🎥, so this win gave me the clarity and assurance to accept that I was spiritually led to produce the right project at the right time in our history. It also gave me the confidence to trust and keep following my creative vision and instincts. To push the limits and boundaries of music, art and cinema to the next level of greatness.
    On behalf of myself and my CFO/PR Veena Kondapalli (from Hyderabad India) I want to again thank the Heritales - International Heritage Film Festival for this recognition. I look forward to submitting more of my work in the future.

    But to be honest I want no awards, fame or fortune for my film at all. My only hope is that it will help reconnect us all, back to our HUMANITY. To this film festival. I thank YOU for your Humanity 🙏❤, and I proudly accept this award on behalf of the children of Gaza, who inspired my film. Yeah Mon 🇯🇲" - Richard Oliver Jr.

    December 2024
  • Foi uma experiência maravilhosa participar com meu curta. Agradeço a toda equipe organizadora!

    December 2024
  • Luís Esteves

    I am deeply honoured to have been chosen for this official selection. While making a film is a work of love, it is also the fruit of very intense labour, so I am very grateful for your acknowledgement, which will most certainly help bring Chieira to an ever greater audience.

    With Chieira, Pride in oneself I wish the best to Heritales - International Heritage Film Festival

    Thank you very much.

    Muito obrigado!

    December 2024